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antiloper··on Human writers have always used the em dash
Writers have used the em dash for centuries, certain members of internet forums and chatrooms have used them for two years. It's a tell.
antiloper··on Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
Current frontier models are not good enough because they still suffer from major hallucinations, sycophancy, and context drift. So there has to be at least (and I have no reason to believe it will be the last, GPT-5 demonstrates that the transformer architectures are hitting diminishing returns) one more training cycle.
antiloper··on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
GPT-2?
antiloper··on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
It's not a SEV0 for LLM providers. If you already have code execution on some system, you've lost already, and whatever process the malware happens to start next is not at fault.
antiloper··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Why even run Android at that point anymore? iOS devices get security updates for longer and have much less data collection than stock Android.

GrapheneOS won't survive the next generation of devices because bootloader unlocking will also go away (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939), and without kernel security updates that OS can't continue.

Now there's also no more sideloading, so what purpose does Android even serve anymore?

antiloper··on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission
There's also the on-by default, can't be disabled, auto-dubbing YouTube performs on every video that's not in the single browser's language. The dubbing quality is poor for the same reason, to intentionally expose viewers to AI content.

It's 100% a push to remove human creators from the equation entirely.

antiloper··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
If anime girls prevent LLM scraper sympathizers from interacting with the kernel, that's a good thing and should be encouraged more!
antiloper··on Italy drags Meta, X, LinkedIn into €1B+ VAT showdown: free sign‑ups now taxable?
Why don't they just make a tax on social media posts?
antiloper··on Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
Now ask me how I know that your preferred solution to not stabbed in the chest while walking on the street is to just wear stab vests wherever you go.
antiloper··on [dead]
Why was it added in the first place?
antiloper··on The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
What does trump have to do with this? (rhetorical question)
antiloper··on Why Broadcom Is Killing Off VMware's Standalone Products
VirtualBox is owned by Oracle. If your motivation for switching vendors is getting screwed over by the old vendor, Oracle is the last place you want to go to.
antiloper··on Digital Ocean killed my droplets and gives a vague reply
Please read posts before replying to them.
antiloper··on I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)
This is the only correct answer, if you don't like the boss of a social media company, you should just cut all ties with everyone on there. Then lock yourself into your room, never go outside again, and complain about it on HN.
antiloper··on EU Chat Control Bill Postponed
The "nearly powerless" refers to blocking the bill being the only thing the parliament is able to do. The commission can just keep proposing this bill, it only needs to pass the parliament once. Once passed, future parliaments are unable to amend or repeal the bill. The commission only has to win once, while the parliament has to block the bill every single time.
antiloper··on OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools
Not every russian works in the Kremlin.
antiloper··on Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?
Your mileage may vary but my opinion: Because its controlled by Microsoft. ASP.NET Core brings everything necessary to develop a web application, from an ORM, to a web server, to a router, to an HTML templating language, to a client-side SPA framework. All components are designed to work together and have high quality documentation.

That makes it easier to get started than say Python where you have to depend on multiple third party libraries with different support cycles, API styles, or even async programming models (e.g. gevent vs async/await in Python). And you can still swap components out if needed.

Not saying Rust or Python etc. are bad for writing startup software. Given the ecosystems I personally find it faster to get started with .NET because of the reasons above.

antiloper··on Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
Not every human action is required to move the GDP line upwards.
antiloper··on Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
yt-dlp is open source and I'm sure the Google engineers have been aware of it ever since it or it's ancestors were released.
antiloper··on F1 Demands Las Vegas Venues Pay for a View of the Race
Absolutely correct, communism has made attending Formula 1 races affordable in Europe.
antiloper··on Mozilla should call for the removal of Google from W3C because of WEI
Absolutely correct, publishing false news is acceptable as long as it fits the agenda.
antiloper··on Systemctl –Force –Force Reboot
A process that's stuck on an NFS operation is unkillable, even by a SIGKILL from the root user. So any shutdown/reboot procedure that has a "kill all processes" step will be unable to complete (unless it has a timeout).

It sounds like systemctl --force --force reboot will just invoke the `reboot` syscall directly and thus avoid this issue.

antiloper··on Software ‘death dates’ are sending schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin
Does anyone know how the "death date" is implemented? Does the OS not boot if NTP says the date is greater than some preconfigured value? The article doesn't say.
antiloper··on U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption
The 4th amendment already exists and is ignored by the federal government (e.g. the border search exception [1]).

Passing another amendment will accomplish nothing, it will get ignored just like the 4th one.

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

antiloper··on YouTube Introduces 1080p Premium
Yes, DVDs use the MPEG-2 codec which has a horrible compression ratio compared to H.264 (and CD audio is completely uncompressed).
antiloper··on libjpeg-turbo 3.0 has been released, and why there may never be a 3.1
It's not being a parasite if the author willingly chooses to give his work away for free. It is also not the tragedy of the commons, since the tragedy of the commons refers to consuming a finite resource. A software library is not a finite resource since it can be copied indefinitely.

This is the author choosing to work for free (which is fine), wanting to get paid (which is fine, and I do suggest he does charge for his software), and this thread making up an alleged ethical obligation to pay for something which has a price tag of zero.

antiloper··on libjpeg-turbo 3.0 has been released, and why there may never be a 3.1
This entire comment thread is missing the point.

By releasing this library at no charge, the author is valuing his software at zero dollars. Downstream users accept his offer.

There is no story here.

antiloper··on Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'character qualifications'
What does the station owner's race have to do with this? (rhetorical question, no answer required)
antiloper··on An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner
They discovered this during a recount that only happened because someone noticed a different calculation error in the official result [1] ("Hans Peter Doskozil" + "Andreas Babler" should add up to "Gültige Stimmen" (valid votes) but didn't).

The current goverment is very unpopular, but the SPÖ in the opposition has failed to capitalize on that and is currently polling below the governing ÖVP [2]. This incident will not help.

[1] https://twitter.com/MartinThuer/status/1664992876231639042

[2] https://apa.at/produkt/apa-wahltrend/

antiloper··on HBO Max new Captcha system
Then the title would be completely useless since nobody knows what or which "Max" is.
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