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countWSS··on Uploading Files to the Internet in Order to Cite Them
https://xkcd.com/978/
countWSS··on How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?
Wikipedia.org :270 cookies, 110MB used. Never cleared or disabled any.
countWSS··on Codeberg bans vibe coded projects
Okay, lets imagine it get enforced and every project is scanned for compliance, with some false positives and inability to prevent people from sneaking in AI code.\ Do you agree with it now?
countWSS··on Codeberg bans vibe coded projects
The copyright/Anti-ai angle is likely an excuse and they're running out of money for hosting, hence errors and anti-scraping blocks. Its completely absurd to think they somehow waited years to ban AI for copyright, while deleting anything they deem as copyright infringing. Looks like those vibe-powered opensource projects will mighrate to somewhere else.
countWSS··on Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index
IKEA beds are underestimated: these flimsy POS planks and their insertion is entire artform that was likely engineered to cause pain. The idea here is they are huge, finicky and depend on precise positioning in multiple areas, there is no "easy shortcut" for their structural integrity, everything has to be perfectly assembled.
countWSS··on Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)
The neglected part here is latency, speed itself can be masked by progress bars/animations, but having visible lag ruins the idea of speed and users treat it as slow vs animated loading bar.
countWSS··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Ok, suppose you have a "trash/low quality" article and "this article has been deleted", the article with some info will win over the audience as they search for it. Like "Worse is Better", the quality will improve over time and the "deleted article" will stay at 0 recognition. An average internet user will not complain about the Wikipedia article, they just switch to Grokipedia and whatever AI-generated content it has, since they now have it.
countWSS··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Don't know why you get downvoted, but this is how AI-based projects win over time: they don't randomly decide to delete valuable data. Grokipedia might be trash in terms of its quality, but at least it it doesn't have omnipresent moral busybodies loitering in to "purify" it from knowledge.
countWSS··on .at TLD is top on CF Radar
Majestic reports strange spike in domain ranks in .at(the greens) Thousands of .at domains suddenly advanced hundreds of places all over the index. https://majestic.com/reports/majestic-million?tld=at&majesti...
countWSS··on C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
GCC already solved it: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html The operations behave like C++ valarrays. Addition is defined as the addition of the corresponding elements of the operands. For example, in the code below, each of the 4 elements in a is added to the corresponding 4 elements in b and the resulting vector is stored in c.
countWSS··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
Here and on reddit, AI debugging is viewed as some weird shallow pattern-matching that obviously fails to spot real stuff and overload the maintainers. Instead of getting to "spotless record" of zero flaws, the people start rationalizing that "X is not a real bug" and inventing justifications for their(obviously bad) code, which is critique they can't accept from AI, only through human debate that they can't close with a WONTFIX. Once the bug is actually usable, the tune changes completely.
countWSS··on Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
What is the 181M$ mysterious "Project Support" in the graph means? Linux is labeled separately, so it cannot be the "Project".
countWSS··on GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
IFUNC should be implemented by software itself, like switching functions on runtime/compile checks. Why bother having a slower, insecure version that is less flexible than a function pointer? I have to agree with author. Glibc is filled with even more nasty hacks ripe for new exploits.
countWSS··on Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks
That a media push to make "it more secure" i.e. closer to Chinese Internet ID.
countWSS··on Music with Lyrics Interferes with Cognitive Tasks (2023)
Try to listen to music in language you don't understand. The effects of having lyrics don't appear unless you focus on them to repeat the memory of song. Of course instrumentals are better, but lyrics lift the mood by virtue of having some "virtual social context" simulation.
countWSS··on Grief and the AI split
Sure, is there anyone nostalgic for debugging bash files by hand? Any sense of grief for writing C++ template headers, with all boilerplate? Hmm, does anyone like manually re-writing makefiles these days? I suspect the enthusiasts of coding craft will struggle to maintain their wonder after ~4h deep in any of these magical adventures, which surely involve inventing ad-hoc duct tape and novel, never-before-seen algorithms.
countWSS··on In Search of a Discord Replacement
When you make forums you compete with forum aggregators with more history and social clout, i.e. a reddit replacement. If someone made better Reddit, it could have a chance, however reddit-type aggregators crypronite is hosting their own videos/media, which makes it prohibitively expensive for small companies without ads and sponsored posts which in turn make them less of "forum aggregator" and more like facebook social feeds: mainly video/image based dopamine rides instead of actual knowledge worth keeping.
countWSS··on Gradient.horse
Crashed my browser, very poor code.
countWSS··on Cloudflare adds real-time Markdown rendering for AI agents
This seems useful beyond agents. It will save tons of traffic for scripts, text browsers, low-bandwidth connections,etc markdown is incredibly compact and easy to parse.
countWSS··on Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The code written by AI in most cases is throwaway code to be improved/refined later. Its likely to be large, verbose and bloated. The design of some agents have "simplify/refactor" as final step to remedy this, but typically your average vibe coder will be satisfied that the code just compiles/passes the minimal tests. Lines of code are easy to grow. If you refine the AI code with iterative back-and-forth questions, the AI can be forced to write much more compact or elegant version in principle, but you can't apply this to most large systems without breaking something, as AI doesn't have context of what is actually changing: so e.g. an isolated function can be improved easily, but AI can't handle when complexity of abstraction stacks and interfacing multiple systems, typically because it confuses states where global context is altered.
countWSS··on The largest number representable in 64 bits
the article misses log-math and log-log-math which would use 64-bit (d)oubles are exponents in 10^d and 10^(10^d) respectively, which allows far higher range of possible values but somewhat more awkward math operations(addition/subtraction), though much more practical & faster to compute.
countWSS··on Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
Isn't this basically a forum-as-s-service?
countWSS··on They lied to you. Building software is hard
There is a point in there, long-range analysis and debugging without AI is much harder, AI spots lots of non-obvious stuff very fast. If we consider "spotting non-obvious flaws" a skill, this will atrophy as beginners will learn to use AI to scan code for flaws,it is effective but doesn't teach anything, reading long blocks of code and mentally simulating it is a incredibly valuable skill and it will find stuff AI misses(something that is too complex, e.g. nested/recursive control flow,async and co-routines/threads interacting,etc), AI goes for obvious stuff first and has to be manually pointed to "identify flaws, focusing on X".
countWSS··on Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?
Quntity of exercise cannot build quality. Its self-selecting the people who can handle running and injuries better so they adapt. The rest get injured enough to stop. II don't think trying to "push it to using 100% of potential" is worth any long-term health risk, especially with no long-term reward: so you win X race/competition once and then what?
countWSS··on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
> (at least usually).

Nope. Lots of people see the strobing. Its causes headaches if you focus on the lights.

countWSS··on OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia
It seems to be adding tons of articles, then some of them get deleted. I assume it's been allocated lots of compute. The entire model is outcompeting wikipedia on quantity per topic. If wikipedia merges/integrates some article and Grokipedia has a specific page for it, the search engine/LLM will get that version front and center. Grokipedia seems to have no scope limit, so wikipedia "non-notable" entries will be SEO-optimized towards sites with the topic-names, eventually settling on AI content farms as primary destination.
countWSS··on Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books
Short-term thinking, they don't care about where the data comes from but how easy is to get it. Its probably decided at project-manager level.
countWSS··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
How much of internet can Cloudflare turn off in italy? They picked a fight with the cloud gorilla.
countWSS··on GitHub Is Down
Still, why many projects are exclusively on github? Not a single mirror, everything tied to github working, thousands of people not even considering alternatives..
countWSS··on Mozilla's open source AI strategy
This has the feeling of corporate feel-good PR release: its essentially content-less AI-generated rehashing "our models are freer/more open-source" which seems silly since they don't develop anything unlike DeepSeek/GLM/Qwen the real open-source giants. Mozilla is a middle-man that could use open-source agents, but it pretending to be the "gatekeeper" of "open AI". Their key motivation is exposed in the middle of text: "The Mozilla Data Collective is building a marketplace for data that is properly licensed, clearly sourced, and aligned with the values of the communities it comes from."

This is far away from Firefox roots, whatever corporate stewards are at helm of mozilla now think exclusively in terms of marketplaces and "economics of data".. Futher reading "so we’re deepening our engagement with governments and enterprises adopting sovereign, auditable AI systems. These engagements are the feedback loops that tell us where the stack breaks and where openness needs reinforcement." Hard pass.

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