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breakingcups··on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records
There are enough tells in there that I'd definitely wager it was co-written by AI
breakingcups··on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Not enough to be worth it.
breakingcups··on When did Google get so weird?
I've seen medical specialist take Google's AI answer as truth. Nutty.
breakingcups··on A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game
> I’m distributing 32-bit builds (but requires SSE2) because there’s no advantage to 64-bit here, and these builds work (almost) everywhere

Kinda ironic given the article's subject of 16-bit mode no longer being available...

breakingcups··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
They didn't pay for training
breakingcups··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
I wonder of the CEO ever got back with an update. It seems awfully quiet in that thread.
breakingcups··on .name Termination
If your solution can't survive public scrutiny, it doesn't seem like a trustworthy solution?
breakingcups··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Do the words "at scale" magically remove all responsibility and reliability?
breakingcups··on “It works better in the app”
You might like Daylio. It's free, local-first (with optional backups to your own cloud or device), and has a good UX.
breakingcups··on Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)
Interestingly, that page notes:

According to Microsoft programmer Raymond Chen on his blog The Old New Thing, Red moon desert was originally intended to be Windows XP's default wallpaper, but was allegedly changed due to some testers feeling it resembled a pair of buttocks, leading to O'Rear's other photo Bliss becoming the default wallpaper. While this wallpaper was temporarily set as the default wallpaper during Whistler, this story does not appear to be true; Bliss had already been selected based on extensive research by design manager Rob Girling and his team, and the Luna visual style shares the same color scheme as the wallpaper. It is more likely the wallpaper was set to default as a decoy; the unleaked Lab06 build 2415 predates build 2423, and shows Bliss set as the wallpaper.

breakingcups··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
Yes, many, many countries use it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
breakingcups··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
Distributing something for free doesn't mean you don't have patent obligations if you do it in the country that patent is valid in. On top of that, many corporations do sell their distribution of Linux.
breakingcups··on How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy
I don't think this changes anything about the point I was making.
breakingcups··on How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy
I'd want to blame Go's compatibility guarantee for this, but I can't because it wouldn't actually stop them from adding a proper solution for this..

Just like the magic comments, it's a sad thing to see appear in this language because it feels like magic incantations one has to know that bend over backwards to not actually extend the language to fit the use case.

breakingcups··on Qwen3.8 27B
It's back for me
breakingcups··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
But why, though? I have never seen a performance hit from it that would warrant that.
breakingcups··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Google builds the biggest browser. Mozilla receives most of its funding through Google (though they have mobile browsers with a default ad-blocker). Microsoft is in the ad business too.

I'm not surprised, why are you?

breakingcups··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Do you have a source for that? I can still access anything nsfw on old.reddit.com from Europe.
breakingcups··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Can weights be copyrightable?
breakingcups··on Show HN: Elevators
Small wrinkle: the existing documentation indicates that the 29th floor is in fact the 3rd floor.
breakingcups··on GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
Kind of feels like a variation on P versus NP
breakingcups··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
To clarify why Anthropic wants to catch these parties: they save all session logs and sell them to other LLM firms (for distillation) and have been known to use stolen credit-cards to pay for the Anthropic accounts.

I'm quite all right with the first, not with the second of course.

breakingcups··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
Hear hear. I can't believe people are content to consume slop like this.
breakingcups··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
I can't decide whether this person writes in the type of style that was apparently overrepresented in LLM training, or whether they heavily used AI to spruce up their writing. I'm learning towards the latter.
breakingcups··on Libre Barcode Project
I'm surprised at this reaction, this has been standard practice for many years in various companies where I worked.
breakingcups··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Note that this itself started as a perverse tax loophole, too. By allowing users to run alternative operating systems, the PS3 qualified for lower or zero import tax rates in various global regions.
breakingcups··on OAuth for all
Cloudflare is one of the most expensive providers out there once you step out of the basics. Look at their video streaming.
breakingcups··on Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file
I do! I love skipping back 4 folders in one go.
breakingcups··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
I mean, that's not usual at all in Europe either.
breakingcups··on He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut
Yeah, it's Google's second attempt at device attestation (ie. the widely panned web integrity tech they're trying to push through)
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