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nullpoint420on F45 (Fedora 45) Final Is No-Go

Fedora is my daily. I love that I can trust updates when they come out. I see this as good news

nullpoint420on We should be more ambitious with the software we build

Disagree. Most websites I need to have reader mode on to read, but not this one.

nullpoint420on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

Is Gitlab Open Source or one of those weird "code available" projects? Can we make a PR?

nullpoint420on Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

Yes thanks for the correction, I meant fastboot

nullpoint420on Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille key step towards biohybrid computing

This seems reductionist with false equivalence. Wouldn't making a brain a "deterministic CPU" negate all the benefits of using organic tissue?

nullpoint420on Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

Bold of you to assume we'll still be using Office and Adobe in a few years. What happens when all the MIT solutions here are just a MCP?

nullpoint420on Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

I'm doing the same thing with my Oneplus 6T, I have Claude piloting my phone over adb booting new candidate kernels and checking the results

What a time to be alive!

nullpoint420on OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

I've heard this described as having a "real" or "fake" corporate job on social media.

If you have a Thinkpad, you have a real job. And if you have a MacBook, you have a fake job.

nullpoint420on Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016)

Same here. Firefox, USA.

nullpoint420on Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps

Agreed. I thought I was being smug by telling my agents to use btrfs for specific workloads. Sure, it took me longer to run out of space, but I of course ended up running out of space

nullpoint420on Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

My B port is going well. C was a mistake. /s

nullpoint420on Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

What is the need for this?

nullpoint420on Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

Why does he need to write code to be "competent." He's a structural and architectural genius.

Projects like the Linux kernel do not pop up out of thin air. They need a leader.

nullpoint420on Porsche Mission S

Yea, and it feels like it's from the 2010s. What's wrong with saying that?

nullpoint420on Porsche Mission S

Wow, you're not kidding. This really feels like a hobby site from the early 2010s

nullpoint420on I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

I don't have to babysit my dishwasher to make sure it washes my dishes.

What is your point?

nullpoint420on I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

Then why is it marketed like one? And why can I use it like a tool?

I do have to send input to the thing to get a response, no?

nullpoint420on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

To be honest, their insistence to port this to Rust is likely the culprit of the performance issues.

Let's say there was a 1:1 decomp instead, bit-by-bit exact. This is doable today - what then?

nullpoint420on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Have you not seen WordCraft[0] or EffectCraft[1]?

Sure they didn't build it from scratch but what I'm saying is that there's no moats anymore. If you build something, they will tear it down to its composite pieces and assimilate it.

[0] https://getartcraft.com/apps/wordcraft

[1] https://getartcraft.com/apps/effectcraft

nullpoint420on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

I don't see the Cloudflare stuff as groundbreaking, let alone people building companies around it. "Workers" are the wrong primitive, IMO. What if my code isn't in Javascript? They sandboxed the wrong part of the machine.

I have a version of "Cloudflare OS" running in production, using Temporal as the orchestration and MicroVMs for the sandboxing.

Sorry, I get your point but personally I don't get the hype around them.

nullpoint420on Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications

How is it decentralized?

nullpoint420on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

I hate to say it but this is cope. I believed this in the past but it's over.

AI models can dismantle billion dollar industries. They can reverse engineer Adobe and Microsoft products that once were their moats and titans of their industry.

Why do you think they'd need to lie?

nullpoint420on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Cloudflare is where you lost me. I don't know anyone actually using them other than for their proxy, DNS servers, or DDOS protection.

nullpoint420on 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

Yet AI companies distilling copyrighted books and repositories is somehow okay?

And let's say there's a future where an AI model could zero-shot the game itself. What then?

nullpoint420on A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

Ah I got whooshed, I interpreted text rendering literally. As in shaping, kerning, and aliasing haha

nullpoint420on A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

What's wrong with it? Sure it's way more higher quality but the layout seems... fine?

nullpoint420on Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

Woof. Wonder if the creator knows that

nullpoint420on macOS 27 is so buggy

Did you mention this as some sort of gotcha? This article is over 12 years old.

Chrome has gone through almost two rewrites of their core rendering stack since then. It's impressive work.

Although this itself is outdated, I remember enjoying "Life of a Pixel"[0] back when it came out.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-J-tbAlFic

nullpoint420on macOS 27 is so buggy

Real. The Chrome rendering stack is such an inspiration for how to do high performance GUIs on multiple operating systems.

nullpoint420on Gemini 4 Argon

What does this even mean? What does a fair democracy even look like nowadays, that can't be bought or externally influenced?