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bilekas··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Well, I'm no expert, but this runs on Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4, stripped down, but they're pretty pricey.
bilekas··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
There's a clause in my company, once regulations around privacy that are al least comparable to the EU are enforced, we sell all assets and return money based on profits to share holders.

Then we start a new company creating just aggressive advertising patents so that they're not created by aggressive companies.

Edit : Hypothetical company, this is all satire.

bilekas··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
Flock are competition, their investors would never like my idea.
bilekas··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
I am starting a surveillance company in the US. I'll sell the data to anyone who wants. I'll put cameras up wherever I like, call it protection of the people, the police will enjoy it doing a lot of work for them and then I'll point cameras squarely at my competition, 24 hours a day, 365 a year, until they ask for regulations.

If anyone would like to kickstart let me know.

bilekas··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Can we get a price comparisson ?

Edit: Running them for the masses.

bilekas··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Interim is always a temp one though, and the fact it was the previous feels to me at least like them saying "Hey we need a favour" but I have no insight.
bilekas··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
IRC really is good. It's reliable too, but it really fell behind the times and never pushed forward with additions to the spec and such. When the clients and libraries tapered off too it just felt like it froze.
bilekas··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
The third option could surely be he was fired ? Although I would imagine MongoDB would have organised someone already to take over.
bilekas··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
> OpenAI is negligent and should be prosecuted for negligence.

I feel like this will just never happen on a federal level when these private AI companies account for so much of the economy. They've made themselves too big to fail. Fining / Punishing them in any meaningful way seems unlikely.

bilekas··on Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests
There are always nice, but there are a lot of scaffolding work involved with larger systems. It would be nice to be able to provide for example the terraform of the infrastructure and let these tool create their own. Might be a nice feature to add because I haven't seen it done yet.
bilekas··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
That's simply not true though. There are cases when no answer is an answer. But this is simply not participating. As they shouldn't.
bilekas··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
It's difficult to completely block all political expression, but I think it's a no brainer to simply not allow any political advertising money to be accepted. From the pacts or anyone. When you're taking money to promote a political opinion you've become part of that influence.

Social media is too powerful and influential to be allowed continue unchecked. Falsities, defamation cases all take too long for the election cycle. So you get garbage in, and then you get a populist TV show host as president who doesn't understand economic interests rates, international trade, pain points of international war.

bilekas··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
I'm no expert, but I've always thought that adding much more risk to the lives of your customers unnecessarily is not good for business.
bilekas··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
Apple and Android. If you can name one Android(Google) luxury phone I am willing to listen. OnePlus used to be the one to go to.
bilekas··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
There absolutely is a market for a new 'premium' smartphone maker to arrive.. But given the hardware prices currently, we are stuck with two companies who are purely now squeezing every cent they can out of us while destroying their experience.
bilekas··on AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
"But regulations that we don't decide hinder progress!"

The hubris of these companies is mind boggling.

bilekas··on German companies rely almost exclusively on AI models and services from the USA
Isn't it applicable to all EU companies though?
bilekas··on 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier]
Just because we've been handling privacy terribly forever so far, doesn't means we should continue to though.
bilekas··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
They have a habit of being involved. It's not exactly plucked out of thin air!
bilekas··on Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
Well I am shocked, who would have thought, an advertising company who prides themselves on not being evil, used code that wasn't credited. I mean, if that's the case, we better start a revolution.
bilekas··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
I'm being flippant
bilekas··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
That's more of a software feature..
bilekas··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I'm finding it really hard to justify buying a new iPhone. They're so expensive these days for marginal improvements that seems if you're not an avid photo taker/media maker you don't get much back from.
bilekas··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Are you trying to tell me time is relative?
bilekas··on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Twitter last month. “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust … I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.”

They're so close to being self aware..

bilekas··on Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration
> Define "developing own thoughts"

I'm really not sure how I can define that further.

bilekas··on Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration
I don't believe they're even close to developing their own thoughts. I'm an ardent user. And every model had a mess up. It's just marketting paid for. Excuse my ignorance but what is here already is solid. I don't need AGI.
bilekas··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
So I have a tv of LG from the same period. I keep it dumb, not connected to the internet and just use an apple TV, so far it's a clean option. And it's always a good idea to have piHole up to, they usually have the block list updated with LG's and Samsungs urls.
bilekas··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
> E.g. As soon as someone proves LG, Samsung, etc. recorded and stored credit card details and knowingly have weak security this is going to be a massive business liability.

My tinfoil hat believes that they've already accounted for this as the price of doing business. They will have already budgeted for the fines that they might incur, pay them off and continue as normal while people become accustomed to it.

bilekas··on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
Hey, you can only commit crimes if you’re wealthy!
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