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re: Official LLM discussion thread

Posted by Dallaswho on 7/23/26 at 5:54 pm to
Just use deepseek 4 flash. It averages 1 cent per million tokens and is multiple times bigger and better than anything you can run on a $5k-10k rig.

I think the most I’ve ever spent on it in a day is about $4 and that was about 400,000,000 tokens.

For frigate, I just use whatever VLM is free on openrouter. I don’t care if they see my butt. It’s just for enhancing semantic search which 1) already has image embeddings 2) I don’t use much at all.
I just did 9x cheap BRK a couple months ago. Had to send one broken one back. Supposedly there is a little zwave adapter you can buy to tap into the signal wire and it’ll let you know when they go off, just not which device triggered the alarm. I figure me or whoever responds can find a fire. Maybe if my place was 2.x larger, a fire might be harder to find.

re: Best fire stick to buy

Posted by Dallaswho on 7/22/26 at 6:35 pm to
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Zero reason to break them.


I give them a pass on the smoke detectors because those expire. Cameras and thermostats don’t naturally expire, but Google expires them for you.
Ya I still don’t think automation changes human I/o. If it’s for hobby/leasure, you want as frictionless and light as possible. Never seeing it is optimal.

If it’s for business, you would ideally want 100% of your effort and attention while taking in all information possible and continuously learning and improving. Big data surface, lots of information in front of you.

I spent a decade working normal hours in the office with all information and tools possible but overnights and all weekend I would rely on others to relay information to me because our business did not stop. In those cases, same as when in office and dealing with field employees, I would use iMessage/SMS or email if I wanted a record of the transaction and a voice call if I did not want a verbose record of said transaction.

I’m not sure that kind of liability filtering can be replaced by machines but also our obsession with liability is why western society is getting rapidly leapfrogged.
Maybe they should make a product people actually want to buy instead of using financial tricks or working with governments and telcos to limit competition.

I guess they tried that from 2007-2012 or so but option B is much more profitable.

Seriously their last “must-have” feature was waterproofing a decade ago and everyone else already had that.

The green text comment is exactly why everyone should stay away from Apple. There are a dozen free and open e2e encrypted messaging methods out there but they choose to build and maintain their own because they hate you and their entire business model is to make sure you rely on them so you can’t leave.
Ya in that case, I don’t think you can break the standard of having 3-4 screens or one very large one in front of your face. A lot of people have written books or viral posts on how they accomplished great things by doing very little or how they got smart listening to pod casts but those are either exceptions or even more likely people benefiting from the efforts of others or just lying for attention.

All that aside, I think people value fantasy over utility and will happily invest in an interface that gives them less work and more freedom.
I’m on the side where there should be no dashboard. I have home assistant but haven’t opened it more than 2-3 times this year to work on assist. I’ll say voice commands or I have my own PWA that is much lighter and faster that I’ll use to open the garage or turn on the hot tub or anything where I’m not near a smart speaker. I work on the PWA a lot but that’s a hobby thing. If I want an automation, I navigate to /srv/ha/ and type “cline” and tell it to make it.

I guess next step would be to give the smart speaker agent full agentic coding loop abilities but I’m not that interested in doing that.
This is good stuff but it relies on the idea that software should be written for humans at all outside of media and communications. When the human becomes the bottleneck as you describe, the simple solution is to remove the human.
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China requires direct government access to all devices operating in china.


Unlocking China domestic models is complex. Global models are fully unlocked and can be run fully open source. Western telecom models go back to mimicking China domestic models.

If China is directly spying, it’s almost certainly through we chat and xiaomi because everything there works with those platforms.

re: What did I just watch?

Posted by Dallaswho on 7/19/26 at 10:39 pm to
Ok I’m back. This bothers me. Every big North American sport, you can damn near kill an opposing player intentionally and you get a swift penalty then we go right back to fair competition. Nobody punishes the whole team indefinitely. That’s North Korea shite. How can you legitimize an 11 on 10 competition? What mental gymnastics does that take? There’s no argument for that. All sports have ejections, foul-outs, whatever. That’s normal. I’m just lost with this soccer thing. I wanted Spain to win until I found out they had an extra player.
Ya I tried using agents in crappy local models a long time ago and it turned me off of them. Big mistake.

Things are really good now though. Something dirt cheap like deepseek v4 flash is totally capable of safe agency. With open router, you can always go to opus or fable if you need more smarts for a task. It’s just alt+m and switch. If already on OAI I think some of their subs support codex which can also command CLi.

Basically use chat bots for questions but coding agents if you want to work on things. “Things” can be reports, contracts, code repos, whatever.

Recommend cline on Linux just because it takes 5 minutes to set up and default settings are near perfect. Claude code is more configurable but I don’t see myself needing that for local stuff I have CLI access to. It’s more to get around enterprise red tape.

Just remember to ask it to use sub agents instead of flooding your context for random code searches.
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once I’ve got some time.


Spin up a CLI coding agent and work 10x faster than ChatGPT or if you’re adventurous, you don’t really need to be present. Just put locations and keys in your project and run it as a sudoer. Act mode, approve all. It’ll figure out the rest.

re: What did I just watch?

Posted by Dallaswho on 7/19/26 at 5:46 pm to
Ya that’s 15 yards and a player ejected. Might have some impact if it’s a key player or key down but you move on and play 11 on 11.

re: What did I just watch?

Posted by Dallaswho on 7/19/26 at 5:37 pm to
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So you just had to come here to brag about that!



No just wonder if that’s something the game is worried about because it’s such a foreign idea to what Americans are used to where we award penalties and then move on and compete.

re: What did I just watch?

Posted by Dallaswho on 7/19/26 at 5:33 pm to
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new soccer bros


lol that was first game and there probably will be never be another.

What did I just watch?

Posted by Dallaswho on 7/19/26 at 5:31 pm
2 dumb fouls I don’t understand.. and it’s 11 on 10?

End of regulation, still 11 on 10?

Other team scores, still 11 on 10?


If FIFA wanted to get Americans into soccer, they really screwed up. We want to see people compete.
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Duckduckgo is also banned in their free and open economy. CCP bot.


You’re confusing censorship rules with industrial rules. They are not related. Censorship is done on the network.
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Google is banned in china, Mr. Free and Open. You're a fricking


China bans all anti-competitive practices meaning almost everything Google does is illegal there.

Hiding search results behind adds, deliberately giving bad results first for more clicks, proprietary doc formats to lock in ecosystem, selling user data, locked platforms, locked app stores, all illegal there.
This one just came out last week. I only have one 2-series at home (2020 era 2441) and video is crappy compared to 5442/5449 but still rock solid. It’s just crazy they release world-class optics straight into the budget tier.

We’ll have a bunch of YouTube’s in a week or so. Maybe it’s a gimmick but I’m getting one anyway.
Dahua just released world’s first 4MP 1/1.8” f0.8. Instead of releasing it as some experimental high end camera, or even a $300-600 pro model, they released it right into their super budget $100 2-class.WTF is happening?

LINK

Us lowly Americans can pick one up for a little extra.
LINK
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Free and open, Jesus Christ!


It’s their public economic initiative since 2020. It’s not some secret. Google says it extends to 2035 so 5 years was an underestimate but they typically plan in 5 year iterations which enables a little more strategy than our three month cycles.