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May be a little before this hits everyone but the reckoning is coming. We got about a year of rapid acceleration and as of mic October the bill is coming due.
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How to use 1 billion tokens in a month, the easy way:
Hermes agent with recurring workflows for:
- 25 years of personal media library meta-data creation, classification, annotation, transcription and facial recognition (only about 1/20th of the way done)
- T1D Research pipeline and therapeutics R&D tracking
- The Curiosity Engine, idle compute goes towards agents exploring my computer looking for interesting projects in an attempt to source capital for more inference
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Fun Fact: Basically none of the initial railroad companies made money. They overbuilt, took on way too much debt, and ended up in brutal pricing competition with each other, and nearly all went bankrupt.
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Reality of our days:
1. I am sitting on a set of vulns (4+) that allows me to remotely take over a consumer home automation device I have (3+ diff ways).
2. The vendor doesn't only serve consumers, but also critical infra (announced partnerships include pharma manufacturing plants, airport logistics, hospitals, etc) across various locations in Europe and the US (not the same product line, ofc, so maybe moot).
3. Claude and Astra refuse to help me explore even my own device, so now I'm using Chinese hosted models for investigating.
4. The vendor (with a revenue of $0.75B) does not maintain any security disclosure practice whatsoever, nor does respond to emails.
So, to recap, I need to outsource vulnerability hunting of (potentially, I don't know) critical western infrastructure to Chinese models, because the western models refuse; and the vendor doesn't give a shit. Fun timeline.
PS: The vendor is Swiss.
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''Fire does not respect arbitrary boundaries -- we need comprehensive federal overhaul to protect every American community.''
In @vcstar, Bob Roper with the Western Fire Chiefs Association calls on Congress to pass the #FixOurForestsAct. bit.ly/4zzQo3r
Had a workflow processing metadata on an external hard drive and noticed it kept detaching from the OS. Realized the R/W was killing it and added an inline SSD to handle the active load.
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Should product developers just take a few months off while the infra specialists have at the base layer? Any boost in productivity in development prior to Fable/Astra has been consumed by security.
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The exception to the rule is of course @Cloudflare, whose workers are the best service on the internet I've used in 28 years as a developer.
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New model day: And here I thought I could get some product work done today but nope, security patches forever it is.
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Want your own Slack for $0? I open-sourced Ember. It deploys to @Cloudflare’s free tier in about a minute, works with Slack-compatible payloads, and includes an AI assistant and media attachments.
9th anniversary since Woolsey fire when we learned first hand that if we had not been proactive the fire would have taken my in-laws house, and starting my journey to help save others the life changing losses that impact our community for almost a decade now.
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Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
There will never be new software programmers but there will be several orders of magnitude more "video game studio" QA people
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If you’re not greenfielding something fun while maintaining production infrastructure in late 2026 you’re going to have a bad time.
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Woke up remembering Nov 8 is the anniversary of the Woolsey fire and we’ll have high winds and low humidity this weekend. Hopefully we don’t need to learn those lessons again 9 years later. The Santa Monica mountains have completely regrown and there’s been nearly zero fuel mitigation since then.
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Microdock v2: As suggested by @matth_lapeyre, the robot now sits while docked, allowing all servos to be turned completely off.
