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gond commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

andreashaerter · 8 days ago

> All of the self-hosted solutions are also just way less smooth to use than the built-in integration iCloud or Google Drive gives with devices.

The built-in integrations (iCloud, Google Drive) are smooth right up until you’re locked out or forced into changes you can't control. Obviously.

There is a middle ground though: managed service providers (per-service). You don't have to self-host everything in your basement, and you don't have to hand your entire digital life to Google or Apple either.

gond · 8 days ago

Can you give an example? I am looking for a way out.

I kind of self hosted for decades on a virtual server until I couldn’t keep up with it. So much stuff broke something in the stack, bringing the server down. Often, I had to initiate a full lock down on everything before going up again, consuming a day’s effort or two.

gond commented on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' news.itsfoss.com/youtube-... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

gond · a month ago

I cannot recommend NTLite enough.

If it has to be Windows, just remove all the shit of Win11 yourself, set it to unattended installation with a local account, remove the hardware requirements barrier while you are at it, remove the games, controller add-ons, virus scanner and whatever else you would like to (the windows store?) and create your own LTSC.

This isn’t a solution to the problem and missing the point of the whole argument. But if it has to be Windows, I would recommend to try it.

1] ntlite.com

gond commented on Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency theintercept.com/2025/09/... · Posted by u/lehi

johnklos · 3 months ago

The true value of a company can be measured by our ability to communicate with them. If we can't communicate except after public outrage, then what does that say about the company?

Here's a genuine question: is Proton Mail the least shitty of companies that provide email services?

I self-host email and will continue until I die. But for others who need a company to do this for them, is Proton Mail the least shitty of options? Does this change the evaluation? I'm genuinely curious about the opinion of others here.

gond · 3 months ago

I self hosted for 20 years, worked flawlessly, gave up because of security concerns. I would like to go back to it.

Question: How do you manage the security on such a box? Is there any simplification I missed?

I couldn’t keep up with it. So many patches, unrelated to mail, broke something in the stack, bringing the server into a critical state. Often, I had to lock down everything before going up again, consuming a day’s effort or two. These were two days without mail.

gond commented on Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference thinkingmachines.ai/blog/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

ricardobeat · 3 months ago

Are you talking about the “Thinking Machines” company that shut down in 1994? Took me some digging to figure it out, doesn’t seem well-known enough to be the reason - it’s just a nice (and relatively obvious) name.

gond · 3 months ago

Yes. Danny Hillis’ Thinking Machines Corporation, an AI company which created its own massive parallel processing supercomputer hardware.

“We are building a machine that will be proud of us” was their corporate motto. And that was in 1983.

One of those Machines is on view at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Back then, they could be ordered in “Darth Vader Black”, no kidding here. You can also see a couple of them (the CM-5) as the stereotypical supercomputer in the original Jurassic Park.

More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporatio...

gond commented on Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference thinkingmachines.ai/blog/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

gond · 3 months ago

I am still irritated by the name of the company.

What is the reasoning behind these schemes? The hope that bits of the properties of legendary companies will rub off onto the new venture?

As if naming the next best venture PARC will inevitably create a breakthrough in networking just by the arrangement of four letters.

gond commented on Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? seangoedecke.com/real-rea... · Posted by u/ingve

Kim_Bruning · 4 months ago

Taking things apart to see how they tick is called reduction, but (re)assembling the parts is emergence.

When you reduce something to its components, you lose information on how the components work together. Emergence 'finds' that information back.

Compare differentiation and integration, which lose and gain terms respectively.

In some cases, I can imagine differentiating and integrating certain functions actually would even be a direct demonstration of reduction and emergence.

gond · 4 months ago

Yeah that’s a nice addition. However, remember that reassembling is synthesis, not emergence. Emergence is what you /may/ get by reassembling, but must not. We are talking about systems, thus, in the end, you are correct. It’s just that the terms seem to be a bit muddled.