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What would it mean to crack down on distillation? I could think of a few possibilities: 1. Using political pressure to target companies that are accused of doing it. 2. Attempting …

Edging a little closer to the Krazam video "rare data hunters."

I've thought about how hard it must be to be a lefty fountain pen user. What is one to do? Learn to write without resting your hand on the page?

> "don't use a gadget" I agree with this but for a different reason than what the author gives. When you write in a notebook you can see where what you are writing is within the no…

And airline stocks are typically a bad investment and Delta has been called a bank that operates an airline due the the amount of their revenue that comes from credit card fees.

I built a multi-agent framework and coding harness that I'm using as my primary coding tool now, mostly with DeepSeek and GLM. I've been having a lot of fun working on it and impro…

A handful of super-rich families got together in the 90s, hired some people to put together a campaign to re-label the estate tax as the death tax and convince everyone it was caus…

I just have a desktop at home that I run inference off of. It is a great setup and I don't find myself wanting to inference models directly on my laptop.

Yeah, I've realized that the things I don't like in tech have everything to do with the culture and politics. When I've been able to work with a small team of people I really like …

Huh, as a Lanaboote user I’m surprised to see this on the front page. I use this in combination with sbctl for key generation. I’m mostly using it because I wanted to set up full d…

This won't help you right now, but GrapheneOS did recently announce a partnership with Motorola, so presumably in a year or so support will start showing up for some Motorola devic…

Here's the most relevant section I could find from the original source: "Chrome extensions can expose internal files to web pages through the web_accessible_resources field in thei…

Here's the relevant bit from the original source: "Chrome extensions can expose internal files to web pages through the web_accessible_resources field in their manifest.json. When …

What's Vanity?

Yeah, Gnome consolidates feature changes into major releases every six months, so it aligns well with fixed release distros like Ubuntu and Fedora that have release cycles that are…

Yeah, this is something I am thinking a lot about. Companies won't be able to sustain this level of spending forever, and one of two things will need to happen: 1. Models become co…

Maybe. I don't think we yet have a good understanding of how many deaths he will have caused as a result of DOGE so abruptly cutting off assistance to so many vulnerable people aro…

I can't believe how many times I have to click "decline" now to install Windows 11. Office 365? no thanks. How about a cheaper version? No thanks. Did you know you could use it for…

Honestly my real fear is ICE agents at polling places on Election Day harassing would-be voters with citizenship checks and aggressive behavior, slowing things down and maybe causi…

My first thought was of the adventure game Loom.

> I recently used a coding agent on a project where I was using an unfamiliar language, framework, API, and protocol. You didn’t find that to be a little too much unfamiliarity? Wi…

Wondering if anyone here has a good answer to this: what protection does user data typically have during legal discovery in a civil suit like this where the defendant is a service …

So Nvidia is giving OpenAI money so OpenAI can buy more Nvidia GPUs?

One thing I’m looking for in all of this is how trump will get a piece of this deal.

Can anyone recommend an alternative that doesn't train on user data?