Links June 2026

June 30, 2026| etbe| 0 Comment| 23:53

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This is amusing, a flaw in the crypto-currency Zcash allowed generating Zcash from nothing and there’s no way to know if anyone did that [1].

Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article for Locus Magazine about corporate valuations and why companies claim SciFi technologies [2].

Charles Stross wrote an interesting retcon of James Bond [3].

Trakkr.ai has an intresting post comparing political bias in LLM models, the site has lots of other comparisons of models too [4].

Wouter Verhelst wrote a blog post about his tested usage of LLMs for code generation and the conclusions about what it will do to the FOSS development process, not a lot of new material but he put a lot of good ideas together in one place [5].

Here is the git repository for the programs used for the ssh-audit.com site, really good setup for checking ssh configuration [6].

The isaiprofitable.com site is periodically updated with the profit/loss totals for AI companies, no surprise that every company is losing money apart from NVidia and NVidia are investing in the other companies [7].

Elvira Bary wrote an informative article about Russia’s inability to build or design anything good [8]. Looks like we are at risk of another Chernobyl…

Lev Lafayette wrote an interesting blog post about the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer with over 10,000,000 cores [9].

Point Free wrote an interesting blog post about running the Gemma 4 LLM which is 25G of data at a usable speed on a Xeon system with DDR3 RAM and no GPU [10].

[1] https://tinyurl.com/2cxx2e6h
[2] https://tinyurl.com/2cxotle7
[3] https://tinyurl.com/2bgapt88
[4] https://trakkr.ai/bias
[5] https://tinyurl.com/22s2fome
[6] https://github.com/jtesta/ssh-audit
[7] https://isaiprofitable.com/
[8] https://tinyurl.com/26p4lkr4
[9] http://levlafayette.com/node/808
[10] https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/

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