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selectodude··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
Too late. Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. is a good one too because Internet Archive got the exact opposite outcome in court for doing the exact same thing. I recognize the bullshit, I just call it out to keep myself sane.
selectodude··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
SpaceX is already 3x as expensive to short as the next biggest megacap. Good luck everybody.
selectodude··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
When you realize that LLMs are “just” extremely efficient lossy data compression, it’s hard for me to see how it’s anything other than taking people’s shit, putting it into a gigantic zip file, and letting people search against it.
selectodude··on Astronomers may have found the first exomoon
I thought we’re supposed to call them dwarf planets now. Dwarf star, dwarf planet.
selectodude··on Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots
Like online gambling, some things cause more harm than good.
selectodude··on Airport Simulator
Rather not take the chance of getting sued by EA.
selectodude··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Happy to do so but we’re gonna have to crowdsource an NVL72 first. I don’t have 10 million dollars.
selectodude··on Airport Simulator
I missed Flight Control so bad that I sent Claude on a wild goose chase to decompile the IPA in ghidra and rewrite it in Swift 6. Still working through it, obviously will never get released, but it's been cool to watch.
selectodude··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
Also a 3-bit quant. Useable but a long long way away from useful.
selectodude··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
I feel like that's a threat that isn't super difficult to block. Unplug it from the internet, require it to go through an API intermediary to access web pages.

Maybe I just don't have any imagination.

selectodude··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
I thought it was cool too, though I understand AI use is a heated debate and I think people get their backs up that some dumb illiterate like me who can't code has ghidra on my laptop decompiling kernel headers. I get it, the deluge is coming for my job too.
selectodude··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
Doubt it - Linksys encrypts their firmware. ASUS not only doesn't, but left everything in the binary that made it really easy for GPT-5.6 to crack it open and decompile everything in ghidra.
selectodude··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
Not run all of ASUS's unstable garbage software.
selectodude··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
GPT-5.6 just finished writing a shim for me in rust that sits between Broadcom’s bullshit kernel and a standard Linux user space to turn my mesh routers into standard computers. At some point I’m not sure what the difference is in practice.

Note: I can’t code. Not a line.

selectodude··on Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't
Making memory is easy. Packaging that memory within a few millimeters of a piece of silicon using TSVs and maintaining signal integrity on a 1024 bit bus is really, really hard.

LLMs aren’t all that compute constrained or even memory constrained. It’s just that pushing dozens of terabits per second through a piece of silicon is a physics problem.

selectodude··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
I know what I said. Lots of foreign money backed construction loans got wiped out. The buildings are still there, the project went bankrupt, and the world kept turning.
selectodude··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
Japan in the 1990s, ME sovereign wealth funds in the late 2000s, China in the mid 2010s.
selectodude··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
Don’t blame imports for our sclerotic country banning construction nationwide. Plenty of countries have spent billions on new construction in the US and gotten smoked. The buildings still stand though.
selectodude··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
Probably not much. The US doesn’t have the capacity for high volume manufacturing. We cost too much.
selectodude··on GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
That’s the beauty of using an open harness. I can jump ship if that ever happens.
selectodude··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
My desktop is a game console and the games I play work on windows. And my computer reliably wakes from sleep.
selectodude··on GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
At least OpenAI lets me use my own harness. Having to rely on insane PMs letting Claude Mythos go wild on the codebase has not been going well lately.
selectodude··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Au contraire, I run models on WSL and my desktop reliably wakes up from sleep. Best of both worlds.
selectodude··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
The meek shall inherit the Earth… but not the moon.
selectodude··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

Oscar R. Benavides

selectodude··on Tidal AI Policy
No. I don’t think it’s at all okay or fair that the wealthiest man in the world can push great replacement conspiracies and endorse the murder of immigrants (non-white South African division).
selectodude··on Tidal AI Policy
I have this magical ability to think lots of people can suck simultaneously. I’m also able to separate the power and ability to inflict damage of a bunch of shitheads on twitter from the White House and the first ever trillionaire.
selectodude··on Tidal AI Policy
You get both the white nationalist and the antisemite sides, yes.
selectodude··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
I think the folks at PA Semi had some chops too.
selectodude··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Heh, I’m 5x more productive 99 percent of the time. That is still a very, very useful tool.
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