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Meneth··on European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
You can't have both. "Hardware security" means the manufacturer decides which OS can run and you can't override it.
Meneth··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Banks absolutely love security by obscurity. No clue why.
Meneth··on Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
There's no such thing as "reliable" AI.
Meneth··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
The "everyone dies" scenario is overwhelmingly likely given that no solutions to either inner or outer alignment exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment

Meneth··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
His Github page [1] matches some of this. 83% commits, 14% PRs, 2% reviews, 1% issues. Clearly out of control.

[1] https://github.com/awesomekling

Meneth··on Please Use AI
Or, more accurately, Please don't.
Meneth··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
That's what you get for using unfree software.
Meneth··on Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
I would imagine Red Hat are pretty close to "they", since they created Systemd and then there was the RHEL redistribution controversy [ https://old.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/14k8jmw/can_someone... ].
Meneth··on Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
Unfortunate that they aren't using the AGPL license. It will allow SAAS companies to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish.

Indeed, this seems to be already planned. https://radicle.dev/faq "Radworks intends to offer services built on top of Radicle."

Meneth··on WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
"We need a new standard!" :p
Meneth··on “I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT
No one can apply to be pope of the catholic church.
Meneth··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
A bunch of plugins running on canvas.instructure.com are proprietary, according to their FAQ: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/FAQ.

I would guess these plugins are chosen so a majority of user won't want to live without them.

It also seems these plugins "link" to canvas-lms, so keeping the proprietary would be a GPL violation if anyone except Instructure holds part of the copyright to Canvas.

Meneth··on Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
You know what you doing!
Meneth··on Who Is That Knocking at My (SSH) Door?
I got tired of dealing with SSH knocks and blocked the port for all external IPs, using WireGuard to get into the LAN.

WireGuard is nice because, unlike most other services, it operates on UDP and sends no reply packet unless you know the key, so attackers can't discover it by portscanning.

Meneth··on Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)
They kinda are: "This issue is to fully eliminate LLVM, Clang, and LLD libraries from the Zig project." https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270
Meneth··on We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
I'm confused.

The IndexedDB UUID is "shared across all origins", so why not use the contents of the database to identify browers, rather than the ordering?

Meneth··on NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
NSA never cared about rules.
Meneth··on OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
Text of the post has been [removed]. Original saved here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260403163241/https://old.reddi...
Meneth··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
"solve security" - that's an April Fools joke if I ever heard one.
Meneth··on "Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"
Me too, main reason I switched to Debian.
Meneth··on I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit
It seems the commits aren't in proper date order. Here are some newer changes, placed before the latest commits: https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es/commits/master/?af...
Meneth··on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information
To fight a thing, you must think about it.

The best way to avoid an -ism is to forget about it.

The fighters cannot forget, so they fall into a trap of their own making.

Meneth··on Have a fucking website
That is still a very good template for how a simple website should be written.
Meneth··on Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
> A much more effective counter to this would be to rebalance the information asymmetry by giving citizens the tools to coordinate against state sponsored influence.

Which tools, specifically? I know none.

Meneth··on Dolphin Progress Release 2603
Wise.

I've seen many a fine volonteer project become enshittified because they started optimizing for financial income rather than for having fun.

Meneth··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
I agree.
Meneth··on No right to relicense this project
If a copyright holder does not give you permission, you can't legally relicense. Even if they're dead.

If they're dead and their estate doesn't care, you might pirate it without getting sued, but any recipient of the new work would be just as liable as you are, and they'd know that, so I probably wouldn't risk it.

Meneth··on No right to relicense this project
"How do we protect ourselves against a competitor doing this?"

That's the neat thing: you don't!

Meneth··on World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
"low-latency links", says the article. I wonder if they consider 500 ms ping to be low, or if they want to replace Geostationary with Low Earth Orbit.
Meneth··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
That's a lie.
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