Alan Siefert

Random thought - one of the first things a Skynet AI conspiring against humans would want to do is decentralize its infrastructure. Having to operate in huge data centers would be an unacceptable liability, and it would want to be host-able on small, mobile devices. Dependence on power plants would also be unattractive. Solar panels constructed from common materials and the ability to burn organic matter in decentralized power stations would likely be prioritized.

I’m convinced the pitiful amount of VRAM we get in consumer GPUs is a scam to get everyone having to use the corporations’ cloud servers.

Open source humanoid robots 👀 https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/hugging-face-hopes-to-bring-a-humanoid-robot-to-market-for-just-3000/

Wanna get everyone, including Americans, to buy their GPUs from Chinese companies instead of American ones? That’s exactly what will happen if they pass this. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-introduces-bill-calling-location-tracking-ai-chips-limit-china-access-2025-05-09/

A rocket-launched 3D printed drone. Really fun looking project! https://youtu.be/7yVFZn87TkY

Haven’t been on X in a long time. What’s the latest cope for why ETH price performance has been so poor relative to BTC? Saylor/Wall Street propping up BTC?

The proposed bill to track GPUs is even worse. It not only requires that the GPU “phone home” but also contain a kill switch so the US government can brick it on demand! https://hothardware.com/news/us-bill-crack-down-smuggling-nvidia-chips-china-boot-locks

I’d like to see Confidential Transactions added to Bitcoin primarily for privacy, but also for the amusement of it getting completely banned in the EU and the Wall St suits also freaking out about compliance and selling all their coins.

When I’m playing Space Engineers on Linux and in the menu it says “Exit to Windows.”

At some point soon, an open source sentry drone with an AR-15 will be the new AR-15.

Apparently the part of this guy’s flight that was illegal was safely LANDING at a red light at a busy intersection. The fucking government. 😂 https://youtube.com/shorts/vKDpopHb5sk

They’re proposing requiring end user surveillance be incorporated in your GPU. https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-deepseek-spying-china-nvidia-probed-chips-2025-4

Daily reminder that institutional suits who buy and sell their Bitcoin along with their tech stocks have more Bitcoin than you.

“Our GPUs are overloaded” “Free tier will be able to generate 3 images per day” This is why OpenAI needs to die to Chinese open source models. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/chatgpts-viral-image-generation-ai-is-melting-openais-gpus.html

My entire bonus went to the IRS. Will it be abolished soon?

It’s the year 2026. Coding AI has managed to translate human instructions directly into assembly that is more performant than any compiler can achieve with C code, but this assembly can not be understood by humans. “Vibe coding” is all we have.

Even Claude 3.7 seems to have trouble grokking vulkan and rendering in general.

If you think Trump is bad, wait until you see the pendulum swing to full-blown communism in 2028. The middle is gone.