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kloop··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
I think OP's point is that, if the attacker already has root, they haven't gained any new capabilities from the CVE. They could just do whatever they wanted much more directly. Therefore, the inherent risk seems fairly low.
kloop··on Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
But they do that via things in their control. For example, banks that don't follow FATCA cannot access the US banking system. It's rare for the US to send law enforcement to banks that don't comply

The UK would have been perfectly justified in saying 4chan can't access any of their systems.

kloop··on Recreational Programming
He's the "doing ui in c to piss of react devs" guy, right?
kloop··on Evolving programming languages in the AI era
Because human review is a serious bottleneck and optimizing something that isn't the bottleneck isn't helpful
kloop··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Which makes sense.

In a conversation about code, the most likely answer is often some comment about backwards compatibility.

In a conversation about a legacy enterprise app, the most likely answer is often going completely insane

kloop··on GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
I still think this is because, on a new release, it works on some prompts the previous ones did badly at, because new weights do well on a different set of prompts.

Then after a few days you notice the prompts that it does badly on that the old ones did fine with and everyone is convinced there's a regression when it's just a different part of prompt space

kloop··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
I'd put Kevlin Henney up there with him. His talk on 1968 alone is pretty amazing
kloop··on The August 17 outage
Sure, but the new patterns are several years old at this point.

Not adapting is a choice

kloop··on Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II
So that you can name a section of code without polluting the namespace.
kloop··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
It's training data might have a ton of examples of people hurrying and screwing more after being yelled at
kloop··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Yeah, but that capture is usually just hosted spark usage.

The AI usage has mostly been getting it to explain error messages

kloop··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
> “The source described leading AI labs or their allies approaching the administration every 3-5 months with an idea to ban open-source models.”

That's going to hit first amendment grounds pretty quick, the same way that software in general did.

The modern version of the decss flag will be a character that says "I think good weights are {...weights go here...}"

They could, however, ban any payment to a chinese entity, or any entity owned by a chinese entity for inference/ai services/etc

kloop··on AI makes programming differently difficult
It does make it correct in the reality sense

If someone says something happens and the code says something else, the code wins.

kloop··on Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)
The article mentions that the "pranksterish" groups who took psychedelics weathered it just fine. They didn't have an expectation to disappoint. Irreverence seems to be just as good

It does sound like the opposite a bit, it sounds like attempting to create a spiritual practice, or assign spiritual significance at all was what did him in

kloop··on Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++
Give how default gcc and clang are, along with the recommendation to update the standard instead of gcc and clang, it sounds like the standard is noncompliant with standard C++

Standard in the sense of commonly used or supplied

kloop··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
whistles

3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot

kloop··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
Generally speaking, things that you sell (the legal term is commercial speech, iirc) is more able to be regulated by the government.

The government can ban the sale of those things to minors, generally. So the category of porn sites that require a credit card and pay gate the content might be regulateable.

But that's not how places like pornhub or xvideos operate

kloop··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
It would probably also be illegal for the government to mandate a paywall.

The issue is not that age gates are illegal, but that the government forcing people to use age gates is illegal.

kloop··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
There's a big difference here, in the US anyways, neither alcohol nor nicotine have first amendment protections. Basically all content delivered over the US does.

That's a much thornier legal issue

kloop··on Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb
> It is not disingenuous, maybe a little loose on the 'meaning', but your definition is rather narrow

The thing is that every other country does have what they're describing.

> The Color Purple has been challenged many times in order to be removed from public library circulation and public school curriculums.

And yet nobody challenged it to get it removed from US Amazon. Amazon _is_ forbidden from selling certain books in other countries. It's so not the same thing

kloop··on Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years
Ahh, more supplement. I must have misread as more absolute amount
kloop··on Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years
Do they need more vitamin D? I thought they just needed more sun to get the same vitamin D
kloop··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
You're not wrong that a rationale is required.

But the master knowing when to break the rules because of tacit knowledge without being able to explain it is a real effect

kloop··on LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear
> Radioactive decay shows that a young earth could not exist

This is one of the worst arguments against young earth creationism. You have to posit a being who can create the universe, but can't create already decayed elements.

kloop··on EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated
> The problem we're seeing across many professions is AI output is not getting vetted by knowledgeable people

The problem is that output sometimes take longer to verify than to create in the first place.

That turns AI into a deeply negative ROI system for many applications.

kloop··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
1st amendment. There's a long history of carve outs around commercial products. But, if Linux devs (who aren't selling anything) went to the mat against this law, the government of California would lose and (at least part of) their law would be struck down.
kloop··on Deno 2.8
> The article mentions Zig as a factor, but is micromanaging memory really gaining over 2x vs node?

As someone who has optimized by reducing/batching heap allocations, 2x seems within the realm of possibility, depending on the exact circumstances.

That being said, iirc, node also has more hooks for things like observability than bun does, which might hurt it here

kloop··on UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
> There's not really enough info to know if this is just a coin toss or something more.

The difference is always having one or two devs who care. Every successful software project I've ever seen has had a few devs who care way more than is healthy

kloop··on Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement
> It can't block a federal warrant.

Exactly. If they all submit to federal warrants, and the state has a law effectively against that, then it becomes illegal to use the cameras.

kloop··on Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement
That probably just means it's illegal for local governments to use cloud based cameras in Illinois
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