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KETpXDDzRon How Claude marks AI-generated content

I wonder how the caveman skill will affect this. Also, you can probably put the output of Claude in another LLM to get rid of the watermark.

KETpXDDzRon Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright

In Germany headlights are limited by power consumption. The law was written pre-LED. Just another example of the ridiculously slow German government.

KETpXDDzRon Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

Yeah, I gave my AWS root API key to Cursor in agent mode. I learned that AWS charges ridiculous amounts for transferring and storing data.

KETpXDDzRon My dad could still be alive, but he's not

I can highly recommend looking to response times for you locality. For me it's Denver and I'm shocked that they didn't meet any of their goals: https://www.denvergov.org/files/assets/public/v/2/auditor/do...

KETpXDDzRon YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

Everytime I read such news, I'm glad that I ditched Windows for Linux. Since Proton makes almost all games run, I don't have any reason to use Microsoft's rotten software anymore.

KETpXDDzRon Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

I tried using oolama to run an LLM on my A6000 for Cursor. It fits completely in VRAM. Nevertheless it was significantly slower than Claude 4.5 opus. Also, the support in Cursor for local models is really bad.

KETpXDDzRon Cursor 2.0

The new UI in cursor is optional. You can still use the old one.

KETpXDDzRon JetKVM – Control any computer remotely

If someone is looking for an open source alternative: https://pikvm.org/

KETpXDDzRon How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

> Python SVG libraries create spurious connecting lines

That rather sounds like a bug to me.

I'd try browser automation to get the book pages, then OCR it (or just store them as images).

KETpXDDzRon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

India: 71% of H-1B approvals

China: 11.7% of H-1B approvals

All other nationalities: 17.3% combined

Src: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/22/h-1b-fee-hike-whos-...

KETpXDDzRon Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

If LLMs make devs 19% less effective on average and the number of releases is growing the same, doesn't that mean that

1. Only a handful of devs use LLMs

2. For every developer getting less productive with LLMs, there must be developers that get more productive to keep the trend

KETpXDDzRon Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

It seems most banking apps do work: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

KETpXDDzRon Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

> We were able to fingerprint this crawler using a combination of machine learning and network signals.

Yikes. AntiVirus scanners for website access.

KETpXDDzRon Pockets Are a Significant, Untapped Market

Clothes for women rarely have pockets due to a combination of historical, social, and fashion-driven reasons that stem from gender inequality and ideas about femininity.

Key reasons include:

- *Fashion Prioritizes Silhouette:* Designers often avoid adding pockets to women’s clothes to maintain a "feminine" shape, as filled pockets might alter the line or appearance of garments[1][3][5].

- *Historical Gender Roles:* From the 17th century onwards, pockets became standard in men’s clothing while women’s garments often lacked them. Designers assumed women, not seen as independent or responsible for carrying items, did not need pockets—especially as men traditionally carried money and keys[2][4][5].

- *Social Control:* There is evidence that during periods like the French Revolution, women were banned from having pockets to limit their ability to carry or conceal items, reflecting broader efforts to control women’s independence and mobility[5][6].

- *Economics & The Purse Industry:* Some believe that limiting pockets in women’s clothes pushes women to buy handbags and purses, sustaining a large accessories market. There are claims that brands make more money from selling handbags than pockets—a practice dating back decades[5].

- *Cost Cutting:* Adding functional pockets can increase materials and production time, and some brands justify smaller or fake pockets as a way to save money, although this is only one part of the issue[5].

- *Persistence of Tradition:* Despite some progress, women’s pockets remain smaller and less functional than men’s, which many experts attribute to outdated design habits and persistent gendered thinking in fashion[4][5].

Ultimately, the lack of pockets in women’s clothing reflects deep-seated ideas about gender, utility, and aesthetics that have persisted for centuries and continue to affect clothing design today[1][2][5][6].

Citations: [1] Why Don't Women's Clothes Have More Pockets? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/style/pockets-womens-clot... [2] In the pocket of the patriarchy: History behind the absence of ... https://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2022/09/25/in-the-pocket-of... [3] ELI5: Why don't women's pants have functional pockets? - Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/42bhej/e... [4] Why Most Women's Clothes Don't Have Real Pockets | HowStuffWorks https://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/style/fashion/trends-loo... [5] The Real Reason Why Women's Clothes Don't Have Pockets https://fashionmagazine.com/style/womens-pockets/ [6] Pockets and the Patriarchy, How Fashion Has Reinforced Gender ... https://foragedesign.com/blogs/blog/pockets-and-the-patriarc... [7] why women's pockets are useless - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_elEw-Oog [8] Pocket Patriarchy - Sartorial Magazine https://sartorialmagazine.com/fashion-1/2023/11/22/pocket-pa...

KETpXDDzRon Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

Thanks Microsoft for making Windows so crappy that ppl switch to Linux!

KETpXDDzRon Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots

Can't (AI) crawlers just use a browser user agent? TL;DR: Yes, but with some more work that the big AI companies can surely manage to implement.

    To bypass detection, a crawler would need to mimic not just the user agent, but also the full set of browser behaviors, headers, and environmental fingerprints—a much more complex task that Cloudflare’s systems are designed to counter.

KETpXDDzRon Gemini CLI

IIRC Claude Code indexes your code via a vector DB. That's why it's good for larger codebases. I'm not aware that GeminiCLI has this, too.

KETpXDDzRon U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

Why can't the Iran just buy a nuke from Russia?

KETpXDDzRon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

You should judge a civilization by how they treat their poorest.

In this case the US is treating them with batons and rubber bullets.

KETpXDDzRon How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

With git it should be straightforward to implement an incremental, dedup backup solution since all objects are stored with their hashs in filename.

KETpXDDzRon A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

  ssh username@server "sqlite3 my_remote_database.db .dump | gzip -c" | gunzip -c | sqlite3 my_local_database.db

KETpXDDzRon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

Here's the official source for the calculation: [0].

Also, there are some hints this might be from a LLM [1].

And an official statement that it's about trade imbalances and not reciproc tarrifs [2].

And they ask the affected country to "not retaliate" [3].

IMHO Trump tries to lead the US like he managed his businesses. And here I'd like to refer to the three casinos he owned that are now insolvent [4].

[0] https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114272481124239587

[1] https://universeodon.com/@henryk@chaos.social/11427313249281...

[2] https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations

[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/02/business/liberation-day-t...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atl...

KETpXDDzRon We were wrong about GPUs

> They want LLMs.

That's why NVIDIA has NIMs [0]. A super easy way to use various LLMs.

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/nim

KETpXDDzRon OpenERV

Feature request: Possibility to have more air intake than going out. This creates a positive pressure in your building, e.g., so that you don't get air from your garage into your living space.

KETpXDDzRon Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference

I once saw the founder with a wafer sitting in an In n Out in the bay area. I almost worked for them, but they were short on funding. IMO the cost efficient for Cerebras "chips" is still a problem. I can't imagine how many defects they have on each one.

KETpXDDzRon OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI

LLMs are glorified Markow chains in the end. They can't reason or think, even when they are good in pretending they can. What we need is a totally different approach IMO.

KETpXDDzRon Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC

Once the US doesn't depend on Taiwan anymore, will they give up protecting and China will conquer it?

KETpXDDzRon Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

> [...] faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

...if you buy their pro subscription

KETpXDDzRon Diffusion models are real-time game engines

I think the correct title should be "Diffusion Models Are Fake Real-Time Game Engines". I don't think just more training will ever be sufficient to create a complete game engine. It would need to "understand" what it's doing.

KETpXDDzRon Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

The only way, besides trusting the cloud provider, is encryption. Homomorphic encryption allows you to run calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it. However, besides the performance penalty, it leaks information.