Magicrafter13

Kinda just fun to watch. Like the old days of Sethbling making neural nets to play Super Mario World, but now with multiple players at once, so we can see co-operation take place.

I don't understand why a modem would need additional hardware to do its own dialing. Why couldn't the software just send the dialing pulses/tones?

Is it something to do with a difference in voltage between dialing noises and regular calling noise?

That's what happens when the real world starts to hit us all, and we realize that the push towards college when we were growing up was largely propaganda (not to say teachers don't really believe in its usefulness, but they can't back it up with facts).

I was 'lucky' enough to only spend $30k on my seemingly-useless Computer Science degree. If I could go back and do it again, out of high school, I would go to tradeschool to become an electrician.

What a waste of money though, I wonder what else that $30k could have gone towards... or hell, just keep it as investments. A $30k piece of paper is in my bedroom though...

I'm not really that upset about college itself, I'm upset about all the people around me who fed me the lie (that they too believed), that getting a degree somehow sets you apart and unlocks all the high paying jobs. I think a master's degree holds more weight, but still.

So, they've discovered capitalism?

What's crazy is that most of the accusations against his moral character are true. He caused a great change to take place in the nation, but he was not an upstanding individual outside of that.

Good thing the FBI doesn't do this anymore hahaha yes we are certainly safe and they are definitely not infiltrating groups and people's minds in order to discredit and trick them into failure.....

The random number generator didn't produce the number I wanted? Shocking!

In all seriousness, uneducated people should not be setting up LLMs (or, frankly, even using them depending on the circumstance). Understand what the technology is. It isn't intelligence, it isn't a person, it's math. Vector encoded data.

Once you recognize that all outputs are possible, including all possible negative outputs, you will be much better at determining proper sandboxing/boundaries.

If you run an LLM and give it two tool calls: read_file and curl, you can have all your data exfiltrated (and, depending on how bad your setup is, it might only need curl...)

Certainly not true in every culture. Because this is not an intrinsic truth of humanity. The evils the author sees as exceptions are actually the rule of our nature, but for one reason or another, most people (in some cultures) these days choose to operate on better principles because the outcome is preferable.

A murderer might enjoy killing, but will only be able to do so for a short time before being caught and imprisoned (or better, executed). But few people have ever been jailed or hurt for exercising charity and kindness on others. It's not that humans are normally or mostly good (we're very clearly not), but that living as such tends towards better and longer lives.

So in that sense I also believe, for the most part, that those around me are more willing to help than to hurt. Sadly those with the most influence on our lives don't represent a random sampling of "most people".

A probabilistic technology (yes I know you can set the temperature to 1, but no one does that, and the output is still not efficiently predictable) is doing "formal verification" now?

Or are they just saying we can use LLMs to generate a piece of code/test that can do formal verification?

not that bold, but I suspect a discussion on the topic would either be unfruitful - or if it was a good conversation, would be shutdown by the site operators

doesn't Apple require a name and a zip code? I would call that unnecessary, even if they wouldn't.

> Any government-approved payment system is ... auditable

Sure, I don't dispute that. Which is also why I wouldn't really call a government-approved system private (unless there are some shenanigans going on).

be that as it may, a general reader will consider a lack of anonymity to not be privacy-friendly - so it appears as deceptive marketing

projects cannot control what people think, but they can control what they say, and attempt to word things in the best way possible

Even I, as a non "general reader" consider this service to be non-private.

a literal interpretation of what I said would be a person, but you could also interpret it more broadly as all demon-kind

both work, and it doesn't really change what I was saying, though my authorial intent was in fact to refer to the person

We should have listened.

a beautiful (static?) website for showcasing a beautiful cipher

excellent work on both fronts (solving, and showcasing)

while he failed to demonstrate that the spirits of men continue to exercise control over this realm (after all, is it not Satan who presently rules this world?), he left something beautiful and interesting that genuinely took a while to solve considering how close it was to the computing revolution

are you the guy working at Chainguard publishing images...?

that may become clear from deeper reading, but from a cursory glance at the home page they claim

> privacy-friendly online transactions

so I believe any reasonable user, without digging more deeply, would not come to the conclusion that they are complying with KYC laws.

another proprietary browser gone? oh no! anyway.

The vast majority of people won't notice if you dilute their food/drink products to save money. Doesn't make it okay.

Many of these are months old, why are they being announced as if they were brand new?

I mean honestly, CVE-2026-23137 doesn't affect kernels after January (6.18.6 and beyond), so even LTS kernel users should have the patch for this for several months.

Don't get me wrong, informing people is good, this is just a strange wall of every kernel CVE this year - the kernel has a lot of CVEs every year (moreso lately with AI scanning/research, but still).

you appear to have misread the title - perhaps you hallucinated?

The first reason the author lists for why this will be bad is only an "issue" on Git hosts that don't allow repo creation on push (which is brain dead of GitHub). Any other host, you push your new repo, and it will see the hashing algorithm, and receive the contents accordingly.

Submodules is a legitimate argument against this, though I don't know how widely this feature is actually used, and similar to the arguments in favor of switching the default branch from master to main, this is simply a setting which can be changed.

I do like the idea of commits having both hashes, and am surprised that idea has not been explored further.

Generally though, I think the author's strongest argument is simply that the change isn't strictly "needed", and all the other issues presented aren't the strongest arguments against change.

> Be willing to let go of the how to hold on to the why.

Without the how, I have no interest? The 'why' isn't the end result. I don't read a book so that I can say I've read the book, the purpose is the reading, not the state of 'having been read'.

> It's developers not testing their web apps with Firefox, since it has such a small market share.

This is exactly why I still use Firefox. Brave is good, no doubt. I keep it installed for the blue moons where I want a Chromium browser for something.

But I refuse to contribute to the Chromium monopoly. Every time I use a Chromium browser, I'm telling web developers that its okay to discriminate against other browser engines (Firefox, Safari, Ladybird).

> maintenance, reliability, security, scalability, etc. is the majority of the cost

It's funny because, I think the author is spot on in this article, including the problems identified in my quote above, but none of those are the reason I personally dislike the rise of LLM code - for me it all comes back to licensing and attribution. Everything else is just a cherry on top of the diarrhea sundae. I certainly don't want unmaintainable, unreliable, insecure code, but even some of the best software occasionally falls victim to these traits (its simply intrinsic to LLM code).

oh wow, how can your ssh config change based on the network you're using?

hi - this is incorrect

I use a Yubikey for some of my keys, and I've never used an "agent", don't know how, and don't want to start, unless someone can give me a good reason to

ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk

that's all you need to use a Yubikey with SSH

an objective statement of fact should not be considered "absolutely insufferable"

you mean the tab bar...?

Gee, I wonder why that's there.

Also there is an option, modify the libre source code that is provided to you.

I really hope the courts just utterly destroy Google one day. Society would be better off, regardless of the collateral.

Requires a dedicated app? Too bad, if this worked with a generic solution like Gadget Bridge or health connect, this would be peak.