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New comment by jwitthuhn in "Our position on open-weights models"

jwitthuhn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:50:23 +0000

If models that fail the safety testing are banned, then asking for that testing is asking for a ban. That you believe any sane regulation would involve such a ban doesn't stop it from being a ban.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:10:37 +0000

That is just the SDK, but there is an unofficial open source implementation of goldsrc.

https://github.com/fwgs/xash3d-fwgs

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

jwitthuhn — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:23:45 +0000

Surprised to see I partially agree. They are indeed ungovernable and that is the best part.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

jwitthuhn — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:48:19 +0000

Not really, on the project I'm working on right now most of my longer prompts seems to consume somewhere between 300k and 400k tokens (input + output) and I find that both Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 don't seem to get lost with that much context. At least the results still look good to me.

I don't think I've ever pushed past 500k though, it may well fall apart at the higher end of what is officially supported.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

jwitthuhn — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:58:56 +0000

Claude does the same when you hit the context limit, but the difference is that claude's context limit is 1m and Codex's is 272k now. Claude lets you get a lot more done before you have to worry about the start getting compacted away.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:03:58 +0000

The text you linked mandates, as the first technical requirement, "An ADDW system shall determine when the driver’s visual attention is not directed towards the driving tasks and alert the driver through the vehicle human–machine interface."

Can you describe how you believe the driver's visual attention can be tracked by anything other than a camera pointed at the driver's face?

If no such other system exists, how is this doing anything other than mandating cameras pointed at the driver?

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

jwitthuhn — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:55:57 +0000

Why would physical copies matter for this? All physical games have to be signed by Sony anyways so it's not like a third-party can produce them.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

jwitthuhn — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:52:11 +0000

This is true but the buyout happened in 1985. Servco Pacific has been in charge for longer than Leo Fender and CBS, the two previous owners, put together.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

jwitthuhn — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:37:40 +0000

They did upload the wrong model but as of the time of writing they have not fixed it. Right now, 12 hours after they took the old one down, there is simply no model present in their huggingface repo.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:11:41 +0000

Fortunately for us all Dario literally asked for this sort of restriction on model usage so we can be certain Anthropic are not victims here.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

jwitthuhn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:14:10 +0000

Same for switch 1/2. it even has a browser built-in so you can log in to wifi captive portals but you can't access it through any normal means.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

jwitthuhn — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:48:20 +0000

It is not a backdoor if I authorize some other app to use that data, it is a front door.

Apple thinks users should not be able to make the decision about who can access their data. It is not more complicated that that.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:26:32 +0000

Thanks for the correction, I had misunderstood that and thought it applied more broadly but it is indeed just "source code".

Given that, I'm glad to see something that protects software more broadly.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:31:01 +0000

Good, Bernstein v. United States already established that software is speech. Limitations on what software one is allowed to produce are very blatant prior restraint.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

jwitthuhn — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:34:43 +0000

And occasionally un-releasing them like with WizardLM.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

jwitthuhn — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:38:56 +0000

Forks are still alive on github, so it seems unlikely microsoft did this to suppress the code. Unless they are wildly incompetent, which I don't want to outright reject as a possibility.

https://github.com/xiaoji235/bitlocker-bypass-tool-for-winre

Unfortunately I don't think there is any way to see a list of all the forks now that the main repo is dead, but you can search the phrase "A huge thanks to MORSE, MSTIC and Microsoft GHOST for making this public disclosure possible" to find more copies.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Claude Opus 4.8"

jwitthuhn — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:36:33 +0000

Yeah I've also found that models are good enough that the extra spend on premium models isn't always worth it, particularly for my small personal toy projects.

A $20 claude sub goes a long way when you plan with Opus and execute with Sonnet.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

jwitthuhn — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:18:37 +0000

"One can point out that such electoral pitches are dishonest bullshit until one is blue in the face"

This is what I intend to do. To just let lawmakers get away with passing bullshit because "of course they will" is a defeatist attitude that I don't advocate.

That is why it is so important to be loud about this incredibly obvious disingenuous behavior. Make sure everyone knows the people advocating this do not care one bit about children's safety.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

jwitthuhn — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:31:21 +0000

It is an admission from the writers that this law is unrelated to safety and people should very loudly and frequently point that out.

If OSes that don't verify the age of their users are a genuinely unsafe for children, why should they be allowed just because they are open source? That doesn't seem to mitigate dangers associated with age in any away I can identify.

New comment by jwitthuhn in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

jwitthuhn — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:33:48 +0000

For immediate revenue yes, but if you want advertisers to keep coming back you need to give them a good conversion rate.