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EE, CS, kidraising. email bronseh at rinspin dotcom.
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bronson··on Linux 7.3
The code is right there. You can go look and see if your guess is right.

You can tell that I'm skeptical. Kernel code tends to be pretty tight.

bronson··on LineageOS 24
How will remote attestation prove that you were actually standing on the balcony pointing the camera, and not recording some slop you generated? The analog hole is a real problem.

Don't worry, photographs were being faked before Lee Harvey Oswald.

bronson··on LineageOS 24
I have stock Android on a Pixel 10 and RCS group texts don't work here either. Some people just can't be added to the group and some people just don't receive the texts.

It's so bad.

bronson··on Margaret Hamilton has died
And it ran at 0.043 MIPS. Each task would get maybe 5000 instructions per second, minus scheduler overhead.
bronson··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Presumably the ones I can fill up at home will be better.
bronson··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
If food has harmful uses, and I think any one sensible would have to agree that it does, then giving everyone unrestricted food is likely to make it worse.

You can do this with cars, tools, computers, ... whatever you want. So, no, I think your point is wrong.

bronson··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Why? I've never seen that queue length for EVs. Have you?
bronson··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
You ever gone to Costco Gas? Often queued up the block.
bronson··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
What review processes on computers?
bronson··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
Bad weather doesn't explain all their poor decisions. If anything, it should have made them more likely to perform a goaround.
bronson··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
After applying the brakes for 8 seconds, they then went to full throttle to try get back in the air for four more seconds. That's bonkers.
bronson··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
All good points. So, why don't we use CO2 in minisplits? Split systems are most popular in new construction and retrofits, so why are we settling for modern refrigerants like R32 with a large GWP of 675?

It's because CO2 has to be run at more extreme temperatures and pressures, fine for factory-made connections inside a single unit but a showstopper for field joints.

bronson··on Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
What does "mathematical output of the AI" even mean? A proof? Intermediate tokens?
bronson··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
No, in the US, everyone with an iphone uses imessage. (Basically all my family's messaging goes over imessage) It's only when non-iphone users are on the chat that RCS comes into play.
bronson··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
Almost none of my RCS conversations are encrypted. Who cares what's in the spec if nobody uses it?
bronson··on GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
> Custom android was never easy and never will be.

It's easy when it comes preinstalled.

> And it's fundamentally incompatible with the concept of having a truly secure env on your device (same as in the PC space, ironically enough).

Where on earth do you get this misconception? Custom Android != has root. If you don't think Graphene is reasonably secure, explain how?

bronson··on Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio
That would be such a sizeable disconnect that you might do some arbitrage.

Current prices in USD:

128 GB 1 TB M5 Mac Studio: $5399

128 GB 1 TB GMKtec EVO-X2: $3499

128 GB 1 TB Framework Desktop: $3748

bronson··on Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
> ... and you isolate processes in sandbox per your current task.

Oh is that all? If you start writing up the requirements to make that happen (without permission prompts and portals, right?), I think you'll find that would be even more difficult than app isolation and have even more backward compatibility issues.

bronson··on Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
Same with Flatpak.
bronson··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
> AI needs values and AI needs a system that can tell whether decisions are good or not

Well, so do most CEOs.

bronson··on Felony Bench
Double negative. An attacker using the API in an "obviously unintended" manner shows intent.
bronson··on My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
Electric motors didn't fill the world with slop.
bronson··on $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf
If you say no 100% of the time, your work product won't be worth much.
bronson··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
The Americans are writing that memo.
bronson··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
> which for many people is Fable 5

Not for me, Fable refuses to debug Linux kernel bugs. Unless you say who you're speaking for, it sounds like you're just shilling for Anthropic.

bronson··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
What was your prompt? If something benign, then it sounds like your harness has an issue with its tool calling that the agent is atrying to work around.
bronson··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Same with the expensive models. Fable can't one-shot a good new game. Game dev is still human-in-the-loop no matter what model you're using.
bronson··on I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
RAM:

2024: $315

2025: $780

2026: $1600

bronson··on A week in Matrix
With Element mobile.
bronson··on A week in Matrix
Does Element X video chat work with Element? Last I tried (a few months ago) it was awful, just randomly and completely broken, and didn't even have usable error messages.
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