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byDan East
2026 @07:27AM
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Attached to: 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night
Whenever they invent this I hope they name it the Thermoelectric Generator. Although in actuality I think you're hoping for something magical that can overcome the second law of thermodynamics and do this with extreme efficiency.
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byDan East
2026 @07:08AM
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Attached to: Radiologists Catch More Aggressive Breast Cancers By Using AI To Help Read Mammograms, Study Finds
This technology has been used in the US, even at very small hospitals, for years. Our local hospital uses iCAD, and recently "upgraded" from the older on-site processing to the cloud-based version.
It places virtual markers (not actually on the images, but in a separate data file that mammogram viewing software understands) that indicate places of concern (areas of extra density and the like).
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byDan East
2026 @11:42AM
(#65956820)
Attached to: Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Child Near an Elementary School in Santa Monica
Yep, according to the article:
Waymo said in its blog post that its “peer-reviewed model” shows a “fully attentive human driver in this same situation would have made contact with the pedestrian at approximately 14 mph.” The company did not release a specific analysis of this crash.
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byDan East
8, 2026 @03:05PM
(#65955054)
Attached to: 'Clawdbot' Has AI Techies Buying Mac Minis
I was basing my comment about local model support on this:
https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot/issues/2838
Clawdbot currently supports model providers, but configuring local inference engines such as vLLM and Ollama is not straightforward or fully documented. Users running local LLMs (GPU / on-prem / WSL) face friction when attempting to integrate these providers reliably.
Adding official support for vLLM and Ollama as first-class providers would significantly improve local deployment, performance, and developer experience.
So it sounds like it is in the realm of possibility, but being neither documented nor straightforward sounds beyond the reach of most normal users.
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byDan East
8, 2026 @09:43AM
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Attached to: 'Clawdbot' Has AI Techies Buying Mac Minis
Just to be clear here, Moltbot does not run AI inference locally. You connect it to your standard AI services (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc), which do the actual AI processing. What Moltbot does is connect those things to other things, like to Whatsapp.
In fact, even if you do have your own local inference engine running, like a llama model, Moltbot can't work with it currently. It ONLY works with the big AI services.
It really is just glue to connects things together, and is so lightweight it even runs on a Raspberry Pi with 2GB of ram. So I'm not sure what all the Mac Mini hubbub is about. The ability to run this on Amazon's Free Tier shows just how lightweight and little processing it does (it's just formatting and moving chat messages from one thing to another basically).
To earlier commenters saying that Peter Steinberger is missing the entire point of running locally when he recommends AWS - you aren't understanding what Moltbot is doing. If you're already committed to using online services for the fundamental AI inference itself, it doesn't matter that Moltbot is running in the cloud too.
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byDan East
2026 @03:47PM
(#65953106)
Attached to: Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic
This could the end of Mozilla. Sounds like a make or break type investment for a non-profit.
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byDan East
2026 @10:11AM
(#65952222)
Attached to: How Anthropic Built Claude: Buy Books, Slice Spines, Scan Pages, Recycle the Remains
Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion in August
Settled with who? Who got $1.5 billion dollars?
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byDan East
2026 @08:03AM
(#65951982)
Attached to: TikTok Alternative 'Skylight' Soars To 380K+ Users After TikTok US Deal Finalized
The platform will only have succeeded when "creators" and "influencers" can monetize their crap, and massive bot farms are hitting the platform to generate fake views and upvotes. Only then will it have reached TikTok level "success".
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byDan East
2026 @08:00AM
(#65951974)
Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
I've not bothered to read the actual lawsuit, but most likely Whatsapp really is fully end-to-end encrypted. So if the lawsuit is asserting what the summary says, it will fail.
However, if Meta really can read messages, then they have copies of all the private client-side keys stored on their own systems, thus they can decrypt any message they want (and potentially be hacked and expose all the keys as well).
In other words the communications are protected against any man-in-the-middle, except Meta that is.
180659984
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byDan East
2026 @11:44AM
(#65950234)
Attached to: World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say
We're not ready for extreme cold either.
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byDan East
2026 @08:14PM
(#65948892)
Attached to: Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers
Yeah, and I'd like to know how they're going to regulate interstate travel in that regard, as far as ordering a 3D printer from China and expecting it to have this restriction.
The thing with so many of these gun laws is they're going after more "exotic" or esoteric things, when the vast majority of gun deaths are from run of the mill pistols that are everywhere.
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byDan East
2026 @01:49PM
(#65942376)
Attached to: Schools, Airports, High-Rise Towers: Architects Urged To Get 'Bamboo-Ready'
It makes great scaffolding too!
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byDan East
2026 @08:58PM
(#65936040)
Attached to: Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books
This doesn't make sense. They just need to download the data from the torrents. You don't have to ask Anna's Archive for this. It might take a number of days, but surely they would want their own local copies and not try and access it "on demand". Also, Meta is already known to have downloaded their data a year ago
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byDan East
2026 @07:39AM
(#65928864)
Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
What blows my mind is a company that large can invest that amount of money in a "trilogy" without any kind of plot line or story to to map out three films. Especially when the plan is to have three entirely different directors for the films.
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byDan East
2026 @09:18PM
(#65922806)
Attached to: Pentagon Purchases a Device Allegedly Linked To Havana Syndrome
This is a very misleading headline based on what the article says. The summary makes it sound like the Pentagon had this device in Havana and their own device caused this syndrome. That's not the case at all.
The Pentagon purchased the device as part of their investigation, and they tested the device and determined it could be the cause of the injuries and symptoms. It contains Russian components, but that doesn't mean that Russia deployed it or even made the complete device (although that is likely).
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