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breakingcups··on RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD
Unless you run FreeBSD, apparently
breakingcups··on The future of Terraform CDK
Define "some"
breakingcups··on Disks Lie: Building a WAL that actually survives
> Conclusion

> A production-grade WAL isn't just code, it's a contract.

I hate that I'm now suspicious of this formulation.

breakingcups··on GPT-5.2
Is it me, or did it still get at least three placements of components (RAM and PCIe slots, plus it's DisplayPort and not HDMI) in the motherboard image[0] completely wrong? Why would they use that as a promotional image?

0: https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/6lyujQxhZDnOMruN3f...

breakingcups··on SmartTube Compromised
The official announcement is very sparse on details. If the developer doesn't know how his digital signature (and update infrastructure?) was compromised, how does switching to a new signature help? It could get compromised in the exact same way.
breakingcups··on How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
It says devblogs.microsoft.com for me
breakingcups··on Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test
Note: this is not in 1970. This is now? What the absolute fuck?
breakingcups··on Maybe you’re not trying
How long have you been on your medication?
breakingcups··on Maybe you’re not trying
It clearly says "an old friend of his"
breakingcups··on Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"
Could you explain why?
breakingcups··on Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"
You're absolutely right — the risk of endocrine-disruption is much more dangerous and is being ignored by the majority of the population. What an insightful take!

Would you like me to expand on the reasons endocrine-disruptions are the bigger risk? Or would you like me to explore other ways in which microplastics might be dangerous to your health?

breakingcups··on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
Even worse nowadays on YouTube itself: The auto-translated titles and machine dubbing, for which you can only pick one default language, which all other content will be forcibly translopped into. God forbid I speak more than one language and am comfortable consuming content in its original language.
breakingcups··on Brain-IT: Image Reconstruction from fMRI via Brain-Interaction Transformer
Really cool and also a little bit scary.
breakingcups··on A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios
I love this sort of digital archeology
breakingcups··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
"Measures not shown to be useful include positioning devices and baby monitors."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIDS

breakingcups··on Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI
That excerpt sounds like it was written by an LLM.
breakingcups··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
There's quite a few comments of people having this happen to them when they self-host Immich, the issue you point out seems minor in comparison.
breakingcups··on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
You'd have to break most of those platforms' TOS to do so.
breakingcups··on Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years
All of Tor that can be hoovered up seems like a worthwhile investment.
breakingcups··on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
I know they pulled a mini-Broadcom on us and sharply raised all our prices after our first two years of having our OpenShift clusters.
breakingcups··on K8s with 1M nodes
It's a shame the author led with something that carries about the same authority as a horoscope, since the rest of the article is actually quite interesting.
breakingcups··on Claude Haiku 4.5
From "The Psychology of Computer Programming":

    After months of effort, a particular application was still not working, so a consultant was called in from another part of the company. He concluded that the existing approach could never be made to work reliably. While on his way home he realized how it could be done. After a few days work he had a demonstration program working and presented it to the original programming team.
    Team leader: How long does your program take when processing?
    Consultant: About 10 seconds per case.
    Team leader: But our program only takes 1 second. {Team look smug at this point}
    Consultant: But your program doesn't work. If the program doesn't have to work then I can make it as fast as you like.
breakingcups··on Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
There's a reason Microsoft is aggressively deprecating "older" CPU's that work perfectly fine. Heck, I have one laptop with Windows 11 that worked great, but won't update from 22h2 to 24h2 because CPU support was dropped between versions, leaving me with only the glib suggestion from the Windows Update UI to "Buy a new device".

Ironically, installing Windows 10 and activating ESU would lead to longer hardware life.

Of course, I didn't. Instead, I installed Linux on that laptop too. My partner had no issues switching.

breakingcups··on Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
Microsoft had a lot of practice with this with the recent Xbox hardware & software.
breakingcups··on Why Self-Host?
You have no idea whether your server is currently actively compromised and participating in a botnet.
breakingcups··on A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch
Luckily you have NVIDIA to fall back on, with their affordable, consumer-focused LLM chips...
breakingcups··on Kurt Got Got
I will say that a "Critical Security Vulnerability in flyctl, update now: https://bad-link/to/update.zip" tweet will have very serious consequences for a portion of your userbase, despite not directly compromising your own infra.
breakingcups··on California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes
Thus far it has always been right for me, but you can tweak the settings to offer you a manual skip if you prefer to lean into it more slowly.
breakingcups··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
You can set up an alphabetical PIN, which is, for all intents and purposes, exactly the convenient password you're looking for.

Not that that should keep you on Windows, of course.

breakingcups··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
You haven't read the article in which they explain that that is the specific hole they're closing.
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