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tomaskafka··on How to build a printer
I love it! Can we have "print to kindle" now?

Just open pdf on mac, hit print, grab a kindle and there it is (yes, I know, we can do send to kindle, and some time later, when Jeff Bezos allows so, the doc might appear).

tomaskafka··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
A knowledge laundering engine (that is the whole point and business model of LLMs) is gonna knowledge launder, duh.
tomaskafka··on Jellyfin 12.0
... and is awesome even without Jellyfin - I have it installed on all devices including Apple TV, connected to family NAS through webdav.
tomaskafka··on Mistral raises €3B
As a potential user, I want a competent model (the definition is shifting as the SOTA improves), but Mistral doesn’t seem to be that.
tomaskafka··on Splash-free urinals (2025)
Sir, Reddit is that way
tomaskafka··on GPT-6 Astra
I haven't watched, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_... seems to be exactly about this.

It all comes down to whether you see time and attention spent with your kids as a nuisance or the best time you can ever have in your lifetime (I am team B).

And as every child psychologist says, "attention is all you need" :).

tomaskafka··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
That’s the best description of blockchain I heard so far.
tomaskafka··on GPT-6 Astra
Helping your child navigate the world is the only remaining thing that makes you human.

And you can already ask models to help you become better at it.

tomaskafka··on GPU World
I think personalized suriveillance and manipulation (thought control, manipulating people through filtering of content they receive) on a level any dictator would drool over can be gotten for a fraction of 1 GPU per person.
tomaskafka··on I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
I’ve been playing with this too, the OP is rediscovering the whole field of AI before LLMs. Prolog, temporal logic …

The next one is ontology and semantic web, for which the “trying to stem verbs and nouns” is a crude v0.1 attempt.

tomaskafka··on Stop Making TUIs
You can ship native app for each platform much easier nowadays.
tomaskafka··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
> for 4 years before it became a little sluggish

Weird, I didn't know silicone degrades in this way. Perhaps it was rather the macOS and Mac apps that were getting progressively worse?

tomaskafka··on How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
Whole Europe does this.

I never understood why whole nation wants to live in debt just to have one extra month of cash flow (which they’ll probably squander soon).

tomaskafka··on Stop Making TUIs
No, that is 2 years ago era.

Now it’s “native apps for 5 platforms done almost for free” era for anyone who cares.

See Meta’s new AI desktop app (no, I won’t install anything from Zuck on my computer, but I appreciate what they did).

tomaskafka··on Nvidia's Risky Business
I understand this; I would expect that a $50bn carrot would suffice to move the donkey, but it seems it does not.
tomaskafka··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
Thank you for this report - I tried leaving gmail 2 years ago and returned quickly exactly because of this. Sad to hear the situation remains unchanged.

Meanwhile, on my other account, I have hacked together a basic email classification with n8n and cheap LLM model, and it works awesomely and costs peanuts. I wonder why services who want to be google's competitors don't do this?

tomaskafka··on Nvidia's Risky Business
I had a hard time understanding why didn’t AMD make a better developer experience for this two years ago, and am now even more baffled that even with all the LLMs they still don’t seem to have moved a single inch, despite this probably being a tens of billions dollars worth feature.
tomaskafka··on A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
Also cats - I saw experiments where they gave the “my cat is mostly sleeping and sometimes wandering around the garden” cats gps tracker, and found out they routinely wander 8 km away into the woods each night.
tomaskafka··on Seedance 2.5
Or western movies don’t have stories Chinese audience would relate to, but for dumb visual effect fests, there is no story so it works everywhere.
tomaskafka··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
And yet they can all be comfortably watched at a single place, with high quality and no ads.
tomaskafka··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
At this point China probably has a botnet that can be turned on with a few deploys, and spans a majority of homes in US and RU (and thus is unblockable without disconnecting half of voters from the internet). Ready to attack the infrastructure.
tomaskafka··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Not at all. 2.5 year old Apple Watch, glue gave up after warm pool in aquapark (40 deg Celsius), water got in, dead.
tomaskafka··on Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes
> Second, some people do really believe in a kind of platonic representation space that all models converge on, and that represents the “true” state of the world. If truth is indeed an objective part of the world, then you might expect such a universal truth direction to emerge as models get better. This

This really sounds like all those scifi stories with people trying to find god in the computer. How could it be there, in the jumbled mirror of internet scraped texts.

tomaskafka··on Codex Security
On metrics this either shows as “codex security makes people use us more” or “people are buying extra plans, yay!”

Promotions all around.

tomaskafka··on Why haven't organoids solved all of drug discovery?
Having known nothing about organoids, this was a fascinating read. I can just imagine how challenging would be our work if computers worked like body.
tomaskafka··on The five primitives I run a one-person company on
“This is the highest-leverage primitive, and it is the one most people skip. The reason is uncomfortable:”

AI slop.

tomaskafka··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
This sounds like weapons market after the crash of soviet republic. Never has been a better time to get a functioning tank or parts of nukes.
tomaskafka··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
But who is allowed to press it? If anyone, then anyone can expose career ruining messages from someone else, even inadvertently.
tomaskafka··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Reminder that you don't need a powerful transcoding server and engine - I have been running for years with simple WebDAV on my NAS, and Infuse as a comfortable client on all apple devices.
tomaskafka··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
Half of the sun shines upwards, to brighten up the ceiling and corners, but yes, I agree.
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