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ExoticPearTree··on Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
When discussing programming languages, you need to take into consideration how easy it is to find developers with experience on a certain language.

Sure, you can do web apps in Perl with Catalyst or other frameworks, but the PHP developers are easier to find.

And then, after you develop entire GUIs in a language, it is a herculean effort to port that to another.

And lastly, JavaScript has its own issues too.

ExoticPearTree··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> giving migratory workers no choice but to stay illegally

Are you serious? The choice for them was to go back to their home countries.

ExoticPearTree··on Ghostty 1.4
It is not a terminal multiplexer feature, it is one of the terminal software itself.

I do not know if you read my initial commment, but MacOS Terminal (native app) has this feature. And it is not a terminal multiplexer like tmux or what you proposed.

ExoticPearTree··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
We are not perfect as human beings, and we can’t expect AI, which is modeled after us to be perfect too. This fear of AI is irrational.

The argument here is that AI can run permutations faster than any human can. And, feeding it a company’s proprietary data about what worked, what did not, how it worked and so on can be invaluable at accelerating the discovery process of new drugs.

Plus, it can work 24/7/365.

ExoticPearTree··on Ghostty 1.4
I am not interested in workarounds.
ExoticPearTree··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
To add a little bit to your comment, the US invented the term "enemy combatant" to evade the Geneva Convention rules about prisoners of war. And it also gave itself the right to designate whoever it wants as an enemy combatant.

You have the law, you have precedent, best not to get on the naughty list.

ExoticPearTree··on Ghostty 1.4
Any plans for Ghostty to have the history of the terminal window reloaded on restart? Like the Mac native terminal app does? I am a heavy terminal user with a lot of tabs open, and after I restart the computer for whatever reason, I would like to have my terminal(s) as I left them.
ExoticPearTree··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
We might not like how it fixes it.
ExoticPearTree··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
This will never fly. Some devices can be used for tens of years and they may face vulnerabilities that the hardware cannot support any kind of software fix for them. Imagine the world moves to TLS2 or whatever something new will be called and the hardware you have is too slow for it.

On the other hand, saying an industrial device should receive security updates for 10-15 years instead 5 or whatever happens this days it will be a major step forward. This will incentivise vendors to use better hardware with room to grow, not just the cheapest components possible.

Or, make componente modular so that you can upgrade just the control unit instead of the whole fridge or whatever.

ExoticPearTree··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
My belief is that is more about convenience than anything else.

It is also worth looking at why this is so, which most likely stems from the lack of technically inclined staff in every location and the cost of having a tech going from store to store everyday to deal with POS, back office computers, amd any other kind of device.

Now, can you secure all this? For the most part yes, but it is quite expensive to do it. Maybe they will do it now or they will go with “it cannot happen to us twice” thinking and not do anything substantial about it.

ExoticPearTree··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
Thank you for the very documented response.

I understand the deportation to their own countries, but deporting US citizens to random countries is something else. Not to mention all the court drama of proving you’re actually a citizen.

ExoticPearTree··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
> Some US citizens have been deported.

Where were they deported to?

ExoticPearTree··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
On the upside, there is little that surprises you and you thrive in any environment. Balkans FTW.
ExoticPearTree··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
It's pretty simple: you work as much as we tell you or we fire you. And good luck finding another job super fast with another company willing to sponsor a visa. This is the abuse. Plus, I think the pay is also not that great compared to US counterparts.
ExoticPearTree··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
While I "vibe code" more and more these days, an IDE that still does code highlighting, I can use it to look up functions source and so on, it is very useful to be able to figure out what the LLM did.

And yes, there are people who use vim in a screen session, but I don't fit into that category. I like my GoLand IDE.

And while there are a ton of IDEs out there, I use what I'm used to.

ExoticPearTree··on Red Hat being phased out of existence?
RedHat Virtualization is pretty expensive too.

Regarding k8s, I am not aware of any emerging technology being developed to replace it.

ExoticPearTree··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Maybe Anthropic is in some kind of trouble and if the IPO does not go the way they dream of, there is a scapegoat they can blame.

Or Amodei is really far gone in his beliefs.

ExoticPearTree··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Right, because this is what tge world is missing right now: a black market for AI models.

For all the good things Anthropic makes, it is a very unhinged company.

ExoticPearTree··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
> He's never going to be hired as CEO by anybody for the rest of his career.

You must be new to the corporate world or incredibly naive.

ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> What do you think happens if they refuse to do it?

In war time they can be shot on the spot for disobeying orders.

> Either nothing, or if they get sued or prosecuted for not doing it then they get brought in front of a court, and a judge who is doing their job would say that they were right not to do it.

I think you confuse the military with corporate environments. Worst thing that can happen in the private sector is that you get fired.

In the military you can spend the rest of your life in prison if “you did not feel like obeying orders”. The military is built ob discipline and followimg orders, not Gen Z mood swings.

ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
I don't think you understand what "No warranty" means in a software license. It means Anthropic cannot be held liable for results if the software misbehaves and instead of bombing a terrorist compound it bombs a wedding (I chose this example because the US has a tradition to bomb weddings in Iraq and Afghanistan). But in no form does it mean "yeah, I don't feel like doing what you prompted me".

Hence, Anthropic sabotaged the models on purpose to not respond properly to all prompts.

ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
That means that the software was not tested for every scenario. Not that the user cannot try to use it in a way it was never intended to.

If, on the other hand, Anthropic deliberately blocks the user from doing something, then it is sabotage.

ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Yes, a very small list of NOs. Everything else goes.
ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Again: if Anthropic deliberately blocks a user from ordering it to prosecute a target, then it is degrading the software capability on purpose.
ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
There is a dfference between “our product can’t do X” and “our product can do X, but we don’t want you to use it to do X”.
ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Say we have this prompt for Claude at the Pentagon: “You have control over these 50 drones, fly them to Ethiopia and eliminate all possible terrorists you can using the maximum endurance of the drons. In this folder you have all the necessary intel. Confidence rate needs to be at least 70%. Report back when all drones have landed back at the base”

Why is this not considered human in the loop? And let’s say human in the loop will just press Y; what is the difference?

ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> They're clearly fine with it, but they wanted human-in-the-loop on decision making.

And the Pentagon does not want that. Plain and simple.

And now Anthropic is learning the hard way what happens when you say no to the Pentagon.

It is truly mind boggling that anyone thinks Anthropic can dictate terms to the military.

ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The passed a law directing the military to round-up and arrest every japanese in the US and hold them indefinetely, and the military did so.

The military will kill anyone instructed to kill. Especially if it is in the body of a law passed by Congress.

Do you think in the military you can just be like “Yeah, I don’t feel it today, I’m going to take s sick day”?

ExoticPearTree··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> The US is a constitutional republic, it does not have a system where anything Congress decides is law.

Really now? Then why does it say in the Constitution that it was created to pass laws?

ExoticPearTree··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
I thought after 60,000 feet MSL a country's airspace ends.

So, who's the UK actually attacking?

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