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webXL··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Sigh. Yet another harness...

I'd probably check it out if it was actually called 'YAH Harness' and not [insert Chinese AI lab here] Harness

webXL··on AirPods 5
Seems like everyone is doing this now... Sonicare, Norelco... I get the cost cutting + simplifying international packaging aspect. Just pass it on to customers. At least Apple has the other excuse that users might prefer wireless charging, so if users already have that or need to go out and buy it, the included charger just gets thrown in a drawer if it ever makes it out of the box.
webXL··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Pretty much every company milks their wealthier customers and it frees them up to be more competitive at the lower end. Also, if they charged a more reasonable amount, they would get backordered very quickly.
webXL··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Yes, a really, really BIG book!
webXL··on macOS Container Machines
Nice, but expect to page through a few pages of ToS during the build
webXL··on Claude Fable 5
Or just any update for 122B. That size seems to be ideal for a single GB10
webXL··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
"Works on my machine" - a colleague's mug from back in the day. He was just being funny, but there's a bit of truth in every joke. Reproducibility was only occasionally a top concern for developers, and then github and other CI tools came along to offload that concern all together. Perhaps with the growing threat maintainers will start to care again. Github should just turn off publishing capabilities and force them to care.
webXL··on AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software
Yes. Isn't this something code review catches? :)
webXL··on Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
> time to break out Pro C# textbook

- downdetector comment

webXL··on US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed
F this BS. I will never send a single dime or packet to any company or politician that supports this. I will tell everyone I know to boycott their service or products.

The latest absurd power grab in the guise of protecting the children.

webXL··on BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
I think they used a dummy model or else they would have linked to it. Just google '1-bit 100b model' and you'll only see references to this project without any download links.
webXL··on Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll ask the issue creator if they've considered that. Would be nice if the maintainer would handle that (sigh) and link to the actual models used for testing (double sigh).
webXL··on BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
It comes from (intentionally?) misleading docs: https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet/issues/391

(only suggesting that it's intentional because it's been there so long)

webXL··on NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]
Wow, that's A lot. Even though there's diminishing returns with more workers, they'd probably build them faster if they weren't scaling out so much concurrently, right?

Seems like we could match a 7 year clip at a much smaller scale. We'll be forced to at some point, but we need to overhaul the regulatory mess and fix the grid first. Hopefully that happens long before battalions of Chinese drones and droids take over the world.

webXL··on Google Workspace CLI
gog too, which my openclaw agent always stubbornly wants to use instead of delegating to a subagent + custom calendar/imap proxy server I built.

https://github.com/steipete/gogcli

webXL··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
I have it running in a macos VM using lume & BlueBubbles on a throwaway iCloud account. A lot of hoops to jump through, though

https://cua.ai/docs/lume https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/bluebubbles

webXL··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
In October, I bought a $250 product from a Canadian company + about $30 shipping & taxes and thought I was good. A few weeks later, FedEx sends me an $92 bill for the duty that they had to pay. I just ignored it since I was never given that notice up front. If they really wanted it, they could have had the vendor contact me. But at least they're not getting that bit of profit now.
webXL··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
Even if it is, it's not hard to automate PR submissions, comments and blog posts, for some ulterior purpose. Combine that with the recent advances in inference quality and speed, and probable copy-cat behavior, any panic from this theater could lead to heavy-handed crackdown by the state.
webXL··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
lol "What the fuck are guardrails?" Grok!

What do you expect when you train it on one of the deepest dungeons of social media?

webXL··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
The journalist was almost certainly using an LLM, and a cheap one at that. The quote reads as if the model was instructed to build a quote solely using its context window.

Lying is deliberately deceiving, but yeah, to a reader, who in a effect is a trusting customer who pays with part of their attention diverted to advertising support, broadcasting a hallucination is essentially the same thing.

webXL··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
Agreed and that's why there's an incentive to DDoS it and degrade the quality. Are there any p2p backup solutions?
webXL··on CSS-Doodle
Man, CSS looks absolutely nothing like it did when I started out. lol
webXL··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
eCash would be better, but someone needs to be connected to the mint.
webXL··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Guilty of what exactly? Facilitating drug dealing? Something we both know is going to occur whether the nanny state permits it or not. Ross made it safer for those involved, and even those not involved. Inner cities are war zones because drug deals must be done in person. He deserves a full pardon.
webXL··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Traditional banking is governed by men with guns who depend on votes (for appearances). They always have recourse and motivation to intervene with private transactions. Not so much the case with bitcoin, which is extralegal for the most part and doesn't depend on them.
webXL··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
A very interesting philosophical and moral can of worms you just opened there. Bitcoin is governed by the protocol, so if the protocol permits anyone who can sign a valid transaction involving a given UTXO to another address, then it technically isn't a "crime". Morally I'm not sure I'd be able to sleep well at night if I unilaterally took what I didn't exchange value for.

As for the forgotten key case, I think the only way to prove you had the key at some point would need to involve the sender vouching for you and cryptographically proving they were the sender.

webXL··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Those don't really mean anything when an attacker can eavesdrop on customer and employee comms and possibly redirect transactions (MITM).
webXL··on Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
Correct me if I’m wrong, but remote code execution has the advantage of being able to access information without the user being involved at all. Sure the user needs to install and trigger the exploit, but whatever code the attacker runs doesn’t require the user to interact with certain urls. If you can launch arbitrary programs, you can probably install all sorts of nasty things that are potentially more lucrative than the victim’s bank or coinbase accounts.
webXL··on iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]
So it’s more expensive to make something ugly. Gotcha ;)

The slowness might be explained by the background tasks of restoring previously installed software and data. I have an iPhone 13 Pro with tons of apps and it’s still pretty snappy. But those specific bugs do pop up from time to time. Especially since they release new phones concurrently with new operating systems.

webXL··on Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
Why don't they just focus on making a Gravitron variant with those algorithms in the circuitry?
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