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Gander5739··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
The article https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/09/23/ai-written-spee... has some data on this (it uses Pangram for the classification).
Gander5739··on The Surprising Popularity of AI
https://wallhop.io/https://www.economist.com/international/2...
Gander5739··on Security Disclosure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Gander5739··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Without wanting to sound too critical, that sounds like you're trusting vibes over statistics.
Gander5739··on Passkeys are not a trap
> Right now I see no compelling reason to switch from regular OTP codes. Change my mind.

The phishing potential?

Gander5739··on Passkeys Are Not a Trap
Well, KeePass is self-hosted, and I hadn't heard of strongbox before, but it says on the website:

> Store your data anywhere you like, online or offline. Sync with every major cloud storage provider or your own server over WebDAV or SFTP. Use your Strongbox database with any KeePass compatible client on any platform.

Gander5739··on I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
> Bounties exist to make it nominally more economical for researchers to report exploits than it is to resell them.

Is this really true? After all, reselling the exploit would be illegal, and most people don't want to break the law to earn income.

Gander5739··on People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media
Surely at least some part of this is confirmation bias?
Gander5739··on NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
These are known as contronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym
Gander5739··on I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
For the uninitiated: https://xkcd.com/378/
Gander5739··on Scraping TikTok's Mobile API
The database is available on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/datasocial/tiktok-5.6B-video...
Gander5739··on Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
I believe the image would need to be present in the full size image, so I think that would limit to some extent the attack vector, but I don't know how far you could push it.
Gander5739··on Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
How would that work in an attack?
Gander5739··on Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
But Google is responsible for jxl-rs. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome#safety_f...
Gander5739··on Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858810 [Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners] (4 days ago, 666 comments, 206 points)
Gander5739··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Thank you, that comment told me everything I wanted to know.
Gander5739··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
> according to available statistics

I appreciate you basing your argument in statistics, but if you have them to hand, could you link to them?

Gander5739··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
It's not that well known, but mpv supports playing youtube videos. I think you need yt-dlp installed.
Gander5739··on F-Droid 2.0
What features does the wireguard app have that alternatives like WG Tunnel or KabelWacht lack?
Gander5739··on F-Droid 2.0
I've found Droid-ify more reliable at doing background updates, though it still only manages it sometimes (possibly due in some way to how I installed the apps). Hopefully Fdroid's app will be better at this.
Gander5739··on Tokens too cheap to meter
What is considered a good metric?
Gander5739··on Claude Opus 5.5
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892
Gander5739··on Claude Opus 5.5
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803863 (or vice versa)
Gander5739··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
I don't think it's entirely the same situtation with ads on a blog you read for free vs ads on a device you pay a lot of money for.
Gander5739··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
https://xkcd.com/221/ for those not in the know
Gander5739··on Towards Self-Driving Codebases
Even very basic games can be fun (e.g. tetris). Though maybe the funness of a game is more an art than a science.
Gander5739··on GitHub is having trouble counting things
There are solutions: https://xkcd.com/3062/
Gander5739··on Article wasn't written by an AI. So what if it had been
https://archive.ph/fnLwE
Gander5739··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
Isn't the article about obtaining root from an unprivileged app? The recent GhostLock exploit is potentially usable for this purpose, for instance.
Gander5739··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
What's stopping you from rooting it and then sshing in? You can then run the adb commands using root access.
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