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driverdan

16,943 karma · joined August 30, 2009

Tech leadership, startups. Former blackhat / ID thief.

Former: Director of Engineering at CoreStory; Director of Engineering at Ownlocal (YC W10); Founder, Spokefly; Freelancer

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driverdan··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
I just got a new phone a month ago. I wanted a Pixel so I could run GrapheneOS. After researching the hardware I ended up with a OnePlus 13. Google's hardware is far behind, buggy, and overpriced.
driverdan··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
You can't use it real time but you can have it run in the background and come back to it.
driverdan··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
Motorcycles and cars are not the same thing. Some people like one, the other, or both.
driverdan··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
> a Subaru Trailseeker EV station wagon

That is an SUV, not a wagon.

driverdan··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
If your neighbors are that snobby they can't stand the sound of a stock car that's their problem, not yours.
driverdan··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
Archive warrior's default project is mirroring t.me links. If you're running it you'll need to switch to a different project. It isn't handling the domain not resolving well, it stuck in timeout backoffs.
driverdan··on Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring
They made him write code as part of an interview?
driverdan··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
I skimmed through some of that and nothing implied similar behavior. Do you have a better reference?
driverdan··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Where do you think he learned it? While working at Apple from them doing the same type of thing.
driverdan··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
> It’s possible this kind of behavior is endorsed throughout, or it’s possible it’s limited to this specific group.

As others have pointed out elsewhere this is literally the type of behavior OpenAI is founded on. Gathering up other people's IP and using it to build their own thing. It's how all the big LLMs are built.

driverdan··on Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
GPU power density is very high. The B300, for example, is rated at 1400W TDP. You can fit a lot of B300s in the space of a washing machine.
driverdan··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
OP said after 2008. There are many cars made after 2008 that do not have intrusive systems. For example, my 2018 Camaro has none of that. The only proximity sensors it has are side vehicle indicators and all they do is turn on a light.

New cars with intrusive driver monitoring alerts are obviously going to be terrible but you can still buy vehicles made prior to this change.

driverdan··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
The intrusiveness of these systems varies significantly between manufacturers. Don't buy one with an annoying, intrusive system.
driverdan··on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
Yup, they wrote the paper.

> "...researchers demonstrate how Vantablack® 310 – an ultra-black coating developed by University of Surrey spinout Surrey NanoSystems, co-authors of the paper..."

driverdan··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Abolishing ICE and demilitarizing borders is not the same thing as supporting open borders.
driverdan··on Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
> to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing!

They're car headlights, which are indeed a real thing.

driverdan··on The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
> True brutalist web design.

Concrete web design? What does that mean?

I guess you mean the site is simple but that's not what brutalism is.

driverdan··on The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
> They both profited, enormously, off sexual exploitation and human trafficking around the world by (knowingly) serving as a directory for pimps.

From what I read back when this happened you have it backwards. The classifieds on CL and other sites for sex were were largely individuals choosing to do it. They were not being trafficked or pimped. By closing those listings down it would end up pushing sex workers to find other sources of clients, like pimps.

driverdan··on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
When I tried this with a self-hosted Qwen model it hallucinated all kind of stuff about me being deeply involved with early Bitcoin development, conferences, and libraries.
driverdan··on Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
As someone who has never dealt with anything close to this scale, why would it take 18 months to migrate? Is this poor config management, a lack of automation, or something else?
driverdan··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Maps peaked after Google acquired Waze in 2013 and integrated the data. Since then they've added worthless annoying social features and more advertising.
driverdan··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
> The problem is if someone figures it out and starts sending you spam to {random}@domain.tld.

It's a non-issue. I've been using a catch all domain for at least a decade. I get a small amount of spam to random made up emails but not enough to care about plus it all gets caught and filtered.

driverdan··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
It makes sense that an open source project would focus on one series of phones since their time and resources are limited.

That said, Google's hardware is behind their competitors and they've had a lot of problems in the past few years. The Pixel 8 Pro has hardware WiFi problems, the 9 and 10 are both minor updates with prices that are far too high, the 10 is eSIM only, etc.

driverdan··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
If you pay $2200 for a 3090 you're a sucker. They're not worth anything close to that.
driverdan··on Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress
It's not. It's scientific ignorance combined with lies (Wakefield) and misinformation. There may be some small percentage of people who completely avoid injections but most people who understand vaccines accept the benefits outweigh the short term fear / pain of needles.
driverdan··on RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
The problem is accessibility. GPUs have gotten expensive and in some cases hard to get. You also need the supporting hardware to use them.

I'd love to have multiple large VRAM GPUs but I can't justify the costs when I have plenty of other more important things to spend that money on.

driverdan··on Leaving Mozilla
> I don’t want extensions (attack vector)

How do you block ads and invasive trackers? DNS only?

driverdan··on Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
A standard rooftop solar install with micro inverters is already pretty much plug and play. Wiring it up is the easy part.

Even a more complex system with large centralized inverters and battery backup can be about as plug and play as a desktop computer if you use an all-in-one inverter/charger/controller.

The challenge is scale. You can't take 10kW of solar and plug it into an outlet. It requires more hardware and wiring than that.

driverdan··on An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight
From an economics perspective the solution is to legalize everything. Black markets cause incentives like this.
driverdan··on Public Domain Image Archive
Go to the source, it's linked above that metadata. That will be a better resource for its copyright status.
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