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Maxious

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open data hacker for http://www.lambdacomplex.org and http://lobbylens.info maxious@lambdacomplex.org

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/maxious; my proof: https://keybase.io/maxious/sigs/YGkLiX20MnPygNqtb43voyvjf5-Hmrn5Msqt5gfu2G8 ]

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Maxious··on Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
Ability to virtualize on Apple devices and linux with GPUs https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/24990
Maxious··on Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
Some devs did get the email and follow the process and still got kicked out

> Don’t let anyone tell you it’s because we didn’t read our emails or submit the right verification paperwork. Cuz we did all that back in October. > And this month, we were suddenly and without any warning locked out.

https://x.com/OSRDrivers/status/2042286973461709183

Maxious··on I've sold out
It's got a little zig mystery blob that does the hashing. Messing with that would run afoul of DMCA anticircumvention right?
Maxious··on I've sold out
Things can be worse - this decision means 2 out of the 3 principals of the Vienna School of Agentic Coding have not sold out to OpenAI
Maxious··on S3 Files
> Effective immediately, all S3 GET, PUT, and LIST operations, as well as operations that change object tags, ACLs, or metadata, are now strongly consistent.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea...

Maxious··on Evacuation of U.S. troops from Mideast base sends community groups scrambling
We're winning so hard we're sick of winning. So satellite imagery is now banned because of how hard we're winning https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/satellite-fir...
Maxious··on LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
One of the issues being explored is that although US radar is aged, surface vehicles can be equipped with ASDE-X transponders to be more visible to ATC systems. https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/asde-x

The vehicle that crashed into the plane did not have one and thus no automated alert was triggered.

Maxious··on TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
https://mesuvash.github.io/blog/2026/turboquant-interactive/ has a little visualisation
Maxious··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
> we did our best to convince anthropic to support developer choice but they sent lawyers

https://x.com/i/status/2034730036759339100

Maxious··on Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026
cio.gov and trumpcard.gov are also Cloudflare.

Cloudflare has proudly protected Trump campaign websites for the last decade https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-ceo-anonymous-ddo...

Maxious··on An important update on our team
> Mr Cannon-Brookes told investors he “couldn’t be more bullish” about the opportunities ahead, despite relentlessly selling his own shares in the company daily. The Nightly reports he kept selling 7665 shares on a daily basis even in the month prior to the results at prices ranging from $US161.11 (AU$227) a share on January 8 to $US105.14 on February 4.

> While ordinary Aussies are asked to make big changes, the 46-year-old decided to treat himself to a ritzy new private jet late last year, admitting to a “deep internal conflict” over the carbon-heavy method of travel.

> The Atlassian co-founder and CEO bought a Bombardier 7500 and will use it to travel across his vast business operations, which include a minority stake in the Utah Jazz NBA team and a sponsorship deal with Formula 1.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/other/aussie-sacks-1600-afte...

Maxious··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
Engineering including CTO. The makeup of Australian staff cannot be immediately decided due to local workplace rights laws requiring genuine consultation.

> The union representing Atlassian workers, Professionals Australia, said impacted employees were told on Thursday, with a consultation process to last until 19 March and final termination expected on 2 April.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/atlassian...

Maxious··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
> Customers with over $10,000 in Cloud ARR increased 13% year-over-year, reaching 53,017.

https://www.xtb.com/int/market-analysis/news-and-research/at...

Wow, so impressive... wait cloud ARR? So if you discontinued your on premise products those customers would then become cloud ARR...

Maxious··on FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale
"while the funding mentioned in the [Meta] post is appreciated, it's not enough to sustain the project" https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2029053011314786701
Maxious··on Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees
https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem stores AST operations in git

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294924

Maxious··on Put the zip code first
Boats can have zip codes too. Well one boat. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/on-the-water-with-amer...
Maxious··on Cancellation of Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments
Conscientious objection support centre also reporting "Phone has been ringing off the hook. A LOT more units have just been activated for deployment than the public knows about…"

https://x.com/MikePrysner/status/2030062850392326339

Maxious··on Where things stand with the Department of War
We can use the word war because Iran used the word war. But it is not a War in the constitutional sense. Or something.
Maxious··on Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
Yep. These Mixture of Experts models are well suited for paging in only the relevant data for a certain task https://huggingface.co/blog/moe

There's some experiments of just removing or merging experts post training to shrink models even more https://bknyaz.github.io/blog/2026/moe/

Maxious··on Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
ICYMI unsloth has had some major breakthroughs today with the Qwen3.5 local models https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/gguf-benchmarks

With the Qwen3.5 35B A3B at Q4 I've got 200k context running at 62.98 tokens per second on a local RTX5080 16GB.

Maxious··on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
The OpenAI contract was signed once Anthropic failed to yield before the deadline https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175
Maxious··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
Sure but these YC spammers are identifiable and have much more to lose https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/

> Some examples of ethical behavior we expect from founders are:

> - Not spamming members of the community

> To maintain our community, if we determine (in our sole discretion) that a founder has behaved unethically during or after YC, we will revoke their YC founder status. This includes access to all Y Combinator spaces, software, lists and events. All founders in a company may be held responsible for the unethical actions of a single co-founder or a company employee, depending on the circumstances.

Maxious··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/whitepapers/latest/security...

obviously not framed in terms of "here is how we create more e-waste" but you can see the additional barriers to attempting to reuse decommissioned hardware

Maxious··on US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards
Note that the threat in the Axios reporting OP is based on is no longer "we can't work with you" but now "invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs"

On October 30, 2023, President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to "require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government" when "developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health."

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-h...

Maxious··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Civilian deaths have continued https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/israel-strikes-gaza-h...
Maxious··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
pew pew https://www.techspot.com/news/108045-lidar-great-cars-but-ca...
Maxious··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
you can also judge for yourself based on the changelog https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...

maybe we don't have AGI to prevent all bugs. but surely some of these could have been caught with some good old fashioned elbow grease and code review.

Maxious··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
CXMT was already an option for consumers via brands like Kingbank and Asgard.

There's Kingbank DDR5 using CXMT modules starting to become available in Australia https://www.techpowerup.com/346479/hardware-unboxed-examines... including from mainstream retailers like Mwave https://www.mwave.com.au/memory/pc-ddr4/kingbank https://www.mwave.com.au/memory/pc-ddr5/kingbank

Maxious··on Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU
the nvidia open source driver has been modded previously to unlock enterprise paywalled features like p2p gpu comms https://blog.chlc.cc/p/rtx4090-p2p-unlocked and vGPU splitting https://open-iov.org/index.php/VGPU_Unlock
Maxious··on Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency
nice username... I was going to say, we warned about this with the google+ real name policy "nymwars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars and the cloudflare AI bot blocking that blocks humans

Yes it's potentially good for reducing spam and terribly good for collecting personal information for advertisers. Both at the expense of making social networks inaccessible to real people.

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