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xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
The ASUS logo is visible in the photo of the innards.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on The desperation of NYTimes
That's why it's best not to give companies your credit card number. If you subscribe through PayPal, you can cancel through PayPal.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
I don't know how YouTube's detection will work, but if it were based solely on watermarks, there would be many false negatives, but there shouldn't be false positives.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
Also, it seems Mercedes will discontinue the EQS and EQE lines and replace them with electric S- and E-Class: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/electric-mercede...
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Google changes its search box
It seems they have been A/B testing killing search operators (like "site:" or "inurl:") for a while. They randomly stop working and switching to private mode, or the other way around, makes them work again.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
Yes and also stable isn't the only maintained branch of Chromium, there's also extended stable (currently 146.x). LTS exists too (144.x), but I believe it's meant only for ChromeOS.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
For context, the author of the linked post, Sam James, is a Gentoo developer.

Anyway, this is a disaster. It was extremely irresponsible to share the exploit with the world before the distributions shipped the fix. Who knows how many shared hosting providers were hacked with this.

It's also worrying that it seems there's no communication between the kernel security team and distribution maintainers. One would hope that the former would notify the latter, but apparently it's the responsibility of whoever finds the vulnerability.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Copy Fail
It seems there was some kind of confusion during the disclosure process, because the vendors aren't treating this vulnerability as serious and it remains unpatched in many distros.

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-31431 "Moderate severity", "Fix deferred"

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-31431

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31431.html

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on I won a championship that doesn't exist
The key to successful poisoning attacks is to introduce brand new information that doesn't directly contradict other training data. It's much easier to convince the LLMs that you're the king of a fictional Mapupu kingdom than the president of the United States.

So this means that for bad actors it's more efficient to manufacture brand new fake stories instead of trying to distort the real ones. Don't produce fake articles absolving yourself of a crime, instead produce fake articles accusing your opponent of 100 different things. Then people will fact-check the accusations using LLMs, and since all the sources mentioning those accusations are controlled by you, the LLMs will confirm them.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
It runs only on M1 and M2. M3 is being worked on.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
If you have a server, some cheap VPS will suffice, you can host a private git repo there without installing anything. Run this on your server:

     git init --bare foo.git
and then on your PC you can do this:

    git clone user@yourserver.com:~/foo.git
It's probably a good idea to make a separate user account on the server for it, though.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Our commitment to Windows quality
> Is WinUI3 a flash-in-the-pan system like their other UI attempts, or is it decent and stable?

If you stay in the happy path, it's decent, better than it used to be. Microsoft does seem committed to it, they're slowly converting Windows apps to WinUI 3.

That said, the team is clearly understaffed; there are long-standing unresolved bugs, just search for "memory leak" on their GitHub issue tracker. Also, native, non-.NET support is definitely an afterthought, it's barely documented and the tooling is super awkward. But at least, unlike WPF, it exists.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
Here's a comparison between the two on Fluent's wiki: https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/wiki/Fluent-and-ICU-...

It seems the last edit of the page was in 2019, so I'm not sure how up to date it is.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
> no prior solutions found.

This is no longer true, a prior solution has just been found[1], so the LLM proof has been moved to the Section 2 of Terence Tao's wiki[2].

[1] - https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/281#post-3325

[2] - https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
>Reddit results are often force-translated instead of linking to the original English content.

It's very annoying. Put this in a search query to filter them out: -inurl:?tl=

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
>What is their business model anyway?

They take a 5.5% fee whenever you buy credits. There's also a discount for opting-in to share your prompts for training.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
>avif is just better for typical web image quality,

What does "typical web image quality" even mean? I see lots of benchmarks with very low BPPs, like 0.5 or even lower, and that's where video-based image codecs shine.

However, I just visited CNN.com and these are the BPPs of the first 10 images my browser loaded: 1.40, 2.29, 1.88, 18.03 (PNG "CNN headlines" logo), 1.19, 2.01, 2.21, 2.32, 1.14, 2.45.

I believe people are underestimating the BPP values that are actually used on the web. I'm not saying that low-BPP images don't exist, but clearly it isn't hard to find examples of higher-quality images in the wild.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on LLM policy?
Unfortunately, LLMs empower "contributors" who can't be bothered to put in any effort and who don't care about the negative impact of their actions on the maintainers.

The open-source community, generally speaking, is a high-trust society and I'm afraid that LLM abuse may turn it into a low-trust society. The end result will be worse than the status quo for everyone involved.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Sora 2
>IMO you can't tweak the TikTok/YouTube shorts format and make it a societal good all of a sudden, especially with exclusively AI content.

I agree. At best, short videos can be entertainment that destroys your attention span. Anything more is impossible. Even if there were no bad actors producing the content, you can't condense valuable information into this format.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Is OOXML Artifically Complex?
They improved this in later revisions of the standard. The behaviour of autoSpaceLikeWord95 is now actually described and there's an example.

You can see it for yourself here (in Part 4): https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on The first non-opoid painkiller
>It's the first non opioid painkiller applicable for situations like post operative use.

Perhaps the first approved by FDA, I don't know. In many countries, metamizole is the first-line drug for postoperative pain.

(It should be noted that metamizole may very rarely cause agranulocytosis. It is suspected that the risk varies depending on the genetic makeup of the population, which would explain why it is banned in some countries but available OTC in others.)

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review
It seems that AMD/ATI reuses the Radeon 8000 name approximately every 10 years:

2001: Radeon 8000 series

2013: Radeon HD 8000 series

2025: Radeon 8000S series

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Don't Guess My Language
You can filter them out by adding this operator to the query:

    -inurl:?tl=
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said
Right. We've had mass data collection tools for a long time, web trackers, CCTV, microphones etc.

But what AI brings to the table is how much easier it makes it to combine and analyse all that data, build peoples' profiles. It scales infinitely better than hiring human analysts to track someone. It's too cheap and too tempting.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Review: High RISC
Some other reviews of the board:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/sifive-hifive-premier-p550/3

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/sifives-hifive-premie...

https://hothardware.com/reviews/sifive-hifive-premier-p550-r...

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
There are bot identification methods that may produce lots of false negatives, but zero false positives.

Simple example: no legitimate user has "GPTBot" in their user agent string.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Branchless UTF-8 Encoding
> So on x86_64 processors, we have to branch to say “a 32-bit zero value has 32 leading zeros”.

Not if you're targeting x86-64-v3 or higher. Haswell (Intel) and Piledriver (AMD) introduced the LZCNT instruction that doesn't have this problem.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on DVD shop owner vows to be ‘last man standing’
It's true unless there was a manufacturing issue. A notorious example, well-known in the collectors' community, is Warner Bros. HD-DVDs: https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=840
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Ethiopian wolves reported to feed on nectar
It becomes less surprising when you see a photo of the flower. It's huge, so it's not that unlike large mammals eating fruit or honey.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu··on Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
The website is geoblocked in the EU.

Mirror: https://archive.ph/R39hz

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