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05··on Fox to buy Roku
I know about the feature, I'm just saying it only works in the first party app and you can't make in work in e.g. Infuse. [0]

[0] https://community.firecore.com/t/use-siri-to-enable-disable-...

05··on Fox to buy Roku
A cheap Android TV box. Between lack of proper hardware acceleration for 4K/Dolby Vision decoding and lack of sleep(!) support, I would never recommend that hardware, the ones that are actually recommended by the community are RP5 ($$$) and especially Intel Nx00 (N100 etc.) which are actually the gold standard of mainline(-ish in case of RPi) codec and hardware support.
05··on Fox to buy Roku
If the box where I can’t set up a third party player to do the ‘replay last 5 seconds with subtitles on’ because it’s all locked down is the best then I don’t want to know what the worst is, I’ll just keep using LibreElec. At least if LibreElec does something I don’t like Claude can fix it.
05··on Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
Cheap model replaces trigger words with something innoculous. Of course, this breaks dynamic analysis if malware has unpatched integrity checks
05··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
The thing with analogies, we can make them go either way.

It's like having sex after a whole day of sex work. Exhausting.

05··on A crime doesn't make a child an adult
> The Marquis de Lafayette and James Manor were just 18 when the revolutionary war started.

And Thomas “all men are created equal” Jefferson raped his slaves[0], and then enslaved the resulting children, but we don’t do that nowadays either, because I guess some things changed since 200+years ago?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_slavery

05··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Newer NVidia cards (H100 and up) support both in-memory model encryption and ‘trusted’ execution environment/remote attestation, not sure how widely used in frontier model deployments, but at least vendor claimed perf overhead is ‘3%’ [0]

[0] https://www.spheron.network/blog/confidential-gpu-computing-...

05··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
I assume they’re encrypted/DRM’ed when deployed on inference hardware, so only core researchers/sec admins would potentially have some access to unprotected weights, and they are far too well paid to risk it leaking the model
05··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
There are also lots of cheaper SoMs if you're not allergic to Chinese chipsets, and the cheaper ones tend to have PoP on-package DDR so you can spin your own 4-layer PCB without having to pull your hair out impedance matching DDR3+ traces. That, of course, if you can fit into ~64MB RAM.

> The kernel contributions are also a bit on the shakier side which requires spending expensive developer time to deal with kernel

NXP/i.MX are way better at mainline kernel than Broadcom that RPi is based on, come on.. and they have cheaper options like i.MX 9 series. Other vendors, yes, mainline support could be pretty spotty.

05··on 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack
images/screenshots could have watermarks, recreations don't. Sources = not the people who created memes, sources here just mean people who sent the screenshots to the journalist.
05··on Apple WWDC 2026
The other side of it is forced obsolescence where new OS makes your existing hardware slower. So I wouldn't upgrade my phone beyond iOS18.x purely for performance reasons but if there's a killer feature in a new iPhone I would still consider buying it because its hardware was built to handle the new effects and extra ram it needs.
05··on Apple WWDC 2026
Opt out all you want do you really think Apple doesn't know what OS version hits their APIs?
05··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
> I don’t think a for profit company has provided a GTK or qt app for Linux in the last 20 years.

DaVinci resolve is QT. But making a video editor performant in Electron is even harder than writing it in C++..

05··on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
EUC or FPV are closer, FPV is also safer..
05··on Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack
The author didn't go far enough, should have ripped out the battery holder, installed a single lifepo4 or lipo, added a USB-C charging/protection board and a low quiescent current LDO to simulate 2.7V a couple of freshly charged nimh's puts out.
05··on India's surprise baby bust
Or: boring people who have nothing fulfilling in their lives often report having children is the most fulfilling?
05··on The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography
> has access to a separate, encrypted, higher-precision GPS signal.

That's not it, though. This is available on the consumer L1 band, and you can even read that info using a $5 Ublox receiver (UBX-RXM-SFRBX command).

05··on JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil
Okay i'm officially a dumbass - looking at the pinout i can clearly see Arduino pins and normal GPIO pins are mixed up on the board I used (seeed xiao rp2040). Arduino strikes again!

Just checked - of course if works fine on proper pins

05··on JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil
'Connect under reset' is an STM32 thing, nrf52840 can't really do that and the probe doesn't use hardware reset pin. Once the MCU is out of pin reset, Ctrl-AP can hold the mcu in soft reset, but that's the standard behavior.

The difference between Pico and Pi Debug Probe are those 100Ω resistors on CLK/DIO lines, so I guess it working for you means I need to try again with resistors soldered.

Thanks for verifying it works!

05··on JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil
I tried to use picoprobe to debug an nrf52 chip, it failed to even detect it.. All that’s officially supported is using it to debug a raspberry pi, and maybe if I added 100Ohm resistors to the lines I would have had better luck, but.. alas
05··on JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil
Doesn’t look like openocd is getting dirtyjtag support any time soon, the PR has stalled since 2003 it seems https://review.openocd.org/c/openocd/+/7344
05··on News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
I have one running Klipper on a modded Ender3.. but I agree with the sentiment.

They also make OK Kodi/Libreelec boxes due to better documented video decode silicon (Intel still better at that).

05··on Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
Or make water relativistic, xkcd What-If style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbzrrcQZjs&t=155
05··on DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
Worst thing China can do is steal your IP if you’re not a Chinese national and have no ties to China. Worst thing US can do is use your chat history in court against you. Still safer to use Chinese servers if local is not an option for the task.
05··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
H1B and O1 are dual intent..
05··on Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
Of course it does! Inter-layer adhesion is lower than the adhesion within the same layer, so it's often recommended to orient the print in a way that maximizes strength - especially for tensile loads. Sometimes it even makes sense to split the part so that you can print each of them optimally (flat side on the print bed) and get the best strength for the dominant load directions. That applies to functional prints - for decorative stuff you use the direction that gets you the cleanest print.
05··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
> It'd stop the supply chain attacks too.

Yeah it’s hard to write a loop that makes an adversary agent write and mask malware then runs a scanning agent and if the malware is detected gives the detection details to the adversary agent with instructions to hide it better..

As usual, the attacker only needs to get lucky once.

05··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
That vote happened in 2022.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_annexation_referendums_in...
05··on Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
You optimize for no support when selecting print orientation (but for anything semi-cylindrical like described that would be the only sane orientation and the one slicer would choose when you smash the 'Auto Orientation' button).
05··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
And considering before you had only 5 hour Flash quotas and now the same quota applies to Pro and Flash and AG CLI (meanwhile Gemini CLI which had independent 24h quotas is getting killed in a month), once you run out of a couple 5 hour windows that's it for all usage (pro or flash) for a week.
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