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progval··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
It's memory that the kernel cannot use to cache other applications' files.
progval··on CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering
For 40 minutes, the article claimed they used LLMs. They changed the wording twice: https://theopenreader.org/index.php?title=Journalism:CERN_Us... and https://theopenreader.org/index.php?title=Journalism%3ACERN_...
progval··on CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering
They changed it from AI to LLM then back to AI: https://theopenreader.org/index.php?title=Journalism:CERN_Us... and https://theopenreader.org/index.php?title=Journalism%3ACERN_...
progval··on Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record
The Internet Archive does not, but Archive Team does: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
progval··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
> don't know how to clear their cookies

Why do users even need to manually clear their cookies?

progval··on Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
The way it works in France is that money goes to a company that collects it on behalf of all copyright holders. Its website does not offer any documentation as to how copyright holders can claim their share.
progval··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
> India and China burn orders of magnitude more

They don't, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

> and they aren't going to slow down.

China already did, according to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emis...

progval··on Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
> There are research models out there which are trained on only permissively licensed data

Models whose authors tried to train only on permissively licensed data.

For example https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-15b tried to be a permissively licensed dataset, but it filtered only on repository-level license, not file-level. So when searching for "under the terms of the GNU General Public License" on https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/search-v2 back when it was working, you would find it was trained on many files with a GPL header.

progval··on Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
It's decentralized because you can run a server yourself, but they also offer hosting services.
progval··on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Links 1 and 2 have not had updates in 10 and 8 years respectively, they probably don't even compile anymore. They implement OTRv3 which was published in about 2005 and uses 1536-bits primes. As far as I know, neither the protocol nor the implementations were audited (and especially not audited recently). This is not good encryption at all.

Additionally, OTRv3 does not allow multiple clients per account, which makes it unusable for anyone who wants to chat from two devices.

progval··on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
> which has lead to the flagship instance being far bigger than its moderation team can handle, leading to a situation where it's a major source of abuse

Is that still true? As the admin of a small instance, I find the abuse coming from mastodon.social has been really low for a few years. There is the occasional spammer, but they often deal with it as quickly as I do.

progval··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
It's universal, but you need to whitelist specific apps people can message you from. This is what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/0gKY76z.png
progval··on Proof of Corn
Anthropic tried that with a vending machine. The Claude instance managing it ended up ordering tungsten cubes and selling them at a loss. https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1
progval··on Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
Like what? It can already use npm/pip/etc. And if it needs a new APT package or config in /etc/ then you would want to know because you need to document it.
progval··on Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
The EU considers Instagram a "Core Platform Service" (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...), which comes with a bunch of restrictions. Article 5 paragraph 2 of the DMA comes awfully close to what amadeuswoo is describing:

> 2. The gatekeeper shall not do any of the following: [...]

> (c) cross-use personal data from the relevant core platform service in other services provided separately by the gatekeeper, including other core platform services, and vice versa; and

> (d) sign in end users to other services of the gatekeeper in order to combine personal data,

so Meta may have decided it's not worth fighting it and removed the requirement for Instagram accounts for people connecting from the EU.

progval··on Every GitHub object has two IDs
> immutable URL key like issue/pr

they are not immutable because repositories can change URLs (renamed or moved to a different org).

progval··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
There is https://www.wikifunctions.org/
progval··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
> This man did not say he was going to bomb anything until after he was voted in

Except Mexico (https://www.vox.com/policy/363146/trump-policy-war-mexico-tr...) and Iran (https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4898919-trump-iran-smi...).

progval··on WireGuard packet relay for NAT traversal
wpex also does not need custom client software.
progval··on Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
They could at least not keep a picture that shows them with eleven fingers, though (https://web.archive.org/web/20251231080727/https://www.gitmo...)
progval··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
Doesn't any such cable/adapter violate the USB-C spec? https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/10xj74r/why_d...
progval··on How we lost communication to entertainment
Would you even see the same videos they do, given how customized feeds are?
progval··on FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
You can find an archive of the links' targets at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:dir:5861f19187336...
progval··on Archiving Git branches as tags
> A tag is a pointer that always refers to the same commit

It's not guaranteed not to change. The UI just makes it harder to update.

progval··on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025
But there output is (usually) executable code, and is not committed in a VCS. So the source code is still readable.

When people use LLMs to improve their code, they commit their output to Git to be used as source code.

progval··on AI URI Scheme – Internet-Draft
That's the protocol specification, not the URI scheme. And the packet diagram is amazing because it's missing every odd bit and "SigLen (16)" is twice the width it should be. I guess they vibecoded it.
progval··on AI URI Scheme – Internet-Draft
Author seems to have no Internet presence and claims to be employed by the "Artificial Intelligence Internet Foundation". Which either doesn't have a website or is this placeholder: https://www.aifoundation.com/

So it seems to be a random person cosplaying as a spec author. Or possibly trying to have something impressive on their résumé.

progval··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Then why do they charge by the minute instead of gigabytes and number of events?
progval··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
Regulatory capture is when a large company encourages stronger regulations that small competitors cannot afford to satisfy. Here the issue is regulation that is too weak, not too strong.
progval··on Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
But normally when you join a conversation and are not allowed to see previous messages, you don't see anything about them. A matrix server does.
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