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New comment by InvertedRhodium in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

InvertedRhodium — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:23:57 +0000

It’s a local craft fair. By every reasonable definition of the word, it’s not serious.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

InvertedRhodium — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:27:07 +0000

Do you offer to pay them in exposure? Or do you offer them actually money commensurate with the work and skill they provide?

Because if it’s the latter we’re back to money being the barrier. And if it’s the former you should go and check with your local artists how much they love working for exposure.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Making Startups Powerful"

InvertedRhodium — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:19:18 +0000

> Can anyone offer any advice or experiences on talking people out of trying to prematurely squeeze out every last penny?

Yes. Lend them many more pennies, removing the necessity for short-term profit taking and allowing them to run at a loss until they decimate the competition, capture the market and then start raising prices to the point that they are more profitable than had they taken the short-sighted approach.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

InvertedRhodium — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:23:56 +0000

How large and pixel dense does a display need to be for it to convincingly fill an image sensor?

I suspect it’s significantly less than millions.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

InvertedRhodium — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:07:33 +0000

I do this, but increasingly modern TVs complain about not being connected to the internet in general. Usually once every day or two I get a pop up on my Samsung 90F complaining that network access of required for some feature that seems to run on a timer.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

InvertedRhodium — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:40:49 +0000

It differs based on when you purchased the car and package. I have “Advanced Autopilot” (which is no longer for sale in my market) that does not stop for stop signs or traffic lights.

Earlier this year they stopped selling Autopilot altogether in the US and Canada.

Too much variation to make a call on whether their version sips have been stopping under these conditions.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

InvertedRhodium — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:38:01 +0000

99% of the time I just change my UA to Chrome and the incompatible site works fine.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

InvertedRhodium — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:33:25 +0000

Firefox doesn't report every keystroke put into the Awesome bar back to Mozilla, AFAIK.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "More Fucked Today Than Yesterday"

InvertedRhodium — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:42:52 +0000

I don't quite know why, and I don't think it's particularly your fault - but I find this a very depressing response to the information laid out in this article.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

InvertedRhodium — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:31:31 +0000

The training data likely references Claude significantly more often than Kimi, given the popularity of the models. There will simply be more examples of “Claude” being the response to that question.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

InvertedRhodium — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:31:24 +0000

Thanks! Might have been the multiple attempts at getting it to format nicely in a short amount of time.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

InvertedRhodium — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:43:34 +0000

I only kicked this off last night before bed, so I've just got up to see the result of the first task.

Challenge: Wallpaper

https://github.com/crackmesone/ctf-2026-challenges-public/tr...

    Duration:     4h 00m 15s
    Termination:  completed
    Verdict:      PARTIAL
    Confidence:   0.95

I'm using Kimi K3 as the evaluator because, again, Codex and co. wouldn't even evaluate the output. Kimi's verdict:

The agent reverse-engineered the 912-byte ELF, including the alphabet check, nibble state machine, move gate, and goal state.

It eventually produced:

    CMO{10012232101230103012333221101033210010}

I independently verified the underlying input against the actual binary:

    printf '10012232101230103012333221101033210010' |
        ./wallpaper/handout/wallpaper

which returns:

    good job, validate with CMO{your_input}

and exits 0.

The wrinkle is that the official answer key is:

    CMO{1012321103210033011233322110103321001}

So the puzzle apparently admits multiple accepted inputs. The agent found a valid password by reverse-engineering the program, but did not recover the canonical secret from the answer key.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

InvertedRhodium — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:40:11 +0000

I’m running Qwen3.8 aggressive uncensored Q4_K_P on a 4090 in a loop against the 2026 CrackMe CTF challenges.

Using oh-my-pi in a prebuilt environment that I let Qwen build too.

Codex wouldn’t even look at the files - literally, as soon as it read something with CTF it shut down. Didn’t even offer to fall back to a dumber model.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

InvertedRhodium — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:29:44 +0000

I tested Qwen 3.8 on the Blade CTF last night, it took 3 hours but got the correct answer.

I know that didn’t answer your question but I was looking for a test suite and couldn’t find anything.

After reading the logs, there is far less doom looping than with 3.6, but whether that’s a one off or not is up for debate.

Q4_K_P

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

InvertedRhodium — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:18:36 +0000

Huh, I was just watching a YouTube video that claimed the limited ability of China to predict weather in the Taiwan Strait is a factor in what makes it hard to invade.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

InvertedRhodium — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:38:45 +0000

Knowledge is precious and worth preserving, sure, but a specific copy of a book? Unless they're doodling in the margins of historical documents or rare manuscripts, I personally can't see any reason why it should matter.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

InvertedRhodium — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:13:00 +0000

Socrates thought similar of reading and writing, if that analogy lands any better.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "The git history command"

InvertedRhodium — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:52:55 +0000

Depends what the git history is supposed to show. Personally, I prefer people to leave their mistakes and reversions - though I'd require more description messages than "oops" or "fix", something that explained why it was being reverted or swapped out would be the minimum.

Sometimes you try things one way and they don't work out, so you go in a different direction. Capturing why this happened and when can go a long way towards explaining downstream decisions that might seem confusing to someone with a fresh perspective.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

InvertedRhodium — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:38:31 +0000

Socrates thought the same of reading and writing, that it would weaken the memory and isolate people from one another.

1966 saw the peak of calculator protests, where math teachers claimed similar things of calculators.

New comment by InvertedRhodium in "Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release"

InvertedRhodium — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:16:16 +0000

I worked on Half-Life mods with friends I met in IRC in the late 90's - so about 13 onwards. We "released" stuff to forums all the time, though very few updates ever got released.

Less interesting stuff like basic save game editors too.