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Earth observation researcher in Austria.
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lmc··on Plotnine
Even in a notebook it's a pain... import plotnine as p9 would be nicer.
lmc··on Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
Great, this will be the savior of software devs - as the last memory safety bugs are being patched, a whole new world of javascript multithreading issues to fix opens up.
lmc··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-computer-o...
lmc··on Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
If classic PATs were to blame, doesn't this mean further private repos could be at risk as well? (apart from the GitHub ones the other day).
lmc··on Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
True, we use S3 a lot too. But it's interesting to think of alternatives like this project, e.g., for when we don't have the setup for a full on block storage service.
lmc··on Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
Depends on the domain. There's a bunch of sciences using large datasets served up efficiently using static file formats, e.g., https://zarr.dev/ and https://parquet.apache.org/
lmc··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
Absolutely not. Just to not give in to populist figures that absolutely will not make it better.
lmc··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
> Americans don't have to do that when crossing between states either.

That's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison.

> Are you saying that Americans' social media histories aren't considered when they wish to travel to Europe?

Yes.

> Weird example. Stars and Stripes is a government-created periodical that covers the military.

Which typically had editorial independence - exactly the kind of free speech Americans used to be proud of.

lmc··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
> I don't see the difference between what's happening in the US and the supposedly good guys that rule me.

Many EU countries' current obsession with E2EE and age verification is fucked, but we are still (thankfully) a way from the state of the States.

- We don't need to submit a history of our social media accounts before crossing a border

- (Most) of our libraries aren't having to make joint statements about free speech (https://www.orbiscascade.org/free-speech-statement/)

- And regarding free press - https://www.wfae.org/2026-01-20/stars-and-stripes-top-editor...

lmc··on “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?
> Don't you want to test mythos against state of the art projects?

Yes, I'm just saying don't make judgements based on this single project alone.

lmc··on “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?
Curl had a prominent bug bounty programme, has 180k lines of prod code, and is mainly a client app/lib. I would look at other projects before making judgements about mythos on this one.
lmc··on UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub
marimo notebooks give you the best of both worlds (https://marimo.io)
lmc··on Composition Shouldn't be this Hard
Fair point but AWS is also highly extensible, and i'm not sure about Palantir but i guess it must be too to a point? Maybe it's a classic case of good abstractions vs bad ones
lmc··on Composition shouldn't be this hard
I'm not disagreeing but I was reminded of a counterexample: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/birmingham_oracle_lat...
lmc··on Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM
By all means, run your npm in docker, but please stop telling others it's a secure way to do so.
lmc··on Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM
Read this: https://kayssel.substack.com/p/docker-escape-breaking-out-of...
lmc··on Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM
Docker is not a strong security boundary and shouldn't be used to sandbox like this

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/exploring-contain...

lmc··on CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe
Aside: I really like the graphic on this and the linked homepage.

As a European working in a university on EU funded projects, I'm not sure how I've not heard of this before :/.

lmc··on Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
Thank you for clarifying this.
lmc··on Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
That's debateable. How about, e.g, "10. No provision of the license may be predicated on any [...] style of interface."

Anyway, if it was clear cut, it shouldn't be difficult to get it approved.

These kinds of discussions show why it's a pain to use non standard licenses.

lmc··on Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
This 'Modified MIT' is not a license that has been through the OSI process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition#Com...

You can't just add random terms to an existing license and use its name. "Modified MIT: Like MIT but pay us 50 million dollars."

Perhaps CC-BY would've been more appropriate.

lmc··on Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
Which contradicts what they say on their website.
lmc··on Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
That's not an open source license, then.
lmc··on Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
This is on their website...

"Is Kimi K2.5 open source?"

"Yes, Kimi K2.5 is an open source AI model. Developers and researchers can explore its architecture, build new solutions, and experiment openly. Model weights and code are publicly available on Hugging Face and the official GitHub repository."

https://www.kimi.com/ai-models/kimi-k2-5

lmc··on Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
How so?
lmc··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
LLMs have been garbage for real work until very recently. Doesn't this show they were adopted too soon at amazon?
lmc··on WebMCP is available for early preview
Unironically this is probably the future of the web. The Ryanairs of the world get to inject their ads/upsells into the MCP response. The AI corps don't have their agents banned for scraping.
lmc··on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Ha, true :-)
lmc··on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
> And over that time I've worked in many places around the world, developing countries, tropical islands, small huts on remote mountains. And I've lost maybe a day of work because of connectivity issues. I've been deep in a rainforest during a monsoon and still had 4g connection.

cries on a Bavarian train

lmc··on Prism
I've had some good initial results in going from typst to .tex with Claude (Opus 4.5) for an IEEE journal paper - idiomatic use of templates etc.
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