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fred_is_fred··on The Economics of Open-Weight Inference
The style and font choice here is awful. Nearly impossible to read in the daytime.
fred_is_fred··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
"Maybe some C?O person executed RDRAND"

is an amusingly gross misunderstanding of what a C?O person does on a daily basis.

fred_is_fred··on North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
This was the plot of a 1980s James Bond movie - A View to a Kill https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/
fred_is_fred··on Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs
"Kehoe encouraged local agencies to voluntarily commit to those practices when possible under existing contracts and laws".

So in other words, nothing happened.

fred_is_fred··on One Gets Through – Missile Command, but you launch the missiles
Everyone knows what OP meant.
fred_is_fred··on I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc
I'd report this to AWS instead since Tesla doesn't seem aware. It's AWS IPs as the source.
fred_is_fred··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
Why are you doing work for them for free - and at that level of annoyance no less?
fred_is_fred··on 1M+ German households have hung solar panels off their balcony railings
legal in both Utah and Colorado - which have ample sunshine!
fred_is_fred··on Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
North Dakota and Alaska also have lots of space.
fred_is_fred··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
If you ask for permission on something like this the answer is always no.
fred_is_fred··on Doubling of Kobo's U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer base
It's busybox underneath so you can hack on it but you can't run full apps in the Android sense.
fred_is_fred··on Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double
I bought one in July, I chose Kobo because it's hackable and you can ssh in. So far I've had as much fun with that as with reading.
fred_is_fred··on Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
There's a 0% chance that an engineer reviewed all code output from 4 agents twice a day.
fred_is_fred··on LinkedIn cracks down on automated content with AI detection button
and here's what the button taught me about b2b sales.
fred_is_fred··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Perhaps not from Neptune, but they don't exist in any of the 3 states I have lived in - so I was surprised.
fred_is_fred··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
What stood out to me was this: "By a 27-5 vote". That number seemed really high, so I looked it up - this isn't a city or a county or some kind of private tax distict - its was the nation's first city-county government.

"The Metropolitan Council is the legislative authority of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, the nation’s first, fully consolidated city-county government, established in 1963. The Vice Mayor serves as the president of the Council, which is comprised of 35 district members and five members serving at-large."

https://www.nashville.gov/departments/council

fred_is_fred··on Nobel Disease
Like making a payments platform and then 30 years later telling everyone the anti-christ is coming?
fred_is_fred··on Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
120 trillion dWh is how I like to think about this. Very impressive.
fred_is_fred··on The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town
I am surprised that after this long the smell isn't gone. If one were to open all these tanks and spread it around on the ground in a layer, wouldn't it dissipate after a few months when the bacteria finish up?
fred_is_fred··on Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
I am curious what is considered a grey market license here? I would guess legal departments only see 2 colors for their licenses, so what makes it a middle-state?
fred_is_fred··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
A federal jury sure thought they held water.
fred_is_fred··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
The red card for covering your mouth while talking to an opponent is brought to you by Telegram.
fred_is_fred··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
If you offered most people free streaming for a $37 USB stick but directly told them it would be faking ad clicks when the TV is off, would any of them really care?
fred_is_fred··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
Someone below mentions bird poop, but could a fish egg survive the human (or a dogs) digestive system as well?
fred_is_fred··on GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card
Is it getting hammered? None of the names I try do anything nor does clicking on the examples.
fred_is_fred··on Millions told to check their sunscreen experts reveal products may not be safe
Completely misleading headline. Is the Daily Mail a reliable source?

"The team at Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit health and environmental advocacy organization, noted that the remaining 80 percent of products were not deemed inherently dangerous.

Instead, they failed to meet EWG's standards because they contained ingredients of concern, offered insufficient UVA protection, used spray formulations or made protection claims the group believes are misleading."

fred_is_fred··on Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
Wow, until you posted this I thought Moog was just a synthesizer company. And a bit of an odd one at that based on how I saw that synth presented.
fred_is_fred··on AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
The comments here are trending towards "There's nothing new here, I could design 5g radio chips with a cheap linux box running FTP".
fred_is_fred··on AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
Does it need to be magical to be interesting or useful?
fred_is_fred··on Older tech workers are tapping out early
This is what I see for my state: "The average salary for a Registered Nurse in Colorado with 25 years of experience ranges from $115,000 to over $140,000 annually".

A dev with the same experience I think is at least 50% more than this.

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