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celeryd

18 karma · joined February 26, 2025

Loves Linux, hates Windows. Now loves MacOS too. Microkernel (sort of) ftw.
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celeryd··on The fire retardant in the seafood chain
The guy who invented leaded gasoline said the same thing.
celeryd··on Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
Stop fucking linking sciencealert.com. That is the most fucking clickbait-y science site since fucking forever. You might as well link IFLSCIENCE.
celeryd··on Networking changes coming in macOS 27
Finally, TLS 1.2 is baseline, after having been released 18 years ago.
celeryd··on Is my blue your blue?
This is stupid without color calibration, or even contrast/brightness levels on your monitor, which can turn these turquoise shades into other colors entirely.
celeryd··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Apple is currently lightyears ahead in privacy compared to any other major consumer tech company, is this going to still be the case with Mr. Ternus at the helm? That's not a question meant to be answered right away, but my current mindset evaluating the change in leadership as a consumer.

EDIT: Also, can Apple take over the data center already? I am sick of HP and Dell.

celeryd··on 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
Guess I better make a third alt
celeryd··on Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable
Any way to download them all at once?
celeryd··on AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
Did you build in regions you don't even use and then forget about it?
celeryd··on We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them
Why does that matter? Being oblivious to obfuscated binaries is like failing the captcha test.

Let's say instead of reversing, the job was to pick apples. Let's say an AI can pick all the apples in an orchard in normal weather conditions, but add overcast skies and success drops to zero. Is this, in your opinion, still a skilled apple picking specialist?

celeryd··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
It's a country not a ticker symbol. VE is proper but even VZ would be better.
celeryd··on GPT Image 1.5
If it can't generate non-sexual content of a woman in a bikini, I am not interested.
celeryd··on alpr.watch
Are these meetings truly constrained to the continental US?
celeryd··on The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems
Someone in a Scandinavian country is probably well informed of how terrible it is for the poorest and most vulnerable outside their country. The indexes are probably the same.

The person in the Scandinavian country, when asked this question, will think "hmm, well I am not in America, so I will add 3 steps to my answer" and, och se där, up they go to the top of the World Ranking.

celeryd··on Show HN: Zenflow – orchestrate coding agents without "you're right" loops
The language used on the website is very fresh! They are brave enough to call bad AI output "slop", which immediately makes me think they are trustworthy, that they are in the know. An AI bandwagoner wouldn't be brave enough to call it slop.

Then there's a blurb about the CEO who claims "AI doesn't need better prompts. It needs orchestration." which is something I have always felt to be true, especially after living through highly engineered prompts becoming suddenly useless when conditions change because of how brittle they are.

I might even give this a shot and I usually eschew AI plugins because of how cloud connected they are.

I am a nobody, but I think these people are making a bunch of right moves in this AI space.

celeryd··on Vibe coding creates fatigue?
I don't see a distinction. Vibe coding is either agent assisted coding or using chatbots as interpreters for your design goals. They are the same thing.
celeryd··on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users
> Being reliant on a single OS permanently nailed to the hardware is no less crazier.

Locking OS upgrades to a network vendor is substantially crazier. It creates pockets where the hardware vendor ships a security update but your network doesn't care to ship it and isn't incented to. It is BANANAS.

celeryd··on Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
Is it exfiltration if it's your own data within your own control?
celeryd··on Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
I always assumed it was Ethernet protocol itself that made wi-fi suck
celeryd··on Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be a Beast
I'm with you brother. Intel needs to fix their ways and I don't think a couple generations of playing second fiddle will be enough. Intel burns a lot of money on marketing hoping to trick people about how great their new shit will be (anyone remember when 14th gen was released?) and it ends up being hot air. I have no faith in this one either.
celeryd··on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
Sadly, they will just have to try harder. It is still doable especially for an American, and I'm not a fan of these doomsayers' prophesying. There is still hope because TikTok and video games are putting most young people in a trance.
celeryd··on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
Yes. I think American programmers are at a local optimum for combining ingenuity and work ethic. You can get more ingenuity vs work ethic or the other way around elsewhere, but the American blend seems to be best.
celeryd··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
Maybe because Microsoft is a shit company and anything they do is sus af. And everyone knows it. And I'm tired of pretending like it's not. I wouldn't trust Microsoft to babysit my mortal enemy's kids.

Maybe if they weren't literally the borg people would open their hearts and wallets to Redmond. They saw that Windows 10 was a privacy nightmare and what did they do? They doubled down in Windows 11. Not that I care but it plays really poorly. Every nerd on the internet spouts off about Recall even though it's not even enabled if you install straight to the latest build.

They bought GitHub and now it's a honeypot. We live in a world where we have to assume GitHub is adversarial.

_NSAKEY???

Fuck you Microsoft.

Makes sense karma catches up to them. Maybe if their mission statement and vision were pure or at least convincing they would win hearts and minds.

celeryd··on A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it
We did this song and dance in RHEL. It's fine. Just use /var/tmp if you need persistent tmp storage. Gnome and X and tmux will not make you swap and if they do run xfce instead.
celeryd··on The Synology End Game
I use samba on Debian Linux running on a Mac Mini. The data partition lives on an externally connected Samsung SSD. It's probably not what you want, but it sure is small.
celeryd··on AnduinOS
Mint is just as bad as AnduinOS, it's just an Ubuntu clone. NixOS is just Silverblue but worse. Everyone should just be using Debian, or Arch if you want to rice, or Fedora if you use RHEL at work.
celeryd··on Is being bilingual good for your brain?
Do you find there's a similarity between Spanish and Russian? In my limited experience, Russians who speak Spanish also seem to speak it quite well.
celeryd··on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
Prophetic
celeryd··on EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
> So much has happened in the field of query optimization in the last 30 years, very little of which has ended up in Postgres, I think. Postgres has gotten parallel workers and a JIT, but the fundamental design is largely unchanged.

Guess I'll keep using Postgres.