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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 Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
>It's hard to think of any other major tech product where it's acceptable to shift so much blame on the user.

Apple's Response to iPhone 4 Antenna Problem: You're Holding It Wrong https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

Maxious··on IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes
Two devices can talk to each other if the hub helps them exchange keys https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-implement-devic...
Maxious··on Get the location of the ISS using DNS
There's quite a few amateur radio frequencies you can interact with https://issfanclub.eu/iss-frequencies/
Maxious··on MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
As https://www.stainless.com/blog/mcp-is-eating-the-world--and-... recaps, tool calling existed before MCP, some vague standards existed, nothing took off, no really normal users don't want to just download the OpenAPI spec.

Anthropic wants to define another standard now btw https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/desktop-extensions

Maxious··on Why does Kars4Kids sends most of its money to one town in New Jersey? (2023)
Sorting an excel spreadsheet to find what the "largest" charities in canada are exposed $3.2 billion in fraudulent tax receipts claimed by 100,000 Canadian tax filers https://eaves.ca/2010/04/14/case-study-open-data-and-the-pub...
Maxious··on Gemini CLI
I'd echo that having to get the IT section involved to create a google cloud project is not great UX when I have access to NotebookLM Pro and Gemini for Workplace already.

Also this doco says GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID but the actual tool wants GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT

Maxious··on MCP is eating the world
Can we split the difference that if one of you say it's simple and one of you say it's too complex, we have reached the juuust right zone.
Maxious··on MCP is eating the world
There is an official one now but YMMV how/if your particular application can use it https://www.atlassian.com/platform/remote-mcp-server
Maxious··on Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com still lives in it's 2000s glory
Maxious··on Remote MCP Support in Claude Code
https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-code-flow adds some of the multiagent features ontop
Maxious··on Changes to the Kubernetes Slack
Tis' the season to rug pull at slack

> Slack, a Salesforce-owned workplace messaging app, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a public disclosure.

https://www.reuters.com/business/salesforce-blocks-ai-rivals...

Maxious··on Seedance 1.0
> Seedance 1.0 will be integrated into multiple platforms in June 2025, including Doubao and Jimeng

> https://www.doubao.com/chat/create-video

> https://jimeng.jianying.com/ai-tool/video/generate

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09113

Maxious··on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
Cut for time - qwen3 was pelican tested too https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/qwen-3/
Maxious··on Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client
The article literally says at the end this was just the first post about looking before getting into actually changing the responses.

(that being said, mitmproxy has gotten pretty good for just looking lately https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/concepts/modes/#local-capt... )

Maxious··on Ukraine's Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJcjt_W8iCo
Maxious··on WTF,Kees?
Later in the thread it seems like https://github.com/mricon/b4 was involved. Maybe just a bug this time but exposes it as a weak link in the whole kernel contributor web of trust
Maxious··on Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
It's the AD102 chipset ie. RTX 4090 with perfect binning (like the never released 4090 Ti would have had) and 48GB of VRAM soldered on https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=Ada%20Lo...
Maxious··on WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
The youtube stream has a link in the description for EEPROM dumps https://hackaday.io/project/178144-reverse-engineering-the-w...
Maxious··on The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets
They were stockpiling the plastics without the required permits and then once one warehouse was discovered, not disclosing the others https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/23/envir...
Maxious··on Nvidia Pushes Further into Cloud with GPU Marketplace
The first UALink hardware is at least a year away if not 2 https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/04/08/ualink-fires-first-g...
Maxious··on What even is a small language model now?
https://mistral.ai/news/devstral and https://huggingface.co/nvidia/AceReason-Nemotron-14B were released in just the last couple of days and work in 24GB 4090 GPUs/32GB Macbook Pros just fine
Maxious··on The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2
We played this monday morning quarterbacking 10 years ago, the datasheet Raspberry Pi used said:

> Light-sensitive circuit protection, as claimed in literatures, is not a reality concern since silicon is only transparent to long wavelength light, which is rarely encountered in broad applications of WLCSP.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150210111428/https://www.fairc...

Maxious··on We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch
Considering Anil boldly stated "MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0" https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/ I'd bet now the golden handcuffs are off, it's AI VC money time baby
Maxious··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
There's a video at the bottom "two friends"
Maxious··on Launch HN: SIM Studio (YC X25) – Figma-Like Canvas for Agent Workflows
https://github.com/Ironclad/rivet
Maxious··on Directory of MCP Servers
There's some movement on https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry

> The MCP Registry service provides a centralized repository for MCP server entries. It allows discovery and management of various MCP implementations with their associated metadata, configurations, and capabilities.

Maxious··on Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year
Ollama is YC21 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama and was founded by the engineers of what became Docker Desktop

You know, the tool that very famously had a massive rug pull once it gained marketshare https://www.servethehome.com/docker-abruptly-starts-charging...

Maxious··on Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
There's also some interpersonal conflict in llama.cpp that's hampering other bug fixes https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp/pull/400
Maxious··on iVentoy tool injects malicious certificate and driver during Win install
I think regardless of intent, it is a security vulnerability to install these ring 0 loopholes. Microsoft is cracking down on RGB lighting and anticheat software drivers similarly
Maxious··on iVentoy tool injects malicious certificate and driver during Win install
JemmyLoveJenny still lives!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-explo...

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