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knowaveragejoe··on Does Your Paper Really Suck?
It actually sounds like not everyone involved is happy. Maybe read the article, because it's a criticism, not an endorsement.
knowaveragejoe··on The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Can you expand on that reasoning more? Claude etc has national secrets hodden somewhere in its weights?
knowaveragejoe··on We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
And he wouldn't stop and reflect on why it's happening, either. That's like, weak or slow or something.
knowaveragejoe··on The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
I think the unspoken fear is that if we assume one or the other will "win" in reaching AGI(or whatever threshold of capability), the rest of the world will sooner or later live under their system of rule as a consequence
knowaveragejoe··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Not to mention the non-first-party Google TV sticks/dongles. The Onn ones from Walmart range from $15-50 depending on how many bells and whistles you want. I really don't know why one would pick anything else.
knowaveragejoe··on Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]
The database gets quite large and the developers put in a lot of effort for tuning it for searchability.
knowaveragejoe··on Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]
The factor that determines this most is how much of the files metadata for each torrent you choose to keep, which is configurable.
knowaveragejoe··on Rent collections are down in New York
Can you explain more? What happened in Detroit in the mid 2010s, how did itreverse course after that?
knowaveragejoe··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
Maybe curl is just... better hardened? Firefox posted hundreds in April.
knowaveragejoe··on The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
I think this cynicism is more borne out of a despair for the average person stuck in all that. They often don't know that there's something else, that you can just Do Things.
knowaveragejoe··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
This is called consignment and is an industry unto itself, usually for antiques since you need a lot of space. You give them your goods and they sell them. You get a cut if they actually sell.

I'm surprised nobody has really mentioned this in the thread. Does anybody remember the "trade in anything" day GameStop just had? https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/08/gamestop-tra...

Obviously they're going to need to liquidate a lot of this stuff. It can be quite lucrative if done right. You're basically getting inventory for free.

knowaveragejoe··on Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
> I saw a claim that Claude Mythos cost ~$10B to train.

Can you cite this? That seems absurd.

knowaveragejoe··on Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
As the article states, there's both training and inference dedicated chips.
knowaveragejoe··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
To use mobile data, yes you'd have to prove some kind of identity in one way or another.
knowaveragejoe··on At long last, InfoWars is ours
He's closer than you might appreciate.
knowaveragejoe··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
You can buy a phone on amazon right now and not sign for anything.
knowaveragejoe··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
I see. Are there other similar projects for other ecosystems? I guess more broadly I'm intrigued by the idea of the decentralized supply chain concept, the way you described it sounds like it was more broadly applicable.
knowaveragejoe··on EFF is leaving X
I'm convinced you didn't actually look through this and just assume that these were bans for mentioning something like "there are only two genders".
knowaveragejoe··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
Is FAIR wordpress-only?
knowaveragejoe··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Isn't some of Gemini's functionality on Android on-device?
knowaveragejoe··on Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source
One nice thing about LittleSnitch on linux is that it comes with a web UI by default. Is there anything like that for headless systems using OpenSnitch?
knowaveragejoe··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
No, they really aren't. But I wouldn't put it past "trad" types.
knowaveragejoe··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
> No. LLMs do not confabulate they bullshit. There is a big difference. AIs do not care, cannot care, have not capacity to care about the output. String tokens in, string tokes out. Even if they have all the data perfectly recorded they will still fail to use it for a coherent output.

Isn't "caring" a necessary pre-requisite for bullshitting? One either bullshits because they care, or don't care, about the context.

knowaveragejoe··on US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
More likely: the local news reporter doesn't know the difference, or didn't think there was a difference.
knowaveragejoe··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
I'm sure they do, yet the models really are getting scarily good at this. This talk changed my view on where we're actually at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg

knowaveragejoe··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
This is all downstream of the backlash against social media and AI, and it's attacking the symptom rather than treating it IMO. You don't need to abandon digital tools entirely, you need to control how they're used in the classroom.

Not every kid can learn concepts just by having them explained verbally or with simple, inanimate diagrams. Desmos etc were incredibly valuable for unlocking certain concepts.

Also, you can't ctrl+f a textbook. Sure, you might find what you're looking for in an appendix or ToC.

knowaveragejoe··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
> Only if you are asking surface level questions.

I find it pretty accurate well beyond that level. How much of that is actually a problem in K-12 education?

knowaveragejoe··on Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free
Okay. There are other criticisms of datacenter buildout that make this kind of product valuable. Moving on.
knowaveragejoe··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
Remember when that was considered an actual issue in 2016? I remember congressional hearings over this.
knowaveragejoe··on Good Bad ISPs
I see Comcast but no Verizon?
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