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SuspiciousCarrot78

@ SuspiciousCarrot78 @aussie.zone

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  • Ad-free streaming is a luxury now

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  • Despite setting up SmartTube for them, my parents still sometimes watch Free2Air TV. If you think YouTube is bad....jfc...try Aussie F2A TV.

    As for radio...I either listen to music on my USB stick or I play AM only stations (or occasionally, on a long drive, AntennaPod - gotta get that sweet Coast to Coast Art Bell on at 2am).

  • Lumo 2.0 is out

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  • I use proton for email and cloud drive (non critical files obvs), so I'm playing around with this a bit out of curiosity (and because I can't run 27B or GLM at speed locally).

    For basic, throw away tasks (ala super Google search, fact check what I writing, edit this email etc), it seems to work OK. Worth dicking around with while building out own infra.

    One interesting thing (above ZDR) that I've noticed is that the actual prompts seem to be obfuscated cryptogenically. Can't say I've seen that before. If it's truly E2E, that's something.

    Given that GLM is the brains of the operation, I'm willing to poke around with Proton a bit as an alternative to OAI and Anthropic for simple tasks. I'm suspicious of their claims but willing to give them a fair shake and do my own due diligence.

    On that topic, some discussions uncovered

    https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/proton-markets-lumo-as-open-source-but-support-calls-it-a-long-term-intention-not-the-instantaneous-state/30004/2

    https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/lumo-protons-ai-assistant/35373

    EDIT: scuttle butt has is that Lumo 2.0 Max (which is GLM 5.2 undoubtedly) has --ctx 128K. They also have compaction ; I hit auto compaction today at 68K, which is somewhat conservative.

    Still no idea on quant etc but it does seem that answers a few questions - lite is most likely Qwen 3.5 27B thinking, Max is GLM5.2, context is 128K. I haven't noticed any of the famous Qwen thinking loops yet; perhaps that explains why compaction is set to 50% total ctx.

    Total usage / daily requests are still obfuscated and quants not known. The android app seems to use a very poor version of Vosk for STT (basically unusable). Image gen and OCR are decent.

    In a perfect world, preference would be given to running GLM and Qwen 3.5 at home and then accessing via wireguard or head scale. This may be an interesting middle ground for (we) GPU peasants.

    Not sure where I sit with this; am documenting what I find for others / not endorsement of proton (I have no relationship to them).

    Given that most of us use cloud AI also, this might be worth considerations.

    NB: there appears to be a Lumo plug in for VS codium; I have no indication as to if there are separate usage pools for chat and code (like ChatGPT) or all roled in one (Claude Pro). Probably the latter.

  • Price hikes pushing consumers to abandon their favorite brands

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    • Brands increase prices
    • People stop buying brands
    • Brands cry foul
    • Oh no! Anyway....

    The trick, William Potter, is to bleed the people just enough to satiate your parasitism without exsanguinating them, eh?

    Gee, we've never seen that trick before.

  • Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

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  • Does shreddit not work any more?

  • Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

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  • Ah but redreader parses old.reddit.com. So with the proposed changes, you will probably need an account to use even the excellent RedReader.

    IIRC, when the APIpocolypse happened, Reddit tried really hard to nerf Redreader. They got shamed into allowing it access again on accessibility grounds.

    It's only a matter of time before it stops working.

    Take solace in knowing that "lol, fuck reddit then" is a perfectly cromulent response to this.

    I just hope Lemmy doesn't become Reddit 2.0

  • PlayStation will no longer be offering games on disc

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  • Oh no! Anyway...

    EDIT: Just to be clear, I am not dismissing OP. I'm saying "fuck Sony" and "this would be a good time to convert to PCmasterrace or go retro"

  • Lumo 2.0 is out

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  • I have a strong feeling that lite is Qwen 3.5 27B and Max is GLM 5.2, based on the AAII scores on protons announcement post. 27B thinking is closest to 34 AAII and only GLM hits 51. So as fingerprints go....

    But the fact that Lumo won't reveal specifics / inhibits that at system prompt level (despite broad family id being cooked into weights) sort of belies the transparency angle for me. What else is being obfuscated? I can't even uncover what fair use is - how many messages per hour etc

    Logical inference then - opacity is driven by profit margin preservation and competitive insulation. If you can't calculate the mark up by query (vs OR) then you might be paying 5-20x mark up.

    Sits funny amidst all the privacy and transparency cosplay.

    At least they're not building autonomous weapons but treating open weight models as commercial secrets is sorta off putting.

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  • Nice LLM you have there. Be a real shame if one that costs 1/10 the price (and another that can run on a consumer rig self hosted) could outperform it.

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  • Storage?! In this economy!?

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  • Ive seen LTO for sale in person at the $300 USD mark...but I admit that's a rare occurrence / fire sale. So that "as little as" is probably not fair. Sorry and retracted.

    EBay shows some in the $1200-1500 USD range (and maybe closer to $3-4K brand new).

    That now makes me feel stupid for walking past one at $300 ("tape drive? Who the fuck needs that ancient shit") but I'm willing to bet that wasn't a lto-8, in hindsight.

    Even my LTO-3 claim is not as remembered; I can find a lto-3 for $60 USD here locally (not the $5 I jokingly claimed), with cartridges in the $15 USD range.

    https://ebay.io/m/1UST3Y

    https://ebay.io/m/Gcf77T

    Not bad, but not 12TB per cartridge.

    All of this to say; the DVD shuffler + pi intermediary (+ NVIDIA shield if needed) is probably the genuinely better version of this. Bizarrely.

  • Commodore listened, and the Callback 8020 is now $100 cheaper

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  • Huh. Thought it was stock standard AOSP - perhaps the Aussie version is different? There are a few rebranded versions of the same hardware; you might be able to find something non proprietary. I think the underlying model is UNIWA if you want to go spelunk direct listings

    https://opelmobile.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OM-TouchFlip-A4.pdf

    Where did you find the info that the TTFone uses a fork - XDA? Possibly it can take CFW?

    In any case, if it's no go, it's no go.

    PS: The other target might be a the Cat 22 flip but that thing has a face only a mother could love. I have seen clean CFW of the Duoquin models too - multiple threads on XDA - but that's candybar not flip

    PPS: let me spelunk the 8020 for a minute. I have to imagine it's an off the shelf re-badge. EDIT: Hmm...looks like it's bespoke enough to NOT be a simple Shenzhen rebadge job.

  • Commodore listened, and the Callback 8020 is now $100 cheaper

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  • Yes - I have the rebranded Aussie version

    https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/opel-mobile-touchflip-4g-flip-phone-optouchfp

    It runs Android 8.1 and had no issue running Molly the last time I tried it. I really like that little nugget - let me know if you want a list of apps or launchers for it. Note: you'll have to use Fdroid, Droidify, Aurora store or direct apks, as it doesn't meet play store compliance.

    If the TT990 is android 14, then it should work even better.

    I can also confirm that my Duoqin F21 runs either just fine, but that's cheating

    https://qinphone.com/products/qin-f21-pro-smart-keypad-phone-compact-2-8-inch-touchscreen-android-11-4g-lte-single-camera-google-play-support-ideal-backup-work-phone-porcelain-white-iron-grey

    Back to the TT970; the keyboard is fantastic (download the true TT9 app) and it even runs futo voice (albeit a touch slowly). If you get one, try to get the 1750mah battery - it helps.

    Standby is just bang on 2 days for me.

  • Ad-free streaming is a luxury now

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  • What's an ad? 🤔

  • Commodore listened, and the Callback 8020 is now $100 cheaper

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  • Storage?! In this economy!?

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  • Some people just want to watch the world burn

  • Ad-free streaming is a luxury now

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  • Good luck with that. I still have functional PCs that are 20 yrs old and perfectly fine as Jellyfin servers.

  • Commodore listened, and the Callback 8020 is now $100 cheaper

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  • Commodore listened, and the Callback 8020 is now $100 cheaper

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  • ...because Kaios is essentially dead?

  • Storage?! In this economy!?

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  • Stop enabling my drug addiction :P