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by revolvingthrow 7d ago
Already on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash The bad news is that the original v4 flash was 284B, which was large but still somewhat reasonable for running locally. This one is 552B so
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by revolvingthrow 7d ago
While I instinctively dislike any "secretly spying" devices, phones could do that for a while now. I wouldn’t have much use for my watch doing it, but my nephew swears by taking notes on an ipad with an app that has a sort of a pl
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by revolvingthrow 9d ago
It would be shocking if it wasn’t trained on sessions. Have you read the ToS parts for both openai and anthropic that talk about it? It’s so obviously a weaselly way to say "no we do not train on your exact chats but we talked with leg
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by revolvingthrow 19d ago
GLM 5.3 is probably the sweet spot open weights model if you want to go beyond deepseek flash or the new glm flash. I used it with pi and had a fairly good time, especially since it’s less touchy about cyber and whatnot than the US guys. It
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by revolvingthrow 19d ago
App vs website is purely taste. Some people will never install an app but will use your website. Some people love apps and will never use your website. Some people prefer apps to PWA when the app does thing , because what if it changes and
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by revolvingthrow 20d ago
The AI-isms in this post are a bit much. Anyway. Routers are such juicy targets, especially since there's less eyes on them than on laptops/desktops, that it's hard to believe there are any which aren't backdoored, be
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by revolvingthrow 21d ago
> 320B total parameters and just 18B active parameters This is pretty hefty for a "flash" model, even a 256 GB setup is insufficient at q4 - and q4 is already the worst-but-still-acceptable quant in my experience. The benchmark
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by revolvingthrow 21d ago
People are annoyed at apple’s recent lack of polish in software, but the increasing monetization and push into services are a bigger issue imo. You pay the apple premium for hardware and the hardware is indeed great, but you’re increasingly
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by revolvingthrow 21d ago
>And what happens when the price goes up by an extra zero on the end? >And then another one? Well so far the price trends towards going down by the zero at the end. Inference isn’t expensive, there’s a whole laundry list of providers
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by revolvingthrow 22d ago
~75% higher price for some extra GPU power and small CPU boost compared to M4? Eh. It's pretty far from M4's value, which was a no-brainer recommendation for people who wanted a tiny box sitting somewhere on their desk.
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by revolvingthrow 23d ago
> OpenAI could still have a significant moat. ChatGPT occupies most consumers’ minds when they think about AI and has become a household name. ChatGPT is AI for the average non-techie the world over, but the average non-techie isn&#x27
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by revolvingthrow 23d ago
As usual, smartphones are an excellent servant but a terrible master. Having a phone, a music player, web browser, camera, gps all in one tiny package? Incredible. Having a machine that lets me doom scroll tiktok for 10 hours straight? Awfu
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by revolvingthrow 24d ago
I know very little about hardware hacking so I can't really judge, but my gut feeling is that this is pretty advanced stuff, right? Granted the models didn't start at zero - the CVE was described online so it had a hook, and missi
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by revolvingthrow 28d ago
The bitrot would be excessive
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by revolvingthrow 1mo ago
There isn't much to upgrade to if all you want is a desktop for gaming, a non-workstation work box or just a decent laptop. Much like smartphones, there just hasn't been much innovation of late. A midrange gaming desktop from mi
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by revolvingthrow 1mo ago
This really doesn’t match my experience, as Gemini was bafflingly bad at any online [re]research when I tried it 2-3 months ago. Not that google’s ai models seem particularly good at anything of late, but given the fact that google is still
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by revolvingthrow 1mo ago
I have several 1m long TB4 cables (100W, video, 40Gbps) and they’re neither particularly thick nor were they anywhere close to $60. The best you can get is TB5 (240W, up to 120 Gbps data transfer) and at 1m long they’re $32 or so from Cable
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by revolvingthrow 1mo ago
> a new interface paradigm that's balanced between agentic use and human review (with light editing) Is reviewing endless reams of AI slop something that's doable? It's a very tiring task when you're looking through c
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
Ah, the newly popular "let's make the policy unusually broad and treat all foreign production as presumptively dangerous, regardless of country, manufacturer or security practices, this way we're more transparent about priori
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
While I am grateful for open weights models I never found much use of them in the past, barring those I could run myself. This changed with deepseek 4 - it is staggeringly cheap, even if the performance definitely isn't near sota and
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
So far the first and only sophisticated cyberattack was carried out by openai rather than by one the subversive commie models that hate us for our freedoms, so forgive me for taking their safety and alignment spiel somewhat less seriously t
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
What Apple wants out of Google is Siri that runs at 8gb ram and isn’t a horrible embarrassment that feels like a primitive markov chain. Given how good Gemma 4 is, Google can squeeze some serious performance in small models. Whether they ca
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
Tons of guardrails, lazy model, super confusing plans, expensive 3.5/3.6 flash and lite and 3.5 pro MiA? Rough patch for google ai
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
Article feels a bit shallow. Obviously carriers will do their usual fuckery, anyone who ever dealt with one knows this. What many people probably wouldn’t expect is when you’re in a country where physical sim are dominant, you the dumb tour
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
While a valid point, China also produces plenty of whitepapers going about the architecture and know how about the training and inference itself. There’s also the fact that unless LLMs do get to AGI (which seems… doubtful, still) there come
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
The few tests I ran were by no means comprehensive, but while kimi felt like the real deal qwen seems a bit of a benchmark princess.
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
According to artificialanalysis, cost per task is $0.94, which is almost the same as $1.04 of gpt 5.6 sol max (fable is most expensive by far, at $2.75). Things like glm 5.2 max cost roughly half that. The model certainly sounds extremely i
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
Not sure I understand the argument. Obviously there are people who help themselves to others' money if given the chance no matter the circumstances. But if the circumstances change so that people DO start going hungry or homeless, whic
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
The problem described in the article is unsolvable, given that a mid-range desktop from a few years ago can easily clone a voice that's convincing enough and there are no guardrails to those. Some silly KYC laws might limit a highschoo
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by revolvingthrow 2mo ago
Proton is already good enough that you don’t need SteamOS. I’m not that much of a gamer so my numbers are hardly representative, but about 90% of video games I tried ran with zero issues through Heroic Launcher and GE-Proton. The ability to

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