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Poorly written site. Javascript-only, no references, no sources.

Menethon JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

JavaScript isn't good for performance? Could've told you that 20 years ago.

I compared https://7-zip.org/a/7z2600-x64.exe with https://7-zip.com/a/7z2600-x64.exe. They are byte-for-byte identical. If there's malware, it isn't obvious.

Menethon Communities are not fungible

Gratis in terms of dollars, but not free. You pay by letting them take your community hostage.

Menethon Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Yes, that EU. It's very big. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Menethon I miss thinking hard

I knew this sort of thing would happen before it was popular. Accordingly:

Never have I ever used an LLM.

Menethon I was right about ATProto key management

"the assumption that any given ICANN DNS entry will only ever be controlled by a single entity for all time."

Email has that problem too, doesn't it?

Menethon The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

That seems mostly useful for proprietary programs. I don't like it.

Menethon LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick

> This has, of course, not happened.

And that's the anthropic fallacy. In the worlds where it has happened, the author is dead.

Menethon The Delete Act

I suppose that these records of personal data does not constitute "speech" in a First Amendment context?

Menethon Rust errors without dependencies

I like using shared libraries from my Linux distro. Then I can rely on their automatic security updates to deal with any third-party vulnerabilities.

Menethon Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere

Paper on which the article is based: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae157c

"A Carbon-rich Atmosphere on a Windy Pulsar Planet", PSR J2322–2650b.

No one bothered to link to it, but fortunately Google picked it up.

Menethon Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes

Trademark.

Menethon AI will make formal verification go mainstream

There are bugs in the specification, so there are bugs in the verfication as well.

Menethon Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

"Just because you don’t like them or what they do doesn’t make them your enemy."

Yes it does. That is the only thing that makes enemies.

Menethon Anthropic acquires Bun

From the article: "Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun's repo is now a Claude Code bot."

Menethon Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

And if they did, what could they possibly do?

Menethon Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

The only public repo remaining under their github account is this VSCode-Copilot integration tool (https://github.com/zigbook/pilot).

Menethon Constant-time support coming to LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code

Archived copy here: https://archive.is/tIXt7

Menethon Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

I suspect that Europe is much more "reasonable", in this sense, than the US and China.

Menethon Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban

Reflections on trusting trust...

Menethon OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in

How can I help destroy the company?

Menethon Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch

So Liquibase made an open-source project, used Apache instead of strong copyleft (e.g GNU AGPL), and then expected others to not do the thing Liquibase chose to allow them: make closed-source derivatives.

Liquibase has only itself to blame.

Menethon The email they shouldn't have read

There are plenty of projects like that. Gitlab, for example, has an open-source "Community Edition" and then "Premium" and "Ultimate" editions which they charge for.

Menethon SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

An alternative way to hide your SSH server from portscanners is to put it inside a WireGuard VPN.

Menethon Download responsibly

Some years ago I thought, no one would be stupid enough to download 100+ megabytes in their build script (which runs on CI whenever you push a commit).

Then I learned about Docker.

Menethon Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

3 different types of sqlite, 14 different versions total: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/network/dependencies?...

Menethon Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

This happens because there's no auditing of new packages or versions. The distro's maintainer and the developer is the same person.

The general solution is to do what Debian does.

Keep a stable distro where new packages aren't added and versions change rarely (security updates and bugfixes only, no new functionality). This is what most people use.

Keep a testing/unstable distro where new packages and new versions can be added, but even then added only by the distro maintainer, NOT by the package developers. This is where the audits happen.

NPM, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby all suffer from this problem, because they have centralized and open package repositories.

Menethon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

Their source is Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1151819349918...

Menethon Age verification doesn’t work

More like, they can't exist without the lucrative market of the 90% of current customers who will refuse age verification and go elsewhere.