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IshKebab

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IshKebab··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Yeah because vibe coding has only really worked for 3 months. Give it a chance!

It'll probably be a couple of years before most companies even realise it's an option.

IshKebab··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Oh don't worry, shitty WebOS is enough to put me off that (I unfortunately own one). However in this case we were talking specifically about that recent study of the effects of opt-outs, and for LG TVs the opt-out did result in the no longer detecting any tracking.
IshKebab··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Yeah I agree. There are only very minor differences.
IshKebab··on Root shell on Samsung TV
I'm pretty sure it was actually LG?
IshKebab··on Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built
Have you tried the alternatives? This is clearly far far superior in terms of fluidity of conversation.
IshKebab··on Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
I'm surprised it took this long! Clearly the next step is joint training on text and audio. The speech realism is very good, but the intelligence is pretty clearly 2024-level.
IshKebab··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Yeah I don't understand why these new data centres are all in populated areas. AI isn't latency sensitive. Put them in some remote location surely?
IshKebab··on Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name
Criminals have some brains. What do you think they'll do when they figure out that crimes under $1k go unpunished?

Look what happened with shoplifters.

IshKebab··on PHP 8.2.35
Probably a couple of dollars. In reality I'd probably just ask Claude to set up dependabot or something then it's essentially free.

That forum software is around $500/year (if you want your own branding which I assume they do).

To be fair that is more reasonable than I expected, but still... PHP.

IshKebab··on Claude Duet
You assume your email is public information?
IshKebab··on Claude Duet
What about Gmail?

I wouldn't give Anthropic this much access to my life, because frankly they haven't built up enough trust. Google have been pretty good for decades so I'd me much more likely to trust them. I'm sure they're working on something identical that will likely be able to take better advantage over integration into Android, Chrome, Gmail, etc.

IshKebab··on PHP 8.2.35
Ask Claude to do that. Well within its capabilities.

I get how this sounds if you haven't used it very recently. There's no way I'd trust Opus 5.0 with that task.

IshKebab··on Mistral Large 4
Uhuh

https://www.hirundo.io/blog/qwen3-coder-vulnerabilities

IshKebab··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
> disabling the progress-something-flag and (optionally...) disabling multipart-uploads would have nicely mitigated this.

I wouldn't be so sure. Many vulnerabilities have been "fixed" by blocking the particular ingress path of the demo exploit, and then it turns out that there were plenty more ways to exploit the bug, they just picked the easiest one.

IshKebab··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
Can you be more specific? Why is it an insult?
IshKebab··on Rust Style Guide
Yes mine is, because they have a huge amount of C++ already and none of it is publicly accessible so security isn't a concern. (Obviously there are many other reasons to prefer Rust, but that is a big one.)
IshKebab··on Mistral Large 4
> I see no difference between a chinese model hosted in Europe vs a Europe-grown model.

Really? Fascinating. Do you know about Tiananmen Square, the great firewall of China, etc?

IshKebab··on PHP 8.2.35
I don't quite follow. You'd replace it with an entirely vibe coded version. It looks like a standard phpbb style forum so that would be trivial for Opus 5.5.
IshKebab··on PHP 8.2.35
> The entire world should use 2x more compute" is not a real answer.

Not in general no, but it is for PHP. If you cared about a 2x overhead why are you using a language with 10x overhead (conservatively)?

IshKebab··on PHP 8.2.35
Kind of is though, now that vibe coding actually works and doesn't produce slop. At least if you have $1k or so to burn on Opus 5.5.

Just point Claude at your PHP and ask it to rewrite it in Rust. I know it seemed crazy when Bun did it (and it probably was), but it actually works now. (And please try it before you say "that's what people said 6 months ago" or whatever.)

IshKebab··on Good type against all odds
Interesting. I don't see any evidence that the stadium is 4 characters though.
IshKebab··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
Ok enlighten me then.
IshKebab··on UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules
Uhm yes? Defense spending was widely thought to be immoral in the UK. That absolutely changed when Russia invaded Ukraine.
IshKebab··on UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules
Did you even read it? They did give a reason ("due to the nature of your business") and it's been brought up in the house of lords precisely because it isn't a single person.

What a weird response.

IshKebab··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
There's literally no joke there. What are you talking about? If they were trying to make one it doesn't make any sense.
IshKebab··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
But you have to be able to prove who you are. I can't just ask for any old phone number to be deleted.

In any case the instructions don't say to lie about it, so this seems fine either way.

IshKebab··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
> This is just telling the chatbot to lie

Is it? Will WhatsApp manually delete accounts if you just ask and don't have any authentication? That seems somewhat unlikely.

IshKebab··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
Why? It looks exactly like what WhatsApp said it is.

Save your cynicism for where it actually makes sense.

IshKebab··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
Sorry but there's no way that assembling libraries - even stupid ones like left-pad (which I'll note was an extreme example) - is in no way comparable to just saying "Claude make this program for me", which is pretty much where we are now. My wife can do the latter but not the former.

This isn't just "a bit more automation". It's "now we don't need lift operators".

IshKebab··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
It's definitely amazing being able to just make things with so little effort. I'm finishing so many unfinished side projects.

But I would prefer to have a job.

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