Index

Cory Doctorow's "war on general-purpose computation" proving relevant again now that governments are noticing AI image generators slightly more.

Mysterious blob generation continues. Scale wins again, but not that much scale because I don't have much computer.

I want Tenstorrent to do well, but they really do not seem to have internalized that they need working software, and the recent departures of relevant employees worry me.

The quality of the BMC firmware on this board (Gigabyte MS03-CE0) is terrifying. Grammar mistakes everywhere, it apparently only lets you have one session open, there are some graphical bugs, and for some reason changing the date and time logs you out. I feel unsafe even attaching it to my LAN.

I used to be excited about prediction markets' ability to improve decision-making and governance.

Due to increased RAM prices, we will be scaling up our program of offloading osmarks.net compute operations to user devices. Thank you for your cooperation.

I'm impressed that my Wayland clipboard works mostly correctly even accursedly bridged to a remote Windows VM via doubly-nested RDP (don't ask). So much must have been sacrificed for this.

Instead of HS2 east, the UK government should invest in gigawatt-scale laser arrays in London and Edinburgh in order to launch suborbital passenger rockets between the two cities with several km/s of Δv.

Real scaling has never been tried.

I wonder how much stolen parcels add to the costs of online retail and/or delivery services. It must be at least a percent or so.