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by deng 21d ago
PSA: You can follow any Twitter account on Mastodon via `<account>@bird.makeup`.
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by deng 1mo ago
I'm sure he honestly appreciates the pushback.
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by deng 2mo ago
This just proves that you can cram pretty much anything into the client/server dichotomy if you just define "client", "server" and "request" broad enough. Similarly, I remember how desperately people tried
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by deng 3mo ago
> If you’re not a major criminal, bitcoin whale, or intelligence target this is almost certainly academic. Thanks, that's what I thought.
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by deng 3mo ago
Still, this is a pretty crazy definition of "anyone".
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by deng 3mo ago
> Anyone with physical access. I think it is understandable from the phrase. Sorry, I'm probably dense, I still don't get it. You steal a laptop, you open it, the screen is locked with a password/fingerprint whatever. How
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by deng 3mo ago
> Except that, for more than two years, the encryption key remained resident in memory across suspend, leaving it there for the taking by anyone who seized the still-powered laptop. I don't get it. Obviously, the laptop is locked wh
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by deng 3mo ago
Well, when they announced it (7 months ago) I got laughed out of the room when I said this will be at least 1k$ because of the RAM crisis, and people quoted famous Youtuber "Moores Law is Dead" that this thing has a 300$ BOM and w
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by deng 3mo ago
I can understand the joy of running things yourself, and can also see the privacy aspect. However, I pay ~3$ per 1M/tokens for that model on Openrouter, and it's not even quantized. A refurbished 3090 and a 5080 will set you back
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by deng 3mo ago
That engineer went on to create Brave, a browser that pays you Monopoly money for watching ads, injected affiliate links, installed their commercial VPN without asking, and leaked DNS traffic when using Tor in its "privacy" mode.
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by deng 4mo ago
I wouldn't say these are "basic bugs". The first is specific to using 'rrsync', and the second is when using the rsync daemon, and I can't remember when I last saw a system using that one (yes, I'm aware t
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by deng 4mo ago
These servers had no fan control whatsoever, they always ran full blast. That's not untypical for rack servers, because as written: they are designed for server rooms, and you're supposed to wear ear protection there anyway... Yes
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by deng 4mo ago
OK, then you're in luck. I had a bunch of old 1U rack servers and even in the next room it was too annoying to run them (they had a bunch of 40mm fans which always ran at full speed, because in a server room, no one can hear you scream
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by deng 4mo ago
Nice post and technically impressive work. I agree we need to understand the build pipeline and be able to do things locally. However, depending on your electricity cost, it might not make sense financially. These old servers are not energy
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by deng 4mo ago
Well, if Apple killed it, Lenovo killed it even more. I recently was looking for a laptop for a student. The Lenovo E14 Gen7 is 800 Euros here in Germany (where prices are always higher, the MacBook Neo is 700 Euros), it has 16GB of RAM, 1T
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by deng 4mo ago
Looking at all the unmerged pull requests in ripgrep, you can see what's going on. I will not link him here, but for instance, there's a "Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft", whose agent created 260 PRs in 211 repos w
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Google Replaces Fitbit App with Terrible AI Garbage, Being Review Bombed(kotaku.com)
2 points by deng 4mo ago|0 comments
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by deng 4mo ago
You can't release this under MIT license, as it contains a ton of various different things under various different licenses, from GPL to proprietary.
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by deng 4mo ago
But it's also plug&play for anyone stealing your laptop, see for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941021
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by deng 4mo ago
So you consider calling something "ironic" an extreme position? On a more general note, you will find that many people are uncomfortable with the idea that AI will replace human work, especially when it relates to art, which this
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by deng 4mo ago
Any argument can be taken to any extreme. This is why it's a popular rhetorical tactic, called "appeal to extremes".
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by deng 4mo ago
I think we can agree that this is not something anybody will actually use, but rather an homage to "They Live", and IMHO, letting this be done by AI is in contrast to the basic premise of the movie.
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by deng 4mo ago
So telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself, because you're using natural language instead of saws and hand planes?
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by deng 4mo ago
Oh well, they really do their best to alienate people as well. They just completely overhauled their UX, and after that update, people at my company were so confused, they couldn't even open new issues anymore, because everything was s
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by deng 4mo ago
> Nicholas Carlini, a researcher at Anthropic, orchestrated 16 parallel Claude agents to write a production C compiler in Rust. No he didn't. The compiler is bascially useless as it produces vastly inferior code than gcc/clang.
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by deng 4mo ago
Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.
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by deng 4mo ago
Google is fine with everything if it's their service. I've completely blocked *.bc.googleusercontent.com, because it's basically used as a spam farm for years now, but Google couldn't care less as they apparently can&#x2
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by deng 4mo ago
With "availability hit" I'm assuming you mean to simply stop operations until patches are rolled out, so possibly for days? That would at least explain what's happening at GitHub...
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by deng 4mo ago
> based on the unquestioned premise that delaying disclosure for the operational convenience of system administrators is a good thing. There are reasons to question that premise! Care to mention these reasons? With "convenience of s
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by deng 5mo ago
I agree that having an MCP Ableton can make total sense. After many years of use, I would say I know Ableton quite well, but nowadays, I regularly ask ChatGPT if certain things could be done differently/more efficiently, and it often s

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