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altermetax··on Edit an SQLite database in your browser
That whole homepage sounds like Claude
altermetax··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Honestly, I think "source available" is used pretty consistently, and if someone said "weights available" I would immediately understand what they mean.

No one calls SQLite "source available", and if they do, they're doing it more as a protest of their development model than being serious.

altermetax··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
No, because they can't register the domain, it's already taken, no matter if a web service is running behind it or not
altermetax··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
I don't really see the difference, code is protected by copyright (or copyleft) as much as art is, and yet the LLM scrapers use it without scruples. Same goes for math and science publications.
altermetax··on <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard
Are there disadvantages in allowing users arbitrarily long passwords (or with a very high limit, e.g. 256 bytes)? No.

Are there advantages? Yes: the longer the password is, the stronger it is. It doesn't matter if there's a specific point after which cracking takes time till the death of the universe. So there's no point in imposing a limit.

Besides, too many websites limit password length to ridiculous lengths like 12.

altermetax··on <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard
Locking you out after a few wrong tries only protects against online attacks. If someone gets access to the database, they have as many attempts as they want.
altermetax··on 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
It changed with smartphones being widespread, so more or less yes, 2012
altermetax··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
It's not GNU itself that's appealing, it's the fact that it's not controlled by a company.
altermetax··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
I mean, they are trying
altermetax··on LittleSnitch for Linux
Low-effort take: can't you just run ss -tulpn repeatedly and parse the output?
altermetax··on Neovim 0.12.0
Just open a terminal split/tab and use claude there. The neovim buffer will update real-time.