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New comment by chronogram in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"

chronogram — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:41:11 +0000

It's part of their job. If they can't do that right they certainly can't do the rest of their job right. Just like it's OK to get queazy if your doctor is functionally illiterate or your lifeguard can't swim. Also things that match average people in some areas.

New comment by chronogram in "What Meta got right with Muse"

chronogram — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:59:18 +0000

Is that your first time using an LLM? I don't mean that in a snarky way, it just seems like things everything could do for years.

New comment by chronogram in "Red Hat being phased out of existence?"

chronogram — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:53:06 +0000

What exactly do you mean by desktop security? Security from websites, installable software, physical access?

New comment by chronogram in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

chronogram — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:49:24 +0000

Same here. Astra has been the best thing I've seen. Astra on Low has been my favourite thing so far. Higher levels just mean more cruft, not useful.

New comment by chronogram in "Grok 4.7"

chronogram — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:57:00 +0000

I use it in the car to talk to because it's built-in, mostly for navigation via voice. It seems to be an old or quantised model, because it seems a few years old, and it has strict rate limits unlike Gemini, where it really just shuts off if you talk to it a few times in one day, but it's still fun to show passengers who are still new to LLMs.

New comment by chronogram in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

chronogram — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:58:21 +0000

They can't increase capacity by raising prices. Right now they calculate that they're at an optimal revenue curve. Simply reducing demand by increasing prices doesn't mean they get more money. The limit is in the ability to buy hardware.

New comment by chronogram in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

chronogram — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:49:39 +0000

Absolutely nobody commenting that has done that, it's just roleplay. Flash-0731 and Pro-0813 replaced previous models too, and the V4-preview models replaced V3.2 before that. You have your official API from a tiny cutting edge research lab that can only realistically host one model at a time, which you know from every model they released before, but they fully openly provide every model so if you want that infinite stability you can easily host it yourself for eternity. So those commenters want to pretend they require RHEL-like stability for their prompts with enterprise budgets, but somehow can't host those models, yet at the same time offload their entire RHEL-stability requirements to the research lab. Even Google and OpenAI retire models that were still relevant a year ago, but open models actually last forever.

New comment by chronogram in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

chronogram — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:27:49 +0000

The original from 2021, so 60% health after 5 years? Coupled with how they don't have a bypass sounds to me like they don't have their battery in order. Your linked thread also mentions that it happens at 100% too, which would explain the extreme degradation: leaving it plugged in by default thrashes the battery without a bypass.

New comment by chronogram in "My server is a phone now"

chronogram — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:47:13 +0000

Not OP, but I know that's not mainstream for phones at all. I think only Pixel phones enable it as a normal thing, when you have the 80% charge limit enabled. Sony (since 2020) and Samsung (since 2023) have it, but only when you enable it within some game settings for selected apps. Maybe gaming phones have it because they're plugged in more than others and care about heat. Apple doesn't do it.

New comment by chronogram in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

chronogram — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:32:25 +0000

I started programming this way as a kid with books and notes that I'd then periodically would be able to enter into a computer to see if it runs.

New comment by chronogram in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

chronogram — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:58:08 +0000

We'll make sure there will be enough regulations to have neither the electricity to power it or the companies to build it.

New comment by chronogram in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

chronogram — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:31:12 +0000

I use it directly: https://platform.deepseek.com/usage

3rd party providers on OpenRouter can be cheaper but it's already so cheap.

New comment by chronogram in "ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms"

chronogram — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:58:17 +0000

A fine doesn't give immunity for the future. You pay the fine for the past behaviour, then you start paying fines of up to 5% of daily global revenue for every day you keep being non-compliant. That's the start. The end is not doing business.

New comment by chronogram in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

chronogram — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:15:08 +0000

I'm not so sure. Especially with 3.6 Flash being 24 to Sol's 22. The 3.x Flash models were thought to fit on a single TPU 8i and it's the odd one out in that list at a whopping 234.7t/s compared to Sol's 64.4t/s and Opus's 56.3t/s. Even 3.1 Pro is a much higher 113.9t/s than the others.

I think AA-Omniscience Accuracy follows your expectations better. An ultra size Fable at 61%, followed by large frontier models like Sol, 5.5 and Opus. With Flash being up there. I assume because Gemini is more focused on general knowledge to operational cost in particular, rather than getting the highest scores in coding benchmarks. If you go to Domain Score (Normalized) you'll see that the Gemini models are only less competitive in Software. And that's where Sol goes from 6 in Health to 71 in Software.

New comment by chronogram in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

chronogram — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:07:41 +0000

What part of Afterburner caused issues? I have it installed to undervolt an old GPU but not actively running.

New comment by chronogram in "Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored"

chronogram — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:37:24 +0000

An LLM is stateless so every time you send a message a command is run with the parameters, the prompts, and a copy of the chat history when using one of those chat interfaces, and then it returns text. If the output includes explaining it to an LLM that would then be included in the copy of the chat history placed in the new command.

It would be a bit like opening a text editor and typing in that you want to increase the font size. Someone external to the text would have to come along and click the font options.

New comment by chronogram in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

chronogram — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:57:13 +0000

This is amazing! I can see in a few years having Home Assistant use an LLM to coordinate my home while I'm away. Tell the LLM to make an inventory of my home and then send the vacuum and the robot around to clean everything up. A multimodal LLM can inspect pictures for items that need to go in the dishwasher, the laundry or needs polishing and reorganise my closets to best allocate space, make the beds, take care of the plants. It has all day to do it while the solar panels provide ample energy anyway.

New comment by chronogram in "Qwen 3.8"

chronogram — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:17:44 +0000

And DeepSeek has been making huge progress on efficiency, and publishing about, so they came with a 1.6T model that is both fast and cheap to run.

New comment by chronogram in "Regressive JPEGs"

chronogram — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:27:22 +0000

I use cjpegli as encoder and it compresses best with its default progressive and full 4:4:4 approach, so it's not only a nice to have feature.

New comment by chronogram in "Codex Micro"

chronogram — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:47:07 +0000

So it's like a more limited Streamdeck.