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Maxiouson Terminals should generate the 256-color palette

Terminals can show images https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

And as per the article it is heavily used and customised

Maxiouson Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state

The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founded in 1850, operated largely outside the constraints of the Fourth Amendment for much of the 19th century because they were private agents, not government actors. Congress passed the Anti-Pinkerton Act in 1893, which prohibited the federal government from hiring Pinkerton employees or similar organizations.

Maxiouson Disruption with Some GitHub Services

They also had to remove GPT-5.3-Codex "as we focus on our platform reliability" https://x.com/github/status/2021040916451164412

Maxiouson FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention

yep, https://github.com/poad42/cuda-fp8-ampere recently another attempt at squeezing whatever's left from ampere

Maxiouson Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

chatgpt is not openclaw.

Maxiouson Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

they're fudging the paperwork with oil tankers that everybody can see https://www.reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-OIL/zjpqngedmvx/

Maxiouson Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed

Except the time that it was to the point Anthropic had to acknowledge it? Which also revealed they don't have monitoring?

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...

Maxiouson Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

There's screenshots here, they're visually seperated from the actual response https://x.com/connorado/status/2009707660988559827

Maxiouson Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

It only took using claude code or other emoji heavy apps to reproduce and the memory grows linearly over time https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9786

Maxiouson Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

And the same diagnosis in the blog post was reported by a user in discussions a month ago but ignored https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9786#disc...

Maxiouson Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

infrastructure costs are already covered

> Vercel sponsors all of our hosting for all of our sites (which is expensive with our traffic!) for free and has for years

https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2009298745398018468

Maxiouson Why users cannot create Issues directly

For example, memory leak investigation is currently spread across discussions, x/twitter and discord https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2004938171038277708 https://x.com/alxfazio/status/2004841392645050601 https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/10114 https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9962

but has not graduated to issue worthy status

Maxiouson MongoBleed Explained Simply

Details are still emerging, update in the last hour was that at least 5 different hacking groups were in ubisoft's systems and yeah some might have got their via bribes rather than mongodb https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2005483271065387461

Maxiouson Codex vs. Claude Code (today)

Both Claude Pro and Google Antigravity free tier have Opus 4.5

Maxiouson Claude Code gets native LSP support

If you want to add custom lsps, they need to be wrapped in a Claude code plugin which is where the little bit of actual documentation can be found https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins-reference

Maxiouson NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

There's two other sites for the time.nist.gov service so it'll be okay.

Probably more interesting is how you get a tier 0 site back in sync - NIST rents out these cyberpunk looking units you can use to get your local frequency standards up to scratch for ~$700/month https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/frequency-measurement...

Maxiouson Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras

To get the production level performance, you do need the RDNA compatible hardware.

However, vLLM supports multi node clusters over normal ethernet too https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/serving/parallelism_scaling/#...

Maxiouson OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use talks more about the why

Maxiouson Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data

Their listed number on jaxsheriff.us? What if they bought Google ads to get the first result for Jacksonville Office?

Maxiouson Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph

https://www.askmodu.com/rankings independently aggregates traffic from a variety of agents and amp consistently has the highest success rate for small and large tasks

That aligns with my annecdata :)

Maxiouson Autism should not be treated as a single condition

The co-diagnosis of autism and ADHD became possible with the DSM-5 in 2013. According to the scientific literature, 50 to 70% of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) also present with comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8918663/

Maxiouson Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model

Wan 2.2: "This generation was run on an RTX 3060 (12 GB VRAM) and took 900 seconds to complete at 840 × 420 resolution, producing 81 frames." https://www.nextdiffusion.ai/tutorials/how-to-run-wan22-imag...

Maxiouson WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]

Gov.uk does not use some random wordpress plugin to protect information of national significance, doco at https://docs.publishing.service.gov.uk/repos/whitehall/asset...

Maxiouson $96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch

> It's not a money-making platform being squeezed to maximize revenue.

This website was actually the only government website allowed to run google ads https://www4.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AboutHouseMag/2015/1... and it has upsells for weather data https://reg.bom.gov.au/other/charges.shtml https://reg.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml

Interesting the paid functionality is on the old web stack "We're upgrading our historical data systems to improve their security, stability and resilience. During the upgrade some data will not be available, we aim to restore full access by mid-2026."

Maxiouson $96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch

No, the entire ROBUST program including supercomputers and what not is actually $866m https://www.itnews.com.au/news/boms-seven-year-technology-tr...

> the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/bureau-of-meteorology...

> “Additional features, security testing and preparedness for website launch cost $12.6 million. This includes the build, test and deployment of feature releases, and performance and load testing to ensure the website can accommodate peak volumes of traffic we see during severe weather.”

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/premium-prices-for-a-downg...

Part of the challenge is how obsficated the public records are - rather than being called "website" the contracts are disclosed as "Channels Platform"

Deloitte, $4m for design https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/cde4ad08-e9d1-4526-a407-5... Accenture, $79m for build https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/f506481d-0bbd-4776-a3f1-5...

Maxiouson A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development

Cursor has a "Shadow workspace" option like this https://cursor.com/blog/shadow-workspace

Maxiouson MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces

We had AG-UI. I'd say CopilotKit and AssistantUI (YC W25) are now Sherlocked

Maxiouson MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces

Turns the concept of GPT Apps into an open standard rather than something ChatGPT only.

Maxiouson Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

Igalia benchmarked against EEVDF https://youtu.be/wQbiqKUIsMI?si=rT-zMXJkVR6RYG_D&t=2353

Also bazzite uses LAVD by default for steam deck hardware https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-buzz-18/379...