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Hamukoon Creating a Garmin "MCP"

I'm more terrified about how much (personal) data people are feeding commercial LLMs. You send Claude your Garmin data and Anthropic will keep it for literally years. And then probably hand it over to law enforcement as soon as a subpoena hits.

I've been using a local LLM (Gemma) to tag my personal documents (invoices, receipts, etc.) and there's no way I'd ever send that data to Anthropic or OpenAI.

Hamukoon Things to know when you get cancer – 2026 Edition

>Doctors also seem to react well to being able to be precise in descriptions of what happened when.

They also do that if you show them pictures of your poop when you have a bowel thing going on.

Hamukoon ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

I was under the impression that if you bought Cisco stock for $1000 during the height of the bubble, you'd have like $1500 now?

Hamukoon New Apple TV 4K

Although not a particularly good one. Especially if you want to stream (which I presume Apple TV buyers would) and care about privacy.

Hamukoon New Apple TV 4K

I was interested in it, since I do need a certain amount of oomph out of the SoC to watch all of my videos on my Apple TV 4K (libass in case someone asks), but man that sticker shock is harsh. I don't think I can stomach it.

Hamukoon AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

Sounds like a case for strict regulation of all of the frontier labs then. Maybe even nationalising them. Especially since Anthropic has told us that the open models are all basically copied off of their work.

Hamukoon Thinking will become a hobby

I'm sure the massive AI data centres (which are sometimes powered by nothing but natural gas) will fix this.

Hamukoon AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

>Throwing out code review is equivalent to throwing your hands up and saying you don’t need to understand anything about what your code is doing in its black box.

I think that is what the C-suite is currently wanting out of our engineers. Prompt, don't write, maybe read a bit, don't stop, ship, ship, ship.

Hamukoon French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057551

Hamukoon Fable Took My Job

Question: did you train that LLM yourself on your own GPU?

Hamukoon Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

I feel like the Mustang has been able to go pretty far on heritage and vintage looks.

Hamukoon Fable Took My Job

What am I gonna do, turn in a blank resume?

"Yeah, I've never had a job or an education before the year 2026."

The longer it has been since you've turned 18, the less believable this is. And even if they believe you, it's probably not in your favour that they think you've been sitting at home for 10 years.

Hamukoon Fable Took My Job

I’ve heard that a problem with getting a low-skill job as someone with higher education is that employers think you’re gonna quit in N months after you find a better gig / get bored, leaving them to recruit again.

Hamukoon Fable Took My Job

The best idea I've come up with is quitting my job, living on my savings and indulging in my hobbies until I run out of money and then hanging myself in the woods.

Hamukoon Fable Took My Job

I think the crux of the issue is that frontier labs do not make any financial sense. They are spending investor dollars in order to sell tokens at pennies, and then a Chinese lab can build a competing model on those pennies, and the frontier labs can't then start selling the tokens at a price where they'd actually even break even because most of the volume will then shift to those cheaper models.

Hamukoon Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

Multiple drone strikes, against three different data centers.

Hamukoon PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

I did that two weeks ago and it turns out that it still works wonders. Granted, mine has a third-party battery in it. It's also a larger capacity one, so you need to run it without the battery cover.

https://bsky.app/profile/mailia.bsky.social/post/3mwikc4my7s...

Hamukoon Bot traffic from Yandex

Are there even six remaining?

Hamukoon Bot traffic from Yandex

I feel like this isn't even a particularly new thing. I worked at a medium-sized SaaS company and we did disaster recovery drills for moving our stack from eu-west-1 to eu-central-1 in case something catastrophic happened in Ireland. If you want HA, you kinda have to assume that any single country in the world can have some kind of a crippling disaster. Unfortunately for Yandex's clients, Yandex only has regions in two countries, and not that many regions either.

Hamukoon The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

My thought was that the EU average can't be that high, but apparently Finland is just the outlier here.

Hamukoon Grieving the loss of details

How are we establishing that this is good for civilisation?

Hamukoon Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well

Why? Because Google has no patience for a product that's not an immediate success. They have no willingness to pour in the money and effort it takes for a new product to gain traction.

Would it have gotten traction in the future? Don't know, but with Google it was certainly never happening.

Hamukoon OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

I can throw Opus 5.5 at my code three times for code review and get three different sets of things it considers to be issues. I imagine all of them were checked with Astra at least once, but were they checked enough times?

Hamukoon House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

Has the potential for an "EMP resistant server farm"? Is that a common thing that realtors need to find for their clients?

Hamukoon State of Devs 2026

I probably spend more time reading the news than social media, and basically every day there's news about government debt, huge unemployment (10.1%), price of everything is going up, massive layoffs, climate disasters, AI hacking into things, students using AI to cheat, wars happening next door, possible hybrid warfare, megacorporations ignoring the law, governments wanting to track your every movement, and so on. Most people I worked with at my company got laid off and the rest are just terminals for Claude, and any notion of job security is out of the window.

Hamukoon PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace

Wouldn't make much sense since hardware-wise you're very much paying for the GPU power and not CPU power, which isn't gonna help you much at compiling.

Hamukoon Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

Maybe I'll be more optimistic once the ZeniMax and Activision-Blizzard deals pan out.

Hamukoon State of Devs 2026

I'm not in a relationship so kids are not exactly on the radar, but it feels like the current progress being made is incredibly backwards, and I wouldn't wanna bring a kid to live in this godforsaken world.

Hamukoon Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

My guess is "too much".

Hamukoon Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

It means that Paramount Plus is saddled with debt, and HBO is saddled with debt. And that someone needs to pay off that debt.