spondyl

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by spondyl 4d ago
> A few years back, there was something about gaining root on MacOS via Zoom due to shady execution on their end. > There's no legitimate use for it accessing privileged or private paths. Well, that was the whole premise that mad
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by spondyl 16d ago
Somewhat ironically, Fable 5.1 was flagged by the biology safeguards after I asked it to have a dig around the Fable 5.1 system card :)
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by spondyl 3mo ago
The article linked appears to have entirely fabricated the quote, as referenced by another commentor. The story has been slowly circulating today but there doesn't appear to be any evidence of the quote being said in the linked video s
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by spondyl 3mo ago
> their own software/APIs are quite buggy Our org has been attempting to trial Fast Mode on and off but enabling it in Claude Code just says something like "not available with your cloud provider" It turns out that for all
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by spondyl 3mo ago
I guess fandom is just in Terry's DNA: http://shanghikid.50megs.com/Otakudom/ContReal/contReal.htm
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by spondyl 3mo ago
"unauthorized" is a bit different than "unauthenticated". The former suggests trying to access something you don't have permission for while the latter suggests you're just not logged in. At a guess, I could im
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by spondyl 3mo ago
I can't help but be distracted by the 26MB flag video that my fibre connection is only able to download at 150 KB/sec here in New Zealand?
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by spondyl 4mo ago
I wrote a little bit about my experience with this sort of stuff a little while back if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393437 I would add to that a few more open questions that I haven't
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by spondyl 4mo ago
Probably not too relevant but off the top of my head, the New Zealand Government's guidance on ransomware payments is that you could technically be fined if you pay a ransom to an entity in a sanctioned country, although it doesn'
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by spondyl 4mo ago
> An average unaware person believes that anything can be put in words and once the words are said, they mean to reader what the sayer meant, and the only difficulty could come from not knowing the words or mistaking ambiguities. "T
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by spondyl 4mo ago
I had wondered if this was actually a bug and not intentional: > When a user downloads or updates Chrome, Gemini Nano is downloaded on demand to ensure Chrome downloads the correct model for the user's hardware. The initial model do
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by spondyl 4mo ago
Unfortunately, navigating to this page seems to display: > Too many requests are being made from an unsupported application. This unfortunately degrades the experience and makes feeds slow for everyone else. Please try back later.
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by spondyl 5mo ago
Having ads in the middle of an article about newsroom policy is pretty wacky
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The new World ID and the partners bringing proof of human to the internet(world.org)
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by spondyl 5mo ago
Oh, I missed the memo that Amazon Leo is the new name for Project Kuiper, rebranded in November of last year. I saw a presentation back when it was Kuiper so have still been calling it that
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by spondyl 5mo ago
I focused too much on the non-Steins;Gate works when I replied (as pointed out elsewhere) so to be clear, when I say "worth watching", I was referring to the "other animes" bit. Steins;Gate's adaptions are great! It
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by spondyl 5mo ago
Oh yeah, the Steins:Gate animes are perfectly fine to be clear! I was only thinking of the non-SG animes which are... pretty messy! The Chaos;Head anime barely makes any sense, even having read the VN because it only got 12 episodes. I have
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by spondyl 5mo ago
For readers who are vaguely aware of Steins;Gate, you may be interested to know that it's actually part of a wider universe called the Science Adventure series (or SciADV for short). Steins;Gate works really well as a standalone entry
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by spondyl 5mo ago
Worth watching? Not really but they are definitely worth playing. It's hard to fault the anime adaptions because they have limited time compared to the 20 - 40 hours that some of the VNs take. Many of the other entries (Chaos;Child is
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by spondyl 6mo ago
Well, I assume this is all just generated with Claude Code, right? Whether there is much back and forth with the LLM is a valid question and nothing wrong with generating websites (I do it too for some side projects). Claude loves generatin
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by spondyl 6mo ago
Here are some relevant excerpts from an October 2025 article[1]: > In a message to GitHub’s staff, CTO Vladimir Fedorov notes that GitHub is constrained on capacity in its Virginia data center. “It’s existential for us to keep up with th
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by spondyl 6mo ago
I'm not explicitly authorised to speak about this stuff by my employer but I think it's valuable to share some observations that go beyond "It's good for me" so here's a relatively unfiltered take of what I&#x2
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by spondyl 6mo ago
I think Claude Code's frontend design is quite a fan of serif fonts from what I've seen in the past. They did disclose AI usage which is good: https://github.com/ahgraber/stopsloppypasta?tab=readme-ov-fi...
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by spondyl 6mo ago
This is a "productionisation" of the same content discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 I would caution readers to do their due dilligence as the presentation may be fancy but that should n
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by spondyl 6mo ago
This is effectively a duplicate of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 I would also encourage taking a critical look at the underlying investigation as it seems mostly LLM generated without a huge amoun
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by spondyl 6mo ago
I came here to say that this is pretty much my view having poked around a little bit as well. This file does not exactly fill me with confidence: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings... In one p
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by spondyl 6mo ago
I was curious about this claim and dug up this article from (as far as I understand it), Israel's version of The Economist https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjggcekq11g
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by spondyl 7mo ago
This post raises a few flags in my mind that it was at least partly generated by an LLM? That isn't to suggest that this editor doesn't/won't exist, that the editor uses LLM-generated code (which is not a sleight) or tha
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by spondyl 7mo ago
Oh neat, I had come across the headless client yesterday (and submitted a now-fixed bug report for it after running into some issues). Before opening HN this morning and seeing this post, I actually wrote a post about how I'm experimen
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by spondyl 7mo ago
Jeremy Lewin's tweet referenced that "all lawful use" is the particular term that seems to be a particular sticking point. While I don't live in the US, I could imagine the US government arguing that third party doctrine

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