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hkt commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
lokar · 4 days ago
While I disapprove of what the gov is doing here, I think it’s incorrect and unhelpful to put all the blame on them. AIUI, the UK is a democracy and these policies are generally supported by the voters.
hkt · 4 days ago
The UK hasn't elected a government on 50% or more of the vote since the 1950s:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/717004/general-elections...

It is hard to call minority rule democratic, really. I've no issue with your point on the OSA and think it is widely supported, but let's be realistic, representation in the UK is virtual on matters like this: widely supported, but mostly by coincidence.

hkt commented on DeepSeek-v3.1   api-docs.deepseek.com/new... · Posted by u/wertyk
decide1000 · 5 days ago
I use it on a 24gb gpu Tesla P40. Very happy with the result.
hkt · 5 days ago
Out of interest, roughly how many tokens per second do you get on that?
hkt commented on 29 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release   gamingretro.co.uk/29-year... · Posted by u/doener
janten · 13 days ago
hkt · 13 days ago
I can confirm that this will play game files as they were from the 1998 or so "total heaven" triple pack of settlers 2, sim city 2000, and civilization 2.

As an aside: what an incredible era.

hkt commented on GitHub was having issues   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/rock_artist
bargainbin · 14 days ago
Ah, you clearly haven’t worked with the self hosting teams that I have.

I hope I never again have to explain to someone that you can’t just “restore the code from the weekly database backup” because the code is in the file system they just osmosed.

hkt · 13 days ago
That's not the fault of a hosting team though.. that's the fault of a hiring manager, ultimately
hkt commented on GitHub was having issues   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/rock_artist
petcat · 14 days ago
> GitHub is _easily_ the most unreliable SaaS product.

Some of us are stuck using Atlassian and BitBucket and it is by far worse in every way.

hkt · 14 days ago
Amen, BitBucket outages are regular and showstopping. Self hosting is genuinely more reliable.
hkt commented on Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev   blog.kilocode.ai/p/future... · Posted by u/twapi
hkt · 15 days ago
Hetzner and Scaleway already do instances with GPUs so this kinda already exists
hkt · 15 days ago
In fact, does anybody want to hire a server with me? I suspect it'll work out cheaper than Claude max etc: a server from hetzner starts at £220ish: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-gpu/

It might be fun to work out how to share, too. A whole new breed of shell hosting.

hkt commented on Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev   blog.kilocode.ai/p/future... · Posted by u/twapi
skybrian · 15 days ago
Open source models could be run by low-cost cloud providers, too. They could offer discounts for a long term contract and run it on dedicated hardware.
hkt · 15 days ago
Hetzner and Scaleway already do instances with GPUs so this kinda already exists
hkt commented on Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API   ch.at/... · Posted by u/ownlife
zaik · 17 days ago
It seems like the only internet protocols they didn't implement were the ones designed for chat. How could they forget about IRC, XMPP and SIP?
hkt · 17 days ago
I'd love a deltachat bot too..
hkt commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
chii · 17 days ago
Tho trying to solve a social issue with technological solutions is just going to force the other side's hand more. Tor/vpn might work today, but there's no telling what new laws tomorrow will be enacted to ban vpns. And having such laws (that everyone breaks) is just a way for the gov't to selectively punish those they deem troublesome - a great chilling effect.

The way to fight these draconian laws is via democratic means - even if it takes long and arduous. For example, enshrining privacy into constitutional guarantees etc.

hkt · 17 days ago
It depends on the motivations of the people behind the ban, though. VPNs aren't terribly interesting to the government over a porn age verification plan, largely because subscribing to a VPN costs money and requires a debit card. Some might manage that, but most probably won't. If the motivation was to ban porn entirely and they valued that more than they valued giving business a break (banning VPNs being rather bad news for some companies) then it'd be another story.
hkt commented on Open models by OpenAI   openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
herval · 21 days ago
I keep my typos organic — it proves I’m not an LLM
hkt · 20 days ago
Reasonable. I've considered using em dashes for plausible deniability for the opposite reason.

u/hkt

KarmaCake day2136September 25, 2016View Original