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wdson Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

>The UN is openly biased against Israel.

The UN was openly biased against apartheid South Africa as well.

wdson Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds [1]

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says [2]

A genocide is unfolding before our eyes: History will not forgive our inaction, UN Special Committee warns General Assembly in report [3]

Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds [4]

[1]: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-is-committi...

[3]: https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/11/gen...

[4]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/israel-deliber...

wdson Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5

For a bit more physical space, used laptops have the same and more.

I run a headless laptop as a server and it works great, and just sips power. It didn't have Ethernet built-in, so I just replaced the WiFi card with one and it worked just fine (and also let me panel mount the connector for a DIY 1U enclosure).

While I did not get it myself, I recently saw a business laptop I was hawking with 8GB of RAM and a relatively modern CPU sell for less than $50 on eBay. All that was wrong with it was a bad back panel; just some broken plastic which I wouldn't have been using regardless.

I could see myself running a whole rack of headless laptops in the future. It's more likely than me buying a single new Pi at these prices.

wdson The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

That's strange, our key cards to access the server room don't seem to work anymore, and the admin console to force-unlock it is down, too...

wdson Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

Not good for us if it gets banned domestically because the US can't compete in a free market.

wdson Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

I imagine it'd work the same as merging all the good-tasting foods to get an even tastier one

wdson Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

Well, yes, the comment is living in an alternate universe. It's a parable.

wdson Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal

The interest isn't artificial; A lot of people (especially me) are just highly interested in this tech. I myself am working on a 2D variant meant for low-bandwidth environments to replace low-res pixel grid images.

You personally may not feel it, but there is a real, genuine interest, especially given how good it is at replicating photorealistic environments in realtime, relatively cheap (in comparison to NeRF). It's awesome.

Also, what would the ulterior motive be for someone to 'pump' this? There isn't a financial or clout-based motivation to do so. It's just interesting tech, which I believe we are all at least partly here for.

wdson Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

How many PoE adapters would it take to charge a Tesla?

wdson Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

Not sure how good of an idea a Steam Deck would be for this. If you can't access Wikipedia, I imagine a replacement for its unprotected glass screen would be harder to come by if you drop it.

wdson Robert Mueller Has Died

If you were to have said this about Charlie Kirk, or inevitably Trump himself when it happens, you'd be treated like you had killed them yourself.

wdson Your phone is an entire computer

A few days ago I cracked the edge of my smartphone's screen at just the right spot to shut its display off entirely, though it still works. Using the USB-C dongle meant for my laptop, the phone pops into a desktop view which basically is the same experience as a Chromebook (for better or worse).

In the meantime before its repair, I shoved my SIM card into an old flipphone I had in the tech graveyard drawer. I've actually really liked the limited flipphone experience. It's a mental breath of fresh air to not have a time/focus black hole in my pocket at all times. It made me realize that I've had a pretty bad relationship with my smartphone in terms of how much time I wasted on it. I'm considering keeping the flipphone as my primary phone. Maybe smartphones do too much.

wdson Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted

https://getcoldturkey.com

Same functions, costs less than one year of Kiki for life, and multiplatform. No AI required.

wdson Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted

Five years ago, I paid a flat $45 fee for Cold Turkey, software which does the same thing on Windows and Mac which doesn't require I chip in for no additional work on the developer's part; It is completed software that runs on my own machine, just like Kiki.

Sure, diming $30/year is a 'better deal' than nickeling $5/month, but this is not the sort of 'deal' which this software warrants. This is not a service product, and pricing it like one is silly.

wdson Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted

For $60/year, I'd expect a lot more from software that runs on my own computer with no additional services provided.

wdson FunctionGemma 270M Model

I've found this dataset specifically for Home Assistant with over 32k examples: https://huggingface.co/datasets/acon96/Home-Assistant-Reques...

wdson ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

Let's go back one further to 1947 where there was no Israel, and it was all Palestine.

wdson ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

Don't put words in my mouth. Unacceptable strawman.

wdson ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

Yes, I am aware of the Nakba, and how Palestinians fight to keep their land and lose.

wdson ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

Assuming the entirety of history began on October 7th, 2023, this is true.

wdson ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

Keep in mind this was written by man.

People are being murdered thousands of years later because of the ancient Judea equivalent of 'Harry Potter', and the batshit insane people who still believe it in earnest.

wdson Katharine Graham: The Washington Post

What level of privilege do I have to reach to have falsehoods be labeled 'discussion generators'?

wdson OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025

> I think we’re close to AI substantially contributing to scientific discovery.

The new "Full Self-Driving next year"?

wdson Show HN: ChatToSTL – AI text-to-CAD for 3D printing

Most individuals cannot afford to subsidize free-but-not-free API calls like companies can. BYOK is perfectly reasonable for a solo project like this.

wdson Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

If you say so.

wdson Hit men aren't what you think

"Anyone famous" in the vast, vast majority of cases is completely detached to the cause of anyone's death or further suffering as a health insurance CEO would be.

wdson UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale

Completely untrue.

>In this game, the player does not shoot Israeli civilians, women, children, elderly, only soldiers.

wdson UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale

Neither follows. Of course the UK is nowhere near Iraq in terms of censorship. Yet, here the UK prescribes to their standards on grounds just as hollow.

Think about what makes this case different, why it was treated as such, and what the motivations were (Hint: Not related to counter-terrorism).