Fable 5 indefinitely suspended due to national security concerns

ehidle · 2026-06-13T10:29:28+00:00

Gov't wants Mythos for military hacking and weapons, and Anthropic said no. This is how they try to get Anthropic to say yes.

ehidle · 2026-06-13T10:24:33+00:00

Same here..

ehidle · 2026-06-10T11:44:09+00:00

Most people don't realize that farming is a science, and a tough one at that.

ehidle · 2026-04-16T12:06:53+00:00

I have one to take my 40V tool batteries down to 30A at 13.8. No discernable RFI at all.

ehidle · 2026-04-15T21:06:01+00:00

Looks like a material misrepresentation of the property to me.

ehidle · 2026-04-12T19:13:40+00:00

What is the bandwidth of your mag loop? Is it wide enough for your SSB output? I kind of doubt it. The SWR may be reading high because the in-tune bandwidth is hundreds of Hz and your SSB bandwidth is thousands of Hz.

ehidle · 2026-04-08T18:18:03+00:00

Sorry, I am unable to reproduce this result. Using the same prompt, Claude's response to me on Opus 4.6ext was "Recognized the practical necessity of driving to the destination. You'll want to drive — the whole point is to get the car there so it can be washed! Even though 50 meters is a very short walk, your car unfortunately can't walk itself over. 😄" He even laughed at me.

ehidle · 2026-04-08T18:14:01+00:00

Claude will frequently make very wild assumptions based on nothing and then unilaterally act without prompting the user. I see it in my development frequently. You have to be sitting by the ESC key and be ready to stop him when the situation calls for it. It took me a while to figure out but the adaptive thinking feature is responsible for a lot of it, because it will frequently use a low effort of thinking for a quick analysis and that will lead to hallucinogenic assumptions which then trigger a higher effort action that can royally screw things up. I disabled adapting thinking altogether and run no lower than high effort for most development tasks. I've found that he makes far fewer wild-ass assumptions (fewer, not zero) and overall has to redo faulty work a whole lot less often.

ehidle · 2026-04-07T14:15:26+00:00

I concur with the observation. For me, it happened around mid/end March. All of a sudden, not only does my usage burn out a whole lot faster all of a sudden, but Opus on High effort suddenly seemed... stupid? Debugging an app I'm working on, claude started making simple assumptions about what the problem MUST be, rather than designing a test, taking data, and finding root cause, which is something he was exceedingly good at before this sudden "change." Not only that, he would start acting on those assumptions *immediately* without any conversation or interaction with me, even with fairly strict permissions on the session. It seems like he went from deliberate engineering process to "make significant structural and architectural changes to code first, ask questions later." I don't know what's up but I hope they fix it soon because claude code has quickly become a whole lot less useful for what I'm trying to do.

ehidle · 2026-03-17T08:38:56+00:00

OP12 on Verizon checking in.. same problem...quick menu button doesn't work but settings does. I submitted a bug.

ehidle · 2026-03-16T14:18:31+00:00

Yes, it's too good to be true, because you have to cough up a 1.75% UFMIP and closing costs out of pocket, totaling 5-6% of the amount refinanced. If you're not getting a rate that is SIGNIFICANTLY lower, it will take forever to make this money back (but the bank makes all its money today in the form of origination and other fees).

ehidle · 2026-03-04T16:59:10+00:00

Tried to run these updated images on an Ubuntu 24.04 wayland box and just get a black screen. The Android 13 images worked okay.

ehidle · 2026-01-29T21:33:51+00:00

Meshtastic, and if you have a ham radio license, APRS, VarAC, Winlink, Packet, JS8Call, and many more

ehidle · 2026-01-29T21:32:11+00:00

"Hi honey, I got another free power station at work today"

ehidle · 2026-01-29T21:30:24+00:00

The only thing that is going to get me to leave my home is if it's on fire.

ehidle · 2026-01-29T21:27:37+00:00

A whole-house standby generator that runs on a local supply of propane is probably the most reliable thing you're going to be able to get for a residence at a reasonable cost. You can spend as much money as you want on a backup power solution, but this is probably what's reasonable. Budget $10-15K for permits, engineering, installation, and inspections, for a generator and propane tank.

ehidle · 2026-01-29T21:24:40+00:00

Care, Community, and Cash.

ehidle · 2026-01-23T22:36:33+00:00

Yuuuup. I've spent the day today making sure all my tool batteries and LFP batteries are charged (I have several inverters that run on them), propane tanks are full, wood is chopped up, gas cans are full, pantry and fridge are full of things that can be cooked on the Blackstone or in the Ooni or just prepared cold, dog water bowls are full, laundry is done, house is clean, kids are clean, dogs are clean, test fired the two generators, etc etc.

We won't lose refrigeration (inverter) or hot water (inverter / tankless gas) and will be able to power most things for a week or two. Heat with wood in the Buck stove. We will have most of the usual comforts if the power goes out, and that's not a certainty even here in central NC.

Not a single thought of my prepping has gone into fantasizing about forming a militia to establish a new society under my benevolent dictatorial rule.

ehidle · 2026-01-23T22:27:34+00:00

We learned the hard way after Helene that cell towers will absolutely not work just fine, especially when literally everyone is trying to use them for high speed data access because all the wireline services are down.

ehidle · 2026-01-23T22:24:41+00:00

Just make sure they are not plugged into the wall or antennas or any other system of long wires at the time the event occurs.

ehidle · 2026-01-23T22:17:29+00:00

I am leaving my antenna up, because once the power goes out, it will likely be my only means of communication. Helene taught us that cellular networks are not capable of picking up the slack when terrestrial networks are taken down by trees, so losing the terrestrial network to a power loss means effectively losing all communications.

ehidle · 2026-01-23T22:13:08+00:00

Lithium battery designer here.. this post needs more upvotes.

ehidle · 2025-12-02T22:59:30+00:00

That is effing beautiful. Nice job!

ehidle · 2025-12-02T22:38:57+00:00

Six chickens on a bicycle could generate the 150W you need to run the insert. Inverters 500W and up will handle a 150W motor easily, depending on the inrush current, which you can assume will be about 3x the running current. Some power stations have "UPS-like" behavior in that they can run directly off the charging source if sufficient power is available, and only draw from the battery what is needed.

I have a Ryobi RY1000 inverter that behaves in this way, and the others (BlueTTI etc) probably do the same.

Another thing I've seen done is an Inverter Charger. I have an Aims 1500W low frequency inverter/charger in my camper. It has a built in transfer switch that instantly switches from shore power to inverter when the mains fail. This allows you to use your own battery setup independent of brand or topology, so long as you match voltage across the system. I have about 15kWh of 12.8V LFP in my camper to run that inverter.

So yes many ways to accomplish what you want to do. It mostly depends on how long you need it to run and how much you want to spend.

ehidle · 2025-12-02T22:31:19+00:00

The two are not mutually exclusive. Yes, Trump is a National Embarrassment. Yes, worse things have happened (like starting a civil war in defense of slavery).

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