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schappim

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About schappim

marcus at my last name dot com

Solo-founder of https://ninja.ai

@schappi.com on BlueSky @schappi on Twitter marcus@ on email

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    Comment #49245812

    Old accounts can suffer takeovers too!

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    Comment #49153448

    > "frequently contains all too plausible nonsense" This really isn’t the case with frontier models in 2026. I’ve found (sadly) that every time I thought the model was hallucinating…

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    Comment #49143065

    Was it actually an Amazon bot IP[1] or someone pretending to be on AWS? 1. https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresse...

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    Comment #49140486

    It is not just Amazon (although they're #4 on my list of bad actors)[1]. 1. https://files.littlebird.com.au/bad-scrapers.png

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    Comment #49139347

    Google tried to kill RSS, but it is not dead, in fact it is still a huge part of the Open Web Initiative. There is no performance hit or real resource cost in supporting RSS. If bi…

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    Comment #48998684

    Yeah they are pretty loose w/ Castle. It is a case of "mi casa" not always "tu casa" [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_del_Fascio_(Como)

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    Comment #48941504

    I found MacWhisper to be great. I built and used my own solution for a couple of years before settling on MacWhisper. I’ve also encountered some bugs. While debugging, I found that…

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    Comment #48769531

    This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?

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    Anthropic restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from tomorrow

    https://xcancel.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341

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    Comment #48726108

    It really was Mac OS X's Vista moment. Edit: It'll always be Mac OS X to me, not macOS.

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    Comment #48683714

    No black bar? I guess Om was before the mods' time.

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    Comment #48670076

    If they have halflife 2 in the browser, I wonder if this means they can do original CS in the browser too!

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    Comment #48487910

    There are generally lower-cost alternatives for sourcing the third-party products they carry. Their first-party products are usually more expensive, but they're of higher quality t…

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    Comment #48485301

    The guardrails are pretty tight. It is even refusing to decode morse code: https://x.com/Schappi/status/2064839631137546503?s=20 The prompt was: please translate .. ..-. / -.-- ---…

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    Comment #48483971

    You'd have to imagine that the 500+ Kit's cost of goods is impacted twice, first on memory and again on solid state storage.

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    Comment #48483173

    The US has a plethora of alternative authorised resellers who are lower priced: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/#:~:text...

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    Comment #48482780

    Microcenter (another official US reseller) sells the Pi5 16GB at a much lower price[1]. 1. https://www.microcenter.com/product/702590/raspberry-pi-5

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    Comment #48482564

    Are Raspberry Pis (UK country of origin) exempt from the 10% baseline import tariff?

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    Comment #48482507

    The memory price rises are flattening. Prices are still increasing but not at the rate they previously were last year.

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    Comment #48482483

    Raspberry Pi’s keep selling because the software ecosystem is solid.

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    Comment #48482471

    Some folks might have missed that memory prices on the whole are up [1] 90% since Q4. The memory used by the Pi 5 is up 700% [2]! Raspberry Pi are working the issue by releasing ne…

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    Comment #48482356

    Two things to note: 1) Apple had long term contracts for memory which will run out. Afterwards it will be very interesting to see what they do. 2) RPi uses older memory that is muc…