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aand16··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
Interfering in communication. If I understand correctly the ISP rewrote the author's communication with an external DNS/third party.
aand16··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
How is this not illegal... isn't what the ISP doing "hacking"?
aand16··on Gemini 4 Carbon
"The purpose of a system is what it does"

  - Some Guy
aand16··on GPT-6.1 Terra
Kimi K3.1 is out
aand16··on eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
Mastodon link contains gibberish supposedly as an anti-bot measure
aand16··on SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
Beware NSFW: redirects to private instances that redirect to porn for monetization

Edit: disable JS to prevent click-jacking

aand16··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
> 72 hours

Does anybody offer this currently?

aand16··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
Wouldn't that be the processing of obtaining the weights, and not the weights themselves?
aand16··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
> It may take a minute or two for access for 90.8.226.75 to become effective

Exciting... feel like I'm back in '96, having to wait two minutes for the page to load.

aand16··on Voxtral 3
I don't get it, how hard is it to drop a sentence into Google Translate.

Translation is atrocious, and sometimes incorrect, in the part where they showcase their 35-language pronunciations of "hello, I'm happy to help you with that".

And a nit, the "Non-standard phoneme hint" example is flipped for German.

aand16··on Effect 4.0
You forgot the /s
aand16··on Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
> received a refund of the original €198 purchase price from 1.5 years ago. The exact same 6TB drive now costs around €340

Sounds like you got scammed. The refund should be for the same or similar value today, not 60% of that. Basically they made 40% profit off of selling your replacement drive instead of giving it to you.

aand16··on 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
Greece is a tough one for sure
aand16··on Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders
I thought VMAF was a bad metric for perceived video quality.

CVVDP is best and SSIMULACRA2 and Butteraugli pretty good.

aand16··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
They leave the door open for future, maybe novel, uses of your data... horrors beyond their (current) comprehension, I always assume.
aand16··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
Social media is anything but social and promotes bad brain development for children.

Change my mind.

aand16··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
The country of Europe. /s

I hand the cash to the cashier and they respond with "thank you, have a nice evening", while eventually handing me a printout of my order from their tables organiser software, instead of the legally required fiscal receipt.

aand16··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
This is spiking my cortisol
aand16··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
90% of cash I give to restaurants goes in the pocket, not the register.

Bad service = card always.

aand16··on Git hosting that never leaves Europe
> 01 No US kill-switch. Just European law

Not very reassuring as of late

aand16··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
> 403 Browser Update Required Your browser is outdated. CodeFloe requires a modern browser for the best experience and security.

Site is broken on Brave.

aand16··on Unusual Suspects
Try Brave.
aand16··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
Why?
aand16··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Actual title is "Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin"
aand16··on GPU World
+40 I hate websites that do stupid stuff. My latest pet peeve is Qwen's blog, when I pinch to zoom, to be able to read their tiny graphs, there is a black bar that progressively covers the entire page.
aand16··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
Why is resisting peer pressure during childhood bad?
aand16··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
> Mythos 5 remains well ahead at 181 and 247 tasks. The pattern across the three is consistent: the further up the exploitation chain a benchmark sits, the wider the remaining gap to the closed frontier. Capability is growing fastest exactly where we are furthest behind.

I appreciate they don't just take the opportunity to self-glaze.

aand16··on UK argued that excess death figures could lead to distress of bereaved relatives
Distinction without a difference?

> UKHSA argued that the data could lead to “the families of the deceased being subjected to unsolicited approaches by the media and anti-vaccine campaigners”

Sounds like a made up reason to justify not releasing statistics.

aand16··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
What do you mean by "correctly"?
aand16··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
And that's a good thing. We're taking back journalism from corporate media.

The story exists when somebody looks into it. UnHeard, which is a YouTube channel with 500k followers, found out about this woman because of the viral social media posts, and interviewed her.

What other platform would you prefer to see it on?

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