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anamexis··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I do not see any morality policing going on here.
anamexis··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
Apparently it is because the USPS has a special carve out from congress exempting it from disclosure of "information of a commercial nature", subsection (c) here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/410
anamexis··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
Yes, it's on the order form https://postalpro.usps.com/ZCB_Order_Form
anamexis··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Being vulnerable to espionage seems like one pretty obvious way.
anamexis··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Ok. In the fake engineering world, it's not.
anamexis··on sshole
Those distros are all filtered by 1, no?
anamexis··on Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
That’s the point.
anamexis··on Northflank Breached
It's not security through obscurity. It makes it so that two things need to get breached to access the secrets: the application code and the stored secrets.
anamexis··on Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
Why? I'm sure basically any closed product would prefer that there were no open source copies, but why feel sad for them?
anamexis··on Ghostty 1.4
That is exactly what Ghostty's SSH integration does, if you enable it.
anamexis··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
I would say that if rebuilding your docker containers is a disruptive process, that is a process issue.
anamexis··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
The word "cromulent" was coined by the TV show The Simpsons in a gag.

> Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.

> Ms. Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

But now it has made it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

anamexis··on Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
I would guess there's still quite a lot of people on Intel Macs out there (they were sold 5 years ago), so it is still very much worth it for Apple to market to them.
anamexis··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
And the problem with interior fire escape stairs was solved by encasing them in concrete and adding self-closing doors to prevent updrafts.
anamexis··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Oxlint already has type-aware linting, integrated with TS7/typescript-go.
anamexis··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Yes, in that they have an API for their DNS service. It's supported by ddns-updater.
anamexis··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Yes.
anamexis··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Not in the sense that anyone means when they say private equity?
anamexis··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
I've been very happy with Porkbun. https://porkbun.com
anamexis··on I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one
Like dog noses?
anamexis··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
They do make their standards explicit: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI...

What part do you think is irrational gatekeeping?

anamexis··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
What is the specific set of substrates?
anamexis··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
I'm glad they did!
anamexis··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
What makes you so sure this is the case?

If there's civil unrest, they can of course essentially turn off the internet, but there's a distinction between "the internet can route around censorship" and "the internet can be blocked in its entirety (or near entirety)"

anamexis··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
I used Wireguard to my home residential internet almost exclusively the last time I was in China. 2 weeks, no issues.
anamexis··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
Have you been to China? It is still super easy to bypass the Great Firewall with VPNs.
anamexis··on You said no MCP
The idea is that with an MCP, the agent doesn’t have access to any credentials. It can’t leak an API key.
anamexis··on Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
I'm not sure if you're trolling, but glucose sensors are (minimally) invasive - they insert a filament under your skin with a needle.
anamexis··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Maybe not a bad event in itself, but a sign of decline to come perhaps?
anamexis··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
> Do you think everyone outside the US views the moonlanding as a black page in history?

Former Soviet people might...

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