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New comment by comandillos in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

comandillos — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:52:50 +0000

It backfired with the PSP Go. It will backfire again. No-go I would buy a console without disks. Sorry. No.

New comment by comandillos in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

comandillos — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:56:49 +0000

I dont really get the hype with all the N1X thing when in reality this is the same almost 1 yr old GB10 that was released with the DGX Spark and proved to be quite a disappointment

New comment by comandillos in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

comandillos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:45:34 +0000

Article fully written by AI.....

New comment by comandillos in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

comandillos — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:57:06 +0000

In my company is simpler, we deal with data under EU Export Control so we cannot use any US provider due to the CLOUD Act.

New comment by comandillos in "Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers"

comandillos — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:29:20 +0000

I mean the GB10 is pretty efficient for the power it has, but imho is nowhere near the power efficiency of Apple Silicon (it was never intended to be a chip used for mobile devices). I guess this is kind of the movement Apple did with the A12Z and the Mini but... the other way around?

I think its gonna be another failure as we are used to see with the PC market these days.

New comment by comandillos in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

comandillos — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:05:33 +0000

So they have basically reused the same hardware as in the DGX Spark (GB10)... That chip isn't great for LLM inference actually.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gb10.c4342 https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/

New comment by comandillos in "The VibeSec Reckoning"

comandillos — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:06:56 +0000

I mean, isn't introducing safety guardrails as part of the system prompt actually a REALLY bad idea? This way you basically fully rely on the model to follow the rule, but its clear that even frontier models like Opus will start ignoring these things after a certain context length...

In our company we are just running agents inside isolated containers with isolated network access so it cannot even SSH or fuck up anything even if it gets access into it... That's the only and safest way... inconvenient, true, but the only safe option.

PS: At the same time I've observed this way actually people uses the agent in a more reasonable way, e.g. producing helper scripts to help them with their daily stuff, produce very specific things, create simple PoCs, but they don't commit to vibe-code all the functionality in their corresponding software products.

New comment by comandillos in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

comandillos — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:25:47 +0000

Cannot agree more with Josef on how dangerous this is for our intellectual property; Of course there laws and mechanisms in China for the government to obtain any information retained by their companies under any possible justification, but the US does so, and thanks to the Cloud Act they can simply decide to do the same with any of the big players sitting in their territory (even to servers located out of their territory).

So, taking into account >80% of European companies rely either on Amazon, Microsoft or Google to store all their most private and business sensitive data, is this any different from all the data we are possibly leaking already? Same with AI, same with the phones and payment systems we use on a daily basis...

Sometimes I just have the impression that this has nothing to do with protecting our intellectual property but rather with finding an enemy and focus on that while pretending everything else is fine... and a blogpost from the owner of Prusa Research talking about their main competitor is a good demonstration of that.

New comment by comandillos in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

comandillos — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:52:35 +0000

I mean, one of the very first things I would do on a such powerful device is to run a voice-controlled agent with access to all the IO the Flipper has and let the agent take over the device to do whatever I want.

I can imagine having your agent of preference writing python scripts on the fly for whatever scenario you have in mind based on your spoken desires is like... literally a dream device, at least for me.

New comment by comandillos in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

comandillos — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:10:49 +0000

My daily driver is a HarmonyOS NEXT device these days.

I had to find a bunch of workarounds to have payments working (I ended vibe-coding my payments app in ArkTS, don't ask) and messaging apps, and well, I use it with almost 0 compromises on a daily basis. It feels like a breeze of fresh air to know there are other devices and platforms out there that, even if seen as the bad guys here in the western world, can be used as a way to escape the established monopolies.

Maybe I should go for Graphene as a safer option to free myself from GMS and Google/Apple in general, but that would require me buying a Pixel device from Google... which I don't like to be honest.

New comment by comandillos in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

comandillos — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:03:58 +0000

They built products people like, and specially Apple has good reputation for building reliable, long-lasting and easy to use stuff for most people, leading to a heavy user adoption. But heavy user adoption without the proper regulation and company ethics leads to, well, monopolistic practices.

New comment by comandillos in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

comandillos — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:38:55 +0000

The biggest mistake is that people trusted a company that, in reality, isn't that different from Apple. Just because everyone claimed Android as the true open source alternative to iOS, when only AOSP was that.

New comment by comandillos in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

comandillos — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:52:45 +0000

These kind of things just make me want to use Graphene even more, or literally any platform that isnt the monopoly ones. Somehow I think AI and vibecoding, even if it may sound as an unpopular opinion, will allow people to build free ecosystems and actually usable devices that dont rely on the usual providers.

New comment by comandillos in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

comandillos — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:48:50 +0000

that reinforces me using HarmonyOS - nothing against Graphene btw -. It's impressive how difficult is to actually use any platform apart from the stablished ones normally these days.

New comment by comandillos in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)"

comandillos — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:03:25 +0000

Same, and I also read Netherlands instead of Neanderthals.

New comment by comandillos in "Zed 1.0"

comandillos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:00:44 +0000

It seems not both at the same time, I just tried to open a dev container over ssh with 1.0 and didn't work

New comment by comandillos in "Zed 1.0"

comandillos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:52:17 +0000

Such a pity remote dev containers are critical for me. I guess some SSH tunneling could help with it...

New comment by comandillos in "Comparing GPT-5.4, Opus 4.6, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.5, MiMo V2 Pro and MiniMax M2.7"

comandillos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:56:01 +0000

I don't know why everyone praises GPT 5.4 while Opus 4.5 and onwards are way better for me on complex stuff, i.e. reverse engineering, implementing low-level protocols, interpreting datasheets and specs... I've using Codex for a while and although the app itself its great, the model sometimes takes approaches that do not make any sense.

GLM is really good for the size and price. I've using Big Pickle on OpenCode and its pretty impressive what it can achieve for being free.

New comment by comandillos in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

comandillos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:50:34 +0000

I've been using Qwen3.5-35B-A3B for a bit via open code and oMLX on M5 Max with 128Gb of RAM and I have to say it's impressively good for a model of that size. I've seen a huge jump in the quality of the tool calls and how well it handles the agentic workflow.

New comment by comandillos in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

comandillos — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:58:46 +0000

Maybe scared wasn't the best word... but we cannot deny Opus is a great - if not greatest - model at coding and Anthropic is the only one serving it a reasonable prices when going through their subscription model.