Don’t you dare take away the little rest of the internet for me that does NOT constantly lock me out using the snake oil that is Cloudflare’s Turnstile.

16 hours later and it still doesn't load.

How dare you go online without a clean IP at a first world country home ISP! You should be subjected to 99 captchas a minute for it!

It’s even a residential IP from a German tier 1 ISP, as reputable as it gets. Works fine on computers and for everyone around me.

But somehow, Turnstile seems to think that traffic from a Linux phone == robot traffic.

Also 1953 (Operation Ajax).

If you're interested in this I definitely recommend you look into amateur radio licensing. I took mine a few years ago simply out of interest, and I learned so much from the advanced course.

VHF and UFH are so deeply embedded in technology we almost forget it's there. It's fun to sweep for other peoples environmental sensors in your neighbourhood, even more fun to track and listen to satellites as they pass overhead.

will it run GLM-4.7 locally at any speed?

that was my first reaction

I stayed near Dubrovnik in the summer of 2005. There was a wildfire burning on on the hills behind us.

The fire traversed the hillside, and every hour or two a landmine would explode.

This was ten years after the war.

10 years is a long time, but 10 years after a war is not a long time. Damages to building still remains, mines and plenty of unexploded ordinances will remain, and psychological scars are still very strong.

Yep, the city center in Belgrade still has dilapidated, bombed buildings, 26 years after the bombs fell.

We had some buildings like that in the center of Milan. I think that the last one has been restored in the late 90s.

In German cities bomb evacuation still happens several times per year. That's >80 years after. War sucks.

Ukraine is going to be absolutely covered in fiber optic wire and drone parts.

And unexploded lost drones that might look like toys to children.

Sounds like the cheapest way to remove mines from land.

It is not reliable though, so you still have to de-mine it the traditional way.

"Palantir's AI" is Anthropic Claude.

Depends on specific cases, I have on good authority of how in few "bleeding edge" ones they essentially repacked/wrapped YOLOv3. Purpose was specifically tracking in adversarial conditions (smoke, including smokescreen, obstacles, etc)

For realtime on the edge the YOLO series is pretty good, I don't think anyone would disagree. Most of the really advanced stuff like Vision Language models all require a lot more compute and power budget.

A bunch of what they were contracted for very much required realtime tracking at the edge

Yes the author of the Yolo series even wrote a blog post about it.

Why YOLOv3 and not something more recent? Like YOLO26 or something

I only have the reflection from "client side" saying that all the military contractors rolled in with essentially YOLOv3 wrapped in custom software

Why YOLOv3 and not something more recent?

> "mass domestic surveillance" - mass surveillance of non-domestic civilians is OK?

A favourable take would be he meant "mass surveillance of non-democratic adversarial countries". I agree it's not phrased this way though.

years ago everyone used a personal firewall called "little snitch" that would make this behaviour visible. Do we trust OS supplied security too much?