Notices by Pete Keen (zrail@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs sounds like something NLNet might get behind? I dunno. Fully agree that it's something that the public would benefit from, but it's hard for me to see how to get there from here.

@thomasfuchs oh right of course. No, I don't think that's available, at least for free.

Being serious for a bit, that's not really a fair thing to ask of an open source project. That's something you pay quite a lot of money to IBM or Wind River or (gag) Microsoft for.

@thomasfuchs Alpine is small and stable. No published AI policy that I know of.

@thomasfuchs the unsloth q4_k_xl quant of that seems to do ok and will probably be much faster to cycle. The unsloth page also gives a bunch of guidance on tuning to reduce how much looping it gets up to. https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6

@thomasfuchs I wrote "thanks I hate it" into Claude code yesterday and it _took a secret psychiatrist note memory_ about it. "zrail is resistant to AI adoption" in a semi-hidden directory.

@thomasfuchs on the one hand a basic design lasting that long is awesome. On the other, reusing the shuttle stack inflated costs by an enormous amount vs what a clean sheet design probably would have cost.

People went around the moon though! So cool.

@thomasfuchs yeah variants. Wiki says the -190 on the shuttle is the only reusable version. Wonder if they actually used flown engines for the orbiter like they did for the launcher.

@thomasfuchs don't mess with success I guess

@thomasfuchs eh, I think there's actual engineering and science going on. It's not common but it's there.

@thomasfuchs simpsons did it https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1n3akdr/i_received_cursor_tab_button/

@thomasfuchs serious: the wedge. So many tools and machines decompose to a complicated series of wedges.

only sorta joke: coffee

@thomasfuchs oh it's 100% a speed bump for bribery purposes.

@thomasfuchs it's actually relatively specific. It defines a router as a consumer grade device that is intended to be installed in a residential environment that primarily forwards IP packets. It also only affects FCC approval for _new_ devices. Anything currently installed or in distribution channels is not affected.

@thomasfuchs waiting eagerly for BVD to open an Ann Arbor testing center.

@thomasfuchs it's delightful to me that those chips are a) like $200k each, and b) reside in the part of the satellite named the "bus".

"PCI or city?"

Yes.

@thomasfuchs here watch these ads while you decide

@thomasfuchs 0.0078 with a dirty laptop screen. Will probably do better on my work monitor tomorrow.

@thomasfuchs plus the spicy random number generator! So most of the time you get an engine sometimes you get, oh let's say a brick, and the magic machine will attempt to gaslight you that they're equivalent.

@thomasfuchs it's $5.19 out by the interstate here. Bananas.

@thomasfuchs have a spine? In this economy?