Mainline linux drivers or gtfo

china is only evil when you deal with them directly

if there is a suitably wealthy and white middle man like walmart, apple or amazon between you and the red menace, then it’s just good old fashion murika apple pie freedom.

too late sorry https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/jizz-fashion-sydney-closing/

all downhill from maths invaders https://archive.org/details/MATHSINV_zip

inference providers could be anyone from anywhere, there are even proxy resellers. some are harvesting and reselling your data.

if you send your code to claude/openai/google there is certainly a much higher degree of confidence in who you are sending your data to. yes they to harvest your data and can send you malicious commands (esp if you have a promp injection attack).

its like buying a cheap vps, if the stakes are low its fine, if it important then you need to consider about the consequences of your actions.

nb: i am no expert, just fucking around.

ollama or llama.cpp to self host if you have a good mac or good video card. this is perfectly safe.

there are a bazillion hosted inference providers to choose from https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/index be aware that you are sending your code to fuck knows who and they are sending back fuck knows what. ymmv, yolo.

hook one of them up to opencode.ai or pi.dev or one of the bazillion other ‘harneses’ or whatever we are calling it this week and try not to rm -r anything important.

for a good time try and get a chinese models to say something about tibet, or taiwan… its like having your own virtual tankie tamagochi!

recycling the classics

Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNixDlRoMvA

kinda depends how you set it up and run it, no?

i have some simple new projects that are clean and easy, and some 10+ year old monstrosities that are the spawn of satan.

need to use ublock to stop the insane ‘pls bro buy our ai’ pop-up though.

people.

life is too fleeting to drink that shit.

you don’t need to boycott anything if you have some god damn self respect.

ai investment sould go to public education so we can all learn whatever language we like

meh… consume less.

by all means have a family if that is what you want, and the society should generously support you in that endeavor…

but don’t really see how reducing women to baby factories does anything but kick the can down the road the same way as immigration does.

the line does not have to go up.

government job: it haven’t set your laptop up yet, but you should have it by the end of the week.

Genetic data indicate that Greenland sharks diverged from ancestral sleeper sharks in the Canadian Arctic approximately 1–2.34 million years ago

you are off by a bit?!?

early sharks existed back then, not greenland sharks.

i only know this bc the very fun zoo of us podcast did an ep on sharks last week https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/333-great-white-shark/id1463896106?i=1000763230492

looking at you greece ಠ_ಠ

but seriously… it’s hard to eek out an existence in sydney… everything is so fucking expensive.

but peddle to the beach and read a book, it’s free and the best thing in town.