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diego_sandovalon YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

Isn't your first parapraph an example of YouTube's algorithm underfitting though?

diego_sandovalon Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

A new day, a new npm incident.

diego_sandovalon Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices

AFAIK, all current versions of Android have Google Play Services. It's an essential part of the "official" Android.

If you run GrapheneOS, LineageOS or whatever, then it's not real Android, and the entire problem of your OS restricting you from installing apps does not exist.

diego_sandovalon Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

Jonathan Blow has said that "Jai" is just a placeholder name or something.

diego_sandovalon ARC-AGI-3

> Lastly, humans use way less energy to solve these in fewer steps,

Not if you count all the energy that was necessary to feed, shelter and keep the the human at his preferred temperature so that he can sit in front of a computer and solve the problem.

diego_sandovalon Goodbye to Sora

But you do get good at driving by playing realistic driving games.

diego_sandovalon Goodbye to Sora

I'm not OP, but I do get annoyed by bad car physics on movies.

The worst offenders are brake sounds not correlating to the car movement, engine sounds not correlating to the car's acceleration, nonsensical car deceleration while braking, and steering wheel not correlating to car steering.

diego_sandovalon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

I think anyone running a website should avoid visiting the UK from now on.

diego_sandovalon So you want to write an “app” (2025)

Use Flutter.

diego_sandovalon Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]

In my opinion, he asks the right questions and lets the guests speak, which is something that can't be said about the rest of tech podcasts.

For example, at some point I grew very tired of the superficiality of the questions that Lex Friedman asks his very technical guests. He seems to be more interested into taking the conversation into a philosophy freshman's essay about technology instead of talking about technology itself.

Hearing the Dwarkesh podcast was a breath of fresh air in that regard.

diego_sandovalon TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

If TSMC didn't exist, China would probably have already invaded Taiwan.

diego_sandovalon The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

What's the pain?

diego_sandovalon Qwen3-Max-Thinking

You don't need to go that far back

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

diego_sandovalon Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

I think all versions after Win 7 have sucked.

diego_sandovalon GPT-5.2

I jumped straight from 4o (free user) into GPT-5 (paid user).

It was a generational leap if there ever has been one. Much bigger than 3.5 to 4.

diego_sandovalon Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?

Europe.

diego_sandovalon Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

Wait, Cortana doesn't exist anymore?

diego_sandovalon Claude Opus 4.5

What IDE/CLI tool do you use?

diego_sandovalon Claude Opus 4.5

:%s/There model/Their model/g

diego_sandovalon Claude Opus 4.5

I personally jumped ship from Claude to OpenAI due to the rate-limiting in Claude, and have no intention of coming back unless I get convinced that the new limits are at least double of what they were when I left.

Even if the code generated by Claude is slightly better, with GPT, I can send as many requests as I want and have no fear or running into any limit, so I feel free to experiment and screw up if necessary.

diego_sandovalon Raycast for Windows

Watchguard with SAML login. I've read that one can use OpenVPN when logging with username and password, but it doesn't work with SAML.

diego_sandovalon Raycast for Windows

c) Those of us who've been using Linux for a decade, but are forced to use Windows in our day job because of MS Office/Proprietary VPN client that only runs on Windows/other program that doesn't run well on Linux.

diego_sandovalon Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

The fact that people invest on the architecture that keeps getting increasingly better results is a feature, not a bug.

If LLMs actually hit a plateau, then investment will flow towards other architectures.

diego_sandovalon Laptops with Stickers

Where do you draw the line? One of them says "Socialist alternative".

diego_sandovalon I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel

I'm more shocked that someone is using TikTok to speak things that actually make sense instead of mindless memes.

diego_sandovalon Self-help gets philosophical

> In retrospect I should have focused on changing my situation in stead of learning to live with it.

Stoicism doesn't tell you to just learn to live with things that you can change. That's only for things that you cannot change.

diego_sandovalon PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

The concept that it represents is contentious.

diego_sandovalon Tinnitus Neuromodulator

> This is something only old people get

Such a lie. I started getting mild tinnitus at 20 from playing in rock bands. Then at 24 it got less mild from partying. Then at 27 it got worse, I don't know why.

diego_sandovalon Tinnitus Neuromodulator

In my case, this mindset + SSRIs have helped me tremendously.

I didn't want to depend on a drug, but after getting into a really bad, quasi-suicidal mental state, I went to the psychiatrist. I've been on escitalopram for 4 months and it has really helped reduce the distress associated with tinnitus in like 80%. Making an effort to not think about it has also helped.

I hope to stop taking the drug at some point and see if the mental improvement persists.

diego_sandovalon The <output> Tag

Semantic tags were never widely used, even before the overuse of JavaScript.