Tetsuo

@Tetsuo@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest that’s a bit of a red flag to me. Anyone can get hacked, sure, but we don’t know what malware was shipped with the builds, we don’t know what vector the hackers used to infect the builds.

  So I’m not sure I would be willing to give my YT credentials in this context.

  Anyway, since I have a WebOS TV :( I guess I will have to endure the official WebOS app for now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting ! Thanks for the suggestion.

  Although I usually have issues with third party clients all the time.

  On Android for example I used the following clients so far :

  • Vanced YT
  • Revanced YT
  • Freetube
  • Newpipe
  • Morphe
  • Grayjay

  All of them eventually failed or were down for extended durations. Point is, these third party apps are always vulnerable to YT purposefully sabotaging them.

  But I will try it out anyway I don’t have much to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking for a Linux OS⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They also said they play a lot of games so might as well have everything included. Especially when “onboarding” a former Windows user…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the time I dont see any ads on YT and I watch a lot of content there. It’s getting harder to not get ads there on all my devices but it’s doable.

  But when I go see my parents, I use their smartTV to watch YT. And I realize how horrible the experience is with all the interruptions and the impossibility to just focus on what you are watching.

  And yesterday I got multiple time for a crypto scam called Ryxero or something. The scam was using AI clones of Bernard Arnault, a french billionaire, pretending you could win 1000€ a day…

  The scam also had deepfakes of news outlets pretending that people in France were “queing to ATM” to get their money…

  I think it’s absolutely unacceptable that YT let them serve crypto scams to millions in complete impunity.

  I will try to report the scam to authorities. I also reported it to YT but I dont expect them to act. The 3mn long ad was paid by an american business called “EX” which I think serves their scam abroad through YT in complete impunity.

  For me the scam and AI clones is obvious but how many got scammed with the complicity of YouTube ? Hundreds ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking for a Linux OS⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You should recommend Nobara then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Here would be my list of games that I think are either enriching or artistically so noteworthy they have to be shared as much as possible, and also that would run on fairly basic hardware :

  • Factorio (with the space age DLC) : This is a game about logistic and automation. It teaches a lot and could even open new paths for younger players. It teaches you to itterate, to optimize and to scale things up. I think it’s very much educational. It’s not for everyone but for some it might be a great opportunity to learn.

  • Hades : Great game to discover the Greek mythology. Beautiful artistic direction and outstanding music.

  • Ball X Pit : Less educational or artistic but a great game for all to have some Arcady fun. I think it would fit well for a game to be borrowed for a few hours of fun.

  • Hifi Rush : Am amazing rhythm game that should run on modest hardware.

  • Dredge : A beautiful game about fishing. Great story and art.

  • Stray : 🐱

  • Outer wilds : Do I really need to explain why ?

  • Dispatch : A story game that would fit very well to be borrowed in a digital library.

  So a bit of an eclectic list with some games that requires to have at least an old gaming setup or at least slightly modern integrated graphics but I believe many people would at least like one of these game and grow from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree completely that it is scary we use extensively something that we truly dont understand. But even with the cleanest and most open source and open weights model ever, this statement would be just as true.

  With parameters in the billions all interacting with each others it’s extremely hard to analyse. LLM are inherently hard to understand fully not really because of the opaqueness of the training data but rather the raw number of parameters involved in inference.

  I would certainly be more appreciative of an open weights model were we destroy the environment (I have no choice in that) but at least we get the resulting matrix of parameters rather than OpenAI shit were we have absolutely nothing.

  IMO a model like Deepseek is most certainly a clone of someone else model that published their open weights. An open weights model enabled someone else to build on top of whatever controversial base was used. So at least it can be used by a wider audience and the original trainers don’t have their say in what you do as long as you respect the licence.

  I think the above process has pretty much nothing to do about the struggle of some linux dev losing hair trying to make sense of a Microsoft obfuscated binary…

  I guess many will not share that “lesser evil” point of view on open weights model but it’s not like anybody is gonna stop the AI conglomerate to do their shit in the complete dark and under no regulation whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But a modeled isn’t “compiled”.

  The weights are fully readable. Every single one of them.

  In a binary you have to use special software to get to the source code. The weights are the source and can be freely used to create a model with. The weights are used “as is” no transformation has to be done like when reversing a closed source binary that could also use obfuscation to make it more difficult.

  That’s why I would like to insist that open weights are not like a binary as they are usable as is essentially. When I use a model like that my computer is no executing the weights like instructions. They are aptly named “weights” for a reason and are a mere reflection of what the model learned through training.

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  Disclaimer, below this is the explanation between a closed source binary and open weights by an LLM :

  A closed-source binary is like getting a sealed, opaque machine. You push a button, it gives an output. You have no idea how it works inside.

  Open weights are like getting the complete, labeled blueprints (architecture) and the exact, measured specifications for every single component—every gear, wire, and circuit (weights). You don’t have the designer’s engineering notebooks (training data/recipe) or the factory that built it (training compute), but you can absolutely build the machine yourself, measure every part, swap out components, and try to improve it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding was that the weights were the “essence” of the training.

  I think it’s a bit misleading to present them as “executables”.

  I agree that open weights is a bit of marketing mumbo jumbo but I wouldn’t say they are akin to a closed source binary.

  That being said I was just reading an article about LLM sleeper agents and their trigger words… So you can hide stuff on training and it’s fairly hard to spot with just the weights.

  But again it’s not really like a black box executable. And I’ve seen many great models that successfully builds on top of an open weights model.

  In the end I much prefer open weights to the very popular “‘’'openAI”“” that have opaque training and weights…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the mention of the Apache 2 licence?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Closed source model? What do you mean?

  Isn’t this open weights?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I would bet the people hosting the StopICE website knew very well they would be the target of all kinds of attacks.

  That doesn’t make them cybersecurity experts but I wouldn’t be surprised they would have put multiple layers of protection on the site.

  Especially when tracking ICE agents you wouldn’t want the people reporting their position to also be trackable…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for someone that is very knowledgeable In a project they would probably somehow now if there is vibe coding. I think this will affect brand new projects but not that much of the older codebase. Even think it might enable finding old bugs in old open source codebase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he means a paywall that replaces the content rather than cover it. You can’t bypass a paywall that replaces the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I had the opposite experience and never had a “paywall remover” work :/

  I also tried the weirder techniques like stopping the load of the page etc but it’s not very reliable and rarely works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great paywall. I guess I’m not reading this article.

  And then La Verge will wonder why it can’t keep readers on their website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably my main issue with Windows : Its ability to change settings on its own.

  I feel like I have almost not control over my OS. It’s not a tool that helps me do stuff, it’s a dum assistant that thinks he understands what I’m trying to achieve.

  “Oh you plugged a PS5 Dual Sense controller I see, let me switch your microphone to the controller even though you are actively already using another one”.

  “Oh you put your computer before going to sleep? Let me switch it on In the middle of the night to update, we will call that a mandatory maintenance because you can’t disable that feature”.

  I really need to spend more time on my Linux boot rather than this shitty W10 setup".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft worker unions confirm call for global strike as publisher proposes 200 voluntary redundancies in France⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Multiple of the devs of Clair Obscur are ex-Ubisoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing would prevent you from communicating with a Graphene OS phone. It’s a smartphone OS, not compiling Arch here…

  But use whatever excuse you can find to stay in the Apple ecosystem, that’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *UK announces largest ever facial… * ಠ_ಠ *recognition rollout as part of policing reform. *

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The beginning of the end of Ubisoft.

  I’m glad the devs of Clair Obscur got out of this and did their own shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guide - How to buy DDR5 in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can do a memtest with Windows included tool that doesn’t require to install anything. Type memory check or something in the Start menu and the system should require a restart to boot on the memtest.

  But obviously setting up a dedicated thumb drive can be useful too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dealing with faulty RAM modules in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By spreading I meant thar if there is an underlying manufacturing defect it would be really difficult to predict where and when it would happen on memory. And if there is already a fault detected more might come later.

  But I’m glad you documented how to do these types of workaround. It might be helpful with memory prices skyrocketing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dealing with faulty RAM modules in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool to be able to do that even though I’m not sure it’s worth it to run a RAM module that has a known defect.

  If the fault spreads there will be corruption again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody got the feeling some games may be negatively affected by a PiHole ?

  It’d not really the reason I stopped using it but I suspected that some games didn’t like it when PiHole was up…

  Anyway this post motivated me to reinstall my RasPi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do Experts Turn Sheep Hide Into Soft Leather?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the spam sheep post…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it a key difference though ?

  If you exploit people that has only one choice : Taking whatever shit job they can… Barely paid enough to survive. They are not slave per se but their boss couldn’t be happier to have cheap labor that has no leverage whatsoever and would accept anything anyway.

  To some extent I think some big business are borderline slave owners even though you could say all their slaves could leave their job and die from hunger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we will see very soon with the release of Arc Raiders…

  (According to IGN it’s a Fortnite clone pretty much because you have a pickaxe and it’s TPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend this great video from Scott Manley on the NTSB report :

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMUjCZ7MMWQ

  He also has a previous video that is more speculative before the report but very interesting anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US charge tariffs on handbags from France?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t worry about it, it’s in their interest to inform their clients and I wouldn’t think they would blame a consumer for tariffs they have no control over.

  It’s possible they might not know but it’s worth asking.

  Good luck !