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seanw444··on NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4
NetBSD is so cool. I love how broad the hardware support is, and how straightforward the whole architecture is. My only complaint is that OpenZFS isn't really a thing yet, and the built-in implementation is very outdated. Otherwise I'd have it on my Orange Pi running my NAS.
seanw444··on Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
The biggest problem is the price. I don't personally know anybody who would buy a phone that expensive. I was super interested in upgrading to it from my Pixel 7 Pro back when it was rumors. But I guess I'm gonna have to wait for a while for the price to go down.
seanw444··on Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
It was probably because they couldn't "stalk" you to see what your public persona was. That's the normie's standard intel op when dating.
seanw444··on Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders
Yeah I'm confused
seanw444··on Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning
What's old is new.
seanw444··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
Perhaps this is analogous to what our brains are doing? Maybe the different regions of the brain operate like semi-independent "models" that edit the other regions' "weights", and that's where the learning comes from?
seanw444··on Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
I've been getting the most value out of LLMs this way as well. I don't care to vomit out code for the fastest MVP. I want to learn and understand what goes into what I'm building, piece by piece. So I use LLMs as a research and learning assistant to speed up gaining those tidbits. But I still have to understand the code well enough to put the pieces together by hand.
seanw444··on Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
I'm also speculating that they'll kindly donate at least 1 T of that to me out of the kindness of their heart.
seanw444··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
That's what reputations are for.
seanw444··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
All I have to say is: lmao
seanw444··on Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
The employee seems to have a better grasp of their demographic than the CEO. Hope he enjoys losing a good employee and their revenue continuing to fall through the floor. I'm not the only paying customer leaving ASAP.
seanw444··on Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
Plus Australia is a member of Five Eyes.
seanw444··on Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
I really like the idea of using Fastmail over Tuta since they support normal protocols and thus third party clients. My main concern is that if they're able to serve those protocols, they have to be able to access my emails in plaintext in some form or fashion, which also means if their systems do (and most likely inevitably will these days) get hacked at some point, all my emails are now exposed and leaked.
seanw444··on Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
Same here. Been a paying customer for probably about 3 years now. Off to either Fastmail or Tuta most likely. I'd like to self-host, but corporations have thoroughly ruined what should have been an open and decentralized system.
seanw444··on Northflank Breached
I was just being sarcastic.
seanw444··on Northflank Breached
Nope. The solution is to move even faster and thus break less things via AI.
seanw444··on Emacs Turns 50
I was using Helm, lsp-mode, yasnippet, and the like for a long time. I switched to Eglot/Corfu/Vertico/Tempel. I much prefer the new wave.
seanw444··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
Agreed. I trust it more as a codebase query system rather than a codebase writer.
seanw444··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
You just described the mechanism by which they did. Sure, they didn't make it illegal nationwide permanently, because what serious country would do that and hope to maintain control? The real threat is in the vague exceptions for specific cases, which they have now used.
seanw444··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
I don't know why I haven't been able to see the similarity between short form content and LLMs in our industry until reading your comment, but that is apt. That's the impression I'm getting. I stay away from "agentic code generation" as much as possible, just like I avoid short form content mills like the plague. That said, LLMs have been a huge boon for me as a research assistant. Being able to look up very niche problems, and have responses be tailored to me, is awesome. My brain stays sharp and I still enjoy the fun of putting the pieces together myself much faster than before.
seanw444··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
France just banned protesting
seanw444··on Ghostty 1.4
You can also just add this to your SSH config to get the typical functionality working:

    Host ...
        SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color
seanw444··on Should Police Wipe a Criminal's Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S. vs. Stathas
Maybe I'm ignorant of the "cocaine community", but is the packaging intended to be reused? Because I highly doubt it. A smartphone isn't intended to be disposable.
seanw444··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
That actually sounds crazy to me. At least for the House of Commons. I'm amenable to upper chambers of bicameral legislatures being indirectly elected. That's how the US Senate used to be before the constitution was amended.
seanw444··on Crystal 1.22
Seeing the kinds of stuff my coworker is spitting out into merge requests on my codebase via Claude Code is sometimes baffling. It's literally spaghetti code. I won't be surprised if the advent of LLMs causes power usage to surge globally, not only because they themselves use a lot of power, but because the code they spew out is horrendously ugly and inefficient. And then the time they take to sort out the spaghetti code they spat out, to add new features on top, takes even longer and uses more power than before. It's gonna be a mess. I don't see how we can keep going down this road without huge investments into nuclear power collectively.
seanw444··on Security Disclosure
Ha, Cyberpunk 2077 is becoming reality. We're proposing the Blackwall.
seanw444··on The compiler was supposed to end programming too
People keep making these comparisons like they're equivalent. The whole point of AI is to replace the human factor. Horses being replaced by automobiles didn't remove the human factor. Humans continued to drive a different, non-organic vehicle for the following century.
seanw444··on The Future of CSS
I used to be Reactpilled, but ever since I've tried Svelte, I haven't gone back.
seanw444··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Do you dig your garden with an excavator?
seanw444··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
The author of the code was physically touching the internals and potentially intuiting obvious shortcomings as they worked on it. That very crucial part is now gone.
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