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breakingcups··on Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only
This is amazing work.
breakingcups··on LiberNT - A free NT operating system
Not sure how to feel about the "Let's fork ReactOS and vibecode hundreds of commits per day" approach.
breakingcups··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Who needs DRM like HDCP if you can just use the capabilities baked into the TV to your advantage?
breakingcups··on Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended
That's one of the weirdest takes on here in a while.

I can develop security exploits myself just fine without the use of AI. Many people don't have the capability to use Photoshop and free online porn to deepfake someone else they might or might not personally know into a realistic video...

breakingcups··on OBS Studio 33
Thanks for chiming in and linking that, that was an interesting read. As much as I understand CEF's reasoning for making this shift, it's baffling that they don't provide a universal way to implement what you now had to implement yourself.
breakingcups··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
What if I want to vote against both Apple and Google but still be able to do my banking business?
breakingcups··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
You think the writing's bad? The "comics" are so off-putting they ruin whatever sliver of merit this article may have had.
breakingcups··on How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
Interesting to see the difference with Astra.
breakingcups··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Mind you, this is OpenAI's cherry-picked example
breakingcups··on GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours
Wonder when Astra is going to definitively "solve" the Voynich Manuscript.
breakingcups··on Web Search API
It always did, but who pays it is shifting.
breakingcups··on Web Search API
Seems like this uses Exa, as well as two other providers.
breakingcups··on City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
That's just demonstrably not true, the foliage alone adds a lot of polygons, so do the stairs.
breakingcups··on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records
There are enough tells in there that I'd definitely wager it was co-written by AI
breakingcups··on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Not enough to be worth it.
breakingcups··on When did Google get so weird?
I've seen medical specialist take Google's AI answer as truth. Nutty.
breakingcups··on A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game
> I’m distributing 32-bit builds (but requires SSE2) because there’s no advantage to 64-bit here, and these builds work (almost) everywhere

Kinda ironic given the article's subject of 16-bit mode no longer being available...

breakingcups··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
They didn't pay for training
breakingcups··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
I wonder of the CEO ever got back with an update. It seems awfully quiet in that thread.
breakingcups··on .name Termination
If your solution can't survive public scrutiny, it doesn't seem like a trustworthy solution?
breakingcups··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Do the words "at scale" magically remove all responsibility and reliability?
breakingcups··on “It works better in the app”
You might like Daylio. It's free, local-first (with optional backups to your own cloud or device), and has a good UX.
breakingcups··on Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)
Interestingly, that page notes:

According to Microsoft programmer Raymond Chen on his blog The Old New Thing, Red moon desert was originally intended to be Windows XP's default wallpaper, but was allegedly changed due to some testers feeling it resembled a pair of buttocks, leading to O'Rear's other photo Bliss becoming the default wallpaper. While this wallpaper was temporarily set as the default wallpaper during Whistler, this story does not appear to be true; Bliss had already been selected based on extensive research by design manager Rob Girling and his team, and the Luna visual style shares the same color scheme as the wallpaper. It is more likely the wallpaper was set to default as a decoy; the unleaked Lab06 build 2415 predates build 2423, and shows Bliss set as the wallpaper.

breakingcups··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
Yes, many, many countries use it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
breakingcups··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
Distributing something for free doesn't mean you don't have patent obligations if you do it in the country that patent is valid in. On top of that, many corporations do sell their distribution of Linux.
breakingcups··on How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy
I don't think this changes anything about the point I was making.
breakingcups··on How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy
I'd want to blame Go's compatibility guarantee for this, but I can't because it wouldn't actually stop them from adding a proper solution for this..

Just like the magic comments, it's a sad thing to see appear in this language because it feels like magic incantations one has to know that bend over backwards to not actually extend the language to fit the use case.

breakingcups··on Qwen3.8 27B
It's back for me
breakingcups··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
But why, though? I have never seen a performance hit from it that would warrant that.
breakingcups··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Google builds the biggest browser. Mozilla receives most of its funding through Google (though they have mobile browsers with a default ad-blocker). Microsoft is in the ad business too.

I'm not surprised, why are you?

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