26-08

• I’m (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence | Lobsters

  • https://chatjimmy.ai/ by Taalas | The model is The Computer is fast!

• Self-hosted video conferencing & custom WebRTC - OpenVidu

• The Fixi Project | Lobsters

  • Philosophically, fixi is scheme to htmx’s common lisp

• what the double-fork?: creating a robust posix daemon for zmx

• Where .env Went Wrong | SecretSpec

  • I like the idea

  • fnox works though

• wiff - wiff

  • diff and code-review by Wez Furlong (wezterm)

• Stripe Just Wants a Number - exe.dev blog

• Don’t be a meat proxy | Lobsters

• Yann LeCun’s World Models: Why LLMs Are a Dead End | Let’s Data Science

  • ex Meta chief AI scientist; 12 years

  • “The path to superintelligence via LLMs is complete bullshit.”

  • Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs

• nono Sandbox for AI Agents — Kernel-Level Isolation | nono

• AMD Acquires Taalas

• Agentic search - retrieval, harness, or model?

  • via comment on Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | Hacker News

• Hello from Scrut | Scrut

• some software talks i like | Lobsters

• Python package managers: uv vs pixi? - Jacob Tomlinson

  • pixi sounds good for environments that traditionally relied on conda

  • thanks, Markus

• Stolen Thoughts

• Linus Torvalds about AI on the Kernel Mailing List Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds

  • Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

  • The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

  • In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

  • I like his direct pragmatism.

• I Started Programming When I Was 7. I’m 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

• Since When? Which Python Version Added That

• What is the best inference engine for a production environment? : r/LocalLLaMA

• Microsoft kriegt von Bayern das 8,5-fache von dem, was Feuerwehr, Rettungsdienst und Katastrophenschutz zusammen bekommen

  • Bayerns 360-Millionen-Rechnung: Jetzt muss das Bundeskartellamt endlich ran! | heise online

Enshittification in vollem Gange

https://www.heise.de/news/BMW-Belaestigt-Mit-Werbung-11398998.html

Großes Kino war auch die Sitzheizung mit Monats-Abo. 🤪

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

… and few are those who can control their desire in the face of power such as that.

https://youtu.be/0ijX_kd7W9k?t=2984