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rtsil··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
I was downgraded for asking about a poisonous plant in my yard (poisonous for my cats, not for humans).
rtsil··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
Or hijack the TV's already always on mic. Just forward a copy of the audio to your server in addition to the one sent to Samsung or LG. WebOs and Tizen shouldn't be that hard to crack when you have access to unrestricted frontier models.
rtsil··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Paying full taxes to support a society where people with kids pay less taxes and receive more benefits from the State is certainly not selfish. That's the case in my country, at least.
rtsil··on France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
Using DNS over HTTP instead of the ISP's DNS solves most of these blocks, for now.
rtsil··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection
They can lock down the Play store completely, that's what 99% of people and the people most vulnerable to malware are using. The problem is extending that to F-Droid and other alternative services.
rtsil··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
That just tells it which languages to serve if the video has multiple tracks, including Ai-generated ones. "Keep original language" should be the default, or at least an opt-in.

And what about the atrocious title auto-translations? I'm in France, my browser is set to accept EN-us and FR-fr as languages, and my Youtube is in EN. And yet it keeps auto-translating the titles of some French videos. And the translation is so awful, it mistranslates many things and translates literally some obvious puns, that I can't believe they're using Gemini for this. They must have repurposed a 5-year old version of Google Translate. It is not consistent either, the titles are translated in the home page, but not in the channel's page.

rtsil··on Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died
He was the last of the legends.
rtsil··on Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
The EU couldn't agree amongst themselves because the US (and its biggest vassal, the UK when it was in the EU) did everything to prevent such agreement.

We'll see what the States that were the most against any form of common European defense will do now that the US has proven unreliable. And if they are still under the delusion that the current US policies will go away, then it's time for Two-Speed Europe.

rtsil··on Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody
> For the marshals, arresting fugitives while away from home was significantly safer as they are often caught unarmed and off-guard.
rtsil··on The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
Neither are litterature and peace.
rtsil··on Show HN: Built an email marketing platform after paying $230/month
The main reason people pay expensive ESPs is deliverability, which is practically impossible when self-hosting when it comes to marketing, non-transactional emails, and in any case much more expensive than any ESP subscription.

How does Fertit position itself in relation to that?

rtsil··on The daily life of a medieval king
Assuming it's translated literally from French, and the meaning of the French verb "couper" hasn't changed since the Middle Ages, it means mixing with water, and is a widely used expression in French.
rtsil··on The Daily Life of a Medieval King
The article says the depiction may reflect idealization, and is also a deliberate inspirational portrayal.
rtsil··on The daily life of a medieval king
And malnutrition isn't only about lack of food, it's also about mediocre quality of food:

> Similarly, new estimates of adult obesity show a steady increase over the last decade, from 12.1 percent (2012) to 15.8 percent (2022). Projections indicate that by 2030, the world will have more than 1.2 billion obese adults. The double burden of malnutrition – the co-existence of undernutrition together with overweight and obesity – has also surged globally across all age groups.

Obesity will soon, if not already, become a major public health disaster in poor countries.

rtsil··on YouTube No Translation
I'm in France, but my Google, browsers and devices languages are English. So Youtube randomly auto-dubs (and auto-translates the title of) some French videos into English, and some English videos into French. But they're never the same videos depending on the devices or the browsers. However, the automatic subtitles during the preview remain in the original langage.
rtsil··on Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System
> long periods of boredom

Not if it's at the speed of light, the journey will be instantaneous for the (massless) traveller.

rtsil··on EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud
Which made the zero downtime even more impressive!
rtsil··on YouTube No Translation
If only it was that easy. I'm French living in France. My account settings are in English, my browsers and apps (phone, TV) are in English but my Youtube region is France. So Youtube serves me:

- French videos auto-dubbed with AI and with the titles auto-translated in English.

- English videos auto-dubbed with AI and with the titles auto-translated in French.

- French videos not dubbed, but with the titles auto-translated in English.

- English videos not dubbed, but with the titles auto-translated in French.

- French videos kept as is.

- English videos kept as is.

Also, Youtube keeps suggesting me French accents videos, even though I never watched a similar video (but watched videos on American accents and Spanish accents years ago)

rtsil··on EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud
I had a cheap VPS (kimsufi) with them for over 10 years and I don't remember a single downtime notification. Before that, I had another for 5 or so years and I received two notifications, but each time it was to tell me the problem has been fixed.
rtsil··on Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
I used to think the same thing, and I still want a login/password alternative for me. But after seeing normies use online accounts and the trouble they have with password managers, I realized one of my friends had the most secure process: she would create extremely high-entropy passwords everywhere, but not remember them. Once she's logged out of her sessions after a couple of months, she uses the password forgotten link to generate another password, and so on. So her passwords are never stored anywhere, she's immune to many login stealing phishing attempts through genuine-looking fake websites as she can't enter the password, she doesn't have to deal with syncing the passwords between all her devices, and she doesn't have passwords on a post-it on her workstation. And she also doesn't get those annoying emails saying "your password is 6-months old, please change it or else!".

The email auth flow is a simplified and more efficient way to achieve the same outcome.

rtsil··on The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer
It's a bad, very literal machine translation. ChatGPT would do a better job.

A billion in French is 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) so I doubt they truly served "billions de requêtes".

rtsil··on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
Maybe the actual solution to the interpretability/blackbox problem is to not ask the llm to execute a given task, but rather to write deterministic programs that can execute the task.
rtsil··on Critical CSS
The critical css should cover everything above the fold to avoid that visible reflow.
rtsil··on JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
I just spent half a day troubleshooting why PHPStorm suddenly took 15 minutes to become responsive. The cultprit was the built-in markdown plugin, probably after an update. I don't have time for that.

Another annoying thing is they also removed the modal commit window in favor of a VS code style commit. It was removed without notification, and I had to install a plug-in to restore it.

IDE UI is the most important thing for me, I've built muscle memory to use it without think. When they tinker with it, it forces me to think about the IDE instead of about what I'm working on, and that's really annoying. Not enough to lead me to change, for now.

rtsil··on Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left
Unpredictability. If you restock and the tariffs are eliminated or significantly reduced a couple of weeks/month later, that's a disaster. So the best attitude is to wait and see.
rtsil··on OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
Aider regularly asks me the authorization to access files that I didn't explicitly add.
rtsil··on Bored of It
That's what happens when the entire education system is optimized for grades instead of the use and acquisition of knowledge. In this case, LLMs are just laying bare our failings as a society.
rtsil··on Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own
The biggest game-changer is that whatever MCP server I need, I can just ask Claude to code it.
rtsil··on Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
They refuted these, but did not say it was a bug on their side. It seemed more like the user errors combined with usual influencers gone wild.
rtsil··on Mistral OCR
I doubt most people have 99% accuracy. The threshold of tolerance for error is just much lower for any self-driving system (and with good reason, because we're not familiar with them yet).
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