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chuckadamson Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

> and in meat space

an odd place to be a hotbed of vegan advocacy.

chuckadamson Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

The release version just now updated to 152.0.7977.83 which has the fix.

chuckadamson IBM Bob

Copy of At least it's not Clippy(2)

chuckadamson .name Termination

Presumably Verisign is the owner of the y domain and wouldn't dare sell it off to the highest bidder...

chuckadamson .name Termination

The Public Suffix List is the closest thing we have to the "subdomain/TLD bit", but afaik it doesn't include wildcards like `*.name`. It does influence TLS though (or possibly just browsers) in that a wildcard cert for an entire TLD or public suffix won't be honored, nor will a public CA issue such a cert.

Still, I'm not sure there's any easy technical fix for the .name debacle.

chuckadamson Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

Those are presumably owned by the state, so there's no permit to revoke.

chuckadamson Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

More like Enemy of the State. Where's your phone right now?

chuckadamson Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

This has the backing of the governor of the state, who I trust not one bit. But the removal is happening within 30 days, which gives him basically no wiggle room to undo it in a backroom deal.

chuckadamson Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

The memo refers to all ALPR systems, and does not mention Flock at all.

It's one page: https://fdotwww.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity/docs/defaul...

chuckadamson Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

I remember Jetbrains Junie which read like that all the time. Never used first-person either. I've not used Jetbrains AI for a while though, not sure if it still reads that way.

chuckadamson ChatGPT outage – Resolved

SO has previously been up, so your comment has been closed as a duplicate.

chuckadamson Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting

Mary's Violet Eyes Make John Stay Up Nights.

still works, how bout that?

chuckadamson Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

I did not compare religion with physics, I compared one completely unfalsifiable cosmological theory with another.

chuckadamson Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products and Spineless Capitulation

Seems a lot of people bought those dull products.

chuckadamson Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

There are also no physical observations that contradict the notion of God. The problem is that no such observations are even possible, or at least no test they could be put to that could disprove the theory.

chuckadamson Creepy Crawlies

Given the nature of git, wouldn't all that HTML be highly cacheable? I get that's not free either, but it's got to be a lot less intensive than having cgit generate it every single time.

chuckadamson Glacier Mice

Turns out that rolling stones do in fact gather moss.

chuckadamson vLLM v0.28.0

This puts a whole new spin on "AI Psychosis".

chuckadamson Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

Raymond Chen is still there. Hell, Dave Cutler is still there.

chuckadamson Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

    skynet -v moo

chuckadamson Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

Believe it or not, I find it more plausible that the entire team collectively lost their minds — or more specifically, the leadership. There's a long and sordid history of such things that goes back well before GenAI.

chuckadamson Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

New policy boils down to "AI or not, it's still your code and you're responsible for it". I can get on board with that.

chuckadamson Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns

> It's an awkward phrase...

You might even say it's charged.

chuckadamson GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

> For example, why did Edge and possible chrome, remove support for Back via the backspace key?

Because people were triggering it by accident all the time. Firefox and Safari don't navigate back on backspace either.

Enter only auto-submits if there's a visible submit button or if there's just one input, and that behavior goes back as far as I can remember.

chuckadamson Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

They just started fully honoring it last month. I guess my comment above was overly optimistic.

chuckadamson Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

If you do content negotiation, then it’s imperative to send “Vary: accept” in your response. CF and all other CDNs will automatically do the right thing when they see that header.

Content negotiation still has its uses, but most of the time you’re better off using different endpoints.

chuckadamson Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

You can bet your sweet patootie that even under the current government, any company producing radioactive isotopes is not operating without regulation or supervision.

chuckadamson The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

Every story in _I, Robot_ was about how one or more of the Laws of Robotics went wrong, and Asimov himself referred to the laws as hooks for “shaggy dog stories”

chuckadamson A curmudgeon tries a language server

Most lisp systems get recompiled from sources, and while they support dumping an image, that's essentially an optimization. Emacs for example makes an initial dump, then loads the rest from .el files, and the base image remains static (you can dump a new image from a running emacs, but it's always been fiddly). The only thing left that I know of that's image-first is Smalltalk, and not even all implementations.

chuckadamson Nostr is an inclusive communication commons

No, I was thinking of FTP, but I was probably off the mark anyway: I'd noticed that FTP was mentioned in the RFCs and surrounding discussions long before RFC 793, and that it seemed to be behaving like a point-to-point network, but it hadn't occurred to me that it might have just been using an ancestor of TCP/IP -- some variant of the "Host protocol" perhaps?

Hard to get the full context, it was before my time: my beard may be grey now, but I'm not that old.