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> Pretty shocking to see the lack of basic thought going into writing what is meant to be critical infrastructure

uutils did not start off as "let's make critical infrastructure in Rust", it started off as "coreutils are small and have tests, so we're rewriting them in Rust for fun". As a result there's needed to be a bunch of cleanup work.

MallocVoidstaron OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

OpenAI does tell the model the current date via API, so it's odd for them not to also tell the model its cutoff

MallocVoidstaron Opus 4.7 refuses to solve NYT Connections puzzles

https://xcancel.com/LechMazur/status/2044970170347622727

MallocVoidstaron Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

Google publicly promises not to do exactly what they did here. Why would this not be a story?

MallocVoidstaron EFF is leaving X

I'm not making a strawman, there were specific post IDs cited by the Twitter Files as being illegitimate suppression, you could stick them into the Wayback Machine and see that they were literally just photos of Hunter Biden's dick.

MallocVoidstaron ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2042296046009626989

>Our existing $200 Pro tier still remains our highest usage option.

MallocVoidstaron EFF is leaving X

Yeah, I remember when the "Twitter Files" were being released and it turned out that Twitter was illegitimately censoring leaked nudes of Hunter Biden. Whyever would non-consensually posted nudes be taken down other than the suppression of conservatism?

MallocVoidstaron Session is shutting down in 90 days

It's Signal but blockchain

MallocVoidstaron We cut Codex's input token cost by 49.5% with a compression gateway (benchmark)

No discussion on problem difficulty, or on result quality besides "the Edgee run generated slightly more output tokens than the baseline".

MallocVoidstaron ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI

Don't use the Arduino framework, use ESP-IDF or Rust.

MallocVoidstaron ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI

I assume their chips don't really exist until they're actually supported by ESP-IDF. The ESP32-C5 was announced in June 2022, received initial support in -IDF in August 2025, and more complete support in December. It seems to have only recently started getting third party dev boards.

MallocVoidstaron Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

Codex is open source: https://github.com/openai/codex

MallocVoidstaron Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

I started clicking a 'next page' link before I'd actually finished reading something (so I kept holding the mouse buttown down), and a couple of seconds later Firefox popped up a 'link preview' box informing me that I was clicking on a link to a web forum. Wow, thanks, couldn't have figured that out myself. (It did not actually summarize the next page in any way.)

MallocVoidstaron Gemini 3.1 Pro

> Even when the model is explicitly instructed to pause due to insufficient tokens rather than generating an incomplete response

AI models can't do this. At least not with just an instruction, maybe if you're writing some kind of custom 'agentic' setup.

MallocVoidstaron Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild

Devtools is seemingly partially broken in this version, if I have devtools open on a reasonably dynamic web app Chrome will crash within a minute or two

MallocVoidstaron Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

Why bother supporting Safari when they aren't interested in supporting the modern web? They're five years behind.

MallocVoidstaron The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

Archive.today don't use Cloudflare, the admin mimics their captcha page because he hates them. He also used to captcha-loop anyone using Cloudflare's DNS resolver because they don't send the IP subnet of clients to upstreams.

I don't think it's a honeypot, though, it's not like he's learning much about me other than I like not paying for news sites.

MallocVoidstaron Claude Opus 4.6

The -codex models are only for 'agentic coding', nothing else.

MallocVoidstaron LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant

They could simply say that, then, instead of saying you might be able to use it under the AGPL.

MallocVoidstaron MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

Yes, many. As a random example, see: https://www.servethehome.com/ubiquiti-flex-mini-2-5g-review-...

The last image on the page shows various chips in the switch, the top left is an ESP32.

MallocVoidstaron Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

As a result of this the official install is now installing a squatted package they don't control: https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot/issues/2760 https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot/issues/2775

But this is basically in line with average LLM agent safety.

MallocVoidstaron A static site generator written in POSIX shell

pandoc is big (nearly 200MB binary on Debian) and does far more than just Markdown -> HTML

MallocVoidstaron You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers

What language are you using that can't compile to WASM and isn't otherwise supported?

MallocVoidstaron Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga

> It’s not cryptographically secure

Neither is CRC32. I'm pretty sure xxhash is a straight upgrade compared to CRC32.

MallocVoidstaron SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

Adafruit dev boards are way more expensive than Chinese alternatives but I've never used an Adafruit board where I went "why in the world did they do X", where X is some design choice (except having a bright LED light up while the board had power). On the other hand I've had Chinese boards that have a battery jack but an always-powered component on the board uses like 10+mA at all times when alternative choices for the same component use literally hundreds/thousands of times less power (but cost 1 cent more).

MallocVoidstaron Taiwan Issues Arrest Warrant for OnePlus CEO for China Hires

Alt link (republisher): https://www.ndtvprofit.com/world/taiwan-issues-arrest-warran...

MallocVoidstaron X Is Down

    "kind": "Operational",
    "name": "DependencyError",
    "source": "Server",

MallocVoidstaron [dead]

> Bouchaud estimates that of the 800 posts, a little less than 10 percent of the content appears to be related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). “Most of the time it's hentai, but there are also instances of photorealistic people, very young, doing sexual activities,” Bouchaud says. “We still do observe some videos of very young-appearing women undressing and engaging in activities with men,” they say. “It's disturbing to another level.”

MallocVoidstaron X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

> Grok is just another tool, and IMO it shouldn't have guard rails.

How is the world improved by an AI tool that will generate sexual deepfake images of children?

MallocVoidstaron Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

I'm pretty sure serverHold being applied to domains targeted by court orders is normal. It also has all of the xProhibited statuses which ICANN notes are "usually enacted during legal disputes".