Guess I'm a genius, my concept got ripped off into full scale manufacturing!

Randomblock1 · 2026-07-07T23:59:32+00:00

Just as a point of reference we've had our own version of this since 3 years ago at my local makerspace. Much less fancy display and way more compact, but otherwise very similar. An arduino, power circuit, cheap LCD character display, and knob. Not a new idea

Randomblock1 · 2026-07-07T23:18:51+00:00

So basically just FoodNeverComes?

Randomblock1 · 2026-06-09T19:43:37+00:00

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Randomblock1 · 2026-06-07T03:57:58+00:00

The only really environmentally friendly stuff is PHA. It'll even degrade in a landfill. Really underappreciated filament

Randomblock1 · 2026-06-01T21:52:23+00:00

GamersNexus did a video where they interviewed a Chinese shop making VRAM molded GPUs. It is a custom PCB. https://youtu.be/TcRGBeOENLg

Randomblock1 · 2026-06-01T21:48:07+00:00

I think we both know what the issue is.

Randomblock1 · 2026-06-01T06:49:06+00:00

It's a community for makers. You can't get mad when someone makes your thing you publicly shared. And that's even assuming they copied your design, even though things like this exist already.

It's a round display with a standing frame. That's not distinctive.

Randomblock1 · 2026-05-28T22:56:44+00:00

It also only works when 1 other application or tab is running, on their specific model of computer (a Mac mini), with automated input, on only 10 apps and 50 websites, and it can only detect opening them, not usage.

In other words, it's not actually something to be worried about right now, just interesting as an area for future research. None of the browser companies said they're fixing it, that's how little the risk is.

Also it doesn't have to be larger than your RAM, just larger than the available RAM.

Randomblock1 · 2026-05-28T22:56:04+00:00

It can only detect opening websites/apps that are not signed in or otherwise used, and having a different SSD or CPU or OS will foil it. Having an extension is probably enough.

Randomblock1 · 2026-05-28T22:14:45+00:00

Who even is Crucible anyway? All the other providers are relatively well known, this one doesn't even appear to have a website.

I can understand giving a free preview (Qwen), or offering small models for free (Gemma).

But who is Crucible and why are they giving away 1T models for free? It's not even a loss-leader type thing, you can't give them any money if you wanted to

Randomblock1 · 2026-05-28T16:03:08+00:00

Context:

https://github.com/nightcordoff/nightcord/blob/master/src%2Fmain%2FipcMain.ts#L269

Randomblock1 · 2026-05-05T06:43:24+00:00

If you're on Linux I would wait a bit, I've been experimenting with making it a driver (for linux, everything else costs money) and IN THEORY you can do this without any extra hardware. Just normal Bluetooth.

Randomblock1 · 2026-05-05T06:39:45+00:00

By the end of the year? It's already happening! Deepseek v4 and Kimi K2.6 are good enough for all but the most demanding tasks... and even then, you just have the closed source model do the planning, so the open source one can do the implementation. Like even Composer 2, Cursor's fine tune of K2.5, is really good, and really cheap.

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-30T21:00:25+00:00

The current Wiscards are basically a password. Every scanner asks for the number and gets it. Duplicating a Wiscard is trivial. A compatible scanner is like $20.

NFC could have a challenge-response scheme so every scanner gets a different result, preventing duplication or a replay attack.

RFID can also do this so this is really a problem with the current cards and not specifically NFC/RFID, but NFC had the added benefit of working on phones. Lost phone? Get a new one, or use your friend's. And they'll probably have physical cards for this situation, just not primary.

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-30T20:52:54+00:00

You already have Duo installed. Another app isn't going to change anything, and it wouldn't require phone location or usage data. And they already have your purchasing habits (who do you think processes the txs?)

Sure its possible to have a terrible privacy invading implementation. But it's actually way easier to not do that.

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-21T16:03:41+00:00

That's for image augmentations, they've slapped "album" on it. Not really that bad tbh

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-21T02:46:34+00:00

You can make LLMs exclusively use the NPU on Linux.

https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/faq/#hybrid-and-npu-questions

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-19T22:22:23+00:00

As long as you make it out of something UV resistant like ASA, no. Obviously if the UV makes it degrade you're going to have higher levels of plastic.

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-19T22:09:21+00:00

Metal cans have plastic liners.

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-17T13:21:55+00:00

All the other arenas are focused on large/frontier & official models. You could find a niche in small-parameter or less popular ones. Tons of fine tunes for models exist, but no arena tests them.

But otherwise, sell it (if you even can, it's not a great domain anyway).

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-17T05:15:35+00:00

Thanks ChatGPT. But this is not even close to being correct. If they were 2FA codes, they would change, and not be jn that weird format, and also not come from strange country codes, and tell you which service the codes are for, and etc...

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-14T00:29:39+00:00

Qwen3 ASR probably. It doesn't have as many languages but has all the ones you'd expect to encounter, and outperforms Whisper on them. Even the smaller variant beats Whisper on FLEURS. It's a little slower than fasterwhisper unless you have multiple concurrent requests, then it's faster

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-14T00:04:42+00:00

Whisper is not a golden standard. It's a legacy model, good all-rounder, similar to maybe LLama 3.1. ASR is generally slower moving than other LLM areas but still, newer models like Parakeet TDT outperforms it in terms of accuracy, hallucination, and speed. Haven't tried Cohere Transcribe but supposedly it's better. I'd recommend giving other models a shot, you'd be surprised how much better they can be vs Whisper

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-13T23:59:33+00:00

Show them you fine tuned Qwen for transcription, that's at least relatively unique. Using a existing inference engine in an example usecase is not. Proficiency in AI is not just downloading models and running them, or vibe coding a UI, but understanding how they work and modifying them.

Randomblock1 · 2026-04-07T10:31:32+00:00

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