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steve1977··on MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Not out of the box.
steve1977··on MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
But that alone wouldn't make the service listen on the network, even if it were the case.
steve1977··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
And thinking by brain.
steve1977··on TextEdit vs. Pages
It's like comparing Apple Photos to Lightoom maybe.
steve1977··on GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
I'm pretty sure the typical "Claudisms" are influenced by RLHF as well, so if it can have that effect, why not these...
steve1977··on TextEdit vs. Pages
TextEdit has its roots in OPENSTEP, where it was used as kind of a demo application of the text views IIRC. It even came with source code, as did Chess by the way.

So I guess a comparison between TextEdit and Pages doesn't make too much sense probably, they're really different things.

steve1977··on Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
steve1977··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
I guess people triggering the pipeline is already part of the problem
steve1977··on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
Notably, also the Xerox Alto was black on white already.
steve1977··on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
Yeah same here, the only time I use dark mode is usually when I feel a migraine attack might be coming up (and I get very sensitive to light)
steve1977··on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
I'd argue that they are modes of themes, not themes themselves.
steve1977··on WTF Ubuntu?
Why use Rocky or Alma when you can use openSUSE?
steve1977··on Scaling Git at OpenAI
But shouldn't it be easy for their great models to fix it?
steve1977··on Scaling Git at OpenAI
Looking at their desktop apps, I don't think they're into optimizing.
steve1977··on Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
No skipping leg days...
steve1977··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
It's actually interesting for me to see that voting is on a Tuesday. Here it's always on Sundays. But as a direct democracy, we also vote a couple of times every year, maybe that's a factor.
steve1977··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
> Spoken from a place of true entitlement.

Maybe. I live in Switzerland. Here even the poor can afford to vote.

Nevertheless, do these poorest really account for a third of all voters?

steve1977··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Don't give them ideas...
steve1977··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
He who remains silent seems to consent.
steve1977··on Norway makes shithouses great again
Of course. People say they have never seen someone so full of shit!
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.

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