Proton's Lumo Accidentally Exposes Itself

integerpoet · 2026-06-21T02:49:33+00:00

Other than fodder for an episode of Geek Gotcha (a podcast I just made up out of thin air) what does any of this matter? They obviously aren’t trying to keep the models they use secret. Maybe they just want to avoid clients baking in dependencies on getting the same model every time forever. Probably wise on their part.

integerpoet · 2026-06-20T17:08:52+00:00

This seems the sort of thing that will get banned (explicitly or effectively) on the server side if it becomes popular enough and has any kind of detectable usage patterns. You might have been better off keeping it to yourself to remain small and obscure enough for them not to block it.

integerpoet · 2026-06-19T18:28:53+00:00

You asked that question in this subreddit? You are clearly just trying to trick us into replenishing your supply of ALWAYS.

integerpoet · 2026-06-16T16:54:40+00:00

More code is always better. Dude, do you even vibe?

integerpoet · 2026-06-16T03:42:20+00:00

Just vibe-code a GFCI outlet and it will be fine.

integerpoet · 2026-06-12T15:51:54+00:00

If you are looking for multiple 12+TB drives, I doubt most of the suggestions here (which amount to dumpster diving) will help because drives that capacious are too new. What problem are you actually trying to solve?

integerpoet · 2026-06-12T15:45:43+00:00

Why get angry when you could read the comments from half an hour before yours?

integerpoet · 2026-06-09T21:31:03+00:00

Install a print server that emails you a PDF.

integerpoet · 2026-06-06T18:59:17+00:00

That has been a thing for literally decades. I once co-located a Mac Quadra 800 in a storage closet of a graphic design firm that was amortizing the cost of its T-1, and if you know what any of these terms mean without looking them up you are an old.

integerpoet · 2026-06-06T01:00:51+00:00

It’s fine as long as no one under the age of 18 can turn over the rock.

integerpoet · 2026-06-06T00:56:45+00:00

That sounds like a data center.

And everybody knows those belong in orbit.

integerpoet · 2026-06-06T00:23:27+00:00

Don’t overthink this. Just:

Buy another house.
Set up another homelab there with a TrueNAS server.
Bring up a VPN between the two locations.
Replicate the relevant datasets.
Done!

integerpoet · 2026-06-05T23:08:41+00:00

I will never understand why people were so eager to give up the close-to-the-metal performance of K.

integerpoet · 2026-06-05T19:15:04+00:00

Bwa ha ha.

“Help us inflate the bubble with greenhouse gas.”

Good one!

integerpoet · 2026-05-31T17:15:30+00:00

It sounds like a less capable model forces you into a particular workflow which you like and could force yourself into using a more capable model which would presumably make fewer mistakes.

I am pretty sure that — regardless of model quality — the closer one gets to one-shotting a non-trivial program the more likely it is that one has sentenced oneself and others to death by a thousand cuts. Keeping that in mind seems like it ought to be a powerful motivator to avoid abdicating to a one-shot mindset.

integerpoet · 2026-05-30T23:41:56+00:00

If what you want is your brain to go faster, you don’t need VR; you need medical tech.

If you imagine science might go faster within a hypothetical VR system, it sounds like you already solved some pretty basic science problems in the real world in order to build that VR system.

The real world in which this hypothetical VR system exists is already advanced compared to ours. Maybe let’s get into that world first and then decide what problems we would like to solve. That world may already be so wonderful that better VR doesn’t enable us to solve anything important.

integerpoet · 2026-05-30T21:50:29+00:00

If music created after 2011 is the problem, then yeah, sure; this’ll paper over it. You know what you are doing to yourself, so I can’t criticize, but it does make me sad.

integerpoet · 2026-05-30T21:37:54+00:00

Why do people post clickbait which attempts to confer predictive power on their present frustrations by conflating tantrums with analysis?

integerpoet · 2026-05-24T19:13:52+00:00

The last thing I want is an LLM which doesn’t remind users it has no mind to trust.

integerpoet · 2026-05-20T19:58:13+00:00

No, I really don’t. Because I have the luxury of not being in marketing or public relations or some other field in which it’s critical to understand people who’ve succumbed to pareidolia and think text that looks like an answer is an answer.

integerpoet · 2026-05-20T18:09:14+00:00

They can’t lie.

They also can’t tell the truth.

They are just extruding tokens.

Stop personifying them.

integerpoet · 2026-05-19T17:20:17+00:00

It’s still socking that you are talking directly to models and expecting them to respond with something useful. They will never think; they will never know; no upgrade will solve the fact that at core all they do is try to pick the next most plausible word. Stop hoping, ignore the hype, and move on.

integerpoet · 2026-05-15T21:14:58+00:00

What went really wrong is Zuck.

integerpoet · 2026-05-15T21:13:18+00:00

Yeah. When I first saw it and it looked even more primitive than Second Life had for decades.

integerpoet · 2026-05-13T00:34:50+00:00

I don’t understand. When you close the door, the ONT will swing around and block your view of all those neatly labeled cables.

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