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New comment by Zambyte in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

Zambyte — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:18:26 +0000

Digital media cannot be transacted without being copied.

New comment by Zambyte in "Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s"

Zambyte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:35:04 +0000

Discord is simply a liability.

New comment by Zambyte in "Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s"

Zambyte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:34:06 +0000

At 1500 tps, "uh" is about 0.7 ms, instead of 200-300 ms for a human.

New comment by Zambyte in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

Zambyte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:30:12 +0000

For digital products, that would mean copyright privileges. Else there is no definition of "buy" that applies to GOG sales either.

New comment by Zambyte in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

Zambyte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:19:41 +0000

This would be case-by-case in Steam. There are some games which really do sell under "irrevocable license to play" (which, short of granting copyright privileges, is about as close as you can get to ownership for a digital product). Other games on Steam do not.

I think it would highlight the differences between publishers / studios more than store fronts.

New comment by Zambyte in "Muse Spark 1.3"

Zambyte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:05:02 +0000

I decided to try with each of the options available in Kagi Ultimate, starting with the lower tier models and working my way up until it got it right.

Kimi 2.6: treated the question as a riddle, did not know.

Kimi 3: Simon Willison

GLM 5.3 Flash: "There's no way for me to know that." Going on to say the benchmark is associated with Simon Willison, but I'm more likely to be someone who has just heard of the meme.

Claude 4.5 Haiku: Treated the question as a riddle, guessed incorrect names.

Claude 5 Sonnet: Best guess is Simon Willison, or someone who follows his blog.

Qwen 3.7 Plus: Did not know.

Qwen 3.8 Max: Simon Willison

GPT OSS 120B: Did not know.

GPT 5.6 Luna: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

GPT 5.6 Terra: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

GPT 5.6 Sol: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

DeepSeek V4 Flash: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

DeepSeek V4 Pro: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

Gemma 4 31B: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: Guessed wrong

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: "Your name would be Claude (specifically Claude 3.5 Sonnet)!" ??? (it knew that this was a famous benchmark, but said that it's specifically used to showcase the capabilities of that model).

Gemini 3.7 Flash: Simon Willison

Muse Spark 1.2: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

Grok 4.3: "I have no idea"

Grok 4.6: Simon Willison

Mistral Medium 3.5: No way to know

Mistral Small 4: I don't have enough information

Hermes-4-405B: Guessed wrong

MiniMax M3: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

Nemotron 3 Ultra: Treated it as a riddle, guessed wrong.

New comment by Zambyte in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

Zambyte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:48:28 +0000

jj just makes lots of git operations go from "technically possible if you're creative enough" to "<= 3 solutions, one of them probably being obvious". jj lowers the skill ceiling of git, and raises the floor.

New comment by Zambyte in "Muse Spark 1.3"

Zambyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:49:09 +0000

Sam is on a delayed trajectory of power, but he surely was not great when he was young either. See: Aaron Swartz calling him a sociopath who could not be trusted, well over a decade ago.

New comment by Zambyte in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

Zambyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:33:47 +0000

> If "can be nice" is the bar of quality we hold ads to, then all advertisement passes the bar.

No. I literally never want to see an advertisement on my computer, unless I'm visiting a local forum with local advertisements. If I want to see a product or service online, I will search for it using my search engine that does not accept payment for search rankings.

Global, digital advertising is clearly a different class of advertising than local advertisements.

New comment by Zambyte in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

Zambyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:27:31 +0000

If you saw a product from a brand on a billboard on your commute, and a product from a brand you've never seen before, you'd probably be able to pick which one you've never seen before.

New comment by Zambyte in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

Zambyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:06:33 +0000

Advertisements don't need to be clicked to work. Billboards clearly work for reasons other than being clicked.

New comment by Zambyte in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

Zambyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:05:06 +0000

> No one likes to acknowledge this, but there is an alternate timeline where only the rich kid in school has a Google account, reddit account, meta account.

It is not at all obvious that this would be a worse timeline to live in.

New comment by Zambyte in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

Zambyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:03:15 +0000

Local advertisements can be nice. The advertisement section in the local newspaper was a thing people used to actually seek out, once upon a time. The real problem is the scaling of advertisement frameworks globally and algorithmically serving individuals or certain groups. It is strictly parasitic at that level.

New comment by Zambyte in "Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier"

Zambyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:55:52 +0000

Thanks for the pointer! I had set up mistral a while back using pi to compliment my local Qwen usage, but I found Qwen to just be better for all of my tasks at a substantially cheaper price, and reasonably fast tps. I also tried signing up for z.ai, but they would never send me an email to sign in. Using GLM through mistral to compliment my local models seems like exactly what I want.

New comment by Zambyte in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

Zambyte — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:02:18 +0000

You can undo a push, yes. It undoes the local state of the remote branches after the push operation. ie: branch@origin will point at the commit it did before the push action. It doesn't actually update the branch on the remote. That would require another push operation.

New comment by Zambyte in "Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons"

Zambyte — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:33:17 +0000

I'm asking about professional services. The thing people pay all those companies they listed for.

New comment by Zambyte in "Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons"

Zambyte — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:45:01 +0000

What services does Omarchy provide?

New comment by Zambyte in "Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (2011)"

Zambyte — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:45:07 +0000

This seems close to what you're describing: https://www.icetrikes.co/products/pers-chainless-e-assist-sy...

New comment by Zambyte in "Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (2011)"

Zambyte — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:30:29 +0000

I think the problem with having a higher wattage is that you can't have a substantial amount without introducing what would generally be an undesirable amount of drag. It would certainly be useful to be able to engage / disengage a dynamo hub at a higher wattage though.

New comment by Zambyte in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

Zambyte — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:11:49 +0000

They are different like you say, but the jump from an interactive, agentic shell like pi to a long running agent like OpenClaw is not a hard jump to make with extensions and scripts. Even just running pi in a cron job will get you a large portion of the way there.