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gizzlon

2,766 karma · joined December 3, 2010

Freelance backend developer and architect. Love to build new things, mostly in Golang and with Google Cloud Platform.

https://oyvindsk.com

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gizzlon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
According to the link above they are originally French toilets from 1979 :)
gizzlon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
No, if the next one did absolutely nothing, they would be much better
gizzlon··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
"On Friday, agents dispersed tear gas in the middle of a busy city street. Chicagoans were hit with chemical agents while walking their children home from school. A couple ran from tear gas with a 2-year-old child in their care," Johnson told reporters Monday.
gizzlon··on US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect
Because money buys power, and a few people with too much power usually ends baldy. Especially when they're unelected.
gizzlon··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Who, or what, are you replying to? He is American, it's a blog, and Musk is not really the point..

Also, as a sidenote, why do we keep measuring defence strength on money spent? It's the results that count.

gizzlon··on Twelve years of distributed SQLite
can you query the local rqlite, or do you always have to go to the leader?
gizzlon··on Twelve years of distributed SQLite
I've been looking for a reason to use rqlite, but so far sqlite + litestream have been safe enough (some dataloss acceptable in extreme cases)

My understanding is that rqlite gives you "stored in more than place" guarantees, which is nice if you need it. Much slower than a 1 node db though.

gizzlon··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
think the key is actually long, it's just a bunch of 0s first.. 0000..4
gizzlon··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
I think it's more like seeing RED - RED - RED - RED - RED and concluding the roulette is broken
gizzlon··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
> don't you still want that 5 to 15 percent of time back?

Guess it depends on the downsides.

Also, it's not like the time spent with an llm is zero, so maybe you save 2-7 % (depends on the task, of course)

gizzlon··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
i use joker.com and gigahost.no for .no
gizzlon··on Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
Autoban? I thought they have whitelists of accounts it leaves alone, for this exact reason.

It's possible, of course, but taking anything Meta says at face value is very naive IMO. It's just as possible that they let it be banned and then measured the response, to determine if they continue the ban

gizzlon··on Why We're Banning AI
"He's admittedly a poor writer, and probably wouldn't have published anything.."

Maybe that would have been a totally acceptable outcome?

gizzlon··on New Apple TV 4K
Oh no, I just bought the older version ..

> .. new Apple TV 4K, supercharged by Siri AI

> With built-in far-field microphones, Apple TV 4K also lets users talk to Siri completely hands-free

Oh, okay, never mind

gizzlon··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
I wonder what will happen to all the very personal and sensitive data they (probably) have on users?
gizzlon··on Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
> A lot of important information is on Twitter

Not being able to access it might change that.

gizzlon··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
> the administration declared war on protestors and opponents [..], threatening “criminal liability” if they “further the propaganda or other goals of a foreign power.”

IMO, the "AI" part of this story is just a distraction.

The real story is going after people for protesting and voicing their opinion. A clear move towards authoritarianism and potentially fascism. Seems like it touches 4 of "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism" : https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

(1,2,7,12 and maybe 10?)

gizzlon··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Yeah, just keep buying the poisonous breakfast serial. It's easy to pick out the brown bits of rat poison /s
gizzlon··on Go 1.27
> because otherwise, he sounds insufferable

Oh come on, I like syntax highlights, but this is not "insufferable". It's just opinions expressed strongly, with probably some tounge-in-cheek

gizzlon··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
I the short term. Who knows what the damage to the brand will cost them.
gizzlon··on Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown
So it forces everyone to use more GitHub stuff?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this means I now need to submit to GitHub Security Advisor to get my security fix out ASAP?

gizzlon··on Podman v6.0.0
If I manage an open source program like this, my job is to write the code and docs, publish it somewhere and maybe make some changes to make it more portable. That's it!

It's the distro's job to package and integrate this software with the rest of the system, to make it easier for their users.

I have 1677 packages installed. I absolutely _do not_ want to go to 1677 places to install or look for the latest version.

gizzlon··on JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management
Via a web browser? And the default password is ChangeMe ? :O
gizzlon··on A native graphical shell for SSH
Caddy can also proxy to unix sockets !
gizzlon··on Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike
The US and Israel never had the right to attack Iran in the first place
gizzlon··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
I think this could crash the stock market: Their TAM is now a small percentage of what it was, with all the second and third otder effects that follow from that
gizzlon··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Maybe, or maybe they would take this opportunity to gain a lot of power and influence around the world.

Just because you're not paying per token or per month does not mean they are doing it for free.

gizzlon··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
> it is unlikely that open source models' capability will ever surpass frontier models

Sure about that? Would you invest in products almost no-one can buy?

otoh, maybe China stop releasing their best models

gizzlon··on AI's Affordability Crisis
> Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion .. That is, OpenAI spent 44% of their revenue on sales and marketing!

Anyone know what they are spending this on? Can't remember seeing one OpenAI ad.. Is it just pr and influencers? Ads in the US?

gizzlon··on Is AI Profitable Yet?
> The frontier labs have fantastic margin on inference.

Source?

The OpenAi filing will be very interesting indeed.

("trust me bro" statements from sama et al does not count, since I don't trust them)

Edit:

The best argument I have seen look at the price of inference from smaller companies running open models. And assuming they are profitable-ish. Their prices are lower than the OpenAi and Anthropics best models, so maybe they do make money on inference (ignoring all other costs)

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