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steve1977··on The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)
> Anecdotally, does this match anyone's actual experience?

Yes. In contrast to you, I really think many of my coworkers seem to get dumber by the day. Not all of them yet, fortunately, but many.

steve1977··on The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)
According to Claude.
steve1977··on Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
Ha, finally me being poor pays off!
steve1977··on Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
Well, we don't have to use the tools you mentioned.
steve1977··on We Took over ChatGPT Accounts
Production scale is not production grade I guess...
steve1977··on Tell HN: Scribd Breached
Yes, but I think it also just shows the widespread ignorance and incompetence in many companies.

I'm not saying everything can be secured easily, but a lot of those leaks recently could have been prevented easily.

steve1977··on Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs
This is certainly an interesting project. I have to ask though, why C++ and not Rust?
steve1977··on Emacs Turns 50
But GNU Emacs was not the first incarnation. That was EMACS on some PDP system in the 70s and Richard Stallman was already involved in that. Gosling Emacs only came years later.
steve1977··on Why I Am a Programmer
Most software engineers are not in the same level as real engineers either, let's be honest here.
steve1977··on Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more
Provocative of what? Thinking about the issues that Python has? Why would that be a problem?

It IS a mess and it's causing problems again and again in real life. And it is particularly bad with Python. I don't see why this should not be pointed out.

steve1977··on Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more
Python certificate handling is a hot mess, even by Python standards.
steve1977··on Is this the new cyber normal?
When did we start to shorten cyber security with just cyber? I see this quite often now and I think it's just stupid, it doesn't make sense.
steve1977··on Securing our frontier model training environment
> Once the agents agreed on a protocol for encoding and decoding these signals

That the agents had a means to that seems to do a lot of work here.

steve1977··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Apple has been propagating Swift for more than a decade now and at least in theory, it should be on par with Rust in terms of safety I'd say.
steve1977··on Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell EVs in Europe
Come to any rural and more or less mountainous region in Switzerland and you'll probably see more than 10 in every village ;)
steve1977··on Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
That's what Claude wants you to think.
steve1977··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
One could argue the two (Musk's politics and Twitter's actions) are related
steve1977··on Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects
Looking at their expressions, they might as well have been captured...
steve1977··on macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
But there is no Windows Phone anymore unfortunately.
steve1977··on macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
Maybe they asked Claude to fix a vulnerability?

Can't have OpenGL security issues without an OpenGL context

steve1977··on Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
> desktop Windows users were accustomed to frequent system crashes

Home users maybe. I've started with Windows NT 4.0 and don't remember it being crash-prone.

steve1977··on Super Intelligence
I wish you were kidding.
steve1977··on Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
Or you do as OpenAI & Co. do and just rent out a service
steve1977··on Why are we even doing all this?
When, not if...
steve1977··on Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
That's an interesting question... I'd say yes, because the human implementing it has no direct knowledge of the original code.
steve1977··on Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
I think nothing made with Claude Code (or Codex etc.) should be called clean room really.
steve1977··on Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
It's called "clean room reverse engineering" /s
steve1977··on TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material
Why would a failure of a backup system require editing everything again? Something must have gotten lost in translation here.
steve1977··on New Apple TV 4K
Oh I'm not saying those things justify the price. I just listed some features apart from streaming apps.

I guess if you're not really quite deep in the Apple ecosystem, there's probably better options.

steve1977··on Gemini 4 Argon
Well, we knew about climate change at least in the 70s already, so...
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