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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Qwen 3.6 and gemma4 models are the only ones usable for agentic prog sessions that I and my employer run locally. It’s less stable and slower than third-party services, even on much better hardware (as it’s with my employer). The best way is to go with a provider hosting deepseek flash/pro if your privacy policy allows though. It’s going to be hard to beat their price.







  • Right. But that was from a time where it was your friends and family who had your number, so having to change it was a major hassle not only for you. With it being asked by so many services, that’s eventually ending up in the dark web.

    Many people don’t call anymore. A similar group blocks all calls from unknown numbers due to constant robocalls. So a phone number today is just another data point to fingerprint someone. Its usefulness turned into an artificially created need by services that want a cheap way to tell real users from robots.


  • yeah, phone numbers have been used primarily to fight spam and fake accounts, so my guess is that this practice will become even more common with stricter policies around phone number registration. I hate it.

    This basically turns phone numbers into a deregulated government ID number. You’d think they had learned something with SSNs by now.