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  • What do I need to know about the Odyssey before watching the film?

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  • Ollama vs vLLM vs LightLLM: What Is Technically Different Under the Hood?

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  • vLLM.

    It's slower to start, but once it gets going, pretty solid.

  • Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github.

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  • Wonder how many of those repos contain AI-generated code?

  • llama rpc exists and works really well

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  • Waiting on friends.

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  • They're just there for a three hour tour. A three hour tour.

  • Hackers use DNS poisoning on hotel Wi‑Fi to steal Microsoft 365 accounts

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  • Don't EVER use any public wifi without a proper VPN. As soon as you connect, launch the VPN. Hotels, museums, conferences, coffeshop, busses and trains, and library wifis are the worst. Even homes of friends.

    I've seen wireshark traffic that would make your blood curl.

  • Uncle Bob becoming even worse:

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  • It's all that gherkin testing, isn't it?

  • What's something you know about philosophy?

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  • There are many branches in philosophy, and it's easy to mix them up. Depends on what you're into.

    • Ethics: notions of right and wrong and moral values.
    • Epistemology: questions of knowledge. How do we know what we know.
    • Metaphysics: ideas of space, time, existence.
    • Aesthetics: appreciation of art, beauty, music, literature, etc.
    • Logic: for the math-oriented. How do we reason and arrive at conclusions? If X, then Y.
    • Language: how we communicate. Meaning of words, symbols, and metaphors.
    • Phrenology: method of relieving cranial pressures.
    • Science: how to reason about the physical world.
    • Religion: Understanding the divine and how we fit in.

  • Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers

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  • Just forwarded the search link to a friend. He coauthored a long out-of-date book on podcasting, and it's on their list. A lot of these authors will get a nice bonus.

  • What is the BRAT diet? Wrong answers only.

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  • 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

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  • Rust has a lot more 'batteries included' than C, and the memory ownership model works a lot better than garbage collection or C's YOLO model. It also has built-in async/await. But you're pretty much in the same boat as C when it comes to multiprocessing or thread-safety.

    Anyone building a long-running backend service would be wise to take a serious look at Rust. Personally, I'm glad Linus is open to change and isn't digging his heels in on this one.

  • Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions

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  • It's really unfortunate Apple dropped the iPod Nano. The ones with a physical scroll wheel and small display were just the right size for sticking in your pocket and going for a walk, run, or bike. Great way to leave distractions behind.

    This one looks like it's got some good design ideas. Nowadays, most people have streaming playlists. If they add software to snapshot those playlists onto the device in high quality, they might have something.

  • How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

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  • Google and Microsoft already tried underwater data centers to better handle heat dissipation. It wasn't worth it. Hardware can fail and you need somebody to go in and swap boards and faulty cables. Every complex system has multiple points of failure. The wrong board and the whole container stops working. It was so much pain trying to maintain it under water they all gave up after the Proof of Concept stage.

    How are they going to deal with it cost effectively up in orbit? Little nanosat modules? Humanoid robots that barely work today?

    Be a lot cheaper (and faster) sending a tech in a little cargo van and a toolbox out to the suburbs of Memphis, Phoenix, or Bakersfield.

  • Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

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  • Hyundai USA has been taking social influencer types on tours of their GA factory lately.

    The location is pretty sparse already. Super automated. Mainly floor lift robots rolling partly assembled cars from station to station, with big Fanuc arms moving and welding other parts. All pre-programmed. Nothing we haven't already seen in Chinese car factories. They all hide the final assembly stages requiring humans fitting and finishing the harnesses and sensitive parts.

    In the last video I saw, Hyundai had sprinkled their tour route with a few Boston Dynamics robots. The humanoid one was just standing around. The Spot yellow doggy ones, however, were doing synchronized dancing, similar to what they did on America's Got Talent. Nobody's figured out what to do with them that doesn't require machine-gun attachments. They're so desperate they're even floating them as glorified package delivery platforms: https://www.theverge.com/tech/965378/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-delivery-assistant

    If all these robots were anywhere ready near for full production, you can bet they would be showing them building the whole car. Boston Dynamics, despite all the robot gymnastics and being around for 30+ years, has not really shipped anything commercially viable. It's already been passed around to Google, Softbank, and now Hyundai, and its CEO of many years just resigned in February.

    My guess is this is all a lot of marketing flaff.

  • I have become host, director of mice.

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  • The problem is not enough RPis. If you get enough running in parallel, you achieve AGI, Nirvana, and quite possibly exit velocity.

  • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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  • Did you attend your high school reunion? Why or Why not?

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  • Yes, the 20th one. The school had long closed, so it was at a hotel ballroom at a city central to everyone. It was awesome hanging with old friends and catching up. Even better was seeing the bullies turn into meek little men. After too many drinks, one tearfully apologized for being such an asshole. Lots of closure all around.

    A couple of retired teachers showed up, and it was great talking to them like peers. And the one EVERYONE had a crush on, now with two kids and an ex-husband. Still hot as hell.

    Nothing like Grosse Pointe Blank, but still fun.

  • Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it

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  • I did a lot of work in ElderTech. There were a lot of complex psychological issues around caring, connection, and fear of abandonment.

    Tech can help, or at least mitigate the harm. But fooling people, or messing with their emotions really isn't a winning recipe.

  • TIL about the "Aroma of Tacoma"

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  • Used to drive through there regularly. Yep. It was for real. If the wind blew a certain way or there was a heatwave, it was unbearable.

    Felt the same way on a tour of a brewery where they were cooking the hops. Except that had a bit of sweetness. The Tacoma Aroma was just stultifyingly, not as sharp as sulphurous, rotten eggs. More like heavy, warm milk that had gone bad.

    All day, every day. Everywhere.

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    Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets

    www.cam.ac.uk /stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridge
  • Meshtastic @mander.xyz
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    LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System

    www.hackster.io /news/lilygo-s-t-deck-pro-is-a-lora-and-4g-capable-smartphone-like-all-in-one-epaper-dev-system-cbc597705f87
  • Meshtastic @mander.xyz
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    Meshtastic for Disaster Relief?