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fartfeatures··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Even more so when you consider that the answers to unsolved problems likely compose with existing knowledge. We don't know what other discoveries these initial discoveries will unlock.
fartfeatures··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Agreed, I didn't realise there had been a CVE.
fartfeatures··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Apologies I didn't see there had been a CVE. I completely retract my statement.
fartfeatures··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
It is unfortunate nobody tipped anyone off downstream.
fartfeatures··on ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
Was that hero unit header text supposed to be sung in the voice of Ja Rule?
fartfeatures··on ChatGPT and Codex Is Down
My existing sessions are working fine but I cannot create new ones.
fartfeatures··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
I'd be worried about securely erasing my data when returning a leased model.
fartfeatures··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
That's an extreme risk to them buying at inflated retail prices when supply is improving and prices are about to come down. Scalpers arent a large enough group to act as a cartel.
fartfeatures··on The August 17 outage
They really aren't. AI commit messages are much more thorough and correct than some of the stuff I've seen humans do over the years e.g. Fix, Fixup, Fixed some Stuff, Should work now, Definitely should work now etc etc etc.
fartfeatures··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
Redundancy is just waste wearing a trench coat etc etc.
fartfeatures··on DuckDB Internals Part 1
EO/IR
fartfeatures··on DuckDB Internals Part 1
This is something that can't escape people making such statements but never seems to be addressed. Perhaps it is unaddressable as the original statement is grounded in emotion not reason?
fartfeatures··on DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
I'm not convinced that is true. The JCB digger didn't put groundworkers out of business. A consultant that can get more done in a day is worth a lot more than one who can't. There is still skill required in wielding the tool of the day and that skill is marketable.
fartfeatures··on Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch
Standard Operating Procedure.
fartfeatures··on Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)
Sure but isn't that the definition of clickbait?
fartfeatures··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Either that or Apple don't want to lose their 30% until they are forced to, one jurisdiction at a time. I guess we all need to make our own inference as to which is more likely.
fartfeatures··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Why as an Apple user in the UK am I considered too dumb to use a 3rd party app store but if I were 30 miles away in France I would be considered intelligent enough to cope? Because this was never about my safety. It was about their 30% as correctly supposed above.
fartfeatures··on Stop the Apple Music app from launching
I'm very clumsy and I've never hit the play button by accident. What are you guys doing that makes it so easy to accidentally click the play button? Are you using the mac with the touch bar or something?
fartfeatures··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Sounds like snuff porn, not my sort of thing but thanks though.
fartfeatures··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
This is very dystopian in my opinion. I'm not the arms, legs, sensors and actuators for a machine super intelligence. I wouldn't treat another human as my slave because they aren't as intelligent as I am any more than I would expect to become a slave for a machine. This is our world (for now) and that is why we fit in. Not because we can serve.
fartfeatures··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
We've known of a very good way to fix primary schools since 1907. Nearly 120 years. We simply do not want to do it because the labour and materials are more than we want to spend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

fartfeatures··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
Nobody uses a horse and cart as an every day method of commuting anymore.
fartfeatures··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Why would having more thinking companions stop you from thinking? Knowledge compounds.
fartfeatures··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
I think by that point humanity will having some pretty fundamental discussions about the nature of work and money.
fartfeatures··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
"bake cake in 170" is genuinely confusing at first glance though.
fartfeatures··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
You absolutely should not be using the same browser for general browsing and VPN based browsing. Check out Mullvad Browser, based on Tor Browser but without Tor.
fartfeatures··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
I read it as a suggestion vs a demand but I can see why you felt it was entitled. The author doesn't need to care and can take or leave the advice. In many ways it is a shame we don't have the concept of the Semantic Web as an extension to simple Hyperlinks.
fartfeatures··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
It is easier to search for keywords (Capture the Flag) vs acronyms (CTF) which likely resolve to other terms as well. Child trust fund is the first result when I put CTF into Google. Admittedly searching CTF security solves that issue. A quick link to an article on CTF to make the post digestible by outsiders seems reasonable enough.
fartfeatures··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
There has always been tension in this area. A prime example is Dual_EC_DRBG https://harvardnsj.org/2022/06/07/dueling-over-dual_ec_drgb-...
fartfeatures··on Apple reports second quarter results
The people who designed Mach in 1985 would almost certainly design something very different if they had today’s hardware, AI agents, secure enclaves, NPUs, ubiquitous networking, cloud edges, wearables, smart home devices and generally device density per person.

HarmonyOS is interesting because it points at the right axis: one coherent OS fabric across many devices, not a set of separate device OSes glued together by continuity features. Continuity, iCloud, Handoff, AirDrop, HomeKit etc are impressive glue. They are not the same as one logical OS fabric.

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