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Sander_Marechal

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Sander_Marechal··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult
Yeah it is. If they stop preaching AI doomerism then they're out of the cult and won't get invited to orgies anymore.
Sander_Marechal··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fix that works.
Sander_Marechal··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
Yep, there's regular flying for dogfighting, mining, landing, etc. Then there's supercruise for getting around a star system, and FSD jump (basically a loading screen) for going between systems.
Sander_Marechal··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
> minecraft has like what 40 biomes, no man's sky has practically infinite biomes

Does it? I put about 80-ish hours into NMS last year. According to the wiki NMS has 13 biomes. In practice it has even fewer because the actual biome has little to no effect on gameplay. It's just a "look".

Sander_Marechal··on Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form
I had my first "scan this code with your phone" last week. Nope. Close tab and never go there again.
Sander_Marechal··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
Oh I fully agree. I hope Tarn an Zach make millions more and can keep working of their life's work for many years to come.
Sander_Marechal··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
So that's 360K/year over 20 years?
Sander_Marechal··on Restroom Archive
I've been all over Europe and I have never seen this....
Sander_Marechal··on Resetting Xbox
I loved Pentiment, but it was soooo much reading.
Sander_Marechal··on Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
Perhaps add "Tectonic" as a puzzle type? It's the same as Ripple Effect but it disallows diagonal repeats.
Sander_Marechal··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
The problem with history is that you need to know when to look. If you're looking for some old code that you know existed but you don't know exactly what it was, you can't just browse to go and find it.
Sander_Marechal··on I’ve banned query strings
There is no reason you can return that "no items matched your selection" with a 404 HTTP response code instead of a 200.
Sander_Marechal··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
For all intents an purposes it is, especially face ID. Also, courts in most countries can compel you to provide biometrics. But many cannot compel you to reveal passwords.
Sander_Marechal··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
I'm just using Bitwarden instead. My work still uses 1password for now, but we're in the process of moving to Bitwarden.
Sander_Marechal··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
145XXX and I am on the other side of the world, no connection to SV at all
Sander_Marechal··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
I can't globally disable that "autofill" also hits "submit". I want to review what it autofills before I submit. I consider this a security risk. I can disable submit only on a login-by-login basis, and my coworkers are able to reenable it again. I can't globally disable it for myself.
Sander_Marechal··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
I have been telling people for years that biometrics (face, fingerprint, voice) is your username, not your password. But people are easily swayed by convenience.
Sander_Marechal··on Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
Same. Sometimes I will play a givewayway game on EGS and like it enough to e.g. buy the DLC. In that case I'll buy the game on Steam, just to buy the DLC there too.
Sander_Marechal··on “Your frustration is the product”
> It's like buy a $2000 TV and discovering ads on the homescreen, ContentID to sell your viewing habits, etc.

Have you bought a TV recently? This is exactly what is happening already. I had to pi-hole my entire network to get rid of the ads in my "switch source" menu on my Samsung TV that did not have ads when I bought it and for the first 3 years after that.

Sander_Marechal··on CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
I second Debian. All the good bits of Ubuntu have long since been ported back to Debian, and it has much more timely releases now.
Sander_Marechal··on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
What's the software stack? Did you write an app for it? Jailbreak it?
Sander_Marechal··on AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
The difference is that with financing you're stuck with it (and your credit rating drops, at least in the EU here). You're not stuck with a subscription. If your income changes and you can't afford it anymore then you can cancel your subscription.
Sander_Marechal··on AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
The MRSP for those GPUs is already inflated. There's a reason Nvidia is going to start making more RTX 3060 GPUs. Because people (and system builders) can't afford 40XX and 50XX GPUs.
Sander_Marechal··on Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
Even idiot investors eventually want their money back. And they will ruin you in the process with their idiotic ideas.
Sander_Marechal··on O'saasy License Agreement
> Even though it may seem harsh to apache 2.0 the code, no one will steal it since you are maintaing it

But that's evidently not true. Amazon has co-opted plenty of open source projects and put the squeeze on the original maintainer's SaaS offering.

Sander_Marechal··on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
I love Projectivity Launcher on my Google Streamer, but I can't figure out how to really replace the built-in launcher. Sometimes the device falls back to the default launcher until I press the "home" button on my remote.
Sander_Marechal··on What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription
It also exist for e.g. radio. It's called compulsory licensing and people have been doing it for decades.
Sander_Marechal··on Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
No problem. The parent had it the wrong way around. OMZ will use main if it exists, master otherwise. So a bad move still works!
Sander_Marechal··on Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
At work we recently moved from Jira to Linear. It it fully keyboard navigatable and has shortcuts for pretty much everything. It's great! For me the only downside is that al that keyboard greatness clashes with my Vimium browser extension. Oh well...
Sander_Marechal··on Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
There is also a very polular package manager called Composer. Do companies not search for name collisions? Or do they squat on community projects on purpose?
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