Steppenwulf

IT consulting in the streets, electrical engineering in the sheets
Patiently building modular PCBs and ergonomic peripherals

[Steppenwulf @PalmsBurnt]

Optimizing manual computer operation til the day I die.

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@ludwigABAP I'm in

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How is this not a supply chain risk

[NIK @ns123abc]

BREAKING: Microsoft exploring DeepSeek over OpenAI and Anthropic as Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based pricing

“We have users who do hundreds of tasks a week… the consequence is the costs can go very high...”

Jevons paradox

[Steppenwulf @PalmsBurnt]

This is seriously impressive if true

[鱼总聊AI @AI_Jasonyu]

兄弟们，我一直有个判断：OCR 这种活，早晚会被多模态大模型给吃掉。

这周看到百度发的 PP-OCRv6，我改主意了。

一个 1.5MB 的模型，能直接塞进浏览器里跑，单图最快 97 毫秒就能出结果，逐字识别的准确率还反超了 GPT-5.5、Gemini-3.1-Pro 和 235B 参数的 Qwen3-VL，我有点震惊了！

对做产品的人来说，这比「又一个 SOTA」重要得多。我有测试，先往下看 👇

[Steppenwulf @PalmsBurnt]

The French are doing God's work.

Every time I suggest Linux + OSS office apps to a client, they look at me like an alien, but realistically it's downright stupid that they don't do it.
https://t.co/mP0pcZAa6v

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@wyrecap @buccocapital @grok did this actually happen

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Anyone who thinks this should be a primary device and not a peripheral is 100% cooked

[Nathie @ AWE @NathieVR]

Evan Spiegel showing off the new Specs AR glasses to the public for the first time.

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@teortaxesTex Interesting. Slope indicates that they have the most efficient reasoning.

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@pmitu Hipster coffee shop

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@rfleury Then why use MSVC?

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@the_tech_space @ThePrimeagen aura -5

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Zed should allow a minimal MIT fork

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Is this real?

[Rich Pluta @Rich_Pluta]

Just ran into Modal Motors. Non-rare earth electric motors for drones and robotics. Similar costs to Chinese motors, all U.S.-sourced. Incredible.

[Steppenwulf @PalmsBurnt]

@OliverMolander He wouldn't do it

You couldn't pay him enough

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Windows is so broken

It's still better than MacOS though

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

My family moved to the US when I was 8, but by the time I turned 20, my dad was still on an H1B (waiting to get processed for a green card).

Once I turned 21, I would age out as his dependent, despite the fact that I basically grew up in the US.

I thought I'd have to become a code monkey after college, and even that only if I was lucky enough to win the H1B lottery.

Otherwise, back to India.

I had become a huge fan of @paulg's essays in college. I was actually depressed that my desire to start a startup or do something entrepreneurial was basically hopeless.

Working on the promising podcast I was doing as a side project? A beyond impossible pipe dream.

Even after 9 years, my dad wasn't able to get a green card - and the lines were only getting longer over time. I figured I'd be an old man before I could quit some FANG job and build my own thing.

By some miracle, COVID travel restrictions cleared out the lines, and I got my green card literally months before I would have aged out.

If not for this unbelievable coincidence, I would not be hosting the podcast.

In the best case, I would be shifting pixels around in the 3rd sub-sub-menu of some big tech software.

I'm incredibly grateful I made it through.

But it's unconscionable that we put the kids of high skilled immigrants through all this anxiety, and in many cases make them repeat the nerve-racking indentured life trajectory that they had to watch their parents go through.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

We've gone really quickly from "local models are dogshit" to "local models are good actually" (like, a 12 month window from A to B). I don't think they're actually good ENOUGH yet. We need an Opus 4.5 quality local model. When that happens, I think the world will spill over.

Opus 4.5 is/was amazing, and is more than good enough for almost all tasks still as long as you pair with a frontier-level planner/judge.

It'll still require a hugely expensive machine to run it, I'm sure, like a $5K or more laptop or mac studio. But, that's going to be pennies compared to the API costs plus all the benefits of guaranteed privacy and so on.

[Steppenwulf @PalmsBurnt]

Wtf

Do they think GDPR is a moat or something?

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As of today, Hetzner has tripled their prices. Only existing instances are grandfathered in.

Good luck out there. Access to the future will not be free.

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Windows is unacceptable

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@lamps_apple @theo Is this fr