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iamniels··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
On the free Cloudflare tier its enabled and you cannot disable it. On Paid you can disable it.
iamniels··on Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
In the 1990s - 2000s people said the same about Intel. "They are holding back their latest frontier technology"
iamniels··on AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers
Dario, shut up.

Open models exist and will always exist. You will have to compete against them. That is a good thing for 99.99% of the world, namely the payers of tokens. You are not going to convince us otherwise.

iamniels··on Muse Wonder
200% Sol 6.1 pricing for Luna performance.
iamniels··on US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work
> Netherland

Yeah, all higher studies and institutions are in English and you can get around in public with just English. Most expats will rarely hear or need Dutch (The language of The Netherlands).

iamniels··on OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
"a sign error" LOL
iamniels··on Bidding on competitor names when buyers ask agents
I agree, except that I can say that bidding on niche brand names is closer to $0.50 per click than $10.
iamniels··on DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
I switched to GLM-5.3 flash on high for this reason. Too many "but wait" in the Deepseek-v4 reasoning.
iamniels··on Creepy Crawlies
I run a website with 10k unique pages. If I leave the gates open, Meta hits it 200.000 times per day. Every day. What are you paying developers $500k for Mark?
iamniels··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
This.

Google is an advertising company with an enterprise SaaS branch. I bet they have chosen to focus on running the most efficient "everybody" model instead of running a heavy model for coders.

When using Gemini for other tasks than coding, it is actually pretty good. It grounds well with Google search and gives mostly correct, well written answers to many niche questions.

iamniels··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
PPWR is not the only one. Don't forget WEEE and the battery regulation. Only for VAT we have a single entrypoint, for all other regulations, businesses have to submit for each country. Its simply impossible.

On the other hand I estimate that between 50% and 200% of the taxes collected like this are wasted and not applied to their ultimate goals. The average collected amount per submission is so small that you cannot pay the bureaucrats managing the complex submissions from these sums.

An entrepreneur told me that they were being audited regarding the battery regulation. Two consultants came over from EY and audited all submissions in depth. They found out that the business overpaid by €10. The entrepreneur of course didn't mind and told them to keep the €10. The EY consultants told the entrepreneur to resubmit, otherwise the business would be fined. I think the government spent more on that audit by EY than the business will ever bring in on fees.

On top of this we have the regulations like Intrastat and in the future near-real-time submission of digital invoices to our tax authorities.

iamniels··on Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
This is wrong on so many levels. First of all, IT admins receive weekly e-mails from AWS, Google and MS that a certain service will shut down and that it will affect operations. In 90% of the cases, these e-mails are sent to all customers instead of only the affected customers, so admins get alarm fatigue.

Secondly, instead of doing a rug pull, what's wrong with a 2-month brownout period? Only allow the admin to login, put OneDrive in read-only mode. That will alert all users clearly.

Thirdly instead of fending of the questions from slate.com with Orwellian corporate speak, they should acknowledge their mistake and spend a couple of weeks of the highly paid engineers to see whether they can recover the data. Why is it always so hard for MS to say "Sorry, we made a mistake".

iamniels··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
I understand why you would like to use an LLM for vision. I do it myself often enough. I don't understand however, why the pill detection and counting is included in this benchmark. That is a task which you would perform with OpenCV right?

In my personal mini benchmark minicpm-v-4.6 scores amazingly well. Its a 0.8B model which runs fine on many consumer hardware.

iamniels··on Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
On top of that, the user paid for those tokens, so if there is an owner, it should be the user, not the provider.
iamniels··on Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
This is close to what I need for my company. Currently I'm test driving Open WebUI.

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

iamniels··on Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
Congratulations with your launch! I suspect the product market fit for tools like these will be huge. Especially for SMBs with just 10s of employees in the office, lacking the budget for SAP consultants. However I think the agent creating an app is adding unnecessary complexity. Users want answers or insight in data, why build an app for that if the agent can provide it directly?
iamniels··on Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
* with no easy and free solution yet.
iamniels··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
> One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism ... This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape.

Wow, just wow. He is not even subtle about it.

iamniels··on QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
For a water leak a sound imaging device is not going to help you.

You should definitely try a thermal camera. Any moisture will create small temperature differences which are easily picked up by a thermal camera.

iamniels··on Policy on the AI Exponential
I like that he comes up with new laws and regulations for AI companies. Can I suggest some more?

- You shall not embed copyrighted material in your models.

- You shall not bombard every little website in existence with 1 million scraping queries per day.

- You shall not use your political influence to pump and dump your AI (or rocket?) company.

- You shall not imperill the whole IT sector by buying all CPU and memory chips.

These new rules will affect every society directly in a positive way. Thanks.

iamniels··on Expanding Project Glasswing
Whats currently an open source project which comes closest to Mythos capabilities?
iamniels··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
In Western Europe too.

> but it does absolutely nothing with actual pain. It is placebo at best.

This is simply false.

iamniels··on Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
We need better OSes such that signing of software is not required to keep your computer safe.