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ffaccount2··on We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
Is this related to high trust society? From what I see, most of the light comes from a streetlights (at least in my country).
ffaccount2··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
So Spotify is a loop (it automatically plays the next recommended song)
ffaccount2··on Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?
And privilege escalation.
ffaccount2··on Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?
>I think the people who need those abbreviations spelled out are not the target audience of the article.

I agree this is true for the economist readers, but I clicked the link thinking this was about how Dropbox (in a company) is an obvious target for privilege escalation (for red teams and hackers), which also sounds plausible and interesting.

But I don't mind, after a few seconds of loading my mistake was obvious.

ffaccount2··on How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
Compared to the naive implementation presented in the blog post yes, but the PR uses AVX, which can process 256 bits (32 bytes) at a time, so I'm not so sure
ffaccount2··on Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
>and when you want to do anything that can't be accomplished by plain JSON

Like comments? ;)

ffaccount2··on Is AI Progress Real? Four Independent Metrics Show It
>METR measures the longest software engineering task a frontier model can complete successfully half the time

Longest? Yes, they actually use actual wall clock time. I don't think this metric makes any sense. I don't know about the others, I stopped reading at this point.

ffaccount2··on AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
I did that when I was younger and internet forums we're still a thing. The difference is that I had to do actual research, which often took me half an hour or more, to solve the problem for the asker. I got knowledge and "the feeling of being a notable figure" as you have said. The other side for the answer. I believe my answers were good.

The difference is that nowadays people can just skip the research part and copy-paste Llama. No value added.

ffaccount2··on Japan now has human refrigerators inspired by Japanese vending machines
I assume it's unambiguous in Japanese.
ffaccount2··on Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled
That's what hackers do in popular stories, right? In reality, most cybercriminsls just don't care that much (they usually use Tor browser, though). I mean they mostly use discord and telegram (both unencrypted).

Serious "hackers" are usually state sponsored now, or members of mature groups.

ffaccount2··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
I don't get it. Why did you buy a third spatula, if you consider it a significant expense (i.e you can't replace ones you have if they break), and you already have two.
ffaccount2··on Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach
Even better way to think of false positives: If you judge 0.1% of players wrong, you just banned A LOT of innocent players.
ffaccount2··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
They are not. Most people in Europe already have a digital government ID (I know I do), and most people in Europe trust their government more than random for profit companies, and are OK with making them a gatekeeper. People who care about rooting their own phones are a minority, even on HN.
ffaccount2··on PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
>People spamming Open Source repos with AI PRs aren't trying to help Open Source, they're trying to build a brand

I am certain many of them honestly believe that they are doing the right thing and that they are helping. After all hey, they implemented a feature or fixed a bug for the community! It's a grim worldview if you think they are all just selfish.

ffaccount2··on Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
Nobody in my middle and high school had any idea "gimp" had an English meaning. I assume if anyone knew, we kids would at least occasionally joke about it (we used gimp for various projects).

It was long after university after I learned that it's also an English word.

ffaccount2··on Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
>"It's hard!" So? "It's complicated" So?

So there's no point in wasting time on this, if perceived problems are low or nonexistent. Current maintainers probably look at it from a technical pov "it's just a name, who cares"

ffaccount2··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
>Very flexible days off (maybe that's also why I am contacted a lot during those days).

But... That's not how days off work.

ffaccount2··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
Four? Poland has five! (Counting 6th Jan)
ffaccount2··on Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan
>will move wherever is most desirable, and thats pretty much only the US.

What? Do you seriously think that wealthy people only want to move to the US? It's a wild claim, especially considering we're in a comment section of a post about immigration to Japan.

ffaccount2··on Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan
And MANY people, like me, can afford to buy a home, butprefer to rent anyway.
ffaccount2··on Love systemd timers
To be honest it looks rather easy to digest? I can sort of guess the meaning without documentation.

For cron, despite years of looking at it, I can never remember what those numbers mean and I need to Google almost every time.

ffaccount2··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Well we're talking about this now, so this was actually effective. The point of talking about something is to make people aware of the issue.

For example I don't leave my house often, so a walking protest in the middle of a city has zero chance to reach me. HN post does.

ffaccount2··on Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
>If they had any spine they'd kill themselves

Please never type something like this again.

>Same should apply to any ex-Russian military, any foreign ex-intelligence too. This isn't a harsh take.

This is a harsh take. And why foreign? Should NSA employees kill themselves too? American soldiers? What a wild take.

ffaccount2··on The dead economy theory
I am shocked you think letting people starve is OK. The word you are looking for is "revolution" or "uprising" - people will fight for the right to live if you deny them food.
ffaccount2··on Omarchy Is Not A Distro
It's a way to distribute Linux (the kernel) and userland packages in a way you can install. Therefore it's a Linux distribution.
ffaccount2··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
My several years old laptop has 128GB of RAM, is that not enough? I admit that it's a pretty heavy one.
ffaccount2··on US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate
Americans (and not just the US) think they still have the influence on the world they had in the 1980s when their economies were a much larger proportion of the global economy. Americans have no idea what the world looks like from Asia which contains most of the world's population and generates a third of global GDP.
ffaccount2··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
How is this different from, let's say, plane tickets?

And nobody says that tickets must not be cancelable. Just no reselling on your own.

ffaccount2··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
>ve AI narratives, but in reality all of that WILL wither down to...

Looks like you're pretty sure of that. Every time I see argument like this delivered with confidence I wonder how is it different from, say, digital calculators. Or better yet, books - Greek philosophers moaned that young people will stop understanding anything and just check books when they want to know anything.

ffaccount2··on A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
It's worse, often the saying goes "don't click on suspicious links"/"don't open suspicious attachments". If I (target of such hint) knew the link was "suspicious" I wouldn't click it! Users are not opening suspicious attachments, they open (what they think is) important invoice or message from their boss.