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I really enjoyed this article, and particularly the penultimate section on how to use is_debugger_present().

It probably has more to do with what he has actually done than what he might theoretically do with all his wealth and power in some alternate reality where he was a decent human being.

I didn't even know that was an option. Absolutely check the compatibility tool on the OpenWRT website.

This is why I check OpenWRT compatibility before I buy.

It covered up the Sekrit Listnin Duvice logo.

He may be a spy, but he’s not a competent spy. Absence of evidence (of spies) is not evidence of absence (of spies). He just set the bar so low that even OpenAI noticed his activities.

You would think he had the skills, resources and intelligence to ask his incriminating questions to a locally hosted model.

No change there.

So that this list can be added to the list of lists.

There’s also Piper[1], which I’ve been using for my Logitech G502 wireless gaming mouse. It predates the AI era.

[1] https://github.com/libratbag/piper

This[1]:

> This has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where individuals can use this powerful new capability to reach their full potential, pursue their interests, and improve their lives and the world more than ever before.

Plus this[2]:

> Since 2019, thousands of deceptive advertisements on Facebook have used the likeness of the highly prominent businessman to promote scams, racking up thousands of victims, according to the suit.

> The billionaire's legal team argues that Meta's artificial intelligence tools optimised and personalised fraudulent ads before distributing them, thereby making Meta an active participant, rather than a mere intermediary.

Make for a fun juxtaposition today.

[1] https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/andrew-forrest-meta-s...

I have the same question.

I get that it’s designed to run on a CPU, big GPU or MacBook (although the way that was phrased confused me at first).

I’m struggling with what a “decoder-only” model is good for.

I wonder if this is a "loan idiom" from a non-English-speaking culture.

> Det är ingen ko på isen – “There’s no cow on the ice” (Sweden)

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/idioms-around-the-world/

I like reading articles like this, but as per usual, I also find these articles frustrating to read because they don't specify calling conventions[0] (which are many and varied) - particularly the allocation of arguments to registers and the stack frame.

Articles about GoLang assembly language[1] are particularly vexing because the instruction parameters are bass-ackwards - source, destination - like AT&T syntax, but register references are missing their % sigil and so appear to be MASM-style[2].

Authors blogging from deep inside some technical tent should take pity on readers who are not so deeply in the tent and offer a brief primer on assumed knowledge.

Any mistakes in the above should be viewed as confirmation of my confusion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions

[1] https://go.dev/doc/asm#x86

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language

Who's your sugar guy? I can get you a deal...

I'm trying hard but to take offence.

It's a push by oligarchs to establish total surveillance and control of the masses to protect themselves from the coming environmental (climate change) and economic (mass unemployment) collapses.

In a functioning democracy, the masses would demand higher taxes on the wealthy to fund social support. The oligarchy has already bought out democracy in the US and other places to ensure that doesn't happen. So to keep the masses in line, a system of totalitarian oppression is required.

His point is that in security, the opposite applies. The supposed "incompetence" is just plausible deniability for a malicious act.

> Note that recent (2025-10) batches of the OpenWrt One have an M.2 slot with a detached post at the 2230 position and the shipped product contains no way to attach the post.

The implications of this are going over my head (and TFA should explain it better). I gather that 2230 is a form factor 22x30mm and there's also a 2280 M.2 SSD form factor.

Is this just saying that there's a missing mounting post? So it wobbles? You can't use a certain form factor?

The standard answers* are using a (free, exploitative) VPN or tricking image-based age verification. You know, rocket surgery according to Australian politicians.

* Source: am Australian and annoyed enough to follow reporting and discussions.

The use case appears to be Java applications that rely on native libraries. Instead of a Java rewrite or using JNI or similar, Endive gives a new deployment model for native libraries (whether the language is garbage-collected or has manual memory-management) as a regular JAR file [1]:

> You didn't install a native binary. You didn't configure JNI. You didn't cross-compile anything for your target platform. It just works, because the Wasm module is hiding inside a regular JAR on your classpath.

> WebAssembly changes this equation. Take a proven C or Rust library, compile it to Wasm, and run it within JVM boundaries. You keep everything the JVM gives you: guaranteed memory safety, fault isolation, platform independence, advanced JIT, observability, and the "write once, run anywhere" promise. The Wasm module becomes just another artifact inside your JAR, an implementation detail that your users never need to think about.

And from TFA[2]:

> The previous article focused on wrapping C and Rust libraries. Those languages compile to Wasm straightforwardly because they manage their own memory. But a growing number of languages target the WasmGC proposal instead: Kotlin/Wasm, Dart, and others. Google Sheets already runs its Java-based calculation engine through WasmGC in production. Endive passes the full WasmGC spec testsuite

[1] https://foojay.io/today/a-new-generation-of-java-libraries-i...

[2] https://foojay.io/today/endive-1-0-wasm/

I think the basket_horse comment is referring to the US government.

Thank you. That completes the picture for me.

Finally I can automate my paranoia and relax.

> It's not like we treat math as a charity project for eccentrics who like blackboards.

Love it! XD

I agree, and I think, as with physics, mathematical research produces building blocks whose utility won't be realised until later.

> but if you have a loved one who just needs a one click fix, these can likely save them from the next attack.

I'm not letting gam gams anywhere near that shit. She can continue writing her own apps in assembly language - it's good for her brain health!

Let’s just say that it only does light-themed UIs.

Works in Firefox 150.0.3 (64-bit) on Linux.

It’s one of those “you criticise society and yet you participate in society… curious” critiques. Also, I saw some AI detector flagging Bible passages as 97% AI generated. It doesn’t inspire confidence.

> A search for vertical 5x5 obsidian/crying obsidian pinwheels was also made, and only 1258 were found, with only 613 within a 25k radius of spawn. There were many more than this in December of 2025, so this is either a sign of other players removing them, or the owner(s) of 2b2t worldediting them all out at some point.

I did Nazi that coming.