I look forward to the cheap compute flooding the market when the music stops.
Readit Newskingo55 commented on Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble... · Posted by u/RyanShook
kingo55 commented on Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Or, you know, just Gemini 2.6 Flash. I don't recall the 2.5 version having a date associated with it when it came out, though maybe they are using dates now. In marketing, at least, it's always known as Gemini 2.5 Flash/Pro.
It had a date, but I also agree this is extremely confusing. Even semver 2.5.1 would be clearer IMO.
kingo55 commented on x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments x402.org/... · Posted by u/thm
As much as I like SEPA it is primarily for bank transfers.
The way that payments work through SEPA is that the merchant pulls the money from your account. Legally they require a "mandate" - this can be as little as a handwritten signature on a document.
Security is essentially provided by easy reversal and strong penalties for abuse.
As opposed to blockchain where reversal depends on the grace of the merchant.
I've often wondered whether payments providers entering the blockchain space (like Visa/Mastercard) would act as trusted intermediaries for dispute resolution. Kind of a 2-of-3 multisig to disperse the funds in escrow.
kingo55 commented on x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments x402.org/... · Posted by u/thm
The Lightning Network (an open payment layer built on top of Bitcoin) or some other cryptocurrency.
That would be nice... Good luck to you if you can use it.
I would consider myself tech savvy but I struggled immensely to run lightning without custodial risk back.
kingo55 commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
There will always be something better on big data center hardware.
However, small models are continuing to improve at the same time that large RAM capacity computing hardware is becoming cheaper. These two will eventually intersect at a point where local performance is good enough and fast enough.
If you've tried gpt-oss:120b and Moonshot AIs Kimi Dev, it feels like this is getting closer to reality. Mac Studios, while expensive are now offering 512gb of usable RAM as well. The tooling available to running local models is also becoming more accessible than even just a year ago.
kingo55 commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired
I wish Apple and Google would make rules to the effect of "if your app's entire functionality could be done in a regular website or PWA, then you can't put a native app on our stores".
Given how much it seems Apple detests PWAs, I don't ever see this happening. One can dream.
And you could indeed use Bitcoin on Steam for a while!
But then the blocks got full, fees and wait times skyrocketed, and in response to the customer backlash Steam removed Bitcoin.
Meanwhile Bitcoiners were (and still are) only focused on number go up instead of other, more productive, use cases.
Such a waste.
There's now Ethereum, Base and Solana featuring US dollar stablecoins and significantly cheaper fees. If you want to go a step further and eliminate the stablecoin issuer's counterparty risk you could even pay in the base asset of ETH. Shopify allows payments from crypto now, so Steam should try it again.
Good luck censoring purchases on ETH.
kingo55 commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz
I did not even realize my ublock origin was turned off. My HOST FILE script did the same service: https://expatcircle.com/cms/privacy-advanced-ublock-origin-w...
More concerning is that social fixer was turned off: https://socialfixer.com/
MFGA Make Facebook Great again ;-)
Changing your hosts file helps but it would only block hostnames primarily used for ads and trackers - it wouldn't address those trackers and ads loaded from hostnames shared with actual content. The more sophisticated sites will proxy their tracking and ads through their main app:
E.g. www.cnn.com/ads.js
I prefer having multiple layers just in case anything drops off:
1. VPN DNS / AdGuard local cached DNS 2. uBlock Origin
It's like wearing two condoms (but it feels better than natural).
kingo55 commented on In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture latimes.com/world-nation/... · Posted by u/donnachangstein
When a buddy and I used to go out to bars, he would dress and act Mexican too. I think he enjoyed the style but, on some level, also the attention when girls would mistake him for being Mexican rather than his Chinese heritage.
I did something similar for Californian oils :)
https://www.californiaoliveoil.info/
I like the personal touch your site provides with the producers' images. How did you source your data?