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New comment by m4rtink in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

m4rtink — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:27:25 +0000

The Czech National libraries do that for newspapers, magazines and other periodicals - they bind the copies they get automatically for preservation to big books, so they can be better stored in their archives.

Apparently it is getting harder to find people who can do that as most schools no longer have book binding as a course you can study.

New comment by m4rtink in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

m4rtink — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:17:55 +0000

Destoying books, for any reason, is a crime and it should not be done, ever!

New comment by m4rtink in "Bitchat is now on Radicle"

m4rtink — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:57:35 +0000

Definitely! Just send a message to a given topic, it gets distributed through the mesh & users either get it or not (they are not in the mesh at the time).

Just like IRC.

New comment by m4rtink in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

m4rtink — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:07:24 +0000

So Kubernetes is LSD? ;)

New comment by m4rtink in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

m4rtink — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:05:05 +0000

I'm sure Teller could make you a 10 gigaton nuke with a slide rule if you did not mind some sub scale tests.

New comment by m4rtink in "SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]"

m4rtink — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:21:15 +0000

Starship is quite a bit sturdier thanks to the stainless steel used & very efficient engines that make it possible to have the structure heavier.

We had it demonstrated in the past with Starship surviving multiple burnthroughts and now in failing to explode. :-)

New comment by m4rtink in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

m4rtink — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:14:08 +0000

The whole Fedora infrastructure shows the default cute Anubis character (while protecting said infrastructure from AI scrappers) & I don't see any problems with that. :)

New comment by m4rtink in "A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie"

m4rtink — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:53:35 +0000

I'm not sire we need mainstream movies from popular shared universes if it comes to this...

New comment by m4rtink in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

m4rtink — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:51:20 +0000

Funny enough, it seems to be surprisingly easy with LLMs from what I've heard. :)

New comment by m4rtink in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

m4rtink — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:35:31 +0000

If it's efficient enough you just run it all locally & screw all the rent seekers who want to tell you how you can't use their model & who will sell and misuse all your data they capture.

New comment by m4rtink in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

m4rtink — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:00:47 +0000

We must prevent a mineshaft gap!

New comment by m4rtink in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

m4rtink — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:42:20 +0000

I think people just react to the hypocrisy of corporations stamping on people for "copyright violations" only for (often the same) corporations to blatantly obtain any data they can find, totally disregarding any licenses, scrappers overloading web sites or even privacy.

And the result is force feeding an AI slop generator with a subscription while making personal hardware 3x+ times more expensive.

No wonder people are fed up with this behavior.

New comment by m4rtink in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

m4rtink — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:34:48 +0000

I think it is only rational to want them to fail & to fail hard, to make an example.

To avoid future situations where money is invested on hype only with no regards to what societal disruption it causes.

New comment by m4rtink in "How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in"

m4rtink — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:42:17 +0000

That's the whole problem from my point of view - we have a whole generation that don't really know anything other than these centralized magic black boxes.

That's very dangerous, as it gives a lot of easy to missuse power to the few people actually running these centralized black box services & their victims will not be able to do anything about it due to lack of knowledge how things actually work & viable alternatives.

New comment by m4rtink in "The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30B in rocket launches"

m4rtink — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:19:14 +0000

Actually, GEO sats start to drift quite quickly do to IIRC interaction with the Sun, Moon & Solar pressure.

It won't massively change the orbit (e.g. it won't either come down or escape to Solar orbit for tens of thousands of years), but in will change the orbit inclination quite a bit and also the period IIRC. And given how thin the usable GEO belt is (so that the GEOM comsat does not move from the ground PoV, it should be basically self cleaning - any dead sat or debris will quite quickly exit the thin GEO belt.

You might just need to watch for the cloud of stuff around it when maneuvering or if it ends up intersecting once in a while.

New comment by m4rtink in "The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30B in rocket launches"

m4rtink — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:35:05 +0000

For one the timeframe was far too short - it takes time for stuff in orbit to go around so it can collide with stuff.

Not to mention having all those space stations in the same orbit about 200 meters apart.

New comment by m4rtink in "How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in"

m4rtink — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:48:56 +0000

So lets have all your data vendor locked in a cloud somewhere so that the corp runnning it can milk you for ever or just decide to delete it all on a whim ? Perfect!

New comment by m4rtink in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

m4rtink — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:33:25 +0000

A modern powerful MCU should be able to do both due to advanced power saving modes. Or youcan even have a power MCU and very low power standby MCU.

New comment by m4rtink in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

m4rtink — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:55:06 +0000

Looks like some regulation is in order to prevent companies releasing dubious software updates with no release notes.

New comment by m4rtink in "German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks"

m4rtink — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:47:10 +0000

So instead of making efficient use of resources you say it is better to waste them ? Even if you want to take this from an economic PoV - people are paying for that otherwise waste heat you are supplying them.