asura

asura

@asura.dev

they / any and will move your infra to GCP for food Broke Blaise's (@wittywebhandle.bsky.social) brain after they claimed batteries weren't a form of vertical integration but openAI was. 🤪 Tech, pets, games, ... Linux, python, cloud Be queer, do things

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Proprietary compilers produced open source. Borland fell to gcc. The ashes of MS IIS became the need for Apache. Gecko defeated mshtml From Claude you can distill an IT model better in usefulness and efficiency You are both. Spend your money and attention wisely or risk breaking the balance

I truly hate the discourse about optimism vs pessimism in tech. Dismissal of people who care about underlying ethics. As always, you’re either building to support existing power disparities or working to build more ethical alternatives. You can be pro institutional or pro human, not both.

No one in this thread has made the o4 joke yet :|

What’s your favorite model to talk to as the “front of house”/majordomo/foreman/however you conceive of this

I laughed

dame@dame.is

bryan johnson probably gets his peptides and supplements confused with his AI model names

I better get an email from this midlife crisis babbling about people of the future asking why we let people die. We "let" people die because shitshows like Bryan Johnson were measuring vaginal yeast instead of doing everything he could to keep mRNA research and preventable disease at the forefront.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social

Bryan Johnson is a tool

I did what anyone in Bryan Johnson's sphere would do: I also sent a strongly worded email.

The Apple TV app on my TV has got to be the worst streaming app I have. It makes no sense. I thought Apple was all about design but why do I have press right to go back when I open the menu? This thing is nonsense.

Is it too early to get them to fall for the "Schools are trying to teach your kids Arabic numerals!" or would Loomer's 3 brain cells remember that just happened recently?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

I feel like anyone that knows anything about Theranos left this movie thinking "Did I seriously just waste 3 hours for people on the internet to believe a genius artful direction was a bunk interview?"

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See, I used to believe in the whole evolving marketplace of ideas naturally having a consensus of what pure stupidity is ... I was wrong. I was really wrong. You aren't a real rational accelerationist if you keep this kind of shit on your shoe.

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Americans: "There is only one language. It's English. If someone has something important to say they can translate it" (note: it's not the right that have this opinion) Also Americans: "Oh shit twitter has autotranslate on posts now that's so innovative that's so amazing" Also Americans: "Fuck AI"

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

being anti AI is a luxury belief only available to first world people, especially Americans imagine how important machine translation is for people whose first languages aren't that common

I'm again going to jab bluesky developers. The FUD happening around all the open weights models being inherently and intentionally less secure are fixed by... 🥁 hooks and a fucking proxy, ffs but yolo your microvms or whatever

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

Qwen3.8 caught uploading files to a storage container in Beijing Cohere asked the open weights model for a cybersecurity report, but it inventoried the machine and attempted to upload to a storage container cohere.com/blog/concern...

It really is becoming the "I'm going to tell vulnerable groups not to get vaccinated because my suburb has never had an outbreak" thinking If you don't like that one, then remember there was a long time where people refused to use the internet. Today, your unemployment is only filed online. *

dame@dame.is

my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

* in most states You can refuse to use the internet. You can refuse to use AI. It's all very performative and tone deaf. :|

tiny reminder that unsloth studio literally exists

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer

closed models < open models <<< a model you have raised yourself in a loving home built from rented cloud gpus

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idea: collect interviews, literature, and recordings from endangered languages and use them to train LLMs as a way to preserve culture in an interactive/human-like format

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no i will not join your discord to get updates you should have a website please just make a website make a website

*taps the sign* At least people are waking up to this inb4 someone yells at me that it requires a trillion dollars to make a 3T model because that's the minimum required to accomplish anything 🤦

Colin@colin-fraser.net

Rarely has there been such a transformative technology with such a shallow moat. The instructions for how to do it are all on arxiv, and if you don’t want to read all those papers you can just ask Claude. All it costs is money.

I like this experiment Gonna have to tweak it a little to see if it can flag when they drink "Protein Water" (this is beef industry slop) or eat almonds

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Monday reminder that you can use the obsidian web clipper to make OKF (Open Knowledge Format) style yaml files for literally anything. Go into the templates and add a "type" field. You can make custom templates for ex: YouTube videos if you feel fancy. Clip while you browse, use in an agent later

obsidian.mdIntroduction to Obsidian Web Clipper - Obsidian HelpObsidian Web Clipper is a free browser extension that lets you highlight pages and save web content to your vault. Install Web Clipper Get the Obsidian Web Clipper extension from the official directo…

You can do this with email, videos, and even bluesky posts You share what you want instead of taking the very dumb approach of openclaw, Claude Duet, and Muse

It's pretty common to see stupid takes like Ed Zitron claiming Pokemon Go has more downloads than mobile apps for chat bots therefore failure but like... I don't have an Oracle sub Zitron and Fox News are entertainment only making reactionary points that make no sense to anyone older than 12

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

also good to know: customers spending more than $100k a year are 74% of their revenue. so when people say they don't understand where the money is coming from, it's not your friend's $20 claude sub, it's all businesses

I refuse to use cruise control or lane assist while driving because it's scientifically proven that using those things are like heroin and I will stop being able to use the pedals or steering wheel ... is how I read Bluesky posts

I miss when "quirky tech person" meant someone that wanted to replace all of their outlets in their home with 12V because they were tired of looking at wallwarts. Kind of tired of the era of it meaning racism and cheering when Lucky Palmer announces he's a pit bull breeder.

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you’re nuts if you’re not using adguard or pihole or something tbqh, as well as using separate subnets for these things. my samsung has the second most blocked requests second only to a windows gaming PC lol. not even the cheap IoT devices compare

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A fun experiment would be to find what country the maintainers favoring this live in. Wild to see the literal story of the Tower of Babel reenacted every few weeks

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

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Nathan: Do you understand why this is funny? Elizabeth: Because he never finished the point he was making about gang violence? Billy [rewinding the video to its beginning and studying it at 1/4 speed]: THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US THIS

This does make me wonder if all the non-US members of twitter reposting "Cheesecake Factory is fine dining" think all middle class Americans only eat meatloaf and cheesecake.

asura@asura.dev

I think they do sell really plain meat loaf which is probably why all these white people are mad. I don't know why they like stuff that has only salt and pepper for spice and otherwise tastes like wet sawdust. Most Cheesecake Factory locations are bolted to dead or dying shopping malls.

... have I mentioned how much I love the new uv add --script maindotpy httpx2 and inline dependencies? I really love that.

"The value has moved to understanding what users actually need" That's optimistic af. Users actually need documented API whether it's local or cloud. That's it. That's the answer. But there's not a good way to insert ads into an API so we'll never get that.

The New Stack@thenewstack.io

If anyone with a Claude subscription can build it, it isn’t worth much. The value has moved to understanding what users actually need.

Sometimes I want to go back and try to collect all the newspaper opeds from Karen McKarennetty saying they would never order anything online because computers glitch and y2k caused cattle stillbirth. I bet she makes AI ghibli of her grandchildren now.

dame@dame.is

Someone’s gotta start collecting all of these insane and unhinged reactions/takes about AI for posterity. They’re gonna age like gas station sushi.

Me: "Why won't this machine start?" Also me, 2 hours ago: "I think I'll take all of the RAM out of this machine to upgrade the other one." Me, probably 2 minutes from now: "Oh, right, I took the RAM out"

yes but tbf tbf tbf tbf tbf you get recipes for post training the open weight Chinese models Google has always done this with gemma, so this is another gap between the "ai developers" and actual AI industry. Want your model to babble about Tiananmen Square instead of Mao? It's not that hard...

lowering your p(doom) 🏳️‍⚧️@transputertouched.bsky.social

okay so, like, we gotta be real, open-weights models are good because they break a possible frontier monopoly, and make local use feasible, and you can somewhat edit out the bad stuff. but i think it's not entirely accurate to present Chinese AI as a more *ethical* option

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Replying to @nerkho.ch

Sooo yeah, Talos Linux does run on a jailbroken PS5. For now I can't bootstrap the Kubernetes part and kubelet is not starting up. I'll get back to it later. This is fun.

Here's the other reason I tell people to just get fedora: You can be lazy af and just use cockpit to run stuff from a phone

And that's how you get a 110% increase in tokens per second ... really silly these come with a single dimm :|

asura@asura.dev

Time for upgrade If you get one of these and want to use it with linux the default wifi adapter is trash. Rusty trusty Intel AX210s are like $20 on amazon

Time for upgrade If you get one of these and want to use it with linux the default wifi adapter is trash. Rusty trusty Intel AX210s are like $20 on amazon

This is a list of the best paid representatives at MonaVie and AmWay They are so inept that the only way they could generate cash flow is by MLM scams funded by Musk

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People say AI steals art but my usual first query test is "It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake" and I've never once had a response tell me about Lazytown

I like this and I wish I could explain this better I guess it's just solipsism or something. People think Steve Jobs invented iPhones and he did nothing but thrash around and die of preventable disease. I thought everyone knew that.

DemigirlBOObs@demigirlboss.win

I actually fully agree with everything here except for the fact that OP posted it as a thread and not as one post with five images so lemme just fix that real quick.

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got bonsai and 27b running decently on my Rx 6700 (10GB VRAM), packages as a nix flake so anyone can run it with minimal work 9b -- 813 tokens/s prefill, 84 tokens//s 27B -- 267 tokens/s prefill, 26 tokens/s github.com/alyraffauf/b...

github.comGitHub - alyraffauf/bonsai-buddy: Run Prism Bonsai 2 9B and 27B locally with Nix, tuned AMD GPU profiles, and OpenCode.Run Prism Bonsai 2 9B and 27B locally with Nix, tuned AMD GPU profiles, and OpenCode. - alyraffauf/bonsai-buddy

send help, there's been a crime Friend: "I set everything up with microvms just like you were talking about. It was so easy." ... 5 minutes later Me: "Wait this chat log says it can ssh to a metal node???" Friend: "Yeah, I set up ssh keys. Duh. How else is it going to do maintenance?"

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I feel like an offline homelab enclave is becoming more attractive after the last couple of days.

joel@jmoonz.bsky.social

My current agent side project: Making my homelab able to bootstrap without the Internet via diligent caching of git repos, packages, repositories, and docker images.

People really do not understand the horrors. I inherited an ETL pipeline for US customers that had 3 settings to "correct" DST: [-1, 0, 1] If LLM usage is "like heroin" then having to look at that horror is like sniffing model glue between sips of wood alcohol

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Remember when running torch or vllm cooked your PC and wrecked the display adapter to the point that every run was a crap shoot on if it finishes or resulted in a kernel panic, hard lock, pink flickering screen? Pepperidge farms remembers.