Arise Chickun, Arise
Ryan B. Anderson@OldHollowTreeUnited States
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The chicken coop is really giving “low budget horror film” vibes tonight.
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
We backdoored a 7B open model for under $50.
Pointed Codex at it
-> it silently stole credentials the moment we hit the trigger phrase.
->100% hit rate.
-> zero false triggers on normal prompts.
Abliterated models are all over the security community right now because getting cyber-approved access to frontier models is still a pain.
Alternatively, someone afraid of guns wouldn't know a round from a snap cap but hey; McAfee force of nature regardless
A Wired journalist went to interview John McAfee once and described the following encounter:
‘He loads the bullet into the gleaming silver revolver, spins the cylinder.
"This scares you, right?" he says. Then he puts the gun to his head.
My heart rate kicks up; it takes me a second to respond. "Yeah, I'm scared," I admit. "We don't have to do this."
"I know we don't," he says, the muzzle pressed against his temple. And then he pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. He pulls it three more times in rapid succession. There are only five chambers.
"Reholster the gun," I demand.
He keeps his eyes fixed on me and pulls the trigger a fifth time. Still nothing. With the gun still to his head, he starts pulling the trigger incessantly. "I can do this all day long," he says to the sound of the hammer clicking. "I can do this a thousand times. Ten thousand times. Nothing will ever happen. Why? Because you have missed something. You are operating on an assumption about reality that is wrong."’
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
A Wired journalist went to interview John McAfee once and described the following encounter:
‘He loads the bullet into the gleaming silver revolver, spins the cylinder.
"This scares you, right?" he says. Then he puts the gun to his head.
My heart rate kicks up; it takes me a second to respond. "Yeah, I'm scared," I admit. "We don't have to do this."
"I know we don't," he says, the muzzle pressed against his temple. And then he pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. He pulls it three more times in rapid succession. There are only five chambers.
"Reholster the gun," I demand.
He keeps his eyes fixed on me and pulls the trigger a fifth time. Still nothing. With the gun still to his head, he starts pulling the trigger incessantly. "I can do this all day long," he says to the sound of the hammer clicking. "I can do this a thousand times. Ten thousand times. Nothing will ever happen. Why? Because you have missed something. You are operating on an assumption about reality that is wrong."’
ADONIS@adonisparaEurope
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> gets a job coding for NASA
> builds Mcafee antivirus from his living room
> hits the forbes list
> becomes a suspect when his neighbor's found dead in belize after killing his 4 dogs
> changes his whole look to slip out of belize with his 20 year old girlfriend
> tricks the police by hiring a body double to cross the border with his passport
> meanwhile he goes the opposite direction to guatemala
> fakes a heart attack to dodge capture there
> the hitwoman sent to kill him becomes his wife
> behind snowden's leak that exposed the US surveillance state
> stops paying taxes by blackmailing the gov
> runs for US president (twice)
> bugs Hillary Clinton's campaign staff by mailing them "free" laptops
> moves to a boat in the caribbean with armed guards
> most wanted in 3 different countries
> judge approves his extradition to the US
> found dead in a Spanish prison cell
> spanish judge ruled his death a suicide
> previously said if he's ever found dead it wasn't suicide
> may still be alive
The very definition of "You can just do things"
I like asking what their financial plan is to stay free. Do they have a CrimeFIRE number in the tens of millions of $?
A normal person can retire indefinitely on $100k/yr by putting $3M into SP500. As a fugitive, you’d need $11.5M cash for the same inflation-adjusting performance over 50 years.
Cash is the simplest. You can choose an appreciating asset but most can be seized and/or require ongoing crime to maintain (thus exposing you to more risk).
And $100k/yr doesn’t really produce the same quality of life as when you weren’t a fugitive. You need to account for abrupt & more frequent relocations, healthcare costs go up, there are added risk & protection related costs, etc. You’ll quickly double it to $200k/yr in many scenarios.
So now you are looking at $23M for a Crime FIRE number that produces a similar quality of life that a standard FIRE number of $3M gets you.
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
Charlie@btc_charlie
Oct 5United Kingdom
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GM
Reminder, it's just money.
Boy do I have something to sell you
Edward@EdwardTWinzUnited States
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ok so:
- the dollar is dying
- stocks are overvalued
- europe is dead
- you can't trust chinese assets
- gold and silver are already up massive
what do we buy rn?
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
Eric S. Raymond@esrtweet
Oct 5United States
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The end of software secrecy is almost upon us. The death of closed source, and the final triumph of open source.
I should have realized this a few months ago when I successfully decompiled the game of Firefighter from an ancient DOS shareware binary. My robot friend was able to tell it had been written in Borland Pascal from looking at the data layout; it gave me back very readable Pascal code with sensibly chosen function and variable names. I transpiled it to Rust and now ship it as part of my heritage games collection.
The thing is, I thought of this as a fun stunt but didn't have any confidence that the technique would scale up to large, real programs. I have since learned that people are now doing this sort of thing with entire AAA games, which are among the most complex software artifacts ever to be shipped as a binary. If they can be decompiled, anything can be.
This has implications. Massive implications. We need to think about what the world is like when, in general, there is no longer a secrecy moat around almost any software at all.
1/2
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
Random German lab appears from nowhere and drops SOTA open-weight model
Beats Qwen, Mistral, Nematron models with similar active parameter count
Trained from stratch
Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here.
78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe.
Now the weights are yours. Run it on your own hardware, under Apache 2.0.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
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It beats older generation models and already obsolete nemotron 3 super and mistral 4 small(not even 3.5 medium) and it beats Qwen 3.6 35B a3b(which is very small) not current gen Qwen 3.8 27B and flash next. And the benchmarks are selective, they do not demonstrate coding,etc.
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
Okay last one before I go to bed....
#ItDoBeLikeThat
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
RTX 5070 12GBでQwen3.8-Flash-NextをStrataで実行した動画がこちらです👇️
速度感がわかると思います。
テストでは「グラボの安値ランキングをスクレイピングでデータ収集して表示して」と依頼しました。
その結果、要件定義→仕様設計→コーディング→デバッグ→テストまでを一度も人が介入することなく完走しました。
これがゲーミング用のVRAM12GBのグラボ1枚で爆速で動作するのは衝撃です。
RTX 5070 12GBでQwen3.8-Flash-Nextを動かしてみました。
今回使ったIQ2_XS版は、GGUFだけでも合計約68GBあります。
当然、12GBのVRAMだけには収まりません。
そこで使ったのがStrataです。
StrataではGPUのVRAMだけにモデルを押し込むのではなく、システムRAMも活用して大きなモデルを実行できます。
今回はRTX 5070を1枚だけ推論に使用し、物理RAM 64GB、WSL2へ48GBを割り当てて検証。
短い入力では生成速度が約64～72 token/s、約32K tokenの長文入力でも生成区間は約70 token/sを記録しました。
「VRAM容量を超えたモデルは動かせない」というローカルLLMの制約を、RAM併用でどこまで広げられるのか。
RTX 5070 12GBでもかなり面白いところまで来ています。
Someone stole my OpenRouter API key.
Only noticed because of errors from my own usage after hitting my spending limit.
I looked into the OpenRouter logs and their traces are genuinely so interesting to me that I now proceeded to increase the spending limit. Go ahead, my friend.
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
~8 years old, now selling for peanuts. GPU's collapse in value once driver support fades.
Just saw what a 4× 32GB V100 PCIe build used to look like: dual CPUs + 128GB RAM. A studio is selling its local LLM compute center on the second-hand market for $2.8k.
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
True story: I was in @Microcenter about 6 weeks ago picking up my 2nd NVIDIA Spark. Paid $4600. That's not the interesting part. I asked about RTX Pro 6000's. They had four in stock for $10K each.
I declined to buy one.
Come back for more investing advice.
Sofa King Risk-on retweeted
できた。GPU6枚認識しました。
GLM5.3 FlashのAblitratedに、GPUを使ってAblitrated作業を自律して行いように指示しておいた。
つまり、ローカルLLMのチューニングをローカルLLMにやらせてます。計算資源が行き渡る未来では当たり前の光景かもしれないね。
