WhiteDawn

This is all great to get full unfettered access to your own system, as life should be. I’m sure Xbox and PlayStation security groups are a little nervous right now though. Getting ring-0 on those mach…

I hope in my lifetime we discover a way to predict earthquakes better, the danger to life from them would be significantly less if there was sufficient notification. We can alert for storms, tornadoes…

In fairness, games didn’t start employing encryption on the content till the 7th generation. So unless you’re applying ips patches to a 360 game you’re not breaking any DRM Playing the title you backe…

It will be a push and pull and I'm curious where we'll be in a couple of years. I can fly at 100mph if I let AI run loose and with a bit of steering I can get it to output what I'm look…

Clearly hyperscalers are seeing datacenter commitment exceeding demand, and are now running PR campaigns to have the public push back against construction to get them out of their contracts. Joking co…

Thank you for the link to the post. It was a fascinating read and also entertaining. After seeing the story of the fruit fly brain simulation I figured stuff like the nematode would be trivial. The la…

Reminds me of this classic: https://xkcd.com/505/ Replace universe simulation with a LLM an it’s hard to consider a bunch of rocks shuffling on a beach as conscious. Or alternati…

It’s true, but hosting prices are still within spitting distance of rolling it yourself. SOTA providers are expecting some level of margin. Companies everywhere have a tight eye on their AI bills righ…

Once someone generates a MTP layer for 26B A4B 4 QAT I'll be singing from the hills with my 5 year old GPU.

Honestly it’s been amazing for me for similar reasons. Also diagnosed ADHD. Starting projects has always been easy. But once I figured out the hard stuff and then had everything figured out and only s…

Really their best card is new and additional APIs, building incentives to develop against it. WinRT (not to be confused with Windows RT, the early ARM version of windows), UWP, GDK, xgameruntime. All …

This is neat, but I think the most interesting part is that it's one of the only models fully unencumbered from copyright. Everything in the training corpus is public domain, guaranteed by the ag…

First you need to get through the safety net. I’ve had many productive gpt5.4 sessions hit a roadblock of “ethicality” and pollute the context with multiple rounds of trying to convince it to continue

Regular local agent. Seems like as soon as the context fills up (and it only has about 160k of context so that doesn't take much) it starts to fall to pieces. I even tried using opencode as a har…

I wouldn't mind this change that much if opus-4.7 worked properly in copilot cli. It keeps stopping mid-thought or task and forces me to waste more prompts for no observable reason. Looks like I&…

Microsoft put AI, Tabs, a login portal, a 'search with bing' action and text formatting on notepad before a 'redo' button to pair with the 'undo' action. That says everyt…

I really dislike the precedent this sets. A silver lining if this maintainer ends up being in the right is that any proprietary software can easily be reverse engineered and stripped of it's lice…

I’ve used AI for some reverse engineering and I’ve noticed the same thing. It’s generally great at breaking obfuscation or understanding raw decompilation. It’s terrible at confirming prior work, if I…

The Stuntman series is a still painful example. Blame the odd non-IEEE-754 floating point implementation changing physics enough that AI fails most of the missions which softblocks progress quite egre…

And similar to olive oil. Once you taste the real deal, it's very easy to identify the fake/watered down stuff by taste alone.

In theory the chipset max is 2GB, but the physical motherboard does not have enough address lines traced to support more than 256MB. Adding more memory would require a PCB redesign

Citation needed? The study concluded in Sept 2023 but no results were provided. Are results on these studies usually so delayed? Perhaps they didn’t get the expected result?

So last minute that the AMD engineers found out Microsoft went with Intel at the Xbox launch party [1] [1] https://kotaku.com/report-xboxs-last-second-intel-switcheroo... …

Great post! I find the quote from Bunnie in the blog pretty relevant: “The JTAG boundary scan approach was rejected on the grounds that the TRST# pin, used to hold the JTAG chain in reset, was tied ac…

I am curious how this will all settle out in the end. I think the majority of users don’t really care about the API or subreddits going private as they primarily just lurk. However, the people that do…

Personally I think this is the biggest selling feature of FPGA based emulation. The reality is both Software and FPGA emulation can be done very well and with very low latency, however to achieve this…

Counterstrike through the ages used to be a paid product. After a ban your whole account was locked down, so in a practical sense it used to always have a 20-50 “escrow” fee to join the pool of legiti…