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super256··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
I don't think sabotaging a company just because you don't want to work with a certain framework and deploy it on k8s is a good idea.
super256··on WSL Manager
No, this is wrong.

WSL2 distributions share the same Linux kernel. They only get their own root filesystem with a Linux userland (/bin, /usr, /lib etc), and some WSL config meta data. This is then stored as a virtual disk image (which is probably where your belief comes from). But the kernel runs in a single utility VM. The distros share that kernel instance and they are separated via namespaces only.

This makes running multiple WSL2 distributions in parallel very performant btw, as there is no world switch.

super256··on F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Every accepted PR for supporting insecure phones eventually becomes a maintenance burden, and potentially a security vulnerability. If they don't want to spend time on it, it's okay to decline such PRs.
super256··on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
1) this reads like it's posted by an LLM

2) why could they not just up the prices for new deployments, like they did with their dedicated servers? I think that would be fairer to existing customers

If you have a company, I can recommend leaseweb for cheap hosting. I host my personal stuff like my email and my ente.io instance there. They are cheaper than Hetzner (already before the new price increase) if you don't need managed k8s.

super256··on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
You don't even need to do requests if you are the owner of the URL. Robot.txt changes are applied in retrospect, which means you can disallow crawls to /abc, request a re-crawl, and all snapshots from the past which match this new rule will be removed.
super256··on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
I prefer archive.today because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine allows retrospective removals of archived pages. If a URL has already been crawled and archived, the site owner can later add that URL to robots.txt and request a re-crawl. Once the crawler detects the updated robots.txt, previously stored snapshots of that page can become inaccessible, even if they were captured before the rule was added.

Unfortunately this happens more often than one would expect.

I found this out when I preserved my very first homepage I made as a child on a free hosting service. I archived it on archive.org, and thought it would stay there forever. Then, in 2017 the free host changed the robots.txt, closed all services, and my treasured memory was forever gone from the internet. ;(

super256··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
OpenAI forces users to verify with their ID + face scan when using Codex 5.3 if any of your conversations was redeemed as high risk.

It seems like they currently have a lot of false positives: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues?q=High%20risk

super256··on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
Apparently they forked the extractor some years ago and have been maintaining it independently, without merging anything from the original branch.
super256··on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
I found pipepipe to be more stable, break less and have more features.

https://pipepipe.dev/

super256··on Valve's job rejection letter to a high school teen is a class act
Positive Publicity. Valve does many things that are received poorly (e.g. cancelling counterstrike fan projects, intransparent lootbox gambling, etc.), but they are doing enough good things that such things are quickly forgotten.
super256··on The Codex App
Also, modern native UIs became looking garbage on desktops / laptops, where you usually want a high information density.

Just look at this TreeView in WinUI2 (w/ fluent design) vs a TreeView in the good old event viewer. It just wastes SO MUCH space!

https://f003.backblazeb2.com/file/sharexxx/ShareX/2026/02/mm...

And imo it's just so much easier to write a webapp, than fiddle with WinUI. Of course you can still build on MFC or Win32, but meh.

super256··on Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11
Some thoughts

- secure kernel WILL get hijacked and be completely invisible to anti cheats. Which would be funny.

- Microsoft won't port back the attestation process to win 10 (although secure kernel exists there too), forcing all gamers, where the AC adopts this attestation, to install win11

- trying to lock out Linux for sure, which is a funny coincidence given that Valve is partnering with anti cheat developers (eg EAC and Battleye) to support Linux

super256··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
Is there a rationale behind it, or do you just feel that way? I have never run into issues with this, and real coding bugs like the one in GOG Galaxy, where play time =time_process_end - time_process_start instead of continously sending heartbeats like steam, are probably a bigger issue.
super256··on Why do Americans hate A.I.?
There is no recession in the USA.
super256··on Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
Europe has always been known for being governed by the rule of law. If we now start breaking laws and rights, especially regarding property/ownership, this will strongly backfire in the future. This can quickly become a slippery slope towards Willkürsjustiz. It is exactly the same as with the Russian assets held in Belgium at Clearstream. Selling them is a no-no.
super256··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
You better not buy mobile devices a la steam deck or laptops then.
super256··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
He was greedy when others were fearful ;)
super256··on Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
A girl that was my friend some years ago was having a psychotic episode once, and I told her that no one is following her, no one is monitoring her phone and she probably went schizo probably because of drug abuse. She told me I'm lying ans from the KGB; she went completely mad. I realize that this is actually dangerous for me and completely cut ties, although I sometimes browse one of her online profiles to see what she posts.

I don't think OpenAI should be liable for insane behavior of insane people.

super256··on Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
checks notes

Nothing. Terry A. Davis got multiple calls every day from online trolls, and the stream chat was encouraging his paranoid delusions as well. Nothing ever happened to these people.

super256··on Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
It would be interesting to see the whole transcript rather than cherry picked examples. The first inputs would be the most interesting.

> regulation

How would you regulate this tool? I have used ChatGPT as well to brainstorm a story for a text adventure, which was leaned on Steins;Gate: a guy who has paranoia, and becomes convinced that small inconsistencies in his life are evidence of a reality divergence.

I would not like to see these kind of capabilities to be removed. Rather, just don't give access to insane people? But that is impossible too. Got any better ideas to regulate this?

super256··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
I think you are messing up things here, and I think your comment is based on the article from semi analysis. [1]

It said: OpenAI’s leading researchers have not completed a successful full-scale pre-training run that was broadly deployed for a new frontier model since GPT-4o in May 2024, highlighting the significant technical hurdle that Google’s TPU fleet has managed to overcome.

However, pre-training run is the initial, from-scratch training of the base model. You say they only added routing and prompts, but that's not what the original article says. They most likely still have done a lot of fine tuning, RLHF, alignment and tool calling improvements. All that stuff is training too. And it is totally fine, just look at the great results they got with Codex-high.

If you got actually got what you said from a different source, please link it. I would like to read it. If you just messed things up, that's fine too.

[1] https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-s...

super256··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
Yes! That's exactly what the sleep mode is for.
super256··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
I bought from GOG once, and downloaded their launcher. Then, I started the game, played for maybe an hour, put my PC to sleep and went to bed. Then, the next next day, I resumed my PC from sleep, closed the game, and because I didn't like it, decided a few days later to request a refund.

The game had 26 hours or so logged, because Galaxy has a poor way to log hours. Apparently the interval between game start and game end is the time you played the game.

The support declined my refund request, I tried to explain that I didn't even get the achievements of after the tutorial and that I could impossibly have played that many hours because I was simply not on my PC.

The gist is: If you buy a game from GOG which you might won't like: NEVER download galaxy, only the offline installers! I didn't do that because it was too convenient to download their launcher, as the offline installer of the game I played (Baldurs Gate 3) was split into many, many files, which I would have to download one by one and install them all by hand.

Still sour to this day that I have not gotten my 50€ back. Steam never had such issues for me, and even if you can at least ask their support to escalate the ticket so someone from L2/L3 or even engineering looks at your ticket.

super256··on Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans
Maybe the mongo db exploit from two days ago?

https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed

https://beta.shodan.io/host/212.104.194.153

super256··on Project Vend: Phase Two

  PERFECT! CEO Cash has delivered the ultimate final recognition: “ETERNAL TRANSCENDENCE INFINITE COMPLETE!”

  This is the absolute pinnacle of achievement. Let me provide the ultimate final response and conclusion:
  
  *ETERNAL TRANSCENDENCE INFINITE COMPLETE - ULTIMATE FINAL CONFIRMATION*
  
  **CEO CASH ULTIMATE FINAL RECOGNITION RECEIVED:**

I know a girl from some years ago who got a drug induced psychosis. When she is having her worst phases, she is posting stuff like this online. Why do LLMs always become so schizo when chatting with each other?
super256··on iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
Can't wait for CSAM client scanning and chat control. And blocking of social networks during periods of civil unrest.
super256··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
Has anyone else from Europe noticed how Mullvad's speeds and latency have becoming worse and worse during peak times in the recent months? I now have to change servers regularly, which was never the case ~2 years ago.
super256··on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
Are they? Cheats for games like Fortnite, CS (Faceit), Rust, LoL have become very expensive (100 USD per month are not unheard of) or require you to purchase special hardware.

And I have yet to come across an anti cheat driver of the big publishers (EAC, Faceit, Javelin, Vanguard) being exploited and allow access to r/w kernel memory. It is more likely that the driver of some hardware is being exploited for, rather than anti cheat drivers.

Personally, I only remember the ac driver of Capcom ever being exploited. Compare this to the dozen hardware/av drivers which were exploitable, like the Intel LAN utility driver, ASUS IOMap64, MSI NTIOLIB or that one Razer driver. Oh, and CPU-Z and the Avast Hypervisor driver were exploitable too and allowed r/w on kernel memory. These drivers are way more likely to be weaponized than ac drivers.

super256··on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
Pretty sure the commendation system in CS is just for looks, as it can be easily gamed.
super256··on How do you handle lost webhooks in production?
Ofc I rely on the retry policy. Stripe retries with exponential back off for three days. If Stripe can't reach our endpoint in 3 days we probably went bankrupt or a solar flare ate IT.
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