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hulitu··on What happened to the Snowden archive
> Sikorski is the foreign minister of Poland, with a long and distinguished career in the US (scholar)

So an American paid polish minister. Nothing new here. /s

hulitu··on In 2025, 49 percent of adults under age 30 lived with a parent [pdf]
so they are siblings.
hulitu··on I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
> understand that is succeeds 95% of the time.

more like 10%.

> Write a new prompt, evaluate, it now succeeds 99% of the time.

in theory, maybe. In practice still 10%.

> Write a third prompt, this one succeeds 100% of the time

Only in Sam Altman's wet dreams.

hulitu··on Frontier Engineering
> AI agents can now autonomously write code, run tests, fix failures, and iterate, increasingly for hours without human input.

Citation needed. How correct is the code generated by AI agents ? Can an AI agent test its code ? Did anyone proved this ?

hulitu··on OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week
> he is a fairly important figure, doing important things

Like Copyright Infrigement and propaganda.

hulitu··on OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week
> Are we still pretending models aren't cyber capable

They can add 2 + 2 correctly in 10% of cases. So, no, they are not.

hulitu··on Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Isn't OpenAI a Microsoft company ?
hulitu··on Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google's AI
Any Google execs going to jail ?
hulitu··on America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
> personal liability for the executives and managers at the company, and for the investors.

That is not how capitalism works. See Microsoft, Google, Facebook for examples.

hulitu··on U.S. House Passes Bill to Require Am Radio in New Cars
> U.S. House Passes Bill to Require Am Radio in New Cars

U.s. House Passes Bill to Require AM Radio in New Cars

hulitu··on South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state
> The government itself is the biggest criminal enterprise

This is true for all of the western world, eastern Europe and maybe true for some other countries.

hulitu··on US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland security
"Your security is very important for (US)us". Just like in Microsoft's EULA.
hulitu··on A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum
It looks like Windows 10. Even the light theme is implemented. They only need to implement the dark theme to be at the same UX level as Windows 10.
hulitu··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
> Right, but "room temperature" is pretty universal everywhere

Yes. And it is between 16 °C and 30 °C. (depending if the test room has AC or not).

But as you say: it is pretty universal everywhere.

hulitu··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
They measured it. Thanks to AI, we can measure things today which would not have been possible 2 millions years ago. /s
hulitu··on Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet
> We need rules that take companies responsible when they trick people into hands of scammers.

Who do you think makes the rules and who do you think are the scammers ? Regards, Microsoft, Google. /s

hulitu··on I don't like passkeys
> Passkeys are amazing. They’re basically magic to the average person.

Passkeys are crap. They are just random password prompts to give a false sense of security.

hulitu··on The Secret Life of Circuits
> I looked at sample chapter

... and found nothing interesting

hulitu··on Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv and rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
Just keep good backups and do not ise cp, mv and rm to backup your files.
hulitu··on U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland
NATO _is_ US.
hulitu··on South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state
So like US or Ukraine ?
hulitu··on Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Yes, but this is left for the next years because they give only one Nobel preis per year.
hulitu··on Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
I hoped it would be SPARC.
hulitu··on AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust
No not AI. People who believe in it. But the main purpose of AI is to give answers. Not good/right answers, but just answers. That's why it is used to manufacture consent.
hulitu··on GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview
> Failures in storage software are very rare.

Famous last words. Most failures are not reported, because people move on.

hulitu··on Backups Aren't Simple
It is made by Microsoft, the experts in this domain.
hulitu··on ESA Space Environment Report 2026
> Active debris removal is required to stop the growth of the number of objects over time that is caused by space debris causing new debris on their own through collisions (Kessler syndrome).

That's why the world policeman has brought weapons into space. To make order. And discipline. /s

hulitu··on US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs
> because the new versions require AVX-1/2

Well, an 128kbit MP3 requires at least a 486DX2-66 but you also need to run the OS. /s

hulitu··on Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by an email
This is by design.
hulitu··on A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record – beats desktop i9 and Ryzen 9
For how many milliseconds ?
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