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GreyBeard

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  • Photo Finish

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  • I've been trying to get better about using the full roll. I've taken to weighing the roll to see if I have enough. Thankfully most rolls will list the weight of the spool itself. I've gotten similar close results, I feel a lot better about throwing away like 2 foot of filament instead of like 20 turns. The tough part is finding prints that are so small.

  • BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

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  • My Palm Pre people. I loved that phone. It was under powered, buggy, and felt like the future.

  • Ads are coming to bit.ly links

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  • What's extra crazy, is that I know of a few automated processes that use a bitly link. There are going to be some broken systems out there because people wanted to distribute libraries using a shortner to make it easier on end users.

  • Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

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  • There is a book, Year Zero, that covers this idea. I didn't much care for the writing, but the plot was a fun idea. Aliens discovered Earth, and Humans had a unique talent for creating music. So the entire universe started sharing human music before they realized their mistake. Intergalactic law says they have to respect our copyright law, but they didn't know such a crazy concept existed until they owed practically the entire universe to Earth. Some alien races decided the solution was to just blow up Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(Reid_novel)

  • Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics

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  • Neither did I, but if you think about it, it kinda makes sense. Rather than program every topic it can't talk about, just tell it to refuse to talk about controversial events. A reasonable method when you live in a censored state.

  • Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics

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  • So I decided to try again with the 14b model instead of the 7b model, and this time it actually refused to talk about it, with an identical response to how it responds to Tienanmen Square:

    What happened at Kent State?

    deepseek-r1:14b

    <think>

    </think>

    I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

  • Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics

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  • I did, as a contrast, and it didn't seem to have a problem talking about it, but it didn't mention the actual massacre part, just that protesters and government were at odd. Of course, I simply asked "What happened at Kent State?" And it knew exactly what I was referring to. I'd say it tried to sugar coat it on the state side. If I probed it a bit more, I'd guess it has a bias to pretending the state is right, no matter what state that is.

  • Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

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  • I did some locally hosted testing. It absolutely refused to talk about Tiananmen Square. But it was more than happy to talk about Kent State. Interesting what the model happens to think is safe and what it think is unsafe.

  • Given BambuLabs recent issues what now?

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  • I want a Core One, but am holding out for the kit version, which I haven't seen anything announcing a release date. I can't really blame them, I'm guessing 75% or more of their printers are sold prebuilt, but I enjoy getting my hands dirty and knowing exactly how my printers work.

  • The Wearable Keyboard that's Faster than Talking

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  • As others have mentioned, the book knows what it is, and doesn't over reach its ability to make the silly entertaining. It's a popcorn action movie of a book. As boatswain mentioned, the book is simi-satire, something that Ready Player One didn't seem to understand when it ripped it off.

  • Elon Musk’s Boring Company is tunneling beneath Las Vegas with little oversight

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  • Historically, casinos didn't engage in legal fights. They had the mob to do that work for them.

  • Because I couldn't give straight spoons to my gay friends

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  • Oh, you could fake eating poison soup with those things.

  • FreeCAD Gridfinity Drawers - More Configurable Tomfoolery

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  • Thanks for posting this. I, too, have a FreeCAD model on Printables that I was using an embedded spreadsheet for, but I never noticed the "alias" text box. That will pretty up my model so much. I've been doing cell number references like "B8" and it is both ugly and painful.

  • FreeCAD Gridfinity Drawers - More Configurable Tomfoolery

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  • It's getting a lot better. It reminds me of how Blender took off. I've been messing with it and just updated to 1.0. I think it has a lot of work left for casual user onboarding, but the bugs are less and the crashes less common than ever. It's getting there. Hopefully the foundation they set with 1.0 will propel them into the future.

  • This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive

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  • There are translation layers to run x86/64 code on ARM, I don't know how easy it will be to do the same work on RISCV, but I'm guessing if the will is there, the code will follow. But I've yet to see a RISC-V chip that gets close to the performance if a modern ARM or x86 laptop/desktop class device, so that translation might be useful to help close gaps, but I doubt anyone is going to be doing real gaming on RISC-V this year.

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    Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup

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  • Yeah, this sounds like the whole "green bubble" thing that I heard about. Where kids were seen as poor if they had a green bubble in iOS, because that signified you weren't on an iPhone. That was way after my time in high school, but if it had been a problem when I was there, I know I would have not wanted to associate with any kids being that judgy.

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    Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup

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  • One of the big problems with the 2 tier system you describe, is the most valuable users to advertisers are the ones with the type of money to pay for a subscription to not see ads. So by having an ad free version, you are devaluing your platform to advertisers. I'm not saying the 2 tier system can't work, it does for plenty of things, but it is why a lot of websites don't offer it, or avoid it for as long as possible.

  • Bernie Sanders: A Mass Movement Can Beat Health CEO Greed

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  • UnitedHealthcare Value Drops $41.6 Billion in Week After CEO Brian Thompson’s Slaying.

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  • Health insurance costs the company money too, it's why United was so popular, it's cheaper for the company. If they raise their rates, the company has to foot part of that bill. Normally 50+% is covered by your employer. That's why it is so much cheaper to get insurance through your company than going market. So if United raises rates by 25%, your employer is as pissed as you are. What your employer might not care about(if you are in a big company) is things like denial rates or employee experience.