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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Dunno how well zswap handles at that size, but the point is that is compresses swap into RAM, so it would use a max of 819.2M for a total of 2457.6M of swap space. If you need more, then by all means, use a swap file or partition lol.

    Actually linux easily supports multiple and tiered swap mounts, so you could even go zswap + ssd swap + hdd swap, or a cheapo “burn at your own risk” usb flash swap lol.


  • I wish these braindead news outlets would stop doing free marketing for anthropic or openai.

    This shit is as bad as everyone suddenly acting like foldable phones are relevant just because shitfuck apple decided to finally enter the market with their $2k phone made of recycled sewage.

    People were doing all this stuff back when GPT-3 dropped and literally every model on HF has hundreds of ablated/uncensored versions that makes whatever limitations anthropic and openai impose completely irrelevant.

    Even if some adversary wanted a high quality output for nefarious purposes, they’d just download uncensored deepseek and run it on their expensive hardware they can already afford.

    Why is every god damn article pretending the past 3 years never happend?




  • I’m gonna take this opportunity to also point out that a lot of major banks’ online banking portals are actual dogwater. I have a credit union account and it is almost hilarious to me how well made their online portal is because it actually loads fast and doesn’t throw errors every 5 seconds probably because they hired a qualified dev to make it with a solid HTML/CSS base and not a bloated JS framework hell PWA.

    Unlike a certain penny colored bank site that can’t even handle my auto filled password and complains I need to enter the already filled input box.



  • Honestly I’d be way more concerned about Iran getting pushed into finally making their nuke so they can lob it back and start WWIII; or Israel seeing it as a green light to just start nuking whoever they please.

    Iran isn’t fissile material-less, they could probably form a completely functional bomb with some assistance from NK and China (or next door Pakistan if they suddenly decide to abandon uncle sam). It might require some hefty price, but they could probably trade away oil access rights and have their material covertly sent to NK for final processing into a bomb.

    Even if China doesn’t want to get involved, they could just as easily make some quick dirty bombs, attach it to their ballistic missiles, and perma scar a significant portion of the earth with radiation poisoning.

    The general American public response is largely irrelevant because it’s already too late to matter. Even if they ripped out the entirety of DC and formed a completely new government, there’s no stopping the consequences of such an action.


  • This is technically not new, several airports already have their own version that doesn’t require tsa pre or a 3 day advance notice.

    AFAIK DTW was the first, and they now allow you to print an access pass right at the terminal entrance so you can go through security as a non passenger.

    Also to the comments complaining about long lines and traffic, that just means your airport sucks lol. ATL and ORD have some of the most horrendous pedestrian design and understaffed sections in the world. They aren’t 3 hour line busy because of the sheer volume, they just already sucked total garbage at handling that volume.


  • No five year old is mature enough to understand and recognize the dangers involved.

    Sheltered much lol?

    I’ve seen a 5 year old competently handle a BB rifle and an actual handgun with proper trigger discipline. The BB rifle was his practical toy he practiced with and the real handgun was his father’s which he wasn’t allowed to use until he’d proved himself for a couple of years with the BB (only handed under supervision).

    He was also gaining fluency in 3 languages and his friends would spend their free time from school climbing up and down actual mountains.

    Take a wild guess where it was.




  • Saw the title and I already knew IPv6 was still gonna be “not enough adoption” lol.

    The overly aggressive lockdown from NAT is not entirely misplaced though. Windows is already notorious for default hosting an atrocious level of protocols that are anywhere between “I can get your NetNTLMv2 hash for free” to “gg ez RCE as SYSTEM user”.

    Linux and Unix were also not magically protected either, like every FTP server implementation has had several RCE vulns and it was so bad that Linus himself pointed out how easy it was to abuse buffer overflow vulns even after the addition of NX mem protection with return to libc, several years before ASLR finally landed in Linux and Windows.

    Seriously, the early 2000s was the wild west of vulns because everything was still written in C++ so you could just waltz into any binary, find some stack/heap overflow, and you’re on your way to an RCE.

    NAT (and firewall) most definitely did prevent millions of users from getting rekt by a metric ton of malware that operated on the ability to connect to those services.



  • People are forgetting the AI hype train is reliant on the fact that businesses and individuals can’t host the AI themselves, which is rapidly changing.

    All that insane power that OpenAI and Anthropic have harnessed is suddenly completely useless when you can just spin up a competing model at home, with HF hosting a crap ton of finetuned models like uncensored/abliterated to do whatever you want with it.

    Even Deepseek released their full size models if you happen to have 400Gb (or 1.5Tb) of VRAM lying around.

    When the bubble (hopefully) pops, AI will just continue to be a tool that devs use where applicable, and likely not on a massive data center cloud as it migrates into consumer electronics.