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dudisubektion There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek

I do get some refusal from GLM when pentesting my company's site.

But it can still be coaxed to agree though.

I use it at work. It's dirt cheap, blazing fast, and is more than enough for most coding work.

If you live in a country with a weak currency, DeepSeek models are definitely a godsend.

dudisubektion Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

Oh okay, good for you.

Personally the article reads to me like a international spy thriller short story, so until they disclose some evidence I'll just file this under "Americans flinging shit at each other" directory lol.

dudisubektion Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

People can mask their lies using their prior honest reputation. If anything this kind of lie can be more damaging.

I'm not saying VF is lying in this case, it could all be true, but extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence.

dudisubektion Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

> recruited a spy from GRU that handed over the data.

Isn't that kinda bad for their health? Polonium intake is unhealthy.

I'm not an American so don't take this the wrong way, but Jared's response to the tweet, that the story is fabricated because of how complicated it is and VanityFair disclosed no evidences, should be considered as well.

dudisubektion Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

You are free to become "more cool" yourself

dudisubektion DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

They've consistently open-sourced their secret sauce since the beginning: https://github.com/orgs/deepseek-ai/repositories?type=all

I don't understand why this is strange to you, some people just do things out of personal satisfaction and/or building their legacy. If it's just money, Deepseek founders are already rich because they have a hedge fund company (High-flyer).

dudisubektion DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

This is silly, people do inspect weights and prune/abliterate/whatever them

Also open weight models reveal their thinking, not to mention you can airgap the network around them.

dudisubektion DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

Certainly a lot less compared to closed weights :)

dudisubektion DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

I'm curious, are projects like Linux "virtue signaling" to you?

dudisubektion DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

> bad time

Regardless of the performance metrics... why bad time?

Deepseek is more like a pet project with huge state backing, and they don't seem to compete with Anthropic in terms of profitability.

dudisubektion Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

This article reads to me like that "leave the multibillion dollar company alone" meme

dudisubektion Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

They've been making their own 5g phones since 2023 (mate 60)

dudisubektion Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

What a strange sarcasm, nobody's forcing Qualcomm to do this.

dudisubektion DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

Lol what? Have you seen actual shilled threads?

Check GPT-6 thread for example, now that's Astra-turfed lol.

dudisubektion Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

The archive guy actually called Wikipedia on this lol.

Like if a very infamous site, KiwiFarms can have their own archiving engine, why cant multimillion dollar site like Wikipedia can't? He's absolutely correct that Wikipedia is a freeloader that doesnt want to deal with copyright.

However, I'm not sure if the archive guy is paying it out of his own pocket. It's a massive ad-free site servicing tons of requests everyday, and it has a very impressive technical abilities.

That has to be quite expensive, like he must've some seriously rich sponsors. And his sponsors might be okay with Wikipedia using the site, but this is all just my guess lol.

In the end, it's also perfectly valid for him to refuse servicing Wikipedia: it's his site.

dudisubektion As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

Im a bit Darwinistic on this, like if a system can be disrupted easily, it means there are existing weaknesses that need to be addressed (taxis vs Uber, hotels vs Airbnb).

If the established system can adapt to the disruption, then as consumers we have more choices.

If the established system dies and the disruptor replaced it (DVD rental vs Netflix), then the disruptor, despite their weaknesses, do answer the consumer needs better.

If both the established and disruptive system dies, then maybe they're not that important in the first place.

dudisubektion As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

I mean that's just how life is? Exploit opportunities when they appear, find new ones when they run out.

dudisubektion There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

But then we can't claim "There is no epidemic of loneliness" without proper data too. The honest (shame this word is ruined by LLMs) conclusion is "we don't know if there's an epidemic of loneliness," which can go either way: either there really is no epidemic of loneliness, or is undetected.

dudisubektion There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

This "loneliness" part of this article is confusing to me.

> People are more alone than ever, but they’re not feeling much lonelier than they used to. So maybe all this extra solitude is...fine?

Okay but the data examined for "more alone" is US data with unclear age range (most likely adults). But the data examined for "not feeling much lonelier" is UK data and US school teenager data. I feel like there's a massive blind spot with the fact there's no US adult data...?

dudisubektion GPT-6 Sol and Luna

I had a favorite benchmark, SWE-rebench, but sadly it's no longer maintained.

But yeah, I'll just take these benchmarks with a grain of salt. Only hands-on experience matters in the end, and these days it's very easy to switch models.

dudisubektion GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Artificialanalysis benchmark is a combination of a several benchmarks which might or might not represent realistic coding:

"Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index combines performance across 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, and AA-LCR v1.1."

Not saying it doesnt have any value but it's probably irrelevant if you use these AIs for a specific use case. Like for example Humanity Last Exam tests general knowledge, which is not very useful for coding.

It's best to go to the specific coding benchmarks and compare there.

dudisubektion Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

Well I kind of get why he really doesn't want to be identified, because of all those copyright infringements. The moment he steps in the West, he could be arrested.

But despite this I feel like what he did was very counterproductive to this goal. If he did nothing, people would just forget about it. Wikipedia would still use his service because they don't want to deal with copyright.

Besides if western intelligence really wants to find this guy, they could probably do it without the journalist's help.

dudisubektion PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)

https://gwern.net/nicotine

This one?

It seems to be listing the pros and cons of nicotine and is well-sourced...

What "damage" do you see caused by this article?

dudisubektion Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

Yeah, the archive guy should just leave the blog alone instead of triggering Streissand effect lol

dudisubektion Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

https://web.archive.org/web/20260920061809/https://reclaimth...

https://archive.is/2YdN9

One has paywall, one doesn't...

Sorry man, people will keep DDoSing some random guy's blog. It's a service problem lol

dudisubektion The Future Belongs to the Weird

Thing is they keep creating castes to the point there are too many of them to manage in modern times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_castes

dudisubektion TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

I agree. Most of the life-changing content I've consumed has been either freely available (in the public domain or online) or a one-time-purchase, ad-free book.

dudisubektion The Future Belongs to the Weird

> but the general rule for the vast majority of the population was: don't be weird, or get killed.

I suspect this is a very Eurocentric view. Take India for a counter-example, it has always been full of weirdoes starting their own cults.