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Permik

413 karma · joined July 5, 2022

Web, Android, and Back-end developer, highly interested in Rust-lang, and one of the owners of @autiosaari
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Permik··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
I just always try to create a MS account with example@example.com or example@example.org, then you just get kicked over the MS account creation and it prompts you for local account creation.

This has worked always after they started pushing creation of online accounts.

Permik··on WebGPU and the Price of Compiling WGSL
> Vulkan 1.0 Possibly even from Vulkan's Mantle days?
Permik··on Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator
This also brings tons of efficiency gains on portable hardware. You can choose go full throttle or just reap the efficiency gains with minimal power usage on the rendering.
Permik··on Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed
I made a non-infringing version of the image. https://bsky.app/profile/permik.bsky.social/post/3lzkoot32zc...

Sorry for the typos, I wasn't at a device that could do decent photo manip so used gemini to edit this, mostly worked, sorry for slop ;_;

Permik··on Java 25 officially released
Bro hasn't been employed at any natsec-level project to even _try_ to suggest the first option.
Permik··on Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months
Open weights only, open source usually entails that the training material is provided and you could replicate the weights yourself. ITT, we'll never get true e2e libre models without serious legislative overhaul and governance.
Permik··on Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months
Yeah, open weights but with tons of limitations in the license. https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-2/blob/main/LICENSE
Permik··on Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011)
The real question is that why haven't we moved robots.txt to DNS TXT records? This way the consent to scrape would be crystal clear even before they connect to the server.
Permik··on Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications
Also knowing the difference between authentication and authorization is crucial and should not be forgotten.
Permik··on AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens
If it's not hand delivered or certified mail, into the trash it goes! :D
Permik··on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
I'll take this out for a ride with my friends at the Assembly Demoparty, let's see if it holds up!
Permik··on Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're our own surveillance state
It's super strange that there's this huge gap of expectation of privacy and lack of social consequences when compared to the past.

Way back when villages and towns were hella smaller, unapproved behavior was nipped on the bud, because people talk and there were less people that you just couldn't disappear into the masses. There were _actual_ real social consequences.

_Technically_ we're just moving back to basics, but the social consequences of the increased awareness should apply to everyone – equally.

Permik··on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
I'm no physicist but what I've learned on the internet through osmosis, I'd wager that black holes aren't spherical per-se, but they appear sphere-like to us dimensionally challenged beings. It's more like a manifold (mobius-gate? not a mobius surface), that changes your spatial directions to parallel temporal directions to spatial ones all leading to the singularity.
Permik··on Seedance 1.0
Only light skinned people on the video examples. Ethnic diversity and accuracy used to be a problem with the models of the past. I wonder how the model would excel at prompts grokking at that.
Permik··on [dead]
I'm being curious, I felt that the article was pretty well structured and the thing tied up nicely in the end. How would you try to improve in the article? Did you feel that they left something critical out of the article?
Permik··on Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust
Gz on your grant! I must have missed the announcement, but working on OSS for a living (even for just a bit) would be super awesome.
Permik··on Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust
Essentially implementing JavaScript on top of the ECS architecture :D
Permik··on What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours
Maybe not consciously, but otherwise natural selection *will* do that choice for you :D
Permik··on What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours
Usually for companies, regulatory bodies are more like antibodies against bacteria. Or for another example, regulatory bodies are like any hormone producing body part, they control that the assemble of your guts do their thing and don't fuck it up.
Permik··on What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours
Personally, I actually count all of those examples into abstract lifeforms which you described :D

There's also things like "symbolic" lifeforms like viruses, yeah, they don't live per-se, but they do replicate and go through "choices", but in a more symbolic sense as they are just machines that read out/ execute code.

The way I distinct symbolic lifeforms and abstract lifeforms is that mainly symbolic lifeforms are "machines" that are kind of "inert" in a temporal sense.

Abstract lifeforms are just things that are in a way or other, "living" and can exist on any level of abstraction. Like cells are things that can be replaced, so can be CEO's, or etc.

Symbolic lifeforms can just be forever inert and hope that entropy knocks them to something to activate them, without getting into some hostile enough space that kills them.

Abstract lifeforms on the other hand just eventually run out of juice.

Permik··on What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours
"Minds beyond ours", how about abstract life forms, like publicly traded corporations. We've had higher kinded "alien lifeforms" around us for centuries, but we have not noticed them and seem generally not to care about them, even when they have negative consequences for our survival as a species.

We are to these like ants are to us. Or maybe even more like mitochondria are to us. Were just the mitochondria of the corporations. And yes, psychopaths are the brains, usually. Natural selection I guess.

Our current way of thinking – what exactly *is* a 'mind' and what is this 'intelligence' – is just too damn narrow. There's tons of overlap of sciences from biology that apply to economics and companies as lifeforms, but for some reason I don't see that being researched in popular science.

Permik··on The Who Cares Era
From these kinds of observations in my own life I've just concluded that unfortunately some neurotypical got hired to do an autistic people's job.
Permik··on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
Also, the mentioned fast tracking to a US citizen will bring/create highly educated, skilled people to the country and will be a future tax payers, innovators, employers that the country gained with the tiniest amount of temporal investment and with some pretty standard monetary investment that other schools get.
Permik··on Elon Musk shut down internal Tesla analysis showing Robotaxi would lose money
Not that I particularly support Musk in any way or the things they stand for, it's a great goddamn shame that they dropped the project. Even if the company in itself would not be monetarily as good as they would've liked, there's still basically an infinite amount of _value_ that they can still create.

But alas, that is not what the for profit public companies have a mandate to do.

If the maths come to about ±0 then there would be tons of goodwill to be gained by spinning up the robo-taxi project as a non-profit org.

Permik··on The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call
I have the weirdest hunch that the customer in question was Valve :D
Permik··on Fish odor syndrome – A rare metabolic condition that makes sweat smell like fish
Good to know that I'm not alone :D
Permik··on ByteDance Releases MegaTTS3
The "subtle" jab at the US in the command examples had me _rolling_ :Dd
Permik··on Is Green hydrogen the "gas of the future"? (2023)
Wasn't the general consensus about hydrogen as a fuel source just a grift from the fossil fuel industry desperately trying to make them relevant again as most of the current hydrogen production comes from there?
Permik··on Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
Knowing how CSS tries to support direction agnostic layouts the pseudo elements would be:

:gap ( -[inline\block] ( -[start/end] ) )

You know how the shorthands work elsewhere, so this just replicates that.

Permik··on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
If you're using WSL, then you can just run the linux rustup installer to have a linux version of the toolchain installed.
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