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by dabockster 1mo ago
That is largely because no one has bothered to build anything remotely close to IG in the last 5+ years besides maybe TikTok. And even then, TikTok is more of an apples and oranges comparison to IG in lots of ways.
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by dabockster 1mo ago
My thing about ExploitGym in particular is that it's testing environment varies depending on the exploit. From what I've read, it tends to favor userspace sandboxing inside Docker containers for standard program exploits (eg Chrom
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by dabockster 4mo ago
Qwen HAS to be a part of the discussion here, even though Microsoft is a US based entity. Their 30b MoE models absolutely hit way above their weight when paired with the right harness program, and can be ran on "Costco gaming computer&
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by dabockster 5mo ago
> There should be no ability to "verify" a browser, and anyone should be able to emulate any browser. Hard disagree. The AI industry has absolutely shredded the various anti-scraping and anti-botting social contracts that were
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by dabockster 6mo ago
Because they're stupid and only buys stuff that's "safe". Because nobody gets fired for buying IBM.
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by dabockster 6mo ago
Intel could position their cards as strong for certain workloads. They had AV1 support first in market, for example.
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by dabockster 6mo ago
Thunderbolt is really an unsung hero here. It is surprisingly nice to be able to move various components around my desk that would have otherwise sat in a huge tower hogging all the PCIe slots they can find.
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by dabockster 6mo ago
You don’t need it if you use llamacpp on Windows, or if you compile it on Linux with CUDA 13 and the correct kernel HMM support, and you’re only using MoE models (which, tbh, you should be doing anyways).
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by dabockster 6mo ago
This needs to be sold as the big ticket item for low level devs. Their chips are some of the most power efficient chips on the market right now. Hoping they release a blade server version somehow.
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by dabockster 6mo ago
CUDA 13 on Linux solves the unified memory problem via HMM and llamacpp. It’s an absolute pain to get running without disabling Secure Boot, but that should be remedied literally next month with the release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Canonical is
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by dabockster 6mo ago
> For example, when my Windows gaming machine comes out of hibernation my ethernet controller insists that there's no connection. I can't convince it otherwise except by disabling the device and re-enabling it. I can't fig
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by dabockster 6mo ago
"If Apple Business were a real revenue source, if they charged luxury prices for a luxurious business support experience, they could pay for developers to fix their stuff. Instead, Apple Business is a free side hustle for Apple, a hobb
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by dabockster 6mo ago
Bigger one: * Predictability - eliminating the number of unknown factors that could cause a person to have issues using their computer. Reminds me of how a secretary I serviced was somehow able to install Google Desktop back in the day, and
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Tell HN: Llamacpp now supports unified system RAM offloading on Linux
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by dabockster 7mo ago
False. Local races directly determine the day-to-day laws and rules you live under way more than a POTUS could effectively decree. I don't know about you, but I sure enjoy having reliable electrical, water, and sewer systems.
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by dabockster 7mo ago
In the US, we have the ability to either confirm or change a significant chunk of our Federal government roughly every two years via the House of Representatives. The argument here is that we, theoretically, could collectively elect people
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by dabockster 8mo ago
> the Linux kernel and Linux distros both leave that unified memory capability up to the GPU driver to implement Depends on if AMD (or Intel, since Arc drivers are supposedly OSS as well) took the time to implement that. Or if a Linux ba
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by dabockster 8mo ago
> 'secure' (by executive standards) "Secure" in the sense that they can sue someone after the fact, instead of preventing data from leaking in the first place.
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by dabockster 8mo ago
Hanlon's razor. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Yes, I'm calling labs that don't distill smaller sized models stupid for not doing so.
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by dabockster 8mo ago
You can run AI models on unified/shared memory specifically on Windows, not Linux (unfortunately). It uses the same memory sharing system that Microsoft originally had built for gaming when a game would run out of vram. If you: - have
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by dabockster 8mo ago
It also lets them keep a lot of the legal issues regarding LLM development at arms length while still benefiting from them.
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by dabockster 9mo ago
It's Meta. They always push to be that fast on paper, even when it's costly to do and doesn't really need it.
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by dabockster 9mo ago
> This is the best kind of open source trickledown. We shouldn't be depending on trickledown anything. It's nice to see Valve contributing back, but we all need to remember that they can totally evaporate/vanish behind pro
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by dabockster 9mo ago
From what I read, it was a lot of the prosumer/gamer brands (MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS) implementing their part of sleep/hibernate badly on their motherboards. Which honestly lines up with my experience with them and other chips they us
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by dabockster 9mo ago
This is a part of Secure Boot, which Linux people have raged against for a long time. Mostly because the main key signing authority was Microsoft. But here's my rub: no one else bothered to step up to be a key signer. Everyone has inst
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by dabockster 9mo ago
Oh yeah for sure. Linux is amazing in a computer science sense, but it still can't beat Windows' vertically integrated registry/GPO based permissions system. Group/Local Policy especially, since it's effectively a z
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by dabockster 9mo ago
> Element has ended up focusing on digitally-sovereign govtech ( https://element.io/en/sectors ) in order to prevail, and it's left a hole in the market. And unless they have verifiable testimonials, I'd t
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by dabockster 9mo ago
> Do Google's organization challenges cost them Chrome users? On the Enterprise side at least, absolutely.
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by dabockster 9mo ago
> It is a wonderful world fill of variety, choice and diversity Desktop Linux is a dysfunctional dumpster fire that cyber bullies anyone that even suggests building code to a specific OS. Remember that Linux is just the kernel, not the
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by dabockster 9mo ago
> I think Firefox has a sizable minority of users that are aware of its importance Agreed. > and would donate for "a fucking browser". Hard disagree. Especially when you consider that much of Firefox's use likely co

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