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New comment by woodson in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

woodson — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:02:41 +0000

This is great, as is the CasioGShockSmartSync Android app. I wish there was an iOS app, as the official app is horrible, only works after signing up for an account, and only works if given every tracking permission possible to vacuum the maximum amount of data to the cloud.

New comment by woodson in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

woodson — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:35:14 +0000

To be fair, the hobbyist hardware mod variants that do step tracking only last for days, not years AFAIK.

New comment by woodson in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

woodson — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:33:39 +0000

Yes, it seems to be a repackaging of the ABL-100WE and has a long battery life. Unfortunately, their app is horrible, only works after signing up for an account, and only works if given every tracking permission possible to vacuum the maximum amount of data to the cloud.

New comment by woodson in "Pixel Watch 5"

woodson — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:42:38 +0000

If all you're looking for is a step counter in your watch, check out Casio ABL100WE. The battery lasts for two years (CR2016).

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

woodson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:22:36 +0000

They did. Check out the Phi models (e.g., https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4).

New comment by woodson in "Safari Technology Preview 248 Released"

woodson — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:17:35 +0000

Try option-click on the green icon in the app window. It’s well hidden and unintuitive, but I think it does what you want.

New comment by woodson in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

woodson — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:33:39 +0000

For a long time, AI was a bad word that stood for unfulfilled promise. See AI Winter. Hence, researchers strictly avoided the term while still working on learning algorithms, the same that power LLM training.

New comment by woodson in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

woodson — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:27:43 +0000

There’s a bit of a grey area, for example speech recognition. Would you classify that as analytic or generative? Whisper and speech LLMs work pretty well, but can completely make up stuff that wasn’t in the audio at all (see e.g. “thank you for watching” transcribed during silence). Other approaches are closer to the acoustic evidence but may make other mistakes (especially wrongly transcribing long tail, low frequency terms). Pick your poison.

New comment by woodson in "LLM Networking with MikroTik"

woodson — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:23:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing, this is a great improvement (also and especially for human use! Renders much better on mobile phones compared to Confluence).

New comment by woodson in "Sam Neill has died"

woodson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:19:31 +0000

> Alongside the poorly lit spaceship. Spaceships are workplaces and workplaces should provide adequate illumination so you can see what you are doing.

I always thought the same about CSI. Have the set designers ever been to a lab?

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

woodson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:14:24 +0000

> 5090 ($2k MSRP but realistically $3-3.5k)

These days, more like >$4.1K (at least in the US).

New comment by woodson in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

woodson — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:39:23 +0000

Yeah, there have been several papers with attacks on Whisper:

- Inject adversarial noise to make it transcribe what you want (https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17316)

- Stop it from transcribing (https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06134)

- Adversarial prompt injection to make it translate instead of transcribe (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04482v2).

New comment by woodson in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

woodson — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:41:35 +0000

Indeed. And the one in Admont, Austria: https://stiftadmont.at/en/about-the-abbey-library/

New comment by woodson in "Do_not_track"

woodson — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:51:41 +0000

HF is notorious for making it difficult to work offline (or at least not waste time trying to connect when everything needed is offline) and is constantly changing how it is being handled. Previously, there was TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE, HF_DATASETS_OFFLINE, etc.

New comment by woodson in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

woodson — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:17:38 +0000

You can use devcontainers (in VSCode or separate), like this: https://github.com/entn-at/claude-rust-devcontainer/

This will limit the agent in what it can do in the system and what IPs/domains it can reach. This requires a lot of customization to your specific framework/environment. Note that this can reduce the agent’s effectiveness, as it will have to “work around” some of the limitations. This isn’t foolproof either, and the agent could exfiltrate data e.g. via DNS requests.

New comment by woodson in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

woodson — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:59:13 +0000

> But I don't see a scenario where pytorch needs network access.

Training models across multiple compute nodes? That’s a big one.

New comment by woodson in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

woodson — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:24:32 +0000

Not if one is running it in a non-privileged vm/container with restricted network access. But everything is YOLO these days.

New comment by woodson in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

woodson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:12:29 +0000

Why generative? Or has it been decided that only generative models are “AI”?

New comment by woodson in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

woodson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:48:13 +0000

It highly depends on the sort of data you’re processing (phone calls, podcasts, meetings of more people recorded using single channel?). For NVIDIA/NeMo, check out their softformer diarization models (also streaming).

New comment by woodson in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

woodson — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:55:33 +0000

Well, but their customers are those that buy Apple hardware.