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LamaOfRuin··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
I would say that there is no such thing as firmware targeted for regular consumers. Regular consumers do not know what firmware is.

I am still disappointed that there is no kindle sized hardware that this can run on, but I think that has to do with manufacturers rather than firmware developers.

LamaOfRuin··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
None of them have asserted that export controls apply to whatever domestic distribution the administration says that never leaves the country.
LamaOfRuin··on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
I haven't done any math, but if you have individual users that can burn millions of tokens a day, then it does not take very many of them (at SaaS scale even limiting to power users) to hit trillions. And even fewer to run into problems specifically with time of use.
LamaOfRuin··on Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
The IRS's fillable forms do a perfectly fine job of copying values around and doing the basic arithmetic that they can automate.
LamaOfRuin··on Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
The commit would look exactly like that if it was a 100% deterministic transpilation (like Golang did with their original C implementation?).

This is obviously very different from that, but the way the commit looks doesn't make it so.

LamaOfRuin··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
Any car that can record audio in the cabin could have information about your sexual activity. Could also argue it based on location data.

Some laws require discussing very specific lists of categories of information they might have. I'm guessing this is a completionist CYA lawyer accounting for this.

LamaOfRuin··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
No, that's "lane departure warning"
LamaOfRuin··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
I'm thinking those prices are just for large sets of phone number ports/clones to get past 2fa on valuable accounts.
LamaOfRuin··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Yeah, and those amounts are much more common when organizations are pushing for users to make their donation a monthly recurring donation resulting in much smaller transactions.

I believe they use stripe and this would also include:

- subscription billing fee (up to 0.7%)

- currency exchange fees

- chargeback fees

- processing fees on refunded transactions

LamaOfRuin··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
The most recent report/breakdown I see:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-...

LamaOfRuin··on LittleSnitch for Linux
LS seems to not be claiming any security promise on Linux because it can't make any guarantees given eBPF limitations. But the entire purpose is different and there is very little overlap in my view. PiHole is entirely (I think?) just applying the blocklist made easy. LS allows you to build the blocklist in real time.

I would guess that to the extent the blocklists include things that are loaded by applications and not websites, they are almost entirely built by users of something like LittleSnitch or OpenSnitch. This is also entirely doable with wireshark logs, but I think that requires more infrastructure to build into usable lists.

LamaOfRuin··on LittleSnitch for Linux
That seems... not correct?

The comment was asking about preventing a compromised supplier for the developers.

A supply chain attack can be anywhere in the supply chain to the target. If I, the end user, am the target, then a supply chain attack compromising the developer of LittleSnitch is effective.

I may then be a conduit to compromising other software or components, and would both I and LittleSnitch would be part of the supply chain that could be attacked targeting them.

LamaOfRuin··on US Job Market Visualizer
This is in fact true (in the US at least), but part of why it is true is that people don't wash dishes the way they used to (with multiple bins of soapy + rinse water) and instead just run a bunch of hot water.

Modern high-efficiency dishwashers probably beat the most efficient humans now, but that's relatively recent and not a huge margin (and may not get the same results).

LamaOfRuin··on Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team
For those not aware, this is a specific feature available in Claude Code.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11932705-automated-se...

LamaOfRuin··on LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant
I believe they generally refer to themselves as open-core.
LamaOfRuin··on Mozilla's open source AI strategy
Opera was also essential at this point, not in terms of market share, but of innovation in the browser space with features that would eventually spread to everything else.
LamaOfRuin··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Some of them do. There are very few products or services where all of them will.
LamaOfRuin··on We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons
I am blocked from this post.
LamaOfRuin··on Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cool...
LamaOfRuin··on Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds
This is still just moving the heat around, but with metamaterials you can now passively convert the heat energy into wavelengths that do not get absorbed by the atmosphere and beam a decent chunk of it back into space.
LamaOfRuin··on Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
I didn't say it was clear, and I never said there was a defense. I implied that the wronged party in one case might want to be careful about raising the specter of liability or criminality.
LamaOfRuin··on Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
If Andre doing that was criminal, it seems quite possible that their original takeover of the github organization was also criminal?

I have been waiting to hear if there would be any civil action on it since it's not at all clear they had any rights to do most of what they did.

LamaOfRuin··on Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study
Yeah. The temperature issue would have been my first guess.

Regarding concentrating solar: are people still trying to make that work for commercial generation? I thought this had generally failed to pan out for electricity generation.

LamaOfRuin··on LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles
But linkedin is doing so in accordance with the legal agreement you have with them, which I am able to exit at any time and instruct them to remove my data. I can't do this for every company that illegally (in many jurisdictions) hordes information about me.
LamaOfRuin··on I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)
This is not the definition of a static site.
LamaOfRuin··on Framework Making Printers
I fully endorse this:

https://www.theverge.com/tech/641940/best-printer-2025-just-...

LamaOfRuin··on Use One Big Server (2022)
Linode was bought by Akamai. They immediately raised prices, and they have been, if anything, less reliable.
LamaOfRuin··on Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification
You've said this a couple times, but... it's not true?

Webauthn allows for software authenticators and there is nothing to stop you from transferring it complete with keys to someone else.

LamaOfRuin··on The hype is the product
Only if you redefine "reasoning". This is something that the generative AI industry has succeeded in convincing many people of, but that doesn't mean everyone has to accede to that change.

It's true that something interesting is happening. GP did not dispute that. That doesn't make it reasoning, and many people still believe that words should have meaning in order to discuss things intelligently. Language is ultimately a living thing and will inevitably change. This usually involves people fighting the change and no one know ahead of time which side will win.

LamaOfRuin··on Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC
There are no new native apps, only Electron or similar.

This is only sort of sarcasm.

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