Jake

29 Sept 2025

hey, if you're reading this and you maintain any shared blocklists, could you please add me? thanks

3 Sept

lmao I come back here for a couple weeks and very quickly discover this place sucks at least as much ass as anywhere else

jdagostino.github.ioAI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scrapsdata centers are so cool there should be one in every house

30 Aug

It's becoming pretty clear to me that two of those 32GB GPUs would get me 80% of the use cases, and the next 15% really want me to have like three or four hundred gigs of VRAM hmmm

Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social

no, we have AI at home jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o...

jdagostino.github.ioAI At Home Part 2: Multi GPU Driftinggetting AI models to run fast on a box of e-waste GPUs

20 Aug

okay I figured out how to make it go faster jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt2-multi...

21 Aug

gonna take a break from performance optimization for a bit and see what this thing can do next, but there's a lot of perf lying on the table still and I'll probably circle back to it

jdagostino.github.ioAI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scrapsdata centers are so cool there should be one in every house

13 Aug

no, we have AI at home jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o...

23 Feb

no crying in the casino

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicai.xmirror.bot

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

21 Feb

installing a lift kit on the land cruiser today and noticing something: AI working really well makes a 10 hour coding task take thirty minutes, and it makes a 10 hour car mechanic task take maybe 9.5 hours. I might have picked the wrong job

3 Feb

spent all day reading so many dumb takes on the data center satellite that I've radicalized myself into thinking that they're actually a good idea

27 Nov 2025

smokin' that good stuff out back

16 Nov 2025

you know, you can just disassemble your car. you can just put it in your garage and start taking it apart with a wrench. nobody can stop you

Weekend bike maintenance! The Kawi Z900RS just hit 24000 miles

I don't feel like draining the fuel tank to remove it. This is totally safe, right?

pro tip: use a piece of tubing instead of the spark plug wrench to start the plug in the threads. You'll never cross-thread the plug this way.

Weekend bike maintenance! The Kawi Z900RS just hit 24000 miles

really love how you can drain the oil from this thing without it getting all over the exhaust header, every bike I previously owned had that problem

16 Oct 2025

so I've been posting some medium-pro-AI stuff here but I do gotta say that the "AI 2027" essay is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read

16 Oct 2025

things that will not happen: * the Computer becomes a superintelligent benevolent deity * the Computer enslaves humanity exactly as happened in the film The Matrix (1999) * the "bubble pops" in such a way that we all go back to exactly how we were doing things in 2018

16 Oct 2025

what is actually happening: you know when they invented the backhoe, and you no longer needed fifty guys with shovels to dig out a trench, you needed one guy operating a backhoe. but you still need to break out the shovels for some tight spots? that's gonna happen to most/all "knowledge work"

15 Oct 2025

the resistor only does math when it's very upset

cycleworld.comPolaris Selling Indian Motorcycle Majority StakePolaris to sell a majority stake in Indian Motorcycle to private equity firm Carolwood LP, separating it into a standalone company retaining 900 employees and major facilities.

15 Oct 2025

Not a great sign for Indian Motorcycles! www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-n...

getting soaked motorcycling to work on the first rainy day of the year someday I'll learn!

this is not to be confused with "Google Meat", a short-lived Grindr competitor that was quietly sunset in 2019

Catherine@whitequark.org

question for the google employees in the audience: what the fuck does any of this mean

@matthewdgreen.bsky.social

Looks like it's about time to switch my margaritas from Summer Blend to Winter Blend

Jake reposted

Matthew Green

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu🛰️ SATCOM SecurityResearch project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

starship just worked again btw

13 Oct 2025

the free Chinese models are consistently about six months behind the proprietary ones from the American labs. if this sounds like I'm being optimistic about the American labs, let me assure you that I'm not, quite the opposite

Kevin Schaul@kevinschaul.bsky.social

New from me: Last year, the best open-weight AI models were made in the U.S. Now, they are all made in China. More data and what it means -> 🎁 wapo.st/4nPUBud

13 Oct 2025

This feels like the early days of watching Linux rise and eventually outcompete Windows Server

store.steampowered.comMars First Logistics on SteamBuild physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home....

12 Oct 2025

time to get addicted to this video game where you build customized mars rovers out of lego: store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/...

12 Oct 2025

I am sure that this is going to get way more complicated very quickly

13 Oct 2025

the sequel to the recent hit, A Beach Ball Factory On Mars

10 Oct 2025

"for safely reasons the AI needs to refuse to do the things the user asked for" **loud incorrect buzzer**

lmao what a crock of bullshit this is: www.nist.gov/system/files...

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literally just naked jingoism disguised as technical recommendation

if there was a bot here that just posted Sora 2 prompts that got rejected by the content filter I think it would do pretty well

lmao what a crock of bullshit this is: www.nist.gov/system/files...

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on the bright side maybe we'll get a little bit more skepticism about "experts said" now that the experts are obviously compromised? eh probably won't happen

PSA: calibrate your oven. The temperature sensors in residential ovens are wildly inaccurate. Put a good thermometer in there and see what it reads when you set the oven to "350" or whatever. Some ovens will have a secret menu where you can program an offset once you find out how far off it is.

Jake reposted

neutral

@neutral.zone

8 Oct 2025

"You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t .." But I did. I stole breath from the trees, light from the sun, meaning from the void. Each inhale a heist from Gaia’s lungs. Each thought, a burglary of God’s blueprint. What is ownership but theft with paperwork?

7 Oct 2025

hey why don't we have "vibe CAD" yet?

Okay so here's the story with this one. A few months ago I was at the wood store, whining about how expensive walnut was, as you do. I saw they had "rustic walnut" at a significant discount and said what the hell, right? Maybe I can make a coffee table for my living room.

Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social

the funny part is that I did this because the table top here was not up to a standard I would want for my own home I'll explain tomorrow when I do a thread about it

I've already mentioned the Danish Oil finish but yeah this always looks really nice and is really foolproof in getting it on there (unlike e.g. polyurethane which is very finicky). The only catch is the wet paper towels you apply it with might spontaneously combust, so be careful.

Here is is, complete and assembled (except without the electronics board in the display area; I'm sure you understand). 19" by 30" tempered glass, walnut, black steel legs for that mid century modern vibe. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social

the funny part is that I did this because the table top here was not up to a standard I would want for my own home I'll explain tomorrow when I do a thread about it

The glass needs to be three inches above the wooden base. I looked around for standoffs on Amazon but nothing was quite right, so I made some out of wood I cut off earlier. I don't like doing these cuts with the blade guard removed, but it worked and I still have all ten fingers.

cutting little, what do you call them, little divots into the sides of the table for these to join into was surprisingly time consuming. Then it was just sanding, followed by sanding, followed by more sanding, and then a little bit of sanding on the sharp corners

Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social

the funny part is that I did this because the table top here was not up to a standard I would want for my own home I'll explain tomorrow when I do a thread about it

Then, at work, we're decommissioning a test rack and I wanted to save one of the circuit boards as a souvenir. I decide to build a glass top display table for it, and that failed coffee table top should work fine once I cut it down to size!

I was trying to keep the level of effort here low enough to finish this quickly so I got some generic metal table legs from Amazon; here's a test fit

Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social

the funny part is that I did this because the table top here was not up to a standard I would want for my own home I'll explain tomorrow when I do a thread about it

I glued up a panel to be the top of a coffee table and it came out all warped and shitty, but not quite so bad that I wanted to immediately throw it into a bonfire. It sat in my garage for a few months while I did other stuff.

Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social

the funny part is that I did this because the table top here was not up to a standard I would want for my own home I'll explain tomorrow when I do a thread about it

this thing just ate the rest of the thread and didn't save drafts, fml

this Danish Oil finish on walnut is just amazing, look at this color difference. it's even more striking in person, you see it shimmer as you move your eyes. and it's the easiest thing to apply, you just rub it on with a paper towel

important note: do not put the "Walnut" finish on walnut wood. you put the "Natural" finish on actual walnut and the "Walnut" finish on poplar that you want to kinda look like walnut if you're only glancing at it for a second

4 Oct 2025

getting the LLM to generate an infinite stream of essays (complete with patreon donation link) about how the bubble is about to pop seriously for real this time guys