The Gates Foundation had strong objections to releasing the covid-19 patents. I’m sure they had some sort of rationale that wasn’t "this would set a bad precedent for M$ patents.

A scraper has many more ways around something like sheildfont than just OCR. The question will be if it was actually programmed to check for such measures.

You can try to set HandleLidSwitch=ignore event defined in /etc/systems/logind.conf. That will definitely prevent the laptop from sleeping on lid close. It might also prevent the laptop from waking on lid open.

Regardless, I suggest hunting down what broke that setup recently. Its probably some new daemon is responsible for configuring those events in a less arcane way.

Netnut is indeed an Israeli company. I dont think they’re getting arrested and prosecuted in US courts but their entire infrastructure has been shut down and they’ve been cut off from the US. So the business itself is killed.

Resell access to your home IP address to undisclosed third parties? If they do I’d imagine they’d bother to put it in the terms of service.

FWIW universal healthcare is not single payer. Its nationalizing healthcare providers and doing away with health insurance entirely. Which is better than any single payer plan IMO. Hospitals have never really been successful profit generating ventures.

The entire health insurance industry would be deleted along with all the jobs and stock value it produced. And yeah fuck’em but there’s going to be knock on economic effects from deleting an entire industry.

It was pushed back down to panama before but it took half a century (1950-2000) to do it. All that effort undone by some kid named big balls.

Sounds like the same stockholm syndrome I have for Arch.

some problems are better solved via OOP, others through functional programming. The perfect language would be a successful blend of the two.

That was the entire goal of Scala and I would say Scala both accomplished it and is a worse language for doing so. Some OOP principles are just bad, namely subtyping. Rust genuinely does blend OOP and Functional in a better way. Instead of classes and interfaces with lambdas you have algebraic data types and type classes with for loops.

I’ve been using gguf models from unsloth but I haven’t seen anything from them on retraining. Especially with consumer hardware.

I still can’t get over how the only fine tuning you can do for an LLM is yell at it with markdown files. We should be able to retrain local models so they can develop an actual experience without prefilling the context.

“The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing,” they write. “Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use AI agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.”

Somebody invested money into this company. And there’s at least hundreds, maybe thousands, of other businesses with these asinine ideas about how to use AI. They’re all getting capital from someone who’s supposed to be smart because they have capital. Remember that when llm providers cost correct token prices.

The Wall Street Journal reported in February 2026 that high-quality voice cloning now requires roughly fifteen seconds of clean reference audio for tools available off the shelf.

Fifteen seconds for a full voice clone is scarily impressive.

And Insurance companies might start considering underpaid employees as an insurance liability.

That’d truly be righteous but I suspect they’ll start expecting more surveillance, security, and fire systems instead.

BUDDY - A Tamagotchi Inside Your Terminal

I am not making this up.

Claude Code has a full Tamagotchi-style companion pet system called “Buddy.” A deterministic gacha system with species rarity, shiny variants, procedurally generated stats, and a soul description written by Claude on first hatch like OpenClaw.

The entire thing lives in buddy/ and is gated behind the BUDDY compile-time feature flag. The Gacha System

Your buddy’s species is determined by a Mulberry32 PRNG, a fast 32-bit pseudo-random number generator seeded from your userId hash with the salt

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Ignore the AI slop image from that article. If you follow the SCMP article Tom’s Hardware is citing. You’ll see a bunch of these

Looks pretty familiar IMO.

I had a coworker pronounce URL as Earl.

Then you need to figure out how to use voyager correctly and reply to the correct user because none of this is showing up in HazardousBanjo’s inbox. Its showing up in mine.

I never even mentioned the DNC or “vote blue” bullshit. You seem to be eager to argue with someone who has opinions different than mine.