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j16sdiz··on Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
> Filevault for MacOS (which is wonderful and never sends your key to be kept somewhere else)

Did you read the documentation?

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/protect-data-on-you...

"iCloud account: Click “Allow my iCloud account to unlock my disk” if you already use iCloud. Click “Set up my iCloud account to reset my password” if you don’t already use iCloud."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/f...

"FileVault Full Disk Encryption (FDE) recovery keys are, by default, sent to Apple if the user requests them. Only one payload of this type is allowed per system."

j16sdiz··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
Look at how the American hate jury lottery, I doubt this would be welcomed in the state.

It may work in some other country..

j16sdiz··on Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?
> (at least in "the west").

It is the same in the east - it is either housing, or housing related tax.

j16sdiz··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
Because we want to understand what impact it is?

Residential house emit heat too, but - most of the time - we don't consider them "destroys local ecosystems".. Maybe they do, but we don't treat them as a boolean thing, we try to understand the impact...

j16sdiz··on Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing
If you consider non-English script, traditional OCR is not more reliable.

CJK have lots of character and high confusion rate.

Arabic scripts are complex and have lots of morphs.

Vietnamese have easily confused diacritics.

Thai have lots of non-standard fonts.

j16sdiz··on 8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea
> What we needed, in hindsight, was to treat segments as true selectors — opaque handles with no arithmetic meaning. If you can’t assume the next segment is 16 bytes ahead, you’re forced to use segmentation as intended.

Except we couldn't. If we made each segment isolated from other, we would waste so much memory because memory are allocated in segment.

If we made each segment dynamic, we need something to manage them.

This "hindsight" is just a MMU in disguise.

j16sdiz··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
I thought contaminated clothing are low level waste. They are quite safe after 30-ish years, but rated to store for 100 years
j16sdiz··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Most of their practice are illegal already. The problem is lack of enforcement.

We are not suing polymarket. We are not suing the marketing company. And we don't want online censorship.

IMO, the marketing company / media company should be sued. -- They are (relatively) easier target to sue. Many are US based and not going anywhere. With enough luck, this might give us a better internet with less SEO bullshit.

j16sdiz··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
The real question is -- how much of them are bot traffic?

We knew bot traffic is more than half of the internet, right?

j16sdiz··on To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
I am very confused by calling this kind of work "researches".

They are not pushing the boundary of human knowledge - they are playing game (reverse engineering) with other human.. maybe that is me having a very narrow definition of "research"

j16sdiz··on I hate compilers
> What do you do when the client has WebAssembly disabled?

Do people really do that? -- disable, not just using old browsers with no wasm.

Disabling wasm while keeping js enabled is a configuration i can't understand

j16sdiz··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
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j16sdiz··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
XLOOKUP was introduced in 2019. I thought it was a great update
j16sdiz··on The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
I skim though it and saw they had something javascript asm.js in kernel.
j16sdiz··on Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22
> Canadian tech is nonexistent because every Canadian pension fund, family office, and bank prefers to invest in American equities over Canadian equities.

I was told that we should never invest pension fund on local, because you salary is basically based on local industry. One need diversified investment.

Not sure how true this is, but that's what I have been listening for years.

(disclaimer: not canandian, not american

j16sdiz··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
<begin devil's advocate>

This is extra work on human.

Many artist and content creator is now asked to show the "behind the scene" or a full session recording, which nobody care enough to check. This is frustrating and demotivating the artist.

Expect the same demotivating effect on the software contributor.

If you think reading _forwarded_ AI response are cheap, you can run your own LLM. It is the same amount work on you

</end devil's advocate>

j16sdiz··on Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
Fable promised better at long running tasks.

Parent post have a goal of "..see how it will perform.."

There is nothing wrong with experimenting with something new.

j16sdiz··on Software is made between commits
That recording capture code, but not intent and thought.

The only alternative to PR review is pair programming - where you can discuss with your peer in real time, discuss the design, asking questions or clarifications.

Without real time communication, those small delta are pure noise.

j16sdiz··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Its not only the corporate america. Those crypto scammers do the same simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care.
j16sdiz··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
but.. OpenAI and Anthropic can't stop China and EU, can they?

Depends on your world view, they might or might not come up with something better. but I guess we can agree nothing with stop them from _trying_?

j16sdiz··on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++
Those are ABI. Unless it is inlining them, the overhead is to stay.
j16sdiz··on Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab
Yes but it contradicts the article
j16sdiz··on Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11
> created 1998-09-22 – last modified 2022-12-07
j16sdiz··on Moving beyond fork() + exec()
Yes, the next sentence in TFA is:

> Attempts (such as vfork()) have been made over the years to optimize for this case, but the pattern still is more expensive than it could be.

Basically vfork do a "stop the world".

j16sdiz··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
Tips: In HN, You need blank line (i.e. Hit ENTER twice) to start a new paragraph. -- Everything jams into an incomprehensible wall of text if you use one new line.
j16sdiz··on Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant
This just shifts the question to: what counts as attempt to cause an addiction?

Does writing a book aims to make people read addictive? Try to design a gym class that makes you feel good about yourself so you will come again?

You still need to define what is addictive

j16sdiz··on IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake
I would go further and argue IPv6 zones is a mistake.

I know it solve some real problem. but the cost for solving those is just too high. A careful planning and manual configuration can avoid those.

IPv6 promised a 128bit address space, but we got 128bit + arbitrary length of string instead. This force lots of complication on to application developer.

j16sdiz··on The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true
I am not sure what I should think of AI reinforced discrimination.

Some sensitive traits (e.g. Race) have high correlation with something we want to estimate (eg crime rate, credit score). The same traits can be correlated with thousands of different other attributes.

For example, to estimate the risk of loan default, (mathematically) i can use

a) race

b) zip code

c) 3 or 4 seemingly unrelated attributes, but still highly correlated to race

d) a few hundred attributes

e) a few million attributes, taking a PCA and trim down to a few hundred dimensions vector space

When does the discrimination begins or end? (a) is surely illegal, but you can argue (e) is still a proxy to the same thing.

There is no way to cut it fairly. It seems to me any kind of profiling should be illegal

j16sdiz··on American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
> People vote for old idiots .

i think this is also a syndrome not a cause

j16sdiz··on What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
It feels next would be trying isolate the component that make CO2. Try to use smaller sample. Put them under microscope, etc.
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