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Avid Amoeba

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  • The technically lirerate people aren't exempt from the power dynamics created by the vast market share of Chrome and Google, created and reinforced by Google. Even if they/we have some more freedom to maneuver. We still only test our web app features on Chromium because there's limited time for testing, if any, and we can't convince product that making sure the feature works, or fixing bugs on a 2-3% browser is priority. If all the developers in the world used Firefox, it would still not change this power dynamic.

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  • This is of course thanks to all the people shitting on Firefox over the years and saying that Chrome is just better and that there's nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web. So yeah, thanks.

    No it's not thanks to those people. Blaming individuals for not stopping what a much bigger, infinitely more resourced, organized actor has been/is doing to maximize profit is shifting the material responsibiltiy from the actor with real power to the actors without. It's like the personal carbon footprint oil&gas came up with to shift responsibility for climate pollution from themselves to individuals. Or plastic and recycling. It feels good to lay blame on those people who did something we did not but it doesn't help change anything material beyond that. Divides us into camps which prevents us from organizing against the profit-driven culprits.

  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • Probably. If you use the WiFi on it, make sure to check if its WiFi is supported.

  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • Been using OpenWrt on a Pi 4 for many years now. It's been flawless. I'm using Ubiquiti APs. I've now replicated this setup in 4 more households with similar results.

  • Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work

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  • Yeah, what I said in no way invalidates their thesis, which is well done. Rather I'm highlighting the problem is much bigger and entrenched than what it appears to be in our industry. Arguably change in our indistry could be more impactful for the whole working class since we can stop the whole economy now that critical parts of it run in the cloud. So if the message is targeted at us, it's probably good targeting.

  • Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work

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  • Erm, I don't know where the author's from but workplaces in North America outside of the software industry have always been authoritarian like that. Especially given that levels of unionization peaked at 1/3 of the workforce ever and are now way down in the US and Canadian private sector. The software industry experienced an exception to the tendency due to chronic labour shortage for nearly 2 decades that created expectations uncommon in other workplaces. Now it's regressing to the mean. What we're now experiencing has been the reality of most our comrades.

  • Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline

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  • Then no. However if the replacement produces 1000000 widgets with 1000 rejects, then the boss might say - alright, we need more QA to catch those rejects and we're still X ahead, then yes. Productivity isn't measured by the output of one person of particular widget but the output of the unit as a whole, or more importantly the profit of the firm altogether divided by its workers. So if the boss can get more output while controlling the quality to the point of the customer not noticing too much from our replacement, we both get a pink slip.

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  • There's already an increased productivity KPI at the corpo I work at. They expect faster completion of deliverables by some percentage as AI adoption grows (imposed).

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  • Meanwhile:

    Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline. Employment among software developers aged 22–25 has plummeted nearly 20% since 2024, even as their older colleagues' headcount grows. The pattern repeats in other jobs with higher levels of AI exposure, like customer service. Meanwhile, firm surveys indicate executives expect this trend to accelerate, with planned headcount reductions outpacing recent cuts. Translation: The disruption is targeted and just beginning.

    https://hai.stanford.edu/news/inside-the-ai-index-12-takeaways-from-the-2026-report

  • Google has abandoned the Coral TPU

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  • Perhaps the RX580 is usable via Vulkan? I tried Vulkan with llama.cpp on a R9700 recently and it was generally faster than ROCm.

  • How ChatGPT conversations became evidence in criminal investigations

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  • Use local AI people!

    Perhaps there's a market for private AI for organized crime. 🤔

    In Sam Altman's voice:

    "I cannot imagine having gone through, figuring out how to make a drug cartel without ChatGPT"

  • Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In - Phoronix

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  • So for me it'll be an upgrade to 26.04 then stay there till I figure out a migration plan to Debian for my main workstation/server currently on 22.04.

  • Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In - Phoronix

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  • Mild inconvenience, it was a different time, Amazon was still cool among many.

  • China's new iron battery hits 99.4 percent efficiency over 6000 cycles

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  • To be clear, I have a fair bit of confidence in CATL's roadmap as they have delivered steadily over the years.

  • China's new iron battery hits 99.4 percent efficiency over 6000 cycles

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  • Solid state too? I know they started mass producing sodium-ion which is a huge deal but hadn't heard abt solid state lithium.

  • The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code

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  • What you correctly observe as shortsightedness and unwilligness to make compromise are side effects created by our economic system. Competition for profit and capital literally creates the short horizons. If you don't make the money for me this quarter, I'll move my capital to your competitor who would. Your stock price falls and with it further falls the ability to raise capital to fund profit generating ventures and products. As a board and CEO you know that so you set appropriate quarterly profit targets and your exec layer cascades those down to concrete measures down to the junior devs. If your competitor introduces monthly profit targets and executes them consistently, you'd have to match as capital us going to start moving towards your competitor because your quartetly plans would look risky in comparison. Worse, when I say competitor, that's any firm producing profit, not a firm in your product market. Basically any firm that takes capital from capital markets is in competition with you for capital.

    My point being it's not a culture or individual (group) behaviour thing, it's structural systemic drive that can only be solved by structural systemic changes. It's not a new occurrence either. It's been moving in this direction for decades, it's just gotten painfully obvious for most lately.

  • DeepSeek ditches Nvidia for Huawei chips in V4 launch

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  • Yeah. The 80b Coder-Next runs at about the same speed on my hw too. I don't know if it's any better than 3.6 27b.

  • DeepSeek ditches Nvidia for Huawei chips in V4 launch

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  • Take good care of your hw! It's not like 2 years ago when you could buy stuff off the shelf for reasonable prices. :D

  • The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend

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  • Am doing something related at work as we got the directive to actively use AI, so I might as well use the best model available, which happens to be very expensive. It's also not so smart for our work so I have to kick it multiple times... What can I do, it's part of my performance objectives now.

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  • Been using Qwen 3.x for a while now for local LLM with search capability. The 3.5 and 3.6 ones are great and run very fast.