WhiteDawn

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by WhiteDawn 9d ago
Yeah, 2000 years sounds like a lot till you do the math. Apparently astra was trained on 100k Blackwell gpu’s. So just over 7 days to crack 1028-bit rsa on that cluster…
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by WhiteDawn 29d ago
Not to sound like a mark, I try to not get attached to any of these providers. I've jumped between copilot, claude, gemini and chatgpt since the start of the year. chatgpt wasn't even worth looking at early this year. Anthropic ha
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by WhiteDawn 1mo ago
This is all great to get full unfettered access to your own system, as life should be. I’m sure Xbox and PlayStation security groups are a little nervous right now though. Getting ring-0 on those machines is near impossible, but once you do
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by WhiteDawn 1mo ago
I hope in my lifetime we discover a way to predict earthquakes better, the danger to life from them would be significantly less if there was sufficient notification. We can alert for storms, tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, and e
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Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt(github.com)
194 points by WhiteDawn 1mo ago|80 comments
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by WhiteDawn 1mo ago
In fairness, games didn’t start employing encryption on the content till the 7th generation. So unless you’re applying ips patches to a 360 game you’re not breaking any DRM Playing the title you backed up and patched is a different matter e
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by WhiteDawn 1mo ago
It will be a push and pull and I'm curious where we'll be in a couple of years. I can fly at 100mph if I let AI run loose and with a bit of steering I can get it to output what I'm looking for and generally pass verification
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by WhiteDawn 1mo ago
Clearly hyperscalers are seeing datacenter commitment exceeding demand, and are now running PR campaigns to have the public push back against construction to get them out of their contracts. Joking conspiracy theories aside, perhaps the ove
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by WhiteDawn 2mo ago
Thank you for the link to the post. It was a fascinating read and also entertaining. After seeing the story of the fruit fly brain simulation I figured stuff like the nematode would be trivial. The lack of active plasticity in LLMs causes a
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by WhiteDawn 2mo ago
Reminds me of this classic: https://xkcd.com/505/ Replace universe simulation with a LLM an it’s hard to consider a bunch of rocks shuffling on a beach as conscious. Or alternatively, our own minds are simply (squishy,
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by WhiteDawn 3mo ago
It’s true, but hosting prices are still within spitting distance of rolling it yourself. SOTA providers are expecting some level of margin. Companies everywhere have a tight eye on their AI bills right now. The motivation is there if the mo
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JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn(blog.jetbrains.com)
3 points by WhiteDawn 3mo ago|1 comments
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by WhiteDawn 3mo ago
Once someone generates a MTP layer for 26B A4B 4 QAT I'll be singing from the hills with my 5 year old GPU.
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by WhiteDawn 4mo ago
Honestly it’s been amazing for me for similar reasons. Also diagnosed ADHD. Starting projects has always been easy. But once I figured out the hard stuff and then had everything figured out and only saw the long road ahead of drudgery and p
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by WhiteDawn 4mo ago
Really their best card is new and additional APIs, building incentives to develop against it. WinRT (not to be confused with Windows RT, the early ARM version of windows), UWP, GDK, xgameruntime. All of these are relatively new and require
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by WhiteDawn 5mo ago
This is neat, but I think the most interesting part is that it's one of the only models fully unencumbered from copyright. Everything in the training corpus is public domain, guaranteed by the age of it.
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by WhiteDawn 5mo ago
First you need to get through the safety net. I’ve had many productive gpt5.4 sessions hit a roadblock of “ethicality” and pollute the context with multiple rounds of trying to convince it to continue
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by WhiteDawn 5mo ago
Regular local agent. Seems like as soon as the context fills up (and it only has about 160k of context so that doesn't take much) it starts to fall to pieces. I even tried using opencode as a harness instead and it causes opus 4.7 to l
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by WhiteDawn 5mo ago
I wouldn't mind this change that much if opus-4.7 worked properly in copilot cli. It keeps stopping mid-thought or task and forces me to waste more prompts for no observable reason. Looks like I'm ending my subscription, good (lik
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by WhiteDawn 5mo ago
Microsoft put AI, Tabs, a login portal, a 'search with bing' action and text formatting on notepad before a 'redo' button to pair with the 'undo' action. That says everything about the current product prioritie
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by WhiteDawn 7mo ago
I really dislike the precedent this sets. A silver lining if this maintainer ends up being in the right is that any proprietary software can easily be reverse engineered and stripped of it's licensing by any hobbyist with enough free t
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by WhiteDawn 7mo ago
I’ve used AI for some reverse engineering and I’ve noticed the same thing. It’s generally great at breaking obfuscation or understanding raw decompilation. It’s terrible at confirming prior work, if I label something incorrectly it will use
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by WhiteDawn 11mo ago
The Stuntman series is a still painful example. Blame the odd non-IEEE-754 floating point implementation changing physics enough that AI fails most of the missions which softblocks progress quite egregiously
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by WhiteDawn 2y ago
And similar to olive oil. Once you taste the real deal, it's very easy to identify the fake/watered down stuff by taste alone.
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by WhiteDawn 2y ago
In theory the chipset max is 2GB, but the physical motherboard does not have enough address lines traced to support more than 256MB. Adding more memory would require a PCB redesign
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by WhiteDawn 2y ago
Citation needed? The study concluded in Sept 2023 but no results were provided. Are results on these studies usually so delayed? Perhaps they didn’t get the expected result?
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by WhiteDawn 3y ago
So last minute that the AMD engineers found out Microsoft went with Intel at the Xbox launch party [1] [1] https://kotaku.com/report-xboxs-last-second-intel-switcheroo...
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by WhiteDawn 3y ago
Great post! I find the quote from Bunnie in the blog pretty relevant: “The JTAG boundary scan approach was rejected on the grounds that the TRST# pin, used to hold the JTAG chain in reset, was tied active in a manner that was difficult to m
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by WhiteDawn 3y ago
I am curious how this will all settle out in the end. I think the majority of users don’t really care about the API or subreddits going private as they primarily just lurk. However, the people that do care are the ones that moderate and con
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The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives(github.com)
510 points by WhiteDawn 3y ago|212 comments

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