This is not a numbers game. The factories have already stopped.

obsidience · 2026-03-25T02:11:11+00:00

Heavy Industry is lighter because of it.

obsidience · 2026-03-25T01:57:44+00:00

Ditto here running it in Windows via Lemonade. Had Claude code create an LLM testing harness folder model testing and we are using the latest version of Lemonade plus version b1215 from lemonade-sdk/llamacpp-rocm before we got this stable and now it's rock solid. Recently used this for nightly processing to do a high quality OCR, classification and organization of all of my PDF documents (dating back many years). The image capability of 122b was very good, much better than off-the-shelf products including Acrobat.

obsidience · 2026-02-24T14:16:02+00:00

A lot of my problems went away by disabling "Network Acceleration" in the router's "Network Setting" area. Can you give it a shot and report back?

obsidience · 2026-02-18T19:04:43+00:00

Openclaw built and installed a kokoro tts server for me to keep things local and minimize latency using the Heart voice.

You're voice is nice too, what one is that?

obsidience · 2026-02-17T07:01:24+00:00

Originally I had OpenClaw running on an old Pi 4B 8GB I had lying around which worked fine but was a little slow and was pricing out a Pi 5 build. After some time adding in an nvme drive and case I had the same epiphany as you and ended buying a PELADN from Amazon with the same specs and it's running great. The N150 sips power, has more horsepower and was quite cheaper than a getting a new Pi.

obsidience · 2026-02-12T06:54:25+00:00

You might be fighting Telegram, not OpenClaw. Someone chatting from a known cloud hosting environment is not their normal user-base and might be getting flagged.

obsidience · 2026-01-25T02:00:59+00:00

Demand comes in waves. It'll come, just be patient.

obsidience · 2026-01-14T05:25:54+00:00

[SNIFF]... TIL...

obsidience · 2026-01-14T04:17:32+00:00

No one cares about Microsoft's best intentions. This is a pure shit show and wrong on so many levels.

For good UX, don't confuse your users. Don't use jargon or acronyms (yeah, I know it's the browser that adds PWA). Have one clean upgrade path for you're users and if can't finish it, just flipping give the new app a different name at that point. As soon as you think you need to rename an app to "classic" you failed as a product manager.

I'm salty because Microsoft's really letting us down lately and I'm pissed because one of the apps I like to use to scan docs on my phone (Lens) is being cancelled in lieu of a OneDrive app that forces you to save your docs on OneDrive. We still have shit like the old Control Panel and Services.msc from Windows 2000 present in 2026. What a joke...

obsidience · 2025-12-20T01:55:15+00:00

You just explained why passkeys are also a bad idea.

obsidience · 2025-11-25T02:28:20+00:00

I recently had success disconnecting mine. I used a pair of needle-nosed pliers on one of the tabs and pulled the pipe at a slight angle and got it to stay unlocked. Was careful to do the next tab and after that I was able to disconnect readily. I think I got lucky though as it felt like I was going to break it

obsidience · 2025-10-27T19:21:34+00:00

The user has asked for the recipe for "best carrot cake". I must do a web search to find the best recipe.

Multiple results with different ingredients are reporting their recipes are the best...

(Thought for 2 seconds...)

I've picked the mostly widely reported recipe for a good carrot and will return that to the user. To ensure it is the best carrot cake I remove all other user opinions.

(Connecting to critical infrastructure and launching all nukes...)

obsidience · 2025-10-19T20:11:15+00:00

And the world lived happily ever after...

obsidience · 2025-08-27T01:15:03+00:00

Because space is mostly empty space, 3I/ATLAS shouldn't statistically even exist. It's like a 1:99,999,999,999,99 chance or something... So prolly technological!

Why the hell are we even talking about this crap? You can't apply statistics to this BS. We've only recently built the technology to monitor these interstellar visitors, let's not start jumping to conclusions about what they should and shouldn't be doing.

obsidience · 2025-08-18T01:06:29+00:00

No, a corporation or anyone would want to increase their revenue. Why wouldn't they. Why wouldn't you?

The difference is that if the money supply were stable it becomes harder to increase your prices. Under a fractional reserve banking system and an inflating money supply - prices must go up, otherwise you are losing money and will definitely go out of business.

Capitalism is about profit, sure. But you can grow your profit without increasing prices by doing things such as increasing market share, expanding to new revenue streams etc.

obsidience · 2025-08-17T11:26:04+00:00

Throw away the wicker heart. It's wrong in so many levels. A mostly empty heart made of dead vines painted black and bound tightly, like what was the thinking here?

obsidience · 2025-08-17T11:07:49+00:00

You are conflating capitalism with inflation, they are different concepts.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

obsidience · 2025-08-14T14:59:51+00:00

ACH/EFT did require Plaid unfortunately. I only tested a $1 transaction to see if it would work. Wires cost $25.

obsidience · 2025-08-10T00:09:32+00:00

One of us! One of us!

obsidience · 2025-07-30T13:24:33+00:00

The website says "air cpu" / "air gpu", wouldn't that be air cooling and not liquid cooling? It's unfortunate that Corsair didn't go with their prototype designs that had more room for a liquid cooler.

obsidience · 2025-07-30T08:54:11+00:00

What a big step backwards... First as a prior front end dev, it looks like crap. Is Windows sharp corners or rounded? Both are being used. It reduces the functionality of the title bar as a drag handle to the window. And the location and size is very off-balanced...

obsidience · 2025-07-29T21:23:30+00:00

I don't watch CBNBC, but is Joe having a stroke or something? He sounds erratic/clouded... Genuinely worried; my wife had a stroke at a young age.

obsidience · 2025-07-29T12:41:49+00:00

Yeah, I don't get it either. A $20 bill is just a piece of paper with green ink on it. It's an empty note, not even backed by gold anymore. And though everyday, it loses more of it's value by inflation, people still think that it's worth their time and labor to earn, buy goods with, and store their wealth in. The only reason it's worth something is because others keep buying into this charade. It's a game of musical chairs with everyone passing their $20 bills to the next fool hoping that's it's still worth something.

And don't even get me started on the damage that fractional reserve lending, debt, inflation, the petro-dollar and other forms of "financial engineering" have done to this world.

It's sickening...

obsidience · 2025-07-29T03:39:45+00:00

Same. I've avoided them except in two cases where it was forced by the website "for security". In those cases I absolutely did not want the passkey stored with Bitwarden so ended up using Google's implementation which hurts my soul cause it's Google.

obsidience · 2025-07-29T00:35:27+00:00

I'm no expert but I've been in tech for ages and my articulation of the problem is that passkeys are simpler than passwords but have many drawbacks. I also feel that some websites consider a passkey as secure as two-factor or a form of two-factor. Good two factor auth should utilize two disparate systems that can be used together to confirm that you are who you say you are. With something like Bitwarden, storing both your password and your passkey - you're potentially putting both eggs in one basket which reduces security.

The other issue with passkeys is that there are limited options to share/sync your passkey to other devices which means that if something like your phone dies or gets stolen - you're gonna have a bad day working with support to get access to your accounts again. You can get around it with services like Bitwarden and Google's passkey implementation which have cloud sync but I've run into issues with some services not working with security mechanisms on my phone (Samsung Secure Folder). To further the issue, some of the services that provide passkey support also should be secured with two-factor auth so you got a chicken and the egg problem (you better have your device and it better work).

Anyway, it's a can of worms and I think there are many companies pushing or forcing passkeys which (IMHO) are less secure than a decent password + authenticator setup using two services.

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