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Be aware that the project page has the wrong Arxiv link at the time of writing. This is the correct one:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09611

I moved all my home LAN Windows machines to LTSC IoT in February; cost me about 90 euros for each license. You can buy individual licenses from online stores that will connect to MS and validate correctly. You'll have to install the MS app store from GitHub (!), and there are some other issues, but at least you're years away from what hit everyone else this October.

This is grim news: 'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with'. I fear the day they restrict old model availability to the higher-tier payers.

Wow, this is exactly the staggered-speed walkway system I once saw in a Philip K. Dick short story, forget which, but obviously it was written after this.

TextSniper on Mac and PowerToys OCR on Windows have eased my frustration with rasterized text in 'engagement'-obssessed videos that should have been blog posts.

So Google Search AI summaries eat SEO's lunch, and now Mozilla makes a bid for Google's lunch? I would think if this became popular, Google Search's API permissions might get modified. But since Chrome is so dominant, and would not implement this in a way that negatively impacts Google Search, I think it's just a curiosity.

Since this requires a login to even try the system, I don't think it's a valid submission.

> I ran the payload through VirusTotal - check out the behavior analysis yourself. Spoiler alert: it's nasty.

The VirusTotal behavior analysis linked to says 'No security vendors flagged this file as malicious'

Sorry, could not gather meaning from context. You mean the videos teach how to deactivate the LED because the light is normally sensitive to being blocked...?

So I take it the LED that lights up during recording is also light-sensitive, and will stop the recording if covered (for instance) with a drop of matching enamel paint..?

Disqus is a great idea turned into hot garbage by (inevitable) lowest-level monetization. I once worked on a blog with Disqus. Whenever we had a hit, such as an HN front page, horrific ads would be injected into the comments section for that page. Any page without significant traffic had no ads, lulling you into a false sense of security. If a page 'hit' in your off-hours, the ghastly and repulsive ads could be running for a day, or even a weekend.

They could be turned off at the time but only on a case-by-case basis. In the end, I got rid of Disqus.

Locale plays a role, I think. Searching from Romania, none of these examples replicate. Amazon is first for Amazon, Midjourney first for Midjourney, etc.

Glad also to feel justified at last!

> By the way, a pet peeve of mine right now is that reporters covering court cases never seem to simply paste the link to the online PDF decision/ruling for us all to read right in the story.

I presume that this falls under the same consideration as direct links to science papers in articles that are covering those releases. Far as I can tell, the central tactic for lowering bounce rate and increasing 'engagement' is to link out sparsely, and, ideally, not at all.

I write articles on new research papers, and always provide a direct link to the PDF,; but nearly all major sites fail to do this, even when the paper turns out to be at Arxiv, or otherwise directly available (instead of having been an exclusive preview offered to the publication by the researchers, as often happens at more prominent publications such as Ars and The Register).

In regard to the few publishers that do provide legal PDFs in articles, the solution I see most often is that the publication hosts the PDF itself, keeping the reader in their ecosystem. However, since external PDFs can get revised and taken down, this could also be a countermeasure against that.

What a uninformative headline. I was going to chip in with the annoyance that a romance language like Romanian appends the article to the word, Russian-style.

Interesting. This happens in Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), where the rogue AI escapes the semantic drudgery of English and invents its own compressed language with which to talk to its Russian counterpart.

In the TR commentary, Verhoeven says the second half is a brain-damaged dream of Quaid’s.

Wow, why block the scroll bar?

For Joplin I use WebDav from the 10gb of free file storage that comes with Fastmail. So I have easy sync with multiple platforms and form factors, and even substantial notes make little dent in the allowance.

After a brutal experience chewed up in one of these opportunistic exit machines, I now assume this is the default position of any new company, particularly those looking to cash in on AI before the legal apocalypse over data provenance takes hold.

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In the UK, the 'golden age' of the dole gave an otherwise-unsupported fringe of lower-class and middle-class talent time to mature.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/01/writers-recall...

Thought that this was going to be a 'There Will Be Blood' spoof.

(In case not obvious, current title is 'I use my terminal')

I'd move on quickly from this. If this worked (I mean if the celebs actually resembled the prompts), you'd get in trouble quickly. As it stands, there's no resemblance, which means the service does not work.

After the last few weeks, where o3 seems desperate to do tool searches or re-crunch a bad gen even though I only asked a question about it, I assumed that the policy is to burn through credits at the fastest possible rate. With this price change, I don't know what's happening now...

Well-observed. I come back to check out the state of the Linux desktop every 2-3 years, and I always find that the latest layer/s of instrumentality and GUI are thin as frosting on a cake - as soon as you need anything that's not in the box, you're immediately in Sudo-land.

Oh please God let there be some way of turning this off or at least dialing it down. Maybe worse than the dreaded glass performance hit on CPU/GPU is the promise that elements 'get out of the way', for instance tabs disappearing while scrolling. As someone who thought Word 2003 was aok, I have hated this convergence upon an 'empty square' as a design goal. Show me all the settings, please, and don't hide them in an ellipsis either.

Does not seem to want to deal with faces at all, flags everything with humans as 'sensitive' and declines.