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sneurlax··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
yes, and it usually doesn't cover anything except your torso :)
sneurlax··on GPT-6 Cyber
I’ve used both and I disagree. Wish it were so
sneurlax··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Love this! When we did classifier work on the JINS MEME smart glasses (sad to see them retired) I always wondered what it’d take to get lip-reading—glad to see y’all’ve figured it out!
sneurlax··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Are both parties not driven by their largest donors?
sneurlax··on Should Police Wipe a Criminal's Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S. vs. Stathas
They are contractually forbidden from letting you get their NSO spyware
sneurlax··on Show HN: ReVault – new secure archive format
Nice to see some Dart around here, even if it migrated to Rust eventually (as I am also wont to do). Just posting the github repo link for those that are lazy like me and want to go directly to the source: https://github.com/onepub-dev/reVault
sneurlax··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Crabs are programs
sneurlax··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
If anybody has the resources to do it, tho, they do

They have the means, they have the motivation

Lately they have fewer and fewer excuses not to

sneurlax··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
TIFFs were used as part of a PSP jailbreak as well iirc
sneurlax··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
The sandbox is just another layer
sneurlax··on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
You can still run it in a VM and access files on disk. Or if they're 1337 haxorz and keep the game in RAM you can still inspect RAM

There's no way to deliver a running program which you can't decompile aiui.

Like literally last night I did this to decompile an Android game whose APK on the Play Store is just a thin wrapper that downloads the real Unity game at runtime. It was a 30 second barrier

sneurlax··on How to engineer an AI harness for game development
> It's long, tiring, sometimes boring

all those things equal time and money eg. difficulty

sneurlax··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Of course there's still a huge performance gap

but DS 4.1 Flash is good enough for most tasks

sneurlax··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
If you've "avoided using LLMs", how do you know "you'll gradually lose the ability to think in a programming language"?
sneurlax··on Factorio that you can touch
Do you play Space Age just on Nauvis or are you playing without Space Age entirely?
sneurlax··on Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time
OK, are you providing inheritance tax as an example of socialism? I'm sorry but your comments are not easy to understand, I want to understand what you're trying to say but it's unclear because your argument is split over several comments that I can't seem to parse.

I want to understand what you're saying if you'd give me a few moments of further explanation of your claim/argument

sneurlax··on Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time
Please define or explain how socialism is compatible with capitalism
sneurlax··on Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time
What is your definition?
sneurlax··on Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time
How would you define and distinguish them, then?
sneurlax··on Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time
Please explain what you consider these terms to mean?
sneurlax··on The current balance of power in open models
Zero Mistrals in the game eh
sneurlax··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
There are such results on huggingface tho. Also search for the keywords “abliteration” and “heretic”. Heretic is a tool used to abliterate, that is decensor, models
sneurlax··on Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'
I would love to read this article.

I did not read this article.

sneurlax··on US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
both of their .orgs appear to be down, got any mirrors?
sneurlax··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
both of their .orgs seem to be down
sneurlax··on Flutter 3.47
I care :)
sneurlax··on More German than many Germans
Plenty of people love rules :) different strokes for different folks…
sneurlax··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Are their mouths open and are they making noise? Then yes.
sneurlax··on Hacker Public Radio
I need to sign back into chat :)
sneurlax··on We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
And yet they're trained on the corpus of human writing. They may not act like humans but they do act like human writing.

"If you don't make profit, your business will be closed" is a pretty clear ultimatum for an agent tasked with creating a profitable business.

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