Mastodawn

RE: https://ohai.social/@sushee/116770397685032273

This effectively means:

The LLM industry must keep the RAM prices at absurd levels. Otherwise Local LLM will ruin their business models.

There will be a lot of pressure on system makers to offer only "small" systems (below 128GB RAM).

You have to read Apples statements in light of that context. They removed the systems that were perfect for local LLMs from their lineup.

I imagine talks like "Nice product line you have there. It would be a shame if you were to be totally cut off from the the RAM market."

And let us be clear: compared to the money at stake, Apple is no longer a big fish.

Nikolai Hampton 💾Jun 14

Uncle Duke Jun 13

i’m no financial expert, but it looks to me like they’re organizing a hedge fund

Nikolai Hampton 💾Jun 2

Side quest: Home Assistant with Reolink cameras and Frigate (AI object and event classification). To catch the jerk of a dog who has sneaking food from tables.

Detects only dogs and alerts my phone. I have a renote control citronella spray collar with remote control. Sends a beep as a warning or a puff of mist as a deterrent.

#homeassistant #surveillance #dogs

Nikolai Hampton 💾May 30

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops May 29

Alright I've had two Actually Sunny days on my three (count 'em) old cheap secondhand solar panels that I raccooned off facebook marketplace and this coincided with hearing politicians argue about solar on the radio so I now have a Political Opinion About Solar Panels

It is this

Solar panels. Solar panels everywhere. Solar panels EVERYWHERE, on EVERY roof, Right The Fuck Now, every single doubt or worry I ever had about these things has been completely resolved just by holding panels in my hands and watching the power move silently into my battery to watch telly with tonight. House in cloudsville? Solar panels. House under the biggest densest tree in the world? Solar panels. Even in the shade they're still putting out power. Even fifteen years old they're still putting out power. Every worry I had was based on lies. My only regret is that I didn't start sooner. Solar panels everywhere right the fuck now.

Nikolai Hampton 💾May 27

A. Rivera May 26

> What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks. Knowledge about the medium is as valuable as the content on the disk
https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives?share_id=9513230

#media #preservation #libraries #archives #tech

How a Cambridge Project Rescues Fading Floppy Disk Data

Knowledge about the medium is as valuable as the content on the disk

IEEE Spectrum

Nikolai Hampton 💾May 20

Chuck Darwin May 20

Cheap Hardware Changes Human Behavior

There is a psychological difference between experimenting with a four dollar board and experimenting with a five hundred dollar device.

People become fearless around cheap hardware.

They cut traces without hesitation. They overvolt things just to see what happens. They shove prototypes into Altoids tins with electrical tape and keep moving.

A lot of genuinely interesting hardware culture emerges from environments where failure carries almost no economic consequence.

That matters more than technical specifications.

Expensive hardware often becomes ornamental. People baby it. They curate it. They build identities around owning it.

Cheap hardware gets modified until it resembles evidence recovered from a flooded basement.

The ESP32 thrives precisely because nobody treats it with reverence.

https://dev.to/numbpill3d/the-esp32-has-quietly-become-one-of-the-most-interesting-hacker-devices-alive-3fa3

The ESP32 Has Quietly Become One of the Most Interesting Hacker Devices Alive

Rainwater was dripping through a hole in the gas station awning onto a plastic patio chair that...

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Nikolai Hampton 💾May 20

Mr. Scam Likely May 20

Klingons speak in angry unix commands, standing on the bridge yelling shit like "Grep ls awk chmod!"

Nikolai Hampton 💾May 18

Royce Williams May 18

inb4 all of the fun vulnerability brand names are used up and researchers start randomizing phoneme groups, like those Amazon "brands".

ZQUUFRA Attack
PYUMBOQFail
PFLINQO Shell
YHRENBU RaaS
Dirty WOOMRYX
GHRUUPTA variant of the NQIFOLM vuln
ZWELBRAXHammer

Nikolai Hampton 💾May 12

BrianKrebs May 12

We've come to an icky time in security when the concern about using outdated, unpatched software starts to become overshadowed by the fear of downloading some backdoored update.

Nikolai Hampton 💾May 9

Not with Stupid; I AM Stupid.May 9

Apologies for the grainy image.