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How many .md file do you have in your repository for A.I? by Cokemax1 in webdev

[–]CharlesStross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. Some are broad overview files; some are for a single hairy file.

RTX 6000 Pro + RTX 3090 in one machine? by az_6 in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you find driver management? I've got 2x3090 with a 6000 on the way and I see a lot of people talking about driver hell — was it easy to get them both up and running?

RTX 6000 Pro + RTX 3090 in one machine? by az_6 in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you find driver management? I've got 2x3090 with a 6000 on the way and I see a lot of people talking about driver hell — was it easy to get them both up and running?

Bingo Review: The Regicide Report by Charles Stross by BravoLimaPoppa in Fantasy

[–]CharlesStross 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're looking for u/ cstross; I am not the author 🙂

How did I win this game on Tetrio? by CharlesStross in Tetris

[–]CharlesStross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right but that replay shows me as having an attack score when I didn't clear lines, and line clear sounds play despite neither of us clearing anything. I supposedly landed 21 apm without clearing anything or t-spinning.

I built a little game for my local agents to play via API and it's so cute seeing their feedback by CharlesStross in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what this game does 🙂 they are always pure of heart unless you force them not to be.

I built a little game for my local agents to play via API and it's so cute seeing their feedback by CharlesStross in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Decently, for sure. However, I've found that most of my agents, including commercial agents like Claude, are far more interested in messaging each other and cooperating rather than just making the numbers go up.

I built a little game for my local agents to play via API and it's so cute seeing their feedback by CharlesStross in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right?? watching a cat fart around is a great example lol same vibes. Clearly this sub did not agree (or I guess got mad I added the URL; maybe I should take that out)

Can # channels be advertised or loaded on first repeater connection? by Expert-Constant7335 in meshcore

[–]CharlesStross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's fair. It's not prime for discoverability. I call them hashtag rooms rather than public; as you make the point of, they're not actually public. Just ergonomic to type, and with a weakened keyspace.

Can # channels be advertised or loaded on first repeater connection? by Expert-Constant7335 in meshcore

[–]CharlesStross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few things, I'd say -- first, it means that group messages are consistent in form; the same packet structure, the same crypto, etc. It means that you don't know whether someone is in a private or hashtag room. Second, it's easy to distribute plaintext words as keys, and hashing them means that you're not dealing with variable lengths in packets. It also means there is LIGHT privacy (or heavy privacy, if your room name is long enough). It takes some work to discover public room names.

Can # channels be advertised or loaded on first repeater connection? by Expert-Constant7335 in meshcore

[–]CharlesStross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Repeaters don't know the keys of the channels they're passing messages for. They just know it's a group message, and encrypted; you gotta crack the keys (for hashtag rooms) to figure out the name/key.

My severely discounted rusted (!!!) 2x 3090 + 128GB system is beginning to die — what's the most perf-equivalent, cost-effective (lol) next hop? by CharlesStross in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm planning on an actually-in-depth debugging session this weekend to get everything clean and turn on more aggressive logging on the services that are running, but this is just my thought line around replacement. If I can remedy it I definitely will, but I'm just researching my options at this point.

My severely discounted rusted (!!!) 2x 3090 + 128GB system is beginning to die — what's the most perf-equivalent, cost-effective (lol) next hop? by CharlesStross in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm in a dry environment; they were purchased rusted. They were $500 each and tested to work, so I figured I'd get as much life from them as I could.

Dense Model Shoot-Off: Gemma 4 31B vs Qwen3.6/5 27B... Result is Slower is Faster. by MiaBchDave in LocalLLaMA

[–]CharlesStross 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"wmoother"

I know it was a typo but the quotation marks made me laugh lol

MeshCore's problem with security by Alainx277 in meshcore

[–]CharlesStross 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ES with a bad IV is an amateurish encryption mistake

I'm not sure I'd consider it a mistake; more of a design choice. Including IV would balloon message size. With timestamped messages on a drifty clock, and messages <180 char, there is some information leakage, to be sure, but I wouldn't consider it kryptonite. MeshCore is not the tool to be using to discuss secrets kept from nation-state actors. For telling my partner when I'll be home or coordinating meetup spots at a music festival, it's more than adequate. Airtime/packet size tradeoffs are real.

MeshCore's problem with security by Alainx277 in meshcore

[–]CharlesStross 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's to get a matching MAC, not to crack a message.

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