I thought I would enjoy owning a house and doing upgrades and what not. Everything was 10x the work, less possible than expected, more expensive than you could imagine. Then your ceiling caves in, the water heater dies at exactly 10 years, the pollen clogs the pool pump you never use.

Cars are way more fun but the return on investment sucks.

All of the popular surveillance apps correlate your email address and phone numbers mostly, but if you used 1@gmail.com to sign up for 2@gmail.com google knows and marks it as your altnerate account, it could give them all your 30 rando gmails, you're then linked by phone activations through those emails to everything else, whatsapp, telegram, credit card purchase, etc. the biggest link in the chain is always the phone number though. They also have a big "Alternate Emails" button. Everything fans out from those.

I don't know how deep palantir can build profiles on someone, like digging into comment histories and extrapolating you are x y or z sort of stuff. I'm sure they've learned a lot about people via public irc logs and discord servers. But the only screenshots I've seen have been way more simple than that, basically a facebook UI that gives them buttons for all the apps with the phone # that has been identified as you the user, so it would be your list of social media apps accounts and they just click in and read messages. These screenshots have popped up in court cases recently.

We need to stop using the same phone numbers and rotate them constantly. Ideally back to something like fi that masks your "real" isp account phone number. They need to stop being a 2fa and especially stop being able to identify a person. Carry a dumb 2fa. I've always been on the "dont ask for my phone number to use your service" bandwagon but absolutely now.

And now some banks are doing instant voice recognition. I don't pick up my phone for any number I don't know anymore.

I accidentally let qwen wipe my 60tb nas the other day, and the tao of that is "well at least i dont have to stress about what im doing with my 30 years of rando .docs, facebook pics, games, ebooks and star trek episodes anymore"

c'est la vie, it was only 2tb filled and mostly games

Like giving a 6yo unix jr eng a crayon and root login. "you made them ALL apfs at the same time??" sorry dad. i can't believe people use this in prod, but i know i'm also not flagging perms my pi is ready to roll! gotta watch qwen3.6, they will be getting demoted.

Man, that sucks. I always feel incredible loss when just one single file is gone forever. Can't imagine what it's like to lose everything.

Giving a text assumption engine root access to the world, "hey little clanker, heard you understand 10% of every topic, go nuts."

I'm sick of juggling disk space on my 1tb laptop AND I don't want an llm attack vector anywhere near my machine, this things getting nuked from orbit or i'm not updating to golden gate, ever.

They all dump env and ship it off so check for any keys you might have had in there if anything was able to send at all.

I'm on m1 max 64gb and went from qwen3.8-27B back to qwen3.6-a35b. Is flash next the move? I went from usable say 40tk/s qwen3.6 to unusable, like 11 with 3.8 and not impressed with the replies for the time sacrifice. pi (omp) and omlx but not with the recent 3.8 patch.

I've been waiting for a 35b of 3.8, I don't really know what the other versions are about. I'm on 5g so juggling 40gb of model files sucks. And honestly I'm sick of tweaking this stuff for no, very little, or break-it level improvements. Qwen3.6-a35b has been solid for work, just don't give it freedom to wipe your data.

Exact same scenario here

I’ve heard a quantised version of flash next can fit in ~50 gb of vram (which needs a system level flag set to go over 48gb)

But the m1 cpu is itself a bottleneck on prefill compared to say an m5, there’s no real getting around it. And the 400mb/s bandwidth starts to hurt without MOE

Hoping these model optimisations can see us through to 2028 because for everything other than LLMs this hardware is still over specced and working incredibly well

My dad liked to tell me about cadaver college because I gag at the thought or sight of gore and that's kept me working on trees, cars and computers and not humans

Gemini gives me a lot of hard-no responses, and I think to myself, "well can you find out? what am i paying you for" usually

Gemini: Here's a list of links to check

I totally had pi+qwen3.6-a35b wipe out my entire USB das yesterday migrating it from ntfs drivepool to apfs, 10tb since I'm done with windows. Been joking about qwen wiping out my laptop for a year now and was comfortable enough to just let it look at my storage and it immediately formatted. lmao.

I had 3 duplicate files on each drive and it was impatient and rushing and didn't keep one drive around before formatting them all.

Completely saved me the week of migrating files project I was dreading, thanks. Nothing invaluable but an insane amount of downloading to do and I'm on 5g in the woods.

Sometimes its just draw dropping at how stupid these can be, basically giving a 6yo RHCSE root access.