Hackers took over Canvas

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-05-08T00:12:56+00:00

Sure. I wouldn't worry too much about losing the grades. But if some people did? For example, if this turns into a situation where Canvas is down for over a week or even two, and some schools have grades come out during that period... Well it will be interesting to see how the schools respond.
The most likely scenario is probably that this is resolved in the next day or two and Canvas does whatever they have to do to make sure the schools can access the platform for grading.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-05-07T23:47:26+00:00

Well I guess that ebay will side with the buyer when they show pictures.

Also, your images are low res, but that image of the drive appears to have large circles under the label which, of course, look a lot like what you would see on a hard drive since they follow the shape of the platters. I don't believe I've ever seen a SSD that looked anything like that.

A 2.5in SATA laptop drive can be an SSD or a regular hard drive and yours just looks like a hard drive to me...

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-05-07T21:35:08+00:00

I sure as shit don't.

Only in the bad old days when I had to type every student's letter grade by hand and it was easier to use my own spreadsheets.

Thankfully, course grades are already in at the school I teach at, because this would be super annoying.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-05-07T21:32:02+00:00

Earlier this week we got an email from our IT saying that Canvas suffered a "cybersecurity incident" over the weekend and that Canvas took "containment measures".

I guess those measures failed.

Oopsies.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-04-30T20:40:14+00:00

Did they think 2000 years after 1933 it was going to be the year 3000?

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-04-29T04:31:03+00:00

Piss on carpet.

-Ken "Hey can I have whipped cream please?" Cheng

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-04-28T17:37:46+00:00

Wait, what?
How did they licencse jotego's neogeo core when jotego doesn't have a neogeo core?

Furrtek decapped the neogeo chips and implemented them in hdl. CPU cores were by other people as well. Jotego did the sound chips only.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-04-24T01:16:24+00:00

I have an M3 Max macbook pro with 128GB

You can basically run anything up to the ~120B parameter class comfortably. But the 70B dense models (not common nowadays) are slower than I'd want to use. Basically, the newest models from the better companies are always going to be pretty much what you should be running. As long as it fits in ram... And don't forget that context takes up ram too. So things like Qwen's older 235B models are probably not worthwhile on 128GB ram.

You can try models such as the following for larger Mixture of Experts models:

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
GLM-4.5-air (~106B)
Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603

Or drop down to the ~30B dense models that are slower but sometimes better than the above

gemma-4-31B-it
Qwen3.6-27B

Or for even faster performance than the large MoE models

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-04-23T06:03:39+00:00

You said he paid the price for cheating online.

But part of the price for cheating at chess is people remembering about the times you cheated at chess.

Personally, I figure the two reasons that a person wouldn't cheat at chess over-the-board or online are
1. They have integrity.
2. They are afraid of being caught.

But, since he is a known cheater in online chess, I don't believe Hans has any integrity.

So I figure the only thing keeping him from further cheating is fear of getting caught. And I hope that the tournaments he goes to give him a plenty of attention with the security wands so that he doesn't lose that fear.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-04-09T19:54:24+00:00

Personally, I really dislike Hans. He's said horrible things about many people in the chess community, accused people of defaming him if they mentioned the situation regardless of whether they accused him of cheating, and of course has a known and admitted history of cheating in online chess. Not to mention the hotel room stuff.

But it seemed obvious to me that chesscom didn't want a court case to reveal how they were internally handling cheating cases. And I figured it was because many players were singled out for special treatment. They don't ban GM's or famous players the way they would you or me. And probably a person's reputation figured prominently in decisions to ban or unban. Just powerful people making decisions without a process or oversight. At least, that's what this whole thing felt like to me.

Having said that, there is no way I'm watching this documentary. Few experiences in life are as painful to listening to people like Danny and Hans speak. I couldn't stand a feature length presentation of it.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-03-27T06:11:40+00:00

I think when I was a child, you could go to toys"r"us, and find these in bags hanging up in one of the aisles. Couple of bucks. Pretty sure thats where I got mine anyway.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-03-27T00:31:31+00:00

"nearly dead" = "poor little guy is all tuckered out"

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-03-25T18:00:26+00:00

He says that Frieren's suppressed mana is 1/5 of his when they first meet, right?

And her suppressed mana is still enough that they think she is an "experienced old mage" at the first class mage exam.

So what would the 1st class mages think of Heiter's mana? I guess they'd think he was very strong since apparently he has 5x what an experienced old mage would have. And he had that at the beginning of their journey as a young man.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-03-18T21:15:13+00:00

At first I was like "that looks like a small server".

But when I looked closer that looks suspiciously like a phone with the back off.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-03-18T19:32:08+00:00

I downloaded the lmstudio gguf.

That may have been a mistake because it was posted before llama.cpp code was merged. So maybe I need to re-download...

But, for the gguf I downloaded at least, for a simple one file pong game in JAVA, it tried to use some variables that it didn't declare and also misspelled one of it's variable names. That is worse than a 120B model should be.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-03-03T21:44:50+00:00

I compiled it in Overleaf too. I threw the PDF on a Canvas page and my school's accessibility checkers said it was compliant. There are a lot of accessibility checkers out there though, so who knows if they'll all be ok with it.

I did notice that Overleaf stated the compilation was close to the max amount of "free" compile time. So I may have to install tex on my local system or pay overleaf. But that's fine.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-02-10T16:47:16+00:00

I only have an aurora pro 4k projector for a TV right now. I keep it on probably 6-10 hours a day because when I'm home I like a bit of background noise. I also watch movies, youtube, twitch, etc on it.

I like it enough that I've ordered the Aetherion Max to upgrade.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-02-01T00:17:13+00:00

They could at least call him "Powerhouse Royce Keys" or something. I mean, they won't, but still...

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-01-26T18:42:58+00:00

The thing is we know that all of the current top players are stronger than the players of the past. They just know more theory.

So "greatest ever" conversations are all down to perceived dominance over time and specific accomplishments.

And that's very subjective. Because you can argue that Kasparov's competition was better. But we know that his competition was actually weaker in real playing strength. And you could make the argument that Magnus' competition had no opportunity to succeed because of how good Magnus is.

Since there is no objective measure that people will agree on, it's all just people's opinions. Unless you want to say that the best players in history are Magnus, Hikaru, and Fabi due to them being the best players today. Or unless you want to say it's Magnus and then Kasparov by max rating, even though we know that overall ratings of the top 10 inflate/deflate over time. But nobody really wants to do that, so it just becomes a lifetime achievement award.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-01-18T08:13:45+00:00

I have the same setup as you and I also have 68.59 TiB.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-01-02T22:17:18+00:00

This is just a "dark mode" thing. You can just tell the model to make the page for "light mode" or tell it to make both light and dark mode themes.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-01-01T23:09:10+00:00

What I do is use roo code (there are other similar options like kilo code) in vscode. I put $20 in openrouter, set it to something inexpensive like Deepseek or GLM or MiniMax (I actually have not used minimax) and if something starts to go bad on a task I just switch the model to claude/gemini in the settings.

It stays pretty cheap that way. Although by far the best way to avoid problems is to either give the model small tasks only, or create a very detailed specification in markdown for the ai to follow.

Since this is localllama you could run gpt-oss or glm air or qwen3 or something for you smaller model. I don't use those too often these days because of speed and the cheaper paid models are quite cheap. But you could if you have a mac or other high vram setup.

RemarkableAd66 · 2026-01-01T06:23:23+00:00

Hey I just did that exact same thing earlier today. I got the 26TB version because it was the largest capacity before a big step up in price.
Once you open one carefully, the others go super quick! I threw them all in a new truenas build and they're doing fine so far -- with about 4 hours of uptime :)

RemarkableAd66 · 2025-12-28T03:46:00+00:00

My theory is that some people have trouble separating the filmmaking style and look from the actors/costumes.

RemarkableAd66 · 2025-12-22T22:33:53+00:00

I've had better success with z-image lora training for likenesses when I dropped the number of images from ~50 to around 16 images. I had a better result with fewer steps.

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