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graphe··on BYD launches $15,000 EV
Kia and Hyundai did not eat the Japanese car makers lunch. They’re insecure and crappy, and if you drive one in certain areas you’ll be pulled over for possibly stealing said car brand. Kia had a generous warranty which was enough to tide over some but nobody says that Kia/Hundai are good brands just the most stolen cars with bad security. They need to be sued for causing its owners such a disturbance for driving a tainted brand.
graphe··on Gemma: New Open Models
If this was better at specific RAG or coding performance I would absolutely, certainly without a doubt use it over a general instruct model in those instances.
graphe··on Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
Not only that, but the intonation also changes people’s personalities. Notice how there are round calming words and sharper ones, like the ohm in mantras give an o sound and a word like stab has a sharper intonation.

If sapolsky believes the Sapir whorf hypothesis I do too.

graphe··on Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
The stallman of physics.
graphe··on Gemma: New Open Models
I disagree, coding and RAG performance is all that matters to me. I'm not using an LLM to learn basic facts I already know.
graphe··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
If they needed signal it be because someone like you told them to get it. Non issue for the billions that use WhatsApp and Facebook.

Your uncle in Vietnam has a smartphone, no internet, no number, and NEEDS the signal app? He might need solar, electricity and internet first.

graphe··on LED Matrix Earrings
For now.

Seiko invented the amazing quartz watch which was a marvelous invention of timekeeping with a crystal rather than mechanical links. Now a quartz watch is a sure sign of a cheap commodity. LED cuff links will be outdated quickly, probably less than a few weeks, maybe even after the first few wears it would be gaudy.

graphe··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
He’d ask you to do it then like every non technical older person. It’s a non issue.
graphe··on Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox
Xbone has no hacks. It has dev mode, no exclusives both which killed hacking and piracy.
graphe··on Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox
PS3, PS4, Xbox, PSP, DS, vita, switch and maybe PS5 all have hacks.

Phones came out and killed homebrew. Now the developers developed cool super compatible stuff without needing you to hack the hardware plus games became stagnant on consoles. The PSP when I bought it was known as a boring rehash console with nothing but re-releases but the hardware made it worth it.

graphe··on Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox
They're all x86 so don't despair.

Plus they haven't made a good exclusive since Bloodborne. No Xbox exclusives afaik.

Don't worry, gaming peaked a long time ago. There's a huge backlog of great games that are better than their remakes like XCOM. Aside from graphics, I'd say AAA gameplay has even regressed in many ways. Indie games do their own thing and run on PC.

graphe··on Greener cities: A necessity or a luxury?
Coffee is a luxury. It is a very carbon and labor intensive product of growing fruits in tropical areas, only using the seeds, throwing away the pulp of the fruit, transportation, roasting grinding and then the semi boiling of the seeds before it reaches your cup. White sugar might be cheap in price but it's unnatural and has many processes which are also very intensive in labor.
graphe··on Non-code contributions to open source
Just try Ansel. I saw this topic a while ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38390914

I am only familiar with his YouTube, and then this topic. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel Here are his examples.

It seems 1:1 compatible when I switched.

graphe··on Greener cities: A necessity or a luxury?
I agree. Singapore is the greenest city but it's hardly green. Construction is always dirty, a few trees won't change that. The sands are stolen from other countries.

They dress up the carbon causing steel beams and concrete with trees but don't forget the tree roots also destroy infrastructure, and at the end of the day it's (toxic) lipstick on a pig, and the continuous maintenance of the lipstick until the pig dies. Cities and human habitats are either being reclaimed by nature or fighting it. Until that fundamentally changes green cities are as realistic as carbon negative oil.

graphe··on Greener cities: A necessity or a luxury?
You can't have something be a necessity and a luxury. An iPhone is one or the other, but not both.
graphe··on AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer
Any more details? No history?
graphe··on Ancient Rome's failed building projects
Theory of alienation in Marxism usually refers to the idea that social hierarchies exist because they're tied to your work. Optimization isn't strictly just production based, it can be carbon capture. Then you get to Marx's other theory: the commodity fetishiation. It's not all doom, you can fetishize some crops by making them organic, carbon negative, low water, etc.

All of knowledge work is very alienating.

graphe··on Ancient Rome's failed building projects
Why isn't optimizing for factory farming not fun? You might mean the loss of autonomy.
graphe··on Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It
Anyone used a good SD model to make a selfie and identity document?
graphe··on The Death of Free Shipping
I bought a $10 item with $10 shipping on eBay; it was broken. Offered a refund of the product, not the shipping and I'd have to eat shipping. All that for basically $5. Always get free shipping!
graphe··on Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 (2023)
Buying a new motherboard to replace the Thinkpad is hardly a fix. Otherwise I could 'fix' my Thinkpad x200 by buying a x230. You could make a case for the ship of Theseus but it's more like you are taking off the captains wheel and replacing the whole thing and calling it the same ship.

I never got the appeal of those laptops either. It's not a Thinkpad, its an Chinese motherboard that is overpriced to get it working with a nice keyboard, and yet you'll still have to bend your neck to use it unless you're using the dock.

graphe··on Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
If you need an OS and a cheap device use your old netbook or computer you have laying around instead of turning it into ewaste. You can do it all with a rpi zero if you insist on buying another device.
graphe··on Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
Try this. https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/choose
graphe··on No one cares about open-source, until
Volume. Open source is a tactic. Developers will like support and open source stuff they're familiar with. Expressif does this with esp8266 and esp32. Facebook does this with llama.
graphe··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
I wish I knew this. I have a version of gauth that wasn't able to be exported on an old phone. I lost a bunch of crypto because of this.
graphe··on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries
This gives me an easy solution idea. A few wired ESP32 in HA configured as a baysian sensor, if several or one goes offline someone's jamming or something is wrong.

Wifi canaries.

graphe··on Non-code contributions to open source
I wonder how LLMs will fit into this, or about hackable environments versus binary options. Will there be a pip version of the documentation for noobs that are RAG trained phi-2 that can manipulate the computer via terminal?

The binary option I think of is not needing any documentation like for the one click jailbreaks means that it probably doesn't need much documentation.

Definitely prefer the GitHub pages that assume you don't know how to install and makes it stress free versus something like sway and configuration, do people end up with Manjaro instead.

graphe··on Non-code contributions to open source
No they aren't. See darktable and Ansel. I will never use darktable again. https://ansel.photos/en/
graphe··on Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both audio and touch feedback
Your comment is actually probably one of the most relevant ones, I was thinking who cares? You're not producing music on your phone.

On long calls, I will have delayed audio or glitches, sometimes from facetime, or the network but because of your comment I tried to use the speaker and it was better. I'll try disconnecting them occasionally thanks to your comment. Thanks!

graphe··on Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both audio and touch feedback
You sound emotional. Wired headphones are sometimes cheaper and may sound better. They are not immune to loss, asymmetry, or horrors such as pulling your phone when it’s snagged and causing your phone to drop.
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