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starkeeper

92 karma · joined October 5, 2025

I'm an ancient software developer time traveller. Working as a remote contactor building apps that use AI to do stuff, also a game developer.
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starkeeper··on SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin
So is this a door-knocking bitcoin robbery game?
starkeeper··on Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI
Microsoft is famous for choosing terrible names but how could they be this terrible.
starkeeper··on Humpback whales are forming super-groups
Hopefully they are building an army to conquer the planet.
starkeeper··on LLM pricing has never made sense
Local LLM = Now & When, not If
starkeeper··on Apple's New CEO Has a Background in VR, but Is Reportedly Bearish on Vision Pro
We need to manipulate the eye socket in a more biologically and socially acceptable plus human comfortable way.

All these face lids are just hobbyists I think the real deal comes later.

starkeeper··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
Normalizing this shit is more evil than anything too. Really classy overlords strikes again.
starkeeper··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
I'm so excited to interview for a career at Meta!

Also, why are the investors not suing the legs off of Zuck for the whole meta verse debacle? It is a scam and pure fraud. Also dumb name, sue for that too. Should have just renamed it meeme.

starkeeper··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
On a similar note I recently deleted a whole bunch of automated tests because if the AI is going to write most of the code then I should test it to make sure it's good! This won't work for all projects, but for my indie games it's a good idea.
starkeeper··on NASA Force
Official Government Age Discrimination
starkeeper··on All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
it would be easier if they just rolled around in hamster balls to keep the dust out!
starkeeper··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
It's all bots!!!
starkeeper··on Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
What's a good place to do this?
starkeeper··on JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware
It is closed source because they think people want to buy this? Isn't this just built in to Firefox and Chrome now? I mean chrome already lets you preview API calls with pretty print.

I'm confused why this extension still exists I guess, and definitely too spooked out to even bother looking.

starkeeper··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
A hero post. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to shave using the edge of iPhone Air 20 or whatever they are coming up with. iPhone Stiletto.
starkeeper··on AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart
So absolutely tasteless it should be banned. I think it's fine if people want to generate music at home like this but also, isn't it questionable what is even copyrightable? Apple makes you pay for this?

oh man, I just am so bummed that around 2007 I ditched my 20 year collection of CDs and went digital whaaaaa!

starkeeper··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
Why don't they have any decent external cameras absolutely goofy (or maybe they do and I am goofy?) also, framing!
starkeeper··on Running LLMs locally? Cut your VRAM consumption by 45% with one line of code
Isn't this just an ad? I'm confused.
starkeeper··on Baby's Second Garbage Collector
Yeah it totally grossed me out too, it's quite twisted. Author has serious issues.
starkeeper··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
How many windows services or low level system dlls has Microsoft lost the source code for and or does not even know what they actually do?

Copilot does not know either but I'm sure the answer is a much bigger number then anyone would be comfortable with.

starkeeper··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
It should be open source anyways. Maybe they will change gears.
starkeeper··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
This is off the hook negligence and abuse they are training ads in on purpose now and think it's cool. We are doomed until it is all open source and only open source.
starkeeper··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
It is so abusive appropriation of our resources but at least we can close the tabs! It's sloppy.
starkeeper··on DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems
So once an OS has your age then what it is just handed out to sites so they can target children for better kidnapping?
starkeeper··on Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?
How would this be a bad thing?
starkeeper··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
So now CoPilot will be EVEN better at writing viruses, worms and malware!
starkeeper··on Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
It's 40 meters, so it is only survivable with jump jets. That would be cool though.

(ChatGPT answered, I was too lazy to computer 40m with gravity being 1.62m/s on the lunar surface.)

Velocity on impact: ~11.4 m/s km/h: ~41 km/h mph: ~25.5 mph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS

starkeeper··on Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
There is still no excuse for not using LIDAR in addition to anything else.
starkeeper··on Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
The renderings look like the cover of a Young Adult Sci Fi novel by Robert H. Heinlein. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel comes to mind. Probably the first true Science Fiction I have ever read!
starkeeper··on Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
>> What are wile e coyote attacks? Painting a tunnel entrance on a wall?

Yes!!! Thank you hopefully I will get credit for inventing this attack :)

>> IncreasePosts 39 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | on: Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection ...

What are wile e coyote attacks? Painting a tunnel entrance on a wall?

>> If Tesla FSD is better than the average driver using it, isn't it still a net win, even if it might crash in different scenarios than a human?

I don't think so because it is fooled by simple things that could easily be prevented and counting on a human to override is very risky because the human is simply not alert in the passive mode.

I think cameras are great, but there is no excuse not to also use LIDAR.

starkeeper··on Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
"Cameras only" is a cost cutting for profit only feature that is subject to Wile E. Coyote attacks.

It is a shameful engineering design to leave out LIDAR and it has cost human lives.

Let's hope Musk does not leave out something important for the moon landing. His proposal for it is absolutely ridiculous, it looks like a children's book fantasy and many smaller top-heavy craft have already toppled on the moon!

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