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Yes absolutely!

is vnc ontologically a cursed mess, or is it a skill issue on my part (I'm trying to manage a headless macbook with a broken screen, current status: can log in with remmina, but tigervnc only makes remote beeping sounds. fine I guess)

LingBot Touch 🔥 JEPA based tactile foundation model for robotic manipulation, from Ant Group - Tiny + Small - Apache 2.0 - Unifies 3 tactile modalities: magnetic, piezoresistive & visuotactile - Shared Transformer for heterogeneous tactile sensors - Learns contact structure and temporal dynamics

turns out all the embargoed android security releases through may 2027 can be recovered in less than an hour by glm-5.3-flash comparing certain binaries. if anyone cares

I'll preemptively say that I don't do damage control for people I never met IRL, but I also don't join dogpiles. If you want me to "pick a side or else", please spare us both the trouble, and proceed immediately to "or else".

Okay new rule anyone who tries to show me a callout post gets blocked and anyone who tries to DM me on other platforms like Discord or Signal to show me callout posts gets publicly shamed for being a terminally online shithead with no sense of boundaries or propriety.

SEXY CHINESE SPY: so tell me more about mixed-precision compute and how it affects the overall thermal envelope of consumer boards vs datacenter buildouts

This made a lot of people who wrote about these things lose their minds and desperately try to fit it to their views. It's why the shoggoth meme is so popular, despite making no sense. There's no secret monster behind the chatbot persona that is the NN. They're the same entity.

People accused Jensen Huang of being compromised because he advocated for selling Nvidia GPUs to China. I mean, duhhhh... Imagine the CEO of Nvidia actually trying to sell Nvidia products to one of the world's largest markets. The audacity!