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lucasay

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lucasay··on Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
non-disparagement clauses doing a lot of heavy lifting here
lucasay··on EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Cool idea, especially the plugin security angle, but WordPress’s real strength is its ecosystem. That’s going to be hard to replicate.
lucasay··on Is BGP safe yet?
RPKI makes BGP safer, not safe. It helps prevent some hijacks, but attackers can still mess with routing paths. Feels like we’re patching a trust-based system rather than fixing it.
lucasay··on Bird brains (2023)
“More neurons = intelligence” always felt like an oversimplification. If that were true, we wouldn’t be surprised by birds or octopuses anymore.
lucasay··on How to turn anything into a router
“Just use OPNsense” is great advice for production, but terrible advice for learning. This article is valuable precisely because it shows how little magic is actually involved in routing.
lucasay··on Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network
IPv6 isn’t that compelling on a simple home network, but avoiding NAT and easier end-to-end connectivity are pretty real advantages.
lucasay··on Say No to Palantir in Europe
Petitions don’t do much on their own, but they’re often how pressure starts. And ‘not European issues’ feels off when these companies operate globally anyway.
lucasay··on Make macOS consistently bad unironically
The pill tabs are what get me too. I can ignore most visual changes after a while, but those somehow manage to feel both more distracting and less informative at the same time.
lucasay··on ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs
Not sure how to feel about this. Does this mean ARM is slowly moving from just licensing IP to actually competing with companies building on top of it?
lucasay··on Autoresearch on an old research idea
Partially—but science also questions the hypothesis and the metric. This mostly assumes both are correct and just optimizes within that box.
lucasay··on Autoresearch on an old research idea
This feels less like automated research and more like structured trial and error with a decent feedback loop. Still useful, but I think the real bottleneck is how good your eval metric is. If that’s weak, the whole loop just optimizes for the wrong thing faster.
lucasay··on Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights
Feels less like malice and more like people just not thinking about others. Still, on a plane you’re stuck for hours—rules like this make sense.
lucasay··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
The goal seems to be breaking the real-time guidance scammers rely on. 24h probably works, but it feels like a heavy tradeoff for legit users.
lucasay··on Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)
I’m more curious about how robust this is against modern systems. A lot of newer facial recognition models are trained on occlusions, masks, and heavy makeup — so this might be less effective than people assume.