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glibg10bon Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap

Hah, I thought it just randomly started working. But no, you fixed it :)

glibg10bon Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap

It keeps saying "Your connection dropped. Let’s get you back out there." after a few seconds, then returns me to my spawn point. I don't see any bad HTTP status codes in the network tab

Can you make it a little more resilient on Wifi + 4G? I would really like to try this, it seems fun

Also, incorporating elevation data would also be really cool

glibg10bon GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research

The CoT shows Astra skipping spaces and words. I have never seen this before. Is it a consequence of the looped architecture?

glibg10bon sshole

Look closely. The second h is behind the word and almost as dark as the background

glibg10bon Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands

For me, it's about comfort. No need to bounce my right hand between the home row, the arrow keys and the mouse. No need to stretch my left pinky to Ctrl and Shift for every shortcut. Everything is near the home row in Vim, by design.

glibg10bon Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands

For all of the ciw examples, ce is easier since the cursor is at the first letter of the word.

Where dw works, this game teaches vlllld instead, which is a bad habit to teach.

Ctrl+A increments the first number after the cursor, which is easier than, say, f6r7 in cases where they do the same thing. Similarly, Ctrl+X decrements.

t:t: is weird when fY is much easier.

The Vim simulator has a minor difference compared to real Vim:

    0
    0

Start on line one and do CTRL-V then j then CTRL-A. Real Vim would increment both. The simulator only increments the one under the cursor.

glibg10bon The Goose Programming Language

*Murhpy's law

glibg10bon AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

Not just Claude. In my experience, almost any LLM running in Pi would rather go down rabbit holes than ask for clarification. I think the solution is to restrict what the LLM can do: If it keeps running into "permission denied" when trying to run disassemblers or read files in /lib64, then it's probably not doing what the user intended it to do.

But you're right, that report is definitely written by an LLM. Humans don't typically put parenthetical postmodifiers in headings ("Mechanism (from the shipped libc.so)"), but LLMs just love them too much.

glibg10bon The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

  > == Observing Impact on openssh server ==
  > 
  > With the backdoored liblzma installed, logins via ssh become a lot slower.
  > 
  > time ssh nonexistant@...alhost
  > 
  > before:
  > nonexistant@...alhost: Permission denied (publickey).
  > 
  > before:
  > real 0m0.299s
  > user 0m0.202s
  > sys 0m0.006s
  > 
  > after:
  > nonexistant@...alhost: Permission denied (publickey).
  > 
  > real 0m0.807s
  > user 0m0.202s
  > sys 0m0.006s

glibg10bon Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator

I use it as my calculator app on my phone