Ronald Rihoo
@ronaldrihoo.bsky.social
Technical founder. Privacy capitalist. Small Al models. Local offline Al tools.
The guy who'll get you the useful next gen tech that no one else will make, like robots that won't spy on you.
Privacy is a luxury.
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The guy who'll get you the useful next gen tech that no one else will make, like robots that won't spy on you.
Privacy is a luxury.
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Ronald Rihoo
@ronaldrihoo.bsky.social
· Sep 13
What I'm up to:
Products:
- full-privacy apps/gear
- productivity & personal health
- ML core w/ AI plugins
Services:
- media portal
- mini social
Open Source:
- modular tooling
- AI integrated inference environment
Market Development:
- local genAI book series
- topics: text, code, image, audio
Products:
- full-privacy apps/gear
- productivity & personal health
- ML core w/ AI plugins
Services:
- media portal
- mini social
Open Source:
- modular tooling
- AI integrated inference environment
Market Development:
- local genAI book series
- topics: text, code, image, audio
Some of the smartest people seem to focus too much on demand analysis even when that part can be very easy. (Examples: eggs, concrete, fabric, lithium.)
Often, it's the supply that's the real problem with easy demand.
(Bearing in mind that supply isn't just about the existence of the product.)
Often, it's the supply that's the real problem with easy demand.
(Bearing in mind that supply isn't just about the existence of the product.)
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Some of the smartest people seem to focus too much on demand analysis even when that part can be very easy. (Examples: eggs, concrete, fabric, lithium.)
Often, it's the supply that's the real problem with easy demand.
(Bearing in mind that supply isn't just about the existence of the product.)
Often, it's the supply that's the real problem with easy demand.
(Bearing in mind that supply isn't just about the existence of the product.)
I'm out to sell sweet lemons. People already want it, inherently.
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I'm out to sell sweet lemons. People already want it, inherently.
One might not even imagine purchasing sweet lemons if they don't exist in the market one visits.
But if they do exist there, then things change drastically.
But if they do exist there, then things change drastically.
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One might not even imagine purchasing sweet lemons if they don't exist in the market one visits.
But if they do exist there, then things change drastically.
But if they do exist there, then things change drastically.
Social media is not where tech change happens.
The market is where tech change happens. (I guess it can be a tricky word.)
This is where we exchange ideas and/or just maintain a presence.
I don't know who all made or influenced the tech that I use today. Do you?
The market is where tech change happens. (I guess it can be a tricky word.)
This is where we exchange ideas and/or just maintain a presence.
I don't know who all made or influenced the tech that I use today. Do you?
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Social media is not where tech change happens.
The market is where tech change happens. (I guess it can be a tricky word.)
This is where we exchange ideas and/or just maintain a presence.
I don't know who all made or influenced the tech that I use today. Do you?
The market is where tech change happens. (I guess it can be a tricky word.)
This is where we exchange ideas and/or just maintain a presence.
I don't know who all made or influenced the tech that I use today. Do you?
On December 1st, I'll uninstall Android Studio from my machines and never look back.
Android is quite possibly one of the saddest stories we've had in tech so far. (I'll tell some of it in a book.)
Moving to help develop PureOS for mobile devices and beyond. 🇺🇸
Android is quite possibly one of the saddest stories we've had in tech so far. (I'll tell some of it in a book.)
Moving to help develop PureOS for mobile devices and beyond. 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
On December 1st, I'll uninstall Android Studio from my machines and never look back.
Android is quite possibly one of the saddest stories we've had in tech so far. (I'll tell some of it in a book.)
Moving to help develop PureOS for mobile devices and beyond. 🇺🇸
Android is quite possibly one of the saddest stories we've had in tech so far. (I'll tell some of it in a book.)
Moving to help develop PureOS for mobile devices and beyond. 🇺🇸
My startups won't plan/release any apps or games for Android anymore.
We'll build a community around PureOS (hence the games too), and develop primarily for PureOS and iOS.
Otherwise we can't build for an environment in which full privacy is achievable.
I'm confident that Apple will accommodate.
We'll build a community around PureOS (hence the games too), and develop primarily for PureOS and iOS.
Otherwise we can't build for an environment in which full privacy is achievable.
I'm confident that Apple will accommodate.
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My startups won't plan/release any apps or games for Android anymore.
We'll build a community around PureOS (hence the games too), and develop primarily for PureOS and iOS.
Otherwise we can't build for an environment in which full privacy is achievable.
I'm confident that Apple will accommodate.
We'll build a community around PureOS (hence the games too), and develop primarily for PureOS and iOS.
Otherwise we can't build for an environment in which full privacy is achievable.
I'm confident that Apple will accommodate.
Freudian mythology created a subculture of mental-health hypochondriacism.
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Freudian mythology created a subculture of mental-health hypochondriacism.
One of the ways that I predict who has a chance to win and who is likely to lose is to consider everyone a potential winner until signs of loser-like tendencies are given at an individual level.
One sign is the attempt to crush the competitor(s). Why would a winner need to crush anyone?
One sign is the attempt to crush the competitor(s). Why would a winner need to crush anyone?
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
One of the ways that I predict who has a chance to win and who is likely to lose is to consider everyone a potential winner until signs of loser-like tendencies are given at an individual level.
One sign is the attempt to crush the competitor(s). Why would a winner need to crush anyone?
One sign is the attempt to crush the competitor(s). Why would a winner need to crush anyone?
Data brokers are s*** out of luck in pulling that off. There's no way they can get even remotely close to such an application -- not even partially.
Only certain first-party data collectors, like Google, can do it to a degree, and even they are better off with other (more invasive) methodologies.
Only certain first-party data collectors, like Google, can do it to a degree, and even they are better off with other (more invasive) methodologies.
3/ In order for an ML/AI application to follow along to the slightest degree of success (whatever that might be), it would need extremely precise data and continuous updates. The level of precision is crucial, as it must measure the potential weights.
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Data brokers are s*** out of luck in pulling that off. There's no way they can get even remotely close to such an application -- not even partially.
Only certain first-party data collectors, like Google, can do it to a degree, and even they are better off with other (more invasive) methodologies.
Only certain first-party data collectors, like Google, can do it to a degree, and even they are better off with other (more invasive) methodologies.
It appears very few people come to notice that the human experience is simple and semi-reproducible in partial portions over time across different people. I still haven't wrapped my head around it completely, but it's such a paradox: extreme simplicity running on extreme complexity.
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It appears very few people come to notice that the human experience is simple and semi-reproducible in partial portions over time across different people. I still haven't wrapped my head around it completely, but it's such a paradox: extreme simplicity running on extreme complexity.
After seeing how wrong and useless the data is from two of the top data brokers, I can't help but not take any entity seriously that uses their data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
After seeing how wrong and useless the data is from two of the top data brokers, I can't help but not take any entity seriously that uses their data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
Unfortunately though, regardless, some businesses have a far-reaching impact; and as for gov't agencies, I hope they collect their own data.
Greed, itself, is good in the sense of the economy. Otherwise many good things, like innovation and supply availability, would probably not happen often.
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Greed, itself, is good in the sense of the economy. Otherwise many good things, like innovation and supply availability, would probably not happen often.
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
It's the attempts to cheat that's bad, such as trying to cheat uncertainty. (It is desperate and it pisses everyone off.)
The data broker story is going to be a refreshingly thrilling podcast series one day...
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The data broker story is going to be a refreshingly thrilling podcast series one day...
Blog Post:
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
I Asked Two Data Brokers What They Know About Me; What I Learned and How New Laws Made It Possible
Plus, how you can make the same request
medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Blog Post:
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
"I Asked Two 'Data Brokers' What They Know About Me; What I Learned, and How New Laws Made It Possible"
By Nick Berk
4/11/2022
Looks like Acxiom sets random values for:
- income/worth
- how many kids one has (and their ages)
- interests
- and many other things
(The way I perceive data acquirer reactions would be.)
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
(Just in case the algorithm and the data available to it are good enough to resolve this...)
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
(The way I perceive data acquirer reactions would be.)
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
Google: "Challenge accepted!"
Amazon: "F*** me..."
Epsilon: "LMFAO! You were on planet MARS earlier! And the other person was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Watch me sell this! (lol nuh, you won't see it happening, but it will, though.)"
(Just in case the algorithm and the data available to it are good enough to resolve this...)
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
(Just in case the algorithm and the data available to it are good enough to resolve this...)
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
For the person whom, by one another, we passed in the parking lot earlier -- as somehow I got the sense that you'd take delight in listening to it:
Dreamwake - Sleep Cycle is what was blaring in my ears.
We have enough to see that the gov't institutions are not hiding things for the elite.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We have enough to see that the gov't institutions are not hiding things for the elite.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
More evident than ever, this is a colossal intertwined mess where there are victims, just people (unrelated to the former), and all sorts of stuff unrelated to the victims.
I really wish there was a social platform that only Americans (verified by multiple forms of ID) could join and access, because in times like this, we could communicate a bit more comfortably online. I don't even want to post my thoughts about certain things on here. Feels so freely exposed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I really wish there was a social platform that only Americans (verified by multiple forms of ID) could join and access, because in times like this, we could communicate a bit more comfortably online. I don't even want to post my thoughts about certain things on here. Feels so freely exposed.
It would probably be a really good idea to stop releasing that s***.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It would probably be a really good idea to stop releasing that s***.
2017 was a hell of a year for the human race. Pivotal.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
2017 was a hell of a year for the human race. Pivotal.
I saw a document just now on here. The comments were ridiculous. I was going to respond to one. Then I realized I'm the dumbass.
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I saw a document just now on here. The comments were ridiculous. I was going to respond to one. Then I realized I'm the dumbass.
I wonder whether anyone's been able to map out the analogy space with enough density to predict the next packet where some amount of preconditions are defined. I think maybe leaping closer to that may be one of the biggest advantages in LLMs, but the inference mechanism blows.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I wonder whether anyone's been able to map out the analogy space with enough density to predict the next packet where some amount of preconditions are defined. I think maybe leaping closer to that may be one of the biggest advantages in LLMs, but the inference mechanism blows.
Am I just an a**hole or am I right to be annoyed by all of these empty lines that LLMs like to put in Python code? (Even when the instructions stress that they must not.)
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Am I just an a**hole or am I right to be annoyed by all of these empty lines that LLMs like to put in Python code? (Even when the instructions stress that they must not.)
That may sound confusing. It's a reference to how a single unit of anything, give or take, is only approximately a single unit of whatever it is, based on the expected bounds.
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
You want signs of our inability to reason well in this complex universe? Just ask the most respected thinkers: did we invent mathematics or did we discover it?
We co-invented it with our design and not-so-impressive capacity to reason.
There's no such thing as a single "unit" of anything here.
We co-invented it with our design and not-so-impressive capacity to reason.
There's no such thing as a single "unit" of anything here.
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
That may sound confusing. It's a reference to how a single unit of anything, give or take, is only approximately a single unit of whatever it is, based on the expected bounds.
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
So, if you ordered an apple, and I served you a really tiny one, then you might say, "What the f*** is this s***?"
On that note, we have the ability to evolve by training. Perhaps neuroplasticity can help out, too.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.
Abstraction (via the miraculous ability to produce analogy arbitrarily) is how we've reasoned this far.
Our conscious experience -- while incredibly beautiful -- is not what's really going on around here. But I'm glad we have this. It's nice.
I just wish we could reason at higher capacity.
Our conscious experience -- while incredibly beautiful -- is not what's really going on around here. But I'm glad we have this. It's nice.
I just wish we could reason at higher capacity.
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
On that note, we have the ability to evolve by training. Perhaps neuroplasticity can help out, too.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.
Maybe if we work in that direction, then the neural networks will be induced to build types of circuits we've never had before for new modes of thinking.