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itintheory··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
The other problem, in the US at least, is that cash is very low value (inflation), and dollar coins never caught on. I'm not trying to carry around $6 in quarters to park for 2 hours. And that's a pretty inexpensive parking spot.
itintheory··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
In the US there is a federal law related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_Act
itintheory··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
I suspect they'll be harder (impossible?) to block, but that will probably deter the casual user.
itintheory··on Launching the Claude Partner Network
Appears to be where the actual link, http://partnerportal.anthropic.com/s/partner-registration, redirects. Site.com is some Salesforce related domain.
itintheory··on Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)
What do you think it is about machine learning that makes it hard to replicate? I'm an outsider to academic research, but it seems like computer based science would be uniquely easy - publish the code, publish the data, and let other people run it. Unless it's a matter of scale, or access to specific hardware.
itintheory··on Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
> stenography

I think you mean steganography[0]. Stenography is shorthand, used for transcription.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

itintheory··on No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
Any references on this? I hear this argument a lot. In fact, in a talk on AI last week I heard someone say:

"If you click the thumbs up button to rate a chat, the AI provider will use the contents for training, so our company's policy is never to click the thumbs up button"

That seemed so farcical I had a hard time taking this person seriously. Enterprise plans must give some strong guarantees around data usage, right?

itintheory··on GPT-5.4
On it's face, I'm not sure that's a new question. Bots using browser automation frameworks (puppeteer, selenium, playwright etc) have been around for a while. There are signals used in bot detection tools like cursor movement speed, accuracy, keyboard timing, etc. How those detection tools might update to support legitimate bot users does seem like an open question to me though.
itintheory··on Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario
> Fear-mongering isn't lucrative, isn't dopamine triggering

Isn't it? Isn't fear-mongering one of the main selling points for news-media? And a driving factor of engagement in social media?

itintheory··on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
I have this problem with calc.exe. Sometimes it'll launch from the start menu, but often won't. I pinned it to the taskbar, but muscle memory is a powerful force, so I usually try to launch it from the start menu first.
itintheory··on When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
> you have to install them locally once

or install Docker and have the agent run CLI commands in docker containers that mount the local directory. That way you essentially never have to install anything. I imagine there's a "skill" that you could set up to describe how to use docker (or podman or whatever) for all CLI interactions, but I haven't tried yet.

itintheory··on Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
Seems like the .scr files trigger CrowdStrike Falcon. Not clear where the executables run here come from...
itintheory··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
> a series of photos side by side of the same subject

Cameras are now "enhancing" photos with AI automatically. The contents of a 'real' photo are increasingly generated. The line is blurring and it's only going to get worse.

itintheory··on DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
I'm really excited for this. We moved 120+ hand renewed certs to ACME, but still manually validate the domains annually. Many of them are on private/internal load balancers (no HTTP-01 challenge possible), and our DNS host doesn't support automation (no DNS-01 challenges either). While manually renewing the DCV for ~30 domains once a year isn't too bad, when the lifetime of that validity shrinks, ultimately to 9 days, it'd become a full time job. I just hope Sectigo implements this as quickly as LE.
itintheory··on Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor
You might consider adding a modal when closing the window with unsaved changes?
itintheory··on Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026
Sure, but sometimes that's what you intend. Docker isn't always used for, nor is it particularly designed to be a security / sandboxing solution. If I'm running a tool as root that interacts with the docker daemon, I might choose to run it in a container still.
itintheory··on Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026
> Can you control the docker swarm API from within a container that is running inside of it?

The question didn't ask about RBAC, well thought out or not.

itintheory··on Rise of the Triforce
It's linguistically a minced oath[1], and they're pretty common in all manner of online contexts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath

itintheory··on Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026
You can. I think there's a couple approaches - bind mount the docker socket, or expose it on localhost, and use host networking for the consuming container, or there exist various proxy projects for the socket. There may be other ways, curious if anyone else knows more.
itintheory··on WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
Android has been doing this for a while, too
itintheory··on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
> ODB

Ol' Dirty Bastard? I jest, but I think the theory behind wanting an 'On-board Diagnostics' [1] connection would be to get data from the vehicle. You can get cheap bluetooth OBD-II adapters to transmit that info to your phone, it's not a given. I don't know much about electric cars, but if you want your phone to know the fuel level in an ICE vehicle then you'd need this kind of connection.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics

itintheory··on The Day the Telnet Died
I'm a fan of 'nc' / netcat for this purpose. It's small, quick, and can send or receive over TCP or UDP.
itintheory··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
> slither

What is a slither in this context? Or should this be "sliver"?

itintheory··on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
Your company was taking bets on https://www.online-stopwatch.com/horse-race/ ?

Unrelated - that site is great. I looked into membership, but $6/month seems steep.

itintheory··on The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime
You're the guy in the article? Could you elaborate and share more of your side of the story?
itintheory··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
There was conflict between the new (old) hardware manufacturer Core Devices, and the Rebble community that's maintained the app store and software for the original Pebbles. I think they've worked it out, but it got ugly for a bit.
itintheory··on Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical"
Or only in search results that link to... a 404 on Microsoft's site.
itintheory··on Chromium Has Merged JpegXL
Do you daily drive Qubes? I'd be curious to hear about your experiences. I've been following the project from the sidelines for years, but haven't taken the leap.
itintheory··on Postal Arbitrage
I think it depends. I bought a Dell 1700 laser printer for the low price of $0 at a second hand store about 19 years ago. They said it was failing to pull paper from the tray, and I could have it if I wanted. I fixed the rollers responsible for feeding (turned the rubber wheels inside out), and used it for another 10 years without issue. Sure, toner costs some money, but an off-brand toner cartridge is $25, rated for 3000 pages. I have also needed to replace the drum, and at one point picked up a second 1700 into which I had to put the old drum and toner after some failure or another.

I'd estimate I've put in $200 at most, and probably put 15-20k pages through it. Still prints just fine. It doesn't have color, or networking features, but I can share it on the network from the connected computer. I'm not sure they make anything this reliable these days, but I bet there's quite a few old laser printers floating around still.

itintheory··on SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
That example is in TFA.
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