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Comment · 19 days ago
People don't know about those because the options owned by few are cheap (subsidized by VC) and easily available.

My worry is that if we need to pivot to those open options, we'd be so far behind in infrastructure, and no one has the hardware to run the open models at their home/office.

Comment · 2 months ago
I so wanna know more about this, I'll be spending a chunk of the afternoon reading on this story.

The future used to be so cool. Having access to Wikipedia and live reporting always on hand was going to make everyone so informed, easier communications were going to make democracy and grassroots organizing flourish... We were all going to have our own server on our pockets...

We were naive, but I sorely miss the tech-optimism that to some extent carried me through uni.

Comment · 3 months ago
They say it's a waste that you pay for the tokens and then the inference provider pays for the electricity. Isn't that how everything works? I pay cucumbers and the farmers have to pay for the water and the fertilizer...

I hope that reasoning is an after-the-fact justification by the LLM that wrote this.

It's a ver interesting idea and I wouldn't mind trying it out, but with a smaller model. At 0.5t/s and reading many gigabytes from the SDD every second... I wonder if this wouldn't be extremely practical if targeting a 500gib or 250gib model, something that is still outside most consumers' laptop.

Comment · 3 months ago
I hope for an ARM version myself. I have the N100 version, and I'm happy with it, but I can see it could be amazing with an ARM chip.

May be Wildcat is great enough not to miss ARM? I haven't had a modern Intel CPU in ages.

Comment · 3 months ago
It still happens, problems that are solved still happen when people don't take care to apply the solution. Diseases that were solved problems happen again when people stop taking the vaccines.

You can avoid SQL injection by just coding the same features with a bit of care. You loose nothing. Mistakes can always happen, but it's not even tricky to prevent SQL injection.

Right now the only way to avoid Prompt injection is to not let your agents see user input at all. A very wide range of features that we'd like to implement are unsafe and there isn't a way to prevent this reliably.

I guess we'll need to get used to control the agent's permissions very tightly, and taylor them per-conversation. The agent I speak to for customer support must only have access to my data, and not because of instructions in the system prompt, these will need to be hard limits.

Comment · 4 months ago
Jumped to GrapheneOS a few months ago. Works great. The keyboard was bad but you should install FUTO, as some other comments recommend.

My only issue with it has been a few apps not working correctly, and not the ones I expected. I did my research before hand and knew that my banking apps would work, thinking those would be the main challenge.

Turns out the bike-sharing system in my city, Madrid, won't work. I ended up installing Google Play services (that run sandboxed in Graphene, but still wanted to avoid), and it works sometimes, but mostly doesn't. I use these bikes a few times a week, so this is a major hassle, and I end up carrying my ancient iPhone with me sometimes just for this.

This and Trade Republic have been my only two problems. Happy otherwise, but do your research before switching, and don't assume only the apps you expect to be problematic will be.

Comment · 4 months ago
It's an interesting idea, kudos.

Sadly, this will always be a game of cat and mouse. I wonder if it was ever avoidable for the internet to become a hundred of such games at once, between advertisers and ad blockers, trackers and browsers, hackers and developers, search engines and SEO experts...

If your concept took off, someone will make a program that inputs the LLMs text like a human would. It might still take some time (if it isn't possible to hack the timing records client-side), you'd probably have to get busy detecting multiple connections from the same IP, and then they'd work around it...

Comment · 5 months ago
Qwen 3.7 Max: > During my local testing before the full eval harness it was the only non-GPT model that was able to complete the task, was not able to reproduce in the longer runs.

Doesn't that sound like may be the harness was the problem?

Comment · 5 months ago
It could just alias sudo on your ~/.bashrc. No need to replace the actual file on /usr/bin/sudo or wherever you have it. I would only need to be able to run arbitrary code as you.
Comment · 5 months ago
I so wanted to love the Steam Deck, but it's a device with a 7 inch screen that occupies a massive volume on your bag. Unless you know you're going to play a fair ammount, it's not worth carrying around.

It's a fantastic console, but a mediocre general purpose computer.

Comment · 5 months ago
I have one, and I love it! I don't use it as much as I thought I would, but it brings joy everytime. If you have a need for an extremely portable, not very powerful device on your life, this might be it.

I agree with the complaint about the trackpad, but the keyboard has been just fine for me. Just a bit small, of course. I also find the screen perfectly acceptable for what I use this thing for: youtube, taking notes, writing emails, small bouts of coding and ssh'ing into servers.

My main complaint is related to battery management. May be it's becaused I'm used to Macbooks, but it drives me nuts to go pick the Minibook up and find that it has no power, because I haven't used it in a couple of days and I put it to sleep. I haven't measured, but the power use on sleep is noticeable, and I suspect the leakage while hibernating might be significant too.

I don't really like the laptop form factor. Laptops are the perfect solution for only one use case: using them on your lap. On a table, I'd rather have the computer be just a tablet, to add a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. At my desk, with bigger screens, I'd like the computer to disappear into a small puck or box, like a Mac Mini. With the Minibook, being so small, the form factor makes sense again. It's so portable, so easy to take with me to a coffee shop or on a trip, it's worth it.

A tablet with a keyboard might be a more practical solution, although generally more expensive, but I appreciate that my Minibook runs Linux so well, so I don't have to even think about Apple or Google telling me how to use my computer.

Comment · 5 months ago
I haven't heard about this, could you please share more info, some reference on that Claude Code intentional bug?
Comment · 5 months ago
I had a couple of eye-opening conversations about this the last time I was in San Sebastian. Not everyone there loves Mondragon as much as we think, some see it as a closed club that makes it arbitrarily hard to get a job with them depending on your connections. I met some workers unhappy of their hiring practices and I think their starting working conditions. No idea if they were fair or just resentful.

I still admire Mondragon and wish there were more companies like it, but now I try to remind myself that most characterizations from the outside are surely lacking in nuance.

Comment · 6 months ago
> 1 in every 10 people in public spaces.

1 in every 10 people may have a cat alergy, but the % of folks with an allergy as severe as yours has to be much lower. I know plenty of people with cat allergies who can spend entire evenings in my cat-inhabited with only very minor discomfort. The person with the most serious allergy to them I know is miles away from your symptoms.

I think you are exaggerating the severity of the issue, but I'm sorry you have this terrible allergy to something as common as cats, that sucks.

Comment · 1 year ago
Although I agree with other commenters that your command can't compare to all of bat's features, many of which I appreciate... thank you for sharing this tip, I didn't know about `highlight` and I can't install `bat` at work.

This will live in my .bashrc for a long time:

    cat() {
      if [[ -t 1 ]]; then
        command cat "$@" | highlight --force -O xterm256
      else
        # plain cat to pipe into other things
        command cat "$@"
      fi
    }

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