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kurtoid··on Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
(2022)
kurtoid··on We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
their anubis difficulty is wayyy to high; 6 is overkill
kurtoid··on Visualizing the Artemis II Mission
how is Foxglove these days? I used to use it in our lab (and liked it a lot), but not since the license change
kurtoid··on The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
> municipalities get paid to put up the cameras I've read lots of FOIAd flock contracts, and I have yet to see any municipality get paid by flock - they pay flock per-camera. Is that just a hunch, or are there cases of towns getting money from flock?
kurtoid··on Precursor
how does this interact with keyboard navigation & accessibility tools?
kurtoid··on The Excavator That Digs to a Line It Cannot See – Mobility and Field Robotics
the AI generated XKCD lookalikes are a huge distraction. they also lead me to believe the text is AI written
kurtoid··on Claude Opus 4.8
The H in business stands for honesty
kurtoid··on Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)
That's on RCX. I don't know for certain about the NXT 1 or 2, but the EV3's VM is called LMS2012
kurtoid··on Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)
LEGO Mindstorms programs run in an on-brick VM, iirc
kurtoid··on Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
Make sure it adds a header too
kurtoid··on Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
As a human recipient, how can I be sure if an email is coming from AgentMail or not?
kurtoid··on Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices
It's a bot

edit: or a human spammer, but no difference IMO

kurtoid··on Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas platform
If they release it now, no one else will pay the ransom
kurtoid··on OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers
> All these changes have got some partners “feeling let down and misled by OpenAI,” a person familiar with Microsoft’s decision said. Thankfully, the software giant has stepped in on some of the projects that the startup has supposedly abandoned. One source told the publication that money is not unlimited, no matter what Sam Altman might say, while another said that they prefer Microsoft over OpenAI as a tenant, as “they are more creditworthy.”

Reminds me of that New Yorker Sam Altman article

kurtoid··on The Prompt API
See also: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213
kurtoid··on Apple TV remote is the perfect accessory for vibe coding
What's the worst?
kurtoid··on 1-day RCE vulnerability in vim
Claimed to have been discovered with/by Claude: https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-vim-vs-emacs-vs-claude
kurtoid··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Looks like my "waiting period" prediction was right

That's going to be really annoying when exporting tasker scripts as APKs for relatives

kurtoid··on Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool
I used to love netdata, but right around dashboard v3 I switched to Prometheus+grafana

I still miss the no-fuss configuration and the anomaly detection was well done, but I just can't do the required cloud thing it does now

kurtoid··on An interactive map of Flock Cams
Lowe's has their own contract with Flock. I've seen them outside a couple of Targets too
kurtoid··on I’m joining OpenAI
I think so
kurtoid··on MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
(my older) LIFX bulbs have an Espressif MAC address, and I think LIFX has stated they're ESP32-based in the past
kurtoid··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
My guess is the 'high-friction' part is some kind of mandatory waiting period of 1 to 3 days
kurtoid··on Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
This post appears directly above "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?". The irony
kurtoid··on ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
I interpreted that line as tongue-in-cheek, but on a second reading, I think you're right
kurtoid··on Forever Object: The Staple-Less Oceanus Brass Stapler
In my case, it looks like a memory issue - my ram and swap both filled up after opening the site
kurtoid··on NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
Link doesn't seem to be available now:

> Page not found

> The page you're looking for doesn't exist.

kurtoid··on Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
I'm starting to maintain a COBOL codebase for my dad's small business. It uses MicroFocus's runtime so it runs fine on Windows 10/11 (but I'm trying to migrate it to OpenCOBOL). He helped write a good chunk of it, but doesn't make any major changes to it anymore. I'm not confident enough to make major changes to it, but I fix some bugs here and there. I ended up writing a python script to parse the database layout for a python-based fuzzy search tool, but I still stuck to a terminal UI for it.
kurtoid··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
> 748 can run on Steam Assuming you mean on Linux?
kurtoid··on Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller
Looks down for me. https://web.archive.org/web/20251024110521/https://www.linus...
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