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Code is speech, and if you aren't allowed to run the code, what good is it being being available or free? Any "regulations" would start by restricting code, it's no different from saying writers need a lot of regulations because of dangerous or badly written text/books/publications has caused a lot of damage.

samlinnferon Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

They already terminate TLS at their edge. It takes one secret court order for them to start sending data to the NSA.

samlinnferon Why humanoid robots won't catch up to human workers any time soon

I really want to see that robot door-opening, shirt-folding, orange-peeling and sandwich making competition. It would be like the housework championships. If your robot works it would sell like hotcakes right there.

edit: realised there's a part 2: https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/benjies-humanoid-olympi...

samlinnferon FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

It's obvious they are keeping them all. 150 million didn't get all re-scanned at once.

samlinnferon FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

The whole point is they keep it forever. You think any id verification services actually delete the data?

samlinnferon Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

>write an entire blog post ranting about how the company that runs the product doesn't give a shit and has terrible support

>signs up for it anyway

Why?

samlinnferon There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

Thousands of microservices = thousands deployments that can fail, that needs to kept compatible, that needs to be able to find each other, that needs to be monitored. This is just pushing the pain downwards.

samlinnferon Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Cool thing about gitolite is that you manage it using text files and committing to the gitolite admin git repository.

We were using it until we grew tired of not having a web view to comment and review patches so we switched to gitea.

samlinnferon Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

It's correlates directly with business objectives.

samlinnferon Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel

Rice deserves better than that horrific AI image.

samlinnferon 200 Milliseconds

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jealous

1: hostile toward a rival or one believed to enjoy an advantage : envious

>His success made his old friends jealous.

>They were jealous of his success.

I rest my case.

samlinnferon 200 Milliseconds

Not really, jealous is defined as envious (being envious is one of the definitions of being jealous).

For common usage they are equivalent, e.g. I'm jealous of X is the same as I'm envious of X.

samlinnferon Don't be a meat proxy

Based

samlinnferon Don't be a meat proxy

The real reason people do it:

1. It's quick

2. It's not their problem anymore because they've replied.

No amount of hand-wringing is going to change that.

samlinnferon How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

And we are to believe they don't have FDE on their application servers?

samlinnferon Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes

Ah but is the model's belief of the statements 1. complete, 2. consistent, 3. decidable?

samlinnferon Jacobian Conjecture for Baby

It got more and more AI towards the end.

samlinnferon What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?

Claude slopped html page.

samlinnferon How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner

North Korean has won, once they had nukes and ICBMs they became untouchable.

samlinnferon A glitch in February of the year 0

They're just using astronomical year numbering.

samlinnferon ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content

It may be harmful to someone if shared and sent with malicious intent, but more damage has been done with pens, keyboard and words. Start banning pens that let people write hurtful things next. Ban Photoshop after because someone can get hurt with a manipulated image.