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e12eon Gemini 4 Carbon

Agentic coding work or just agentic work?

e12eon Pharo 14

https://github.com/LivelyKernel/lively4-core

https://lively-kernel.org/lively4/lively4-core/start.html

e12eon Pharo 14

On the other hand, ai agent harnesses work a bit like image based system - think: claude --resume

e12eon Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

Odd, the dictionary definition (here: webster's) is literally:

> guy: (...) person —used in plural to refer to the members of a group regardless of sex

e12eon IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

Thank you so much for sharing your insight - it's not much serious discussion out there on sane reasons for self hosting (that I've seen).

You say the big rig is 25k - and then the two sparks are about 1k each?

Electricity is for "just" the big rig?

e12eon UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

Not sure how something like:

https://dev.to/aws-heroes/scalable-sequence-for-postgresql-3...

Would interact with sharding?

e12eon Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

My second thought was it sounds like the colorless green ideas have slept furiously, so to speak.

My first thought was: omg, they've harvested the souls of a dozen insipid, self-centered genz' and trapped them in a machine, like The Finn living in an Aleph...

e12eon Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

> You can download it for macOS and Linux

e12eon Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

Wonder how this compares to clasp (common lisp c++ impl)?

e12eon Is this the new cyber normal?

I know you're joking - but I think it will remain a challenge.

Quality and Security are emergent properties of software - especially when considering software-as-deployed in the real world.

And the problems with "good taste" and good architecture and data modelling - will probably leave ai code open to a lot of issues (Claude code cli issues is a great example of how bad this can get).

Having good architects in charge can help - but it requires a lot of discipline to keep the feature set small so that maintaining quality and security become feasible.

e12eon Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

I think AI might make reimplementatiion from first principles more viable (think: an Oberon os with Linux driver support; or: a full environment like STEPS, but for real use) - which might make it feasible to simplify the problem domain (firmware, driver, os, UX, compilers) - to the point that it becomes easier to create bug free domains/subsystems.

e12eon Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

Congratulations on the launch - looks interesting, and matches some thoughts I've had regarding herding LLMs in a sensible and secure manner.

What's the product? Can I buy anything right now?

A detailed I noted on permissions - looks like they're all prefixed with "always" - I think allow/deny/ask make more sense ?

e12eon PHP 8.2.35

> Given the severity of these vulnerabilities, the PHP security team provided minimal source-backports for PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0, and PHP 8.1 to help people building from source or without access to an LTS vendor.

e12eon PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

Can anyone get the sha to match the download? (Given as a29d640e0481ff64a39541faeeeec0f998ecd18fb692816e75a6bcfa0f683017 in TFA)

e12eon Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

I wonder. I sort of accidentally discovered that Rufus could edit my arm64 windows 11 install media without problem - adding a local account and bypassing the need for domain login (just as it does for amd64).

This isn't a new trick - just the regular approach to editing windows install media.

e12eon Android apps running native on macOS

Or matter more, as chromeOS is killed and Android comes to laptop form factor?

e12eon Linux 7.3

I had ai look into it, and that took it from works in windows, shows up in Linux - to dead and gone from both os'.

Ed: user AI on the Linux side, to help with getting firmware blobs etc - might be random combination of flaky firmware, flaky Linux support and reboots that did it - not AI or any particular driver/firmware version.

It's the first time I've seen drivers knock out a hw component completely on a consumer product - but I gather the platform is fickle.

The arm64 Snapdragon elite support is very poor unfortunately (due to there being zero upstream support).

Which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't marketed with a promise of Linux support.

e12eon Linux 7.3

Well, I'd say it's Asus fault for having crappy firmware - but Linux triggers it - causing the card to permanently no longer come up on boot.

"Fried" was a poor choice of words - the device is dead - but it's due to firmware and probably something to do with sleep states.

I didn't mean to imply the radio was actually fried.

It'll be interesting to see what the technicians end up doing to get it working. It might be enough to disconnect the card and force some even deeper reset than a power cycle with drained laptop battery does - but as I still have valid guarantee on the machine, I stopped short of opening it up. Especially since I might need a new wifi card anyway.

e12eon Linux 7.3

It's not the radio actually frying the chip - poor choice of words on my part.

It's the firmware that locks up - with Bluetooth and wifi devices not working at all anymore (does not show up in Linux or Windows device manager). And even a complete power drain and reboot can't resurrect them.

e12eon Linux 7.3

There's WUBI:

https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi

e12eon Linux 7.3

On the other hand - I just had to send my Asus vivobook s15 to repair, because Linux (most likely) fried the wifi chip.

Pretty disappointed in Qualcomm's promise of upstream support for Snapdragon X Elite turning out to be: lol, not actually so you can run Linux on devices, only so you can maybe boot without most devices working...

Hope things will keep improving despite lack of help from vendors.

e12eon Linux 7.3 Released

I think this is in-kernel smb?

e12eon Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

But if you look at the security track record of opensmtpd, you'll quickly see that "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" Does not relate to the base system, but to the "default install" - that is; only sshd listening (and possibly pf).

IMNHO more interesting than bickering over the "secure" label, is all the work openbsd has done and is doing to develop stuff like pledge.

e12eon Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

> Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!

This isn't remote (and I don't think the only local in recent times) - so, no - they won't have to update.

e12eon What was a Token Ring network?

And still people use wi-fi...

e12eon Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

Interesting. Was sad to see so many products in this area sunset (most after acquihires).

I wonder if tools built around multiplayer LLM work won't win out though?

Any thoughts on how this compares to https://delta.dev/ ?

e12eon Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

It's almost as old as SMTP - with various implementations in exim, qmail, postfix etc (plus/minus, minus, plus seperator).

"email suffix addresses".

Gmail and o365 support it, not sure about Apple.

e12eon Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

I remember a scheme from the 90s that put a keyed hash in there - and a filter that only accepted valid ones - checked with a key. I think there was an optional date (valid-to).

So you might give someone an address like:

dell-rep-01012027-<hash>@anymail example.com

e12eon Submarine cable resilience

Starshield (military arm of SpaceX/Starlink) does this for satellite imaging.

Normally in imaging, you first need to get the satellite over the location you want to image, at the right time - then let it orbit over a downlink location.

There are companies making a lot of money by having downlink capability in useful places (eg: near the poles) - combined with a fat pipe to the Internet.

With Starshield, the satellites talk to each other over laser - so the satellite doesn't have to wait to travel to a downlink location - just relay to of that is already there.

So for certain special cases it can help - but I think you'll find a cable stuffed with multimodal fiber had vastly more bandwidth.

e12eon Thunderbird for iOS

Just noting that the thundermail email service (not to be confused for the app) - allows setting up a limited number of custom domains and subdomains with catch all aliases - so I could move my s.hypertekst.net domain over.

https://support.tb.pro/hc/en-us/articles/51338950680467-How-...