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fph··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Is it a land border? Because if they are separated by a stretch of sea, well, the same is true for Canada and mainland France.
fph··on What Is Obtainium?
Do I understand correctly that the main workflow is "pick the first Github repo returned by the search, check that it is legit by clicking the link, then install the app from it"? It seems very easy to make a mistake and install a malicious fork.
fph··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
Why would they support SMS then?
fph··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
> Maybe mathematics just becomes a little more like other fields--relying on labs with lots of money for compute, digging through a corpus of AI-generated proofs, etc.

I think a better comparison is: mathematics just becomes like mining bitcoins.

fph··on Stockfish 19
I think OP meant trash talking. "Nice knight on the rim you got there buddy." "How long do you think you'll be able to hold onto that pawn?" "The Latvian gambit, really?"
fph··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Do we have a first-hand confirmation that Buckmaster and/or Alpoge opted out? At this point it seems important information.
fph··on Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds
The classical definition of diameter of a set is "the largest possible distance between two points". So in this sense your square Ohio has a diameter of 502 km.

(It is still misleading to compare it to the diameter of an almost-spherical object, I agree. Especially because moving on the surface of a sphere it takes much longer than 502 km to walk from one point to the antipodal one.)

fph··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
It seems like work on voice recognition has halted entirely though. On https://keyboard.futo.tech/voice-input-models , community models and other models have been "coming soon" forever, and in the end the only model they offer is whisper-small, a very basic model from 2022. Which in AI is like prehistory.
fph··on A/I shuts down
And break everyone's e-mail address in the process? It is not a trivial step to migrate to a new domain an e-mail account that had been active for decades.
fph··on Git hosting that never leaves Europe
Of course the Germans have a dog tax, how could they not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_licence#Germany

fph··on Git hosting that never leaves Europe
I hope they also have a backup outside Paris.
fph··on ExactTex. A gradually-typed superset of LaTeX
But one of its problems surely is "horrible error messages", and this project addresses it, too.
fph··on Check if a file was made with Claude
And it's one-way in the direction that typically no one cares about.
fph··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
("single digits" here means 1000-9999 USD, not 1-9 USD.)
fph··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
For reference, the quickstart guide in the DF wiki is https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Quickstart_guide . It is quite detailed and well made.
fph··on Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
This is the sane solution. And not unlike what Android does in the end, with the difference that they have a share panel instead of an open panel: so you initiate the process from the app that owns the file rather than the one that wants to access it.

But GUI apps on Linux are so fragmented that getting everyone to use the same open panel is hopeless.

fph··on How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
My dog has agency, but if I refuse to keep him on a leash and he bites a kid, I'm still legally responsible for it.
fph··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
"Most" seems quite inaccurate. There is a Graphene OS banking app compatibility database [here](https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report); it is not easy to filter for European banks, but the [incompatible](https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/is...) ones are less than 10% of the total [reports](https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/is...).
fph··on Artificial Intelligence Policy
Aren't autocorrect mistakes basically spellcheckers hallucinating?
fph··on AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
We still need the good junior engineers.
fph··on If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
But do you really need a model that has the complete Duran Duran discography memorized and preloaded in RAM at all time?
fph··on Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
If you plot it over which domain?
fph··on Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
This alone should be a reason to drop the pi factor: it's basically impossible to get an exact zero for the sine of a half-turn:

sin(1*pi) = 1.2246e-16

fph··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
> https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu... is our guide for app developers on permitting GrapheneOS via hardware attestation.

It's not a very good guide, frankly. It's basically a wall of text without clear instructions on what to do, besides "look at the examples Google gave". And even looking at Google's examples, there are no examples or explanations that tell me how to download the list of allowed signatures, and what should I do with the Json schema.

fph··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
It's reportedly going to be available on the 2027 version of the Razr Flip https://www.motorola.com/us/en/p/phones/razr/razr-2026/pmipm...
fph··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
It's mentioned in the same thread, just scroll up a few pages in the linked social post.
fph··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
But, in common with today's tech billionaires, ties to the Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad#Fascist_involve...
fph··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
The current consensus in mathematical publishing is that LLMs are tools, so they don't get listed among the authors. But nothing would have prevented them from posting these preprints on Arxiv, with the human prompters as authors and the LLM's contribution acknowledged in the text.
fph··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
Anthropic seems to be challenging the traditional way math gets published. As far as I understand, these results did not get submitted to journals, and did not get Arxiv preprints; they are released only as self-hosted pdfs, and we don't even know the names of their authors.

The canonical reference for the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture is a tweet with no puntuations nor capitals.

fph··on Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
Opening with the title "hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs" is quite misleading, though.
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