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j16sdiz··on Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely
TFA:

> Publish for personal use - Anyone on Roblox can continue to publish games for personal use.

I know it is not great... but .. is that sufficient for your kid?

j16sdiz··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
This is Google. Most likely they will deploy an automatic scanner bot that "supposed to" handle all the edge cases. When it don't work, you will be blamed for not writing your js in the way the bot can understand.
j16sdiz··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
Chrome and Firefox extension were under the same attack for years...

They just got more eye and react a little bit (just a little bit) faster.

j16sdiz··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
What is "change of ownership" anyway?

One can just sell their username/password/private key. The plugin directory maintainer or the end user not necessary know there is a change of ownership.

j16sdiz··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
For wordpress plugin and chrome/firefox extension, the most common channel of attack is -- the developer just sold the plugin for money.

They sold the developer key, the domain name, the organization or whatever needed to publish that plugin as updates.

j16sdiz··on The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
It will make rewrite quicker, not "easier".

When the management recognize a tech debt, often it is too late that nobody understand the full requirement or know how things are supposed to work.

The AI agent will just make the same mistake human would make -- writing some half ass code that almost work but missing all sorts of edge case.

j16sdiz··on We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
No. Thanks.

Your "fun" email belongs to my spam box.

I use font awesome for a few quick icons. I have no interested in using a new site engine.

If you are getting new icons - great. not that interesting, but this is not spam.

If you are doing a incompatible update - i hate this. but i need to know this. thanks for telling me.

Doing a new kickstarter project? - no. hell no. this is not what i signed up for.

j16sdiz··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
Why can't people read the HN guideline before commenting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

j16sdiz··on Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
What do you meant?

A quick search on youtube give me many short showing this function in OneDrive app.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT9EmGCpRxk

j16sdiz··on New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK
interference on the individuals or interference on companies / service providers?
j16sdiz··on EFF is leaving X
but the article opening with a paragraph saying "The Numbers Aren’t Working Out".

One can't justify quitting because the number is falling, and claims the number does not matter at the same time. or can it?

j16sdiz··on I still prefer MCP over skills
Thanks for the 3x context usages because it need to follow the installation steps. and extra credit for the auth token leaks because it is sent in every call as context.
j16sdiz··on I still prefer MCP over skills
He did. That's what the "you aren’t forcing the user to manage raw tokens and secrets in plain text." bit comes in.
j16sdiz··on Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
I guess the real problem is, everybody's inbox is overwhelmed with useless junk.

Expect someone read and follow instructions in email are not that realistic anymore

j16sdiz··on Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
I don't see the relevance -- and casually dismiss years of researches without even trying to read those paper.
j16sdiz··on Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11
> Ubuntu used 500MB less than Windows in system monitor.

Those number meant nothing comparing across OS. Depends on how they counts shared memory and how aggressive it cache, they can feel very different.

The realistic benchmark would be open two large applications (e.g. chrome + firefox with youtube and facebook - to jack up the memory usage), switch between them, and see how it response switching different tasks.

j16sdiz··on Some Unusual Trees
It's the same people complaining tomato is fruit, so it must not be a vegetable.
j16sdiz··on Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
In TFA:

   I have so many bugs in the Linux kernel that I can’t 
   report because I haven’t validated them yet… I’m not going 
   to send [the Linux kernel maintainers] potential slop, 
   but this means I now have several hundred crashes that they
   haven’t seen because I haven’t had time to check them.
    
    —Nicholas Carlini, speaking at [un]prompted 2026
j16sdiz··on What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode
In my experience, most "SDK" we have today is just thin wrapper of the HTTP call generated from openapi / swagger.

It take lots of readings and testing before integrating to your project.

j16sdiz··on Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
If you comes to low level network protocol (e.g. writing a TCP stack), the "network byte order" is always big-endian.
j16sdiz··on Solar and batteries can power the world
China is doing that because they are profitable, not because they care about the environment. Why would they care the coal use?
j16sdiz··on Solar and batteries can power the world
The insulation matters a lot in home heating.
j16sdiz··on OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
It is complicated.

Many games license art works from third parties, in which the game house agreed only to use that art work in one game title.

E.g. a sound track on a game may feel like a small part of the whole game, but it can the complete work from a music producer.

j16sdiz··on Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
"qualified immunity" is a legal concept on how government protect/"qualify" their employees from being sued.

"Monopoly on violence" is a political philosophy concept. What make a state a state.

j16sdiz··on The machines are fine. I'm worried about us
This blogs tries frame the hard Phd work as a way to train human to understand. LLM takes away the easy works. There will be no way for junior students to grow to understand.

> ... The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding...

j16sdiz··on Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was
Some text (e.g. what metadata is included) are only in the animation -- not in the reader view.

The animation is just some text fading in. If you want to read those text, the only way is disable reader mode and wait..

j16sdiz··on Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
You don't need installing windows on surface pro -- do you?
j16sdiz··on Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
Better source: https://www.rferl.org/a/mystery-numbers-station-persian-sign...
j16sdiz··on What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?
Have you tried the "Reference" section on the Wikipedia article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand#cite_note-vande...

j16sdiz··on OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
Owning the original game does not automatically grant you right to make or use in derivative works.
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