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cabirumon Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

just remove "AI" from title and its good:

— Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source.

cabirumon It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

physical vs digital is a spectrum:

- a physical disc, playable as-is

- physical, with major flaws without online updates

- physical, was playable on release, now requires updates

- physical, unplayable without updates

- physical, contains only a launcher to download full game

- physical box without disc, contains download code only

- digital

cabirumon EFF is leaving X

So uh, could impressions decrease across the board, not only on X. Like, social platforms have peaked years ago and the downward trend is completely organic.

cabirumon Go builder generator with compile-time required field enforcement

This seems to still require initialization in a specific order.

Think it might be possible to generate all possible combinations of field init chains and feed it to compiler

cabirumon Something Big Is Happening

The trajectory is simple: everyone is hooked on paid AI subscription and loses the skill of thinking and learning. The models are proprietary and cloud-only. Everything you input is also monetized. The end.

cabirumon Something Big Is Happening

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". So, this guy is "building an AI startup and investing in the space", right. Thousands of jobs in AI depend on you to start paying for the models because "free version is over a year behind".

What AI is good at is generating billions of similar "something big, act now" stories just to get you to pay. It is an advert.

cabirumon Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

> information from the Android Auto platform

Can the quantity and length of tire marks on tarmac be used as a proxy for HBEs?

cabirumon Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse

These are multipliers. First, the QA left, but nothing major happened for years, automated tests did suffice. Then, vibe code happened, that with the lack of QA, led to disaster.

I doubt "studies" exist and proving every little assumption takes too much effort as per Brandolini's law.

cabirumon 2025 was the third hottest year on record

Who are "we"? China population is 4 times the US, with carbon emissions just 3 times greater, making them produce less carbon per capita.

cabirumon Russia Strikes Ukraine with IRBM Oreshnik Missile

Probably vaporized an underground gas storage facility.. or two.

cabirumon Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

> Using empty structs also hurts readability

An empty struct is idiomatic and expected to be used in a Set type. When/if the memory optimization is reintroduced, no code change will be needed to take advantage of it.

cabirumon VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO

MIPI camera on my 3 year old Thinkpad still does not work

cabirumon Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

In 2025, is it still prohibively expensive to run some community-supported crawler & search engine? Without Google censorship, ads, and ai.

cabirumon Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

What if.. the management made a request to make the game take more space than the previous release? So everyone could see just how much content there is and how much better everything is.

I mean, the developers cannot be that incompetent while being able to ship a high quality product.

cabirumon Just Use Curl

Instead of "-X POST" and "-H 'Content-Type: application/json'", use "-d" or "--json", asshat.

cabirumon Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules

Pathetic posturing.

With an access badge, at least you can leak something important anonymously.

cabirumon Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an engineering achievement

Quantum computing does not exist. The industry with it's 30 year history since Shor algorithm boasts its crown achievement of factoring the mind-blowing N=35 and creatively inflated qubit counts.

cabirumon How I'm using Helix editor

Hx is batteries included. Nvim requires installing lots of plugins that do not inspire confidence - descriptions ridden with emojis, impossible to know who maintains what. Too many vectors leading to possible compromise.

cabirumon Interactive Double Pendulum Playground

Hn shows this story is 3 hours old, yet your GitHub PR was made 2 days ago, linking here?

cabirumon Starving, sleeping, and yielding: understanding Go's scheduler

> but goroutine B (the goroutineB function) apparently never ran at all.

Untrue. Up the iterations to 1000, you'll get your interleaving. Since 1.14, goroutines are async preemptible (async safe points), and will not block the scheduler. Also, time.Sleep bad, use runtime.Gosched().

cabirumon No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves

Piece type and color fit in 4 bits.

So, either a fixed-length encoding of the whole board, 64 * (4 bits) = 256 bits = 32 bytes.

Or, sparse variable length encoding of pieces only, 6 bits to index each of 64 squares, = 10 bits * piece count. E.g. initial position takes 32*10 = 320 bits or 40 bytes.

cabirumon VittoriaDB: Zero-config local vector database in a single Go binary

You seem to have committed files that do not belong to the repo: . DS_Store, a binary in build/, and the releases/ directory and its contents.

cabirumon Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

sshuttle. Tunnel your connections inside ssh.

cabirumon Go is still not good

Lexical scope does not have a stack to put defer onto.

cabirumon Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow

Not all foreigners, but migrant workers, i.e. the tourists are unaffected.

cabirumon The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead

Is there a dump of stackexchange to save locally before it shuts down?

cabirumon Manjaro 25.0 Zetar Released

> GNOME 48 includes a new option which enhances the lifespan of the device’s battery.

Wait, why Gnome, a graphical environment, responsible for battery maintenance?