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j16sdiz··on Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
breaking a chroot takes more than that..
j16sdiz··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
ios gamer and pc gamer are different kind of gamers
j16sdiz··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
the same IT department that got blamed not allowed user changing wallpaper or installing crowstrike
j16sdiz··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
Sometime it is not security , it could be just bandwidth or CPU.

I have website small enough not to attract too many bot, but sometime, something very innocent can bring my website down.

For example, I put a php ical viewer.. and some crawler start loading the calendar page, taking up all the cpu cycle.

j16sdiz··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
"it take a village ...."

depends on your culture.

j16sdiz··on LibreOffice and the art of overreacting
> Same applies to Mozilla.

Not Thunderbird. It is just a poor abandoned child.

Mozilla, maybe.

j16sdiz··on OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream
Human make error too, but we held them liable for lots of the mistakes they make.

Can we make the agent liable? or the company behind the model liable?

j16sdiz··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
Not literally impossible. You just need to write your own composer!
j16sdiz··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
What make it worse: there are multiple implementation of composer, with small different in behaviour.

The extra security meant many automation tasks need to be done as extensions on composer level making this even worse

j16sdiz··on Convincing Is Not Persuading
I guess the only takeaway was: we should aware the other dimension (other than reasoning) when we try to convince/persuade somebody.

This article can be re-written into something < 300 words.

j16sdiz··on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
In many other countries, these are enforced by central bank, bank association or legislations.

In USA, small business, small bank and credit unit are often used as excuse to push back these kind of rules.

j16sdiz··on RX – a new random-access JSON alternative
many serialization format are just a memory structure dump.
j16sdiz··on Why I love FreeBSD
but real life workload are not "Geometric Mean".

When I use firefox, sqlite performance matter more than any random benchmark. The same benchmark shows sqlite is 3x faster on zfs.

j16sdiz··on Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art
> It's interesting that "consumers" are generally for the expansion of IP laws.

It's not. This total depends on how you ask it.

Q: Do you think artists deserved payment?

A: YES.

Q: Will you pay for art?

A: MAYBE.

Q: Do you think people should go to jail not paying for art

A: NO.

j16sdiz··on Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team
> Would you ask an intern to “do a security audit” of an entire massive program?

Why not?

You can't relies solely on that, but having an extra pair of eye without prior assumption on the code always is good idea.

j16sdiz··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
It depends on how the data are distributed.

I wouldn't be too surprised if that 5% all come from a few particular bad machine.

j16sdiz··on Does that use a lot of energy?
But that's not an apple-to-apple comparison.

Like, if you "save energy" by not driving a petrol car, you can't "use the same energy" on electric car, or lighting.. not even prower a generator.

They are not interchangeable.. But this chart encourage us to think them as the same.

j16sdiz··on RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
The loadbalancer can force a downgrade .
j16sdiz··on TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
> But what responsibilities do megacorps have?

fake and scam AD.

they literally profit from those ADs. When the AD distributes malware or make scam, they don't take any responsibility

j16sdiz··on California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
curl and wget surely facilitates the download.
j16sdiz··on California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
but it facilitates the download.
j16sdiz··on Moldova broke our data pipeline
Most CSV dialects have no problem having double quoted commas.

The "dialect dependent" part is usually about escaping double quotes, new lines and line continuations.

Not a portable format, but it is not too bad (for this use) either considering the country list is mostly static

j16sdiz··on Why Objective-C
I think C++ have caught up with C99 already. So it's late 90s, not mid-90s :)
j16sdiz··on Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
Can you prompt the AI to highlight some "hidden/unexpected causes"?

For example, the bill title say fixing hospitals, but it contains some policy changes about housing.

j16sdiz··on Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
seatbelt is largely undocumented.
j16sdiz··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
Last time I checked, only congress can declare a war.
j16sdiz··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
have you consider the possibility that... it is just too much work to merge/port the code when upstream is actively breaking them?
j16sdiz··on Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust
The difference is huge - It burns money quicker and nobody understands the code
j16sdiz··on OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
you got that piece of non public information was not because you are an insider. As long as the bar is not exclusive to insider, i don't see any difference
j16sdiz··on OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
> I happen to guess the URL, and then I trade on it: Unfair

I can argue it is fair - anybody can try guessing the url, you don't have to be an insider to guess it

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