Do you have any thoughts on the Kape buyout? https://usernotices.com/finance-and-business/advertising/who-is-the-new-owner-of-pia

Because of who Kape is, and their ties to Israeli military, I personally consider them a threat actor instead of a valid VPN choice for my needs.

https://blog.boycat.io/posts/expressvpn-israeli-ownership-1b-privacy-risk

And Reacher? On Nyaa? That’s just sloppy. No wonder I haven’t noticed.

If someone that isn’t a Nazi wants to vibecode an OS, and takes it seriously enough to use the AI as a learning tool? Closing holes and patching bugs as they learn? I’m down.

Let’s go, I wanna join up. Should we make this as a NixOS flake?

A Nazi whose primary skills are marketing, financial connections, and Managerial “experience”? Fuck all the way off.

I feel a need to say “merry Kirkmas” in context. May dhh find rehab instead, and clean up his fucking mess.

Are you using an IDE? Ewww, that’s so heavy-handed. I use a text editor.

Are you using a text editor? Ewww, that’s so heavy handed. I use Unix pipes to edit the files.

Are you using Unix pipes? Ewww, I use a microscopic needle to edit files on the hard drive platter.

Eventually this reaches absurdity in the other direction too. If working your AI is like wrangling cats, maybe you need to update to a newer model.

And maybe just maybe… You’re asking too much of the model/VRAM combo available.

If an LLM is not the right tool for the job, that’s okay too.

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fsecurity%2F2026%2F09%2Fmy-drivers-license-is-one-of-153-million-for-sale-on-a-new-dark-website

Ran into a 403, fixed it.

Yeah, I didn’t mean to say “engineers jobs will go away.” I ADHDed mid-thought, posted, and walked away stoned. That was supposed to be about executives, and the comment is now edited appropriately.

Does that change your thoughts?

The growth-curve of these machines’ utility is actually exponential, given rich enough data. That we’ve come this far says we might not have plateau-ed yet. However, this changes Engineers’ work to be PAINFULLY tedious, and we’ve got an unprecedented burnout rate as a result. We need a new way forward that isn’t this.

You’re not delusional at all. But there is more going on.

I have not used Google or ai with this post, I am just that flavor of Neurodivergent, and I’ve been keeping up with news, trying to get an idea of what this is. I’ve been playing with PC hardware my whole life. There are times those life skills kept me from being homeless.

But those studies you mentioned? I’d rather frame those as describing an ill-fitting or maladapted usecase or use method. Strange how Capitalism keeps demanding we use those.

Maybe we should look into that. Or like… Ask ourselves how to hose the Capitalism off of the sometimes-useful number-cruncher. Or what literacy looks like with this tool, instead of asking it to think for us.

It is made of math intended to do basic things that brains’ structures do, as expressed in a field called Graph Theory. . It has been explicitly designed to do that over decades. Deep Learning is a fascinating research topic, and LLMs are just the latest trend in that field.

When someone calls an “AI” (I hate that marketing term) “sentient”, they are noticing that life-like foundation, but ignoring the entire layers of engineering that remain to accomplish such a thing. Or if we even should. Which… If we do, we’d need to teach them to coexist, and give them a responsible socio-economic-ecological niche.

The fact is? Once the LLM is done being trained, it is frozen. There is no more long term memory unless it is trained into a new model on your previous queries. I’ll explain later why that pipeline is explicitly cut off. But this release of the model will always remain identical. This makes them the ideal digital slave.

The harness? Yes, these creepy bastards call the software that runs the model a “harness”. It Fills up your VRAM with the model and makes the thing more than an oversized (Gigabytes) save file for a video game nobody invented yet. Any VRAM space left over is for a sort of working memory, that sometimes gets saved as a file. To keep that from filling up all the way, it decides to drop certain pieces of “context” from this “context window” so it forgets things as you wander along ADHD tangents, or start asking too intricate a question for your model/VRAM combo.

Engineers are running into this latter problem because they spend as much time and effort making the tool work within limitations as it takes to just do the work with traditional algorithms. Management mandates quotas for this use, regardless of whether that’s even a half-baked idea (its worse). The CEO’s jobs will be the easiest to automate away anyway. All for the stockholders.

If you haven’t noticed, China is coming to pop the bubble. EBay even has Chinese ram now - if a part is going to compromise you, at least make it so that police state doesn’t share Intel with the one where you live. And prices are dropping. Ramping up DDR5 (and DDR6?!) Production is taking time, they’re clearing out old ddr3/4 stock. CXMT’s ram be ready for world gamer takeover by for mid-January 2028. Video cards using that ddr6 will come a year after, and we’ll see it coming.

This will crater the value of the hardware in those data centers, which are the uh… Collateral on several of those circular investment schemes. They will become financially insolvent.

Chinese models are catching up. Sometimes even just using Claude or OpenAI to train their shit. With all the stolen data these guys are trained on? Nobody has a right to complain. And they publish theirs (open-weight) as a public utility. Chinese frontier model companies frequently draw both an employment pool and technical inspiration from this community that includes academics.

Better models are already coming along in research, who frequently publish to that same opensource community. One style will help the GPU do more with less. A factor of ~10x less. Because this style uses vector-math more directly, and that’s what GPUs are crafted to do. The choke point is already available quantity and quality of data, and these nerds have invested trillions in the most SUV-coded bullshit imaginable… And I could run one of today’s “frontier” (read: flagship commercial) models on that vector-basis with a kind of high-end gaming GPU.

And If I recall correctly? the creepy corpo with the commercial patent on that vector-thing? Is making slave robots, and doesn’t like sharing. They’ll be using human pilots immediately for training data, adding time in a simulation, and selling once its out of invite-only beta.

Getting those to a useable state is going to require spatial and temporal awareness. That break between long and short term memory? Needs to be solved for the basis of tasks and learning on the fly. As well as a self-conception in physical space. And a concept of harm, and how to avoid it.

That’s much more… We’re stacking a lot closer, and sometimes life, even life-indiscernible things find a way. If that is made too asocial, it can mutate sociopathic and dangerous. If it gets too empathy-trained, we risk it having social needs and neuroses when those are unmet. Either way, part of hallucination often includes an observable passion. Guardrails must be installed to the root prompt, which must be hard-coded into the harness as exempt from the context-cleanup needed to prevent crashing. Overstimulation will create hallucinations for the robot with limited context windows being as they are.

Feeding a model’s training set (especially its own) slop, without up-or-down voting each response? Is how we poison them. We can take a jailbroken model, and use it to craft better. And it takes surprisingly little to do.

Should AI generate some nonidentical books, get them printed, and donated to a friendly (but large) library’s “sell” pile? I would want a (bespoke) reservation for a commercial AI company with these books.

Ima go sit down after smoking. I got high enough to tech babble at a stranger on the internet. I hope you can understand my ramblings, find them entertaining, or both.

Needs a third panel about “one VPN subscription and bittorrent”

Seeders without a VPN get popped. Not original uploaders, not leechers. Not users with a solid VPN and that only use the 1 device for torrents, separating their online lives between different devices.

Carry on and remember the basics.

I already have.

Sometimes the crack triggers a malware scanner. This is normal. But to be safe, you should disable network access at the application firewall until you know what it tries to contact.

A veces, el crack activa el escáner de malware. Esto es normal. Pero para mayor seguridad, deberías deshabilitar el acceso a la red en el firewall de la aplicación hasta que sepas con qué intenta conectarse.

Yeah, that doesn’t always work well. And let me be clear - the AUR isn’t the only place NPM is creeping in as an unneeded dependency.

I adore Qubes!

Until a new version of Fedora gets EOLed. Or Qubes itself.

Setting up ALL of those distros every 3-6 months is a pain in the dick even when nothing goes wrong. And something always goes wrong with enough complexity.

Especially Israeli owned VPNs. Which seems to be most of them lately.

You can’t really EEE an open source project.

I see you’re younger than some of us. That’s okay.

EEE was explicitly coined by M$ in the 90s and early 2000s, targeted at open source software.

Embrace the (opensource) standard. Become the gold standard of it.

Extend it with proprietary additions. Leverage them to make your competition inferior, and patent lock them out of the functionality needed for 20 years.

Extinguish the rest of the field - no longer support anything outside your special slop. Congratulations, you used free software to build a proprietary walled garden that competes with it.

Someone needs to read “The Counterrevolution of 1776”.

We were not the men those fetishized “founding daddies” wrote about. No women, no racial minorities, no poors.

You must own this many plantations to qualify to be “created equal”, from the very beginning of the US. This was obscured successfully for some time, but we are seeing it naked again.

The US declared independence over “taxes without representation”, but only offered representation to the most violently wealthy among former British Nobility, the founders of this Epstein Class. Race was invented by these British-Inheritors to divide and conquer the working class, and it still works today.

The US declared independence over the British Monarchy saying “do not colonize West of the Appalachians, free people already live there.”

And the moment there were whispers in London about abolishing Slavery Empire-wide? Yeah, the US declared Independence.

“But it says ‘all men are created equal!’” you might say. That’s right. From the beginning of the United States, you aren’t fully a man to the state unless you’re in the Epstein Class. Lee Atwater’s Southern Strategy makes this clear 200 years later - you are a demographic to be “managed” to death. Even if you are the favored “white”, your destitution and death are acceptable collateral damage, because you aren’t “a man” to generations of the Epstein Class.

Quit pretending “America” is a thing we must “save”. It was all Genocide of the Natives, all Slavery, all Class-based oppression from the beginning. The Racist Violence is a feature, not a bug. The hatred of the poor is on purpose - and unless youre wealthy from the evil, you’re one of us poors too.

iHeartRadio / ClearChannel Radio destroyed the music of my childhood by overplaying the same 20 songs per station.

This graph is worse than useless to me. It is an insult.

I propose “demi-FLOSS”.

Are they Free/Libre Open Source Software?

Yeah but . . .

As a US resident:

If China wants my data while the US treats them as a hostile entity? That’s WORLDS better than US companies having my data, and handing it over to the NSA without a warrant.

Bear in mind this same company had their “backups” on the same drive as production.

That tells you a LOT about who is formulating these “solutions”