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Rhaedas

@ Rhaedas @fedia.io

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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

  • Considering what can be seen with Mythos 5 and Fable 5, what would happen when any "too smart" LLM get released?

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  • That is the core problem now. Not from some awakening of LLMs, but because they're being forced into everything for money, doing damage along the way. Sold as the ultimate tool for everything, only good at specific things.

    LLMs and how we're using them is a test run for any potential AGI that might come along, and we're failing pretty badly. Imagine if one of them was actually AGI and was able to do more than just break things from being bad at it. AGI/ASI if it ever happened would be quick and unpredictable in the direction it takes. We better wake up and realize that with this pretend version that we screwed up implementing.

  • Smallest GUI distro (for a low-RAM Chromebook)?

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  • Good luck with the effort. I have a Chromebook that I was considering to do the same after messing with using it as-is but running Forefox under its Linux wrapper and seeing how painfully slow it was. But then I dived into Google's efforts in locking them down and decided it wasn't worth the effort (yet). I turned to an old Macbook that couldn't be updated anymore and discovered the exact opposite. With a bit more RAM and a swap to a SSD, it runs current Linux Mint with little issues. I may explore the Chromebook again when I have extra time, as it's doable, just a PIA.

  • TIL The location of the G-spot is typically reported as being about 50 to 80 mm (2.0 to 3.1 in) inside the vagina, on the front wall

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  • That's because 99% of it is inside the body, surrounding the vaginal area. I'm surprised at the wiki stating it "might" be the source of vaginal orgasms. It's a huge mass of nerves around the area... yeah, it might be what's doing it.

  • Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not an Asgardian/Judge/Doomguy!

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  • Exactly. And had to change the feel of things because they have a license to modify the canon. There are fan made versions of ship beauty shots and warping that are better than anything Hollywood put out, but 2009's popping in like Star Wars is just... no. I think I lost interest when they made the parking brake joke on Sulu. Anyone read the one paperback novel that tells about Sulu's first time at helm on the E? ("Kobayashi Maru") He actually DID flub leaving space dock... but not for a stupid joke. He didn't want to be on the ship (for reasons in the plot), figured the E was like a big freighter, and her nimble response to his commands threw him off. She won him over.

  • We are a family at this company.

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  • Lots of families are dysfunctional.

  • Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server

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  • The amount of panels has been. Unfortunately as always our demand also keep increasing.

  • 'The golden years are not golden’: Boomers are hoarding most of America’s wealth and power because they’re terrified of outliving their money

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  • And the idea of a safety net has been around for a long time, in various forms, yet somehow helping everyone has always been a bad thing to do.

  • Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not an Asgardian/Judge/Doomguy!

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  • The actors I liked a lot, they all did great at capturing the nuances. The plots.... meh. They also didn't have the same realistic "feel" of the classic TV/movies. It was more "arcadish" and shiny. I will say there are a few scenes/lines in some of them that I liked, even though it was a different timeline. "Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's. And yours. I dare you to do better." I still prefer the original Kirk origin, and the Kirk in the various novels over the years is a bad ass prodigy.

  • Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not an Asgardian/Judge/Doomguy!

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  • Forgot Éomer - "Now is the hour! Riders of Rohan! Oaths you have taken, now fulfill them all, to lord and land!"

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  • France should ask for it back.

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • I'll take the blame, I shortened the statements maybe a bit too much, assuming the references would work. But they were explained well by the other replies.

    I was learning in the 90s from lessons on AOL how to sanitize inputs and salt passwords along with HTML 1.0. It baffles me how corporations let stupid things happen now.

  • How to Rick Roll others

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  • Well timed. Got to the end text, had a half second of "wait..."

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • Sanitizing user input for the Moon landings.

    Meanwhile in 2026, ask AI to change an authentication phone number and it says, "Sure thing!" And is ABLE to do it.

  • Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

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  • I remember seeing a presentation by no other than Bill Gates on such an idea. A long time ago. It had merit, it was the feasibility, safety, and cost that kept it from being a thing.

    A related side note - I returned a gift once that was a ceiling star projector. Was pretty cool, but I quickly realized that to get the proper spread on the ceiling it had to be low, which meant anyone looking at it in passing would get hit by the LED light. I questioned if that on a regular basis was safe, since the same type tech in scanner has warnings not to look at the emitter. In the return I left a comment on that point, especially such a device would be attractive to get for kids. The connection - friendly fire from a laser that's strong enough to fry a mosquito at distance is probably not a great thing to have in the house if you're home.

    This is brought up in the article with the programming detecting other things around and stopping the firing if seeing something. But knowing how well vision can and can't work, and the creep of AI to such things, I'd rather not try it out.

  • 'Maybe we'll never take it down': Trump compares White House UFC arena to Eiffel Tower, says it could be permanent

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  • Probably a power trip, one of the few he gets away with. "Smart men don't pay taxes or bills!"

  • 'Maybe we'll never take it down': Trump compares White House UFC arena to Eiffel Tower, says it could be permanent

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  • Jesus is just a name to them. Any chance of them actually following things taught is long gone. Jesus, like Trump, is a tool they use. Nothing more.

  • PewDiePie releases Codex/ClaudeCode/Cursor killer, Odysseous (FOSS)

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  • Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it's a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it's a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

    It's new enough that there aren't any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

  • PewDiePie releases Codex/ClaudeCode/Cursor killer, Odysseous (FOSS)

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  • 16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they've got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

  • xkcd #3253: Sunbeam

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  • You're just one of the ones who understands things more, and is confused that other people don't. It's okay though, as we can always invoke another well known XKCD and treat someone who doesn't get it as one of the ten thousand. Don't make fun of them, educate them.

  • xkcd #3253: Sunbeam

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  • The average person probably can't tell you which way is west without looking at their phone, or point to where the Sun probably is during the day if it's cloudy.