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ipythonon Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM

Yes. And Microsoft Active Directory has integrated this stack with an easy to use graphical interface for almost 30 years now.

ipythonon Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM

Don’t forget to delete the keytab file from the ipa server! Otherwise anyone will be able to unauthenticated download that file and impersonate that host principal

Better yet you’ll want to encrypt that file in some way when transferring it

ipythonon Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state

Psst anyone at Covenant Eyes[0] want to sign up for the obvious assignment here??

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-joh...

ipythonon GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

It’s 20kW for as long as you can afford the power bill

ipythonon The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster

Wow - that’s an insanely useless test then. Because I own a 60kwh Tesla 3 and it can hardly travel 250 miles on a 100% charge in any reasonable scenario.

ipythonon AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

Maybe a better term would be “consequences”.

Children experience consequences every day. And the ultimate consequence faces us even from birth: our own mortality.

AI is essentially free from consequence. In my opinion.

ipythonon AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

In my opinion, identity is a useless concept if there is no associated accountability. I cannot have an identity if I cannot be held accountable for my actions. You cannot hold an agentic system accountable- at least in their current form.

ipythonon The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster

More interesting is that they're claiming 248 miles (400km) on a 45kWh battery[0]. That calculates out to 5.5 miles/kWh, whereas the most efficient Tesla 3 right now only claims 4.5 miles/kWh - and even that is a very optimistic estimate (most people can't get 270 miles out of their 60kWh Tesla 3 standard range models) [1]

[0] https://cdn.motor1.com/images/custom/worlds-first-mass-produ...

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/719013/2024-tesla-model3-epa-rang...

ipythonon Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qjau6v/bovino_t...

In direct violation of a court order not to use chemical weapons. https://turnto10.com/news/nation-world/judge-rules-against-i...

Not that you care but might as well share.

ipythonon Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)

Sounds like you’ve made my point. Thank you for correcting my mistake on the particulars.

The judge in his case literally said the words “you haven’t complied” to the government attorneys in the case. Not sure how much more I can say.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/judge-scolds-trump-...

During the ordeal the government attorneys repeatedly claimed that they had no way to bring him back (although clearly that was a lie as he was returned…)

We have crossed the rubicon so far, the fact we even have to nitpick this is absurd.

ipythonon Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)

So it’s ok he was sent to CECOT in violation of an order not to in the first place? The original question was whether Trump ignored court orders. Id say that removing someone against a court order to a third country is a pretty big issue. Even if a year later after a huge public pressure campaign he is temporarily back in the states.

See https://marylandmatters.org/2026/01/16/whats-next-for-maryla...

ipythonon Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)

> It’s almost a certainty that Republicans will lose the house this year and maybe the senate.

Unfortunately the state party operatives have started gerrymandering efforts to make this even more difficult.

Trump has absolutely failed to comply with several court orders. The ones I’m aware of relate to Kilmar Garcia’s removal to CECOT.

ipythonon Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code

I guess I don't understand why anyone thinks giving an LLM access to credentials is a good idea in the first place? It's been demonstrated best practice to separate authentication/authorization from the LLM's context window/ability to influence for several years now.

We spent the last 50 years of computer security getting to a point where we keep sensitive credentials out of the hands of humans. I guess now we have to take the next 50 years to learn the lesson that we should keep those same credentials out of the hands of LLMs as well?

I'll be sitting on the sideline eating popcorn in that case.

ipythonon The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

What does Jimmy Kimmel have to do with anything? Plus, citation needed.

ipythonon Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

I was just about to say the same thing - why go through all the effort to patch the binaries when you can just redirect the DNS to your own server?

Then I saw something about signing with RSA - btw OP, the link doesn't work in your blog - there's some markup issues. But there's no discussion of where the RSA key comes from (just that you create one with OpenSSL). Does the Wii just accept any "signed" content? If so, wow, 2007 was a crazy time...

ipythonon Google removes AI health summaries

... at the same time, OpenAI launches their ChatGPT Health service: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/, marketed as "a dedicated experience in ChatGPT designed for health and wellness."

So interesting to see the vastly different approaches to AI safety from all the frontier labs.

ipythonon Google broke my heart

> which is impossible at scale

I love how this is the defense of all these tech companies. "I'm sorry, your honor, we are just a poor multi-trillion dollar company... there's just no way for us to control anything, because we're just too big..."

ipythonon Google broke my heart

but then why have a process at all?

ipythonon The Dopamine Trap

So... because we believe now that the moral panic around TV was unfounded, that directly implies there could be no concerns about the impact of consuming large amounts of algorithmically generated "junk content" by young developing brains?

Then, if that's the case, put your kids where your mouth is, go buck wild and sit your kids in front of CoComelon all day.

ipythonon The Dopamine Trap

The difference is- the producers of shows such as Mister Rogers and Sesame Street did not have a profit motive to increase "engagement" numbers. They actually used psychology to try and improve the outcomes of their viewers (aka children) rather than trying to improve the outcomes of themselves.

I mean, watch CoComelon and Sesame Street (or Mister Rogers, or Daniel Tiger...) side by side and tell me there isn't a qualitative difference between the two.

ipythonon The Dopamine Trap

what I love is the people on this very site who will downvote you and call you a bad parent for fighting this tooth and nail with your own kids.

I have never sat my kids down with some stupid YouTube channel like CoComelon -- or any YouTube channel for that matter -- yet I am at the mercy of the same strong market forces that make that style of content popular. As a result I have the same issues with emotional disregulation related to screen time with one of my children (the other two handle it mostly OK).

So now, just like everything else it seems, the parents are left alone to try and fight this battle with trillion dollar corporations all by themselves. Yes, some parents have given up and willfully handed their kids' future to these sociopaths. But I assure you there are millions of us who are left in a David vs Goliath fight with no end in sight.

ipythonon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

I mean it does call into question the timing of the sudden release of jack smiths deposition on Friday. Curious.

ipythonon IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]

Unfortunately they seem to have neglected to update their front page readme with this information, continuing to mislead people: https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1

ipythonon Parental controls aren't for parents

Thank you. I couldn’t have said it better.

ipythonon My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

you can take the money... and then continue to work. Nothing says you have to retire- I would have taken the money and figured out what's next! Not to mention that hopefully you've given shared ownership with your other early employees, who can also then at least have the opportunity for their own liquidity event.

ipythonon Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died

Agreed! Btw MotorWeek is still pumping out new episodes. Watched one yesterday.

ipythonon I canceled my book deal

What’s the name of your book? That sounds super interesting

ipythonon Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

Unfortunately the Apple wallet boarding pass is often out of date with any gate changes. The app will update immediately.

ipythonon ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16

Eh, those “ai researchers” are too busy rolling around in mounds of freshly minted Benjamins to care about “quality software”

ipythonon Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

Why use a website at all, then? United has a reservations 800 number and you can print your boarding pass at the airport.