andrewmcwatters

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by andrewmcwatters 1mo ago
I maintain Half-Life 2: Sandbox and lclass, and authored some other projects on the web that use Lua. There's really PUC-Rio Lua 5.1.5/LuaJIT and PUC-Rio Lua latest. If you use LuaJIT, you're building it against a drop-in rep
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by andrewmcwatters 5mo ago
Microsoft refuses to deliver legitimate emails to hotmail.com addresses so I tell clients how it is. I’m not jumping through hoops when I’m not doing anything wrong. SPF, DMARC, DKIM, IP address not on a blacklist, and I send zero spam. Onl
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by andrewmcwatters 5mo ago
I suspect they strip the SynthID for these specific cases to prevent exfiltration of the steganography. I appreciate you pointing it out, but this account is banned. Thank you for vouching though!
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by andrewmcwatters 5mo ago
> We're actively collecting pure black and pure white images generated by Nano Banana Pro to improve multi-resolution watermark extraction. Oh hey, neat. I mentioned this specific method of extracting SynthID a while back.[1] Glad t
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by andrewmcwatters 6mo ago
They already refuse to comply with CPRA, instead electing to replace your username with a random 6(?) character string, prefixed with `_`, if I remember correctly. I know, because I've been here since maybe 2015 or so, but this account
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by andrewmcwatters 6mo ago
One that people don't seem to mention enough to me is that neither macOS nor Windows have ANY feature remotely close to the magic SysRq key.[1][2] Not even Control-Alt-Delete is remotely the same. ALT-SysRq-f, which will "call the
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by andrewmcwatters 6mo ago
International Business Machines… Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company General Mills General Motors American Telephone and Telegraph Company… You seem to have it backwards. Companies being called Poopity Scoop is a modern phenomenon. C
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by andrewmcwatters 6mo ago
I’ve always been curious what the ramifications are for security researchers who openly have accounts on such forums in order to track the dissemination of leaks. You’re not buying anything. You’re just watching.
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
Because everyone and their mother sends spam. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why. No, I don't want emails about the new product you're releasing. No I don't want your newsletter. I have to actively fight to keep
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
Sharing my 5 cents on the matter: in another world, gaming, where embedding scripting languages is done for modding, I hope to see WASM take off as a way for modern modders to get into game development. I've seen smaller developers exp
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
I wonder how it stands up to feature analysis. "Generate a pure white image." "Generate a pure black image." Channel diff, extract steganographic signature for analysis.
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
I got downvoted heavily about a year ago saying we need to abandon Android and the industry needs to pivot back to just putting GNU/Linux on a phone already. Of course, now Google is doing what Google was always going to do.
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
It seems like it's the cheapest way to access Claude Sonnet 4.5, but the model distribution is clearly throttled compared to Claude Sonnet 4.5 on claude.ai. That being said, I don't know why anyone would want to pay for LLM access
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
There's a lot of hate in this thread, but there are plenty of engineers chomping at the bit for autonomous workflows, because browser-use isn't there yet, and cloud expenses from major providers are also unappealing with so much r
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
You're absolutely joking if you don't think when this goes to crap Microsoft won't hoover up more share of OpenAI. I wouldn't be surprised if they're banking long-term on its failure and got in early so they had equ
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
It feels intellectually negligent to me that models like those used by Openpilot have no auditable concept of what a car, or a sign, or a person is. Just where lines are and when a car should accelerate or break. The rest of the latent stat
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by andrewmcwatters 7mo ago
Your back-seat moderation is annoying and contributes to the wank of the site, too.
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
I wonder if legislation like this will bisect 3D printers before and after in the same way that ink printers use printer tracking dot steganography. Or maybe 3D printers already do this in a way we don't see.
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
https://archive.is/W0AWn
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
Apple has broken Time Machine enough times that I would never consider using it at all anymore. Once upon a time, it was really neat, had great integration with Mac OS X, and an amazing user interface and experience, but it's now clear
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
There is an inverse relationship with respect to the size of an organization or project and its authors or maintainers willingness to review and merge pull requests. The smaller a project, the more willing an author is to write the entire f
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
Linux is definitely not a "full operating system." Here's Linux built on GitHub Actions, with Grub[1], and you can't do anything with it. I include a reference init that does nothing, per kernel.org. 17.8 MB image. GNU i
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
That's crazy that Chrome, which basically owns the web standards, does not have a compliant implementation to run Netflix, which leads streaming market share.
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
I think Apple’s chip prowess is completely hampered by the fact that I’m buying hardware that is measurably less mine than the lesser x86 chips on the market that I can actually do whatever I want with. I don’t really care how many hours th
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
All people unfamiliar with Linux at a documentation level assume that because Linux is Linux it must be pretty well documented, but in reality, just building the thing and creating an init is extremely poorly documented process for such mat
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
A small but big detail that irritates me is one used to be able to search Applications faster through the dedicated Applications overlay, but now this behavior appears to just be a shortcut to Spotlight, which suffers from incredibly poor i
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
I already do this professionally, and when something is broken, we collectively as an industry have no idea why except for rolling back to a previous deployment because we have no time for system introspection, nor do we really want to spen
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
I concede that this is the state of the art in secure deployments, but I’m from a different age where people remoted into colocated hardware, or at least managed their VPSs without destroying them every update. As a result, I think develope
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
Flashbacks of gaming on an XP-era HP Pavilion with graphics so bad water didn’t even render in Halo 1 PC flood my mind. Countless kids played Morrowind below par spec on family computers all across America.
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by andrewmcwatters 8mo ago
That sucks. I’m not a big fan of Tailwind, but at least it helps non-designers make somewhat decent user-interfaces. It’s hard to run a software business.

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