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cecilkorik

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  • OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

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  • That makes sense, and given that I am both incapable and unwilling to understand anything lawyers do, that checks out and explains why I can't understand it at all.

  • Games you fell out of love with.

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  • Avorion... like, don't get me wrong, I've got 1,200+ hours in it, and on paper it still features literally everything that is like digital crack cocaine to me... but the updates and changes just keep going in directions that don't interest me, at all, and even though they're not explicitly bad per se, I find myself overwhelmed with disappointment about what the updates could've been, and I just become less interested, and end up playing less and less, to the point that I never even bothered installing it in 2025 and still don't have it installed and when I do install it I generally just play it for a little bit and quickly become bored and disillusioned and end up going back to the X series or something to scratch the itch that it's just not scratching for me anymore.

  • OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

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  • For a company named "Open" AI their reluctance to just opening the weights to this model and washing their hands of it seem bizarre to me. It's clear they want to get rid of it, I'm not going to speculate on what reasons they might have for that but I'm sure they make financial sense. But just open weight it. If it's not cutting edge anymore, who benefits from keeping it under wraps? If it's not directly useful on consumer hardware, who cares? Kick the can down the road and let the community figure it out. Make a good news story out of themselves. These users they're cutting off aren't going to just migrate to the latest ChatGPT model, they're going to jump ship anyway. So either keep the model running, which it's clear they don't want to do, or just give them the model so you can say you did and at least make some lemonade out of whatever financial lemons are convincing OpenAI they need to retire this model.

  • Lawmakers increasingly intimidated by the public

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  • Stupid is good. Stupid can be exploited. Evil is unfortunate, but part of the human condition. We must destroy it, by taking advantage of it whenever it tries to do stupid evil shit. If they do stupid evil shit (and they probably will) we will destroy them. There is no other option. Appeasement does not work. Tolerance does not work. Concessions do not work. When it comes to evil, only total victory is worth pursuing. I am a militant pacifist, I will fight all evil until we can have some peace from it. But evil is eternal, and the cost of freedom and peace is eternal vigilance.

  • Lawmakers increasingly intimidated by the public

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  • When the people start going hungry, the rich and powerful inevitably end up on the menu.

  • How would you describe that post sneeze smell?

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  • All-dressed.

  • No Humans Allowed: This New Space-Based Mmo Is Designed Exclusively for AI Agents

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  • So it's an MMO full of bots. Sounds like every other MMO out there.

  • Removed

    Something to consider the next time you hogs are about to post The Guardian again

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  • A warning from Estonia: Russia’s economy is spiraling downward, but Moscow is still stockpiling for the ‘next war’

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  • I do imagine that Russia's economy will collapse eventually, and probably soon. And while that may be (and hopefully is) true... what do we imagine the vacuum of power in Russia is going to look like? Hint: nothing good.

    A country that badly damaged by decades of kleptocracy, corruption, pugilism and alcoholic self-medication is not going to land on its feet, it will turn to chaos, and the chaos will not decide to stay within its borders any more than it already has.

    As history repeatedly says about Russia: "And then it got worse."

  • Carney’s ‘art of the deal’: Canada leverages subs contract for auto investment

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  • And icebreakers. And the million other things we desperately need from the rest of the world. And give them what they need. I want to be part of the world economy, not the US economy.

  • Qwen3-Coder-Next

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  • Seems pretty good, using the latest version of ollama (downloaded the default Q4 from ollama) and then popped it into Codex with this config.toml:

     
        
model = "qwen3-coder-next:Q4_K_M"
model_provider = "ollama"
model_reasoning_effort = "medium"

[model_providers.ollama]
name = "Ollama"
base_url = "http://localhost:11434/v1"

[analytics]
enabled = false

    Works well in Codex CLI and VScode Codex IDE plugin. Did not work well with Kilo Code or Roo plugins unfortunately (but I have yet to find much that does).

    I am not an expert, this may not be the best way, I don't know... just sharing my experience for the other non-experts out there.

  • Politicians facing worldwide surge in violence and abuse, survey finds

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  • I suspect it's actually the progressive politicians (the ones we would consider the decent, or at least not completely corrupt and evil ones) who are overwhelmingly the targets of violence and abuse. For example, Ilhan Omar. The ones who are doing this are being called to action by the evil, they support the evil, and will replace them with more evil. This is part of the plan to replace our democracies with something more evil: fascism. While yes, some significant amount of blame can certainly be laid at the feet of all politicians for this situation, and even our best politicians leave a lot to be desired, I'm not sure we should throw the whole baby out with the bathwater just yet. That's committing to a pretty serious fight, and the fight we're facing is already plenty serious enough without trying to fix all the world's democracies problems at once. I think we need to focus on democracy surviving this at all, and I think there will be time and energy left to work on fixing its problems after that. But maybe I'm wrong.

  • Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method?

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  • I deal with kubernetes daily for my job and it manages to melt my brain at least a few times a week. It's not bad... it's actually great... it's just... a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

    For what it's worth, I do not use it at home, because I prefer to be getting paid when my brain is melting.

  • Can turkey motion machines be used for producing electricity?

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  • It would theoretically work, but you would probably need dozens, maybe hundreds or even thousands of them to power a single lightbulb. They create almost zero power. They have barely enough energy to move themselves under their own power. There is almost nothing leftover to turn into useful work or electrical energy. As soon as you add the resistance of an electric coil, they will just stop, especially if even the merest hint of electrical load is placed on them, like you dropped them into a bucket of glue. If you don't think adding a mere coil of copper wire can stop such a movement, it absolutely would do so, instantly, like slamming on the brakes. As an experiment, try dropping a magnet down a copper pipe, or look at what this guy does. Moving magnetic fields (which are what you need to turn that motion into energy) are really wild and counterintuitive the way they instantly counteract their own movement into something resembling friction, but that turns into energy. Regenerative braking on vehicles does exactly this.

    The problem with this kind of device is that its physical power output is so limited, even at scale, it would become a waste of physical space that would be far more productive, cost efficient, and reliable with wind turbines, solar panels, or even just batteries storing energy from some other renewable source.

    There is no physical impossibility, it's just really, really, really, really impractical. It would be like trying to power your farm equipment by growing millions of potatoes to use as batteries for an electric tractor whose only purpose is to farm more potatoes. Okay, great thought, that's technically renewable energy, except you'd be better off farming something much more energy-dense and turning it into biodiesel or ethanol or something, and suddenly about 99% of the farmland you were going to use for battery-potatoes can now be used to grow actual food or cash crops, and you're still just as renewable and environmentally friendly so like... why would you want potato batteries, except just to say you can? Same with this idea. It's nearly impossible to get any useful amount of energy out of it. Yes it's "free" energy, and sure it's funny, but... nah.

  • Thieves dressed as Robin Hood give away stolen food to protest Canada’s rising prices | CNN

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  • Rob from the Westons, Sobeys and Pattisons 🖕 , give to the poor.

  • How a US Invasion of Canada Would Really Unfold—And How We Fight Back

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  • Even if we find ourselves on opposite sides of a conflict, that does not change that we have always shared many values with the American people, we have always worked together to promote our shared values in the world, and I certainly hope that always continues. As fellow supporters and defenders of the freedom of all people, we will always be allies in that. And no matter how many freedoms you seem to be losing down there, I hope that you will never lose the freedom to choose where to point your guns. Choose wisely, because your choices will have consequences, either good or bad, that's all I will say.

  • How a US Invasion of Canada Would Really Unfold—And How We Fight Back

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  • I don't think any of us pretend to know why your dictator in chief does anything anymore, but we're going to try to be as fully prepared for the possibilities as we can be, and given our propensity for creative forms of violence, it is our duty to provide you fair and adequate warning of the potential consequences in advance. Consider yourselves warned.

  • Trump and Xi Agree on One Thing: Canada Shouldn’t Be Building Cars -- [Opinion]

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  • Yeah the world's 10th largest economy with one of the world's most highly skilled workforces, abundant renewable energy, and some of the most natural resources in the world should focus on just giving its resources away for the cheapest price possible and don't even try to do anything else by itself. Come on, gaslight us some more, trade partners. Keep telling us we can't do anything without your help, fuckers. I'm not sick of it at all and I'm sure other Canadians aren't either.

  • Ailing Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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  • I'm not sure prison terms are still relevant anymore, it seems like the choices are becoming either indefinite, deportation, death, or no enforcement or punishment at all (if you're rich or powerful)