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bastardoperator··on NINA: Rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms
Unless they bring back personal filing cabinet, AOL will remain dead. I attribute the entire death of AOL to the death of cerver and mp3z
bastardoperator··on New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
This isn't a screening process, it's a deterrent.
bastardoperator··on Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?
Maybe we can get AI to recycle something... I'll see myself out...
bastardoperator··on Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark
I thought Vanta was an acronym for vertically aligned nanotube array?
bastardoperator··on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
This type of legalized data exfiltration doesn't come cheap.
bastardoperator··on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
Agreed, ask it for the cutoff date. I did, June 2024...
bastardoperator··on The Future of Flatpak
Several:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/

bastardoperator··on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
What does tearing down Harvard achieve again? What does punishing visitors to our country who are law abiding achieve again? Clearly it mentions these students can transfer, so all of the little benefits you dreamt up inside your head are dead on arrival. Your perpetual victimhood has a shelf life, hurting everyone you don't like because they're not from here when this country is founded on the ideas of immigrations... you never understood the plot.
bastardoperator··on Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system
Could they not get more juice out of a single, modern server? I get porting over to a new system and migrating is a huge time suck and a good enough reason not to do it if everything is working, just seems excessive for 14 cores.
bastardoperator··on xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
It's not good for the job because better tools exist. Yeah, I'm not keen on giving money to billionaires for subpar products, that's why I don't drive a Tesla.
bastardoperator··on Run GitHub Actions locally
They use github actions

https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/tree/master/.github/wor...

bastardoperator··on The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)
Let's do the math, the population of the US is roughly 340M, Trump got 77M votes in 2024. That is 22.65% of Americans. So nowhere near half, not even a full quarter. Approx 174M are eligible to vote, so not even close to being half because more than half of the population doesn't, won't or can't vote.
bastardoperator··on The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)
He was under 1% of the popular vote for 2024, so not handedly, he didn't even get close the previous two times. If we didn't have DEI for red states, aks electoral college he would have never been president. Only 25ish% of Americans voted for him this last time so what are you getting at? Unless he goes full dictator, I imagine Republicans are in trouble once their daddy is gone.
bastardoperator··on The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)
I would consider us lucky to ever have a person like this serve us again. Instead we're on the Biff Tannen timeline.
bastardoperator··on Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026
So 2028 for the PC version?
bastardoperator··on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
Sad seeing so many people here addicted to drugs.
bastardoperator··on Out of the Fog
None of this matters if we do not have due process.
bastardoperator··on Dear Lewis, my CEO wants AI to do it all. How do I argue for humans?
If the CEO already thinks AI can do everything, I think their answer to that is yes and yes.
bastardoperator··on AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
Computers can't have unique experiences. I think it's going to replace search, but becoming sentient? Not in my lifetime, granted I'm getting up there.
bastardoperator··on You cannot have our user's data
I think the courts were pretty clear, prove damages. I'm not saying I agree in any capacity, but the AI companies went to court, and it appears they've already won.
bastardoperator··on New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents
My favorite is when it hallucinates documentation and api endpoints.
bastardoperator··on Busy Bar
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bastardoperator··on Claude's Max Plan
I've been satisfied with msty and code/cursor.
bastardoperator··on Anthropic launches its own $200 plan
I just assumed most people at this point are using a client.
bastardoperator··on The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee
No, they're just contacting me daily on LinkedIn asking if I can be a founder, or interested in leading something I have zero interest in or experience. I'm telling people "not interested" several times a week, let alone taking a quiz. The irony is sales people make 2x-10x more than any engineer and they never get tested.
bastardoperator··on The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee
What makes these tactics the "right thing"? I as a prospective employee don't get to quiz the interviewer using the same tactics? I can ask questions, but how I do know they're knowledgeable and that I want to work for them? Or should I be thankful they're even talking to me? I think it's a terrible practice and that we can do better.
bastardoperator··on The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee
No, but he also ended up on Fireship, and he also shared his company has done 160K+ in sales in the past 4 weeks.
bastardoperator··on Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions?
Maybe it was a self hosted runner? I run those locally all the time.
bastardoperator··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
They can bake any Tom Clancy style excuse they want. They broke the law and they're incompetent. Even if you want to ignore one, they still need to go. Making mistakes like this anywhere else would cost you your job.
bastardoperator··on Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions?
I've found this to be a problem that a lot CI providers suffer from. They allow extension via third party code which is awesome, people write useful code, a lot of that useful code doesn't get maintained properly or ever, rots, and eventually everyone has a security issue.

You can also see the GitHub IP space here, I don't think it's "residential", unless that terminology includes azure and aws?: https://api.github.com/meta

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