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mauriciolange··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
rogue AI agents or AI agents coming from Moulin Rouge?
mauriciolange··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
You are comparing robbery with ineptitude. They are two different things. If your ineptitude makes a 20$ loss you may not be fired as well. Billion dollars wasted at corp still is not billion dollars at the exec pockets (that would be theft and he would be facing charges). That the exec pockets millions regardles of the losses incurred by corp, even when it sounds awful to you or to me, is a problem between the corp and the exec.
mauriciolange··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
Tech radar article links to the article mentioned by this post.
mauriciolange··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
I thought the same at first, but now I find myself relying on the AI answer (as it is usually reliable) and, also more and more, I continue interacting in the AI mode on the topic that motivated my search in the first place.
mauriciolange··on Observer Patch Holography (OPH)
Worth separating two things here: the OPH technical papers (particle mass derivations, overlap consistency axioms, IBM quantum benchmarks) are very interesting and deserve scrutiny on their merits. But Mueller has published addenda that go well beyond physics — Rapture, a "Karma Engine" where future observers implement hell for bad actors, Jesus as an "inserted observer," named public figures facing cosmic justice. These aren't derived from the axioms; they're a messianic belief system wearing physics vocabulary. The technical work may or may not hold up under peer review. The addenda are a red flag about the whole project's epistemiology.
mauriciolange··on Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
Absolutely, same feeling here. But I also see that the author wanted to say something, and finally he manages: it begins as a rant (generated by a prompt of course) the goes to some examples that are entertaining, at least making me remember how I did some things in the past.
mauriciolange··on Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
Some AI slop aside, nice article to help us remember that the platform is much more powerful if we dare to do some things without the crippling framework help.
mauriciolange··on Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
Ahhh but it gave me the opportunity to ran real programs, coming from an XT! *Edited to add an example: I could for the first time use AutoCAD. The price difference between a 286 and a 386SX was negligible, but the software I could use, was other league.
mauriciolange··on The Clock
This article, being in turn inspired by another project, has a much more fun to read writing style. The "Gonon: building a clock with no numeral" is full of AI slop and that is very distracting.

so, kudos to the author at Senko.net!

mauriciolange··on Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
Two very different solutions. Autohotkey is a scripting language for specific tasks, while Delphi is unbounded in this sense. And Visual Studio has no RAD concept.
mauriciolange··on Google to obey South Korean order to blur satellite images on maps
This can be seen in action here in Europe. Near Antwerp, in Kruibeke, we stumbled upon a military base when deviating from the A14 to fill the tank. The whole area is blurred in google maps.
mauriciolange··on ESA has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?
A good counterexample is the Arctic Weather Satellite project. It was defined as a new space process at ESA, so documentation required was reduced at the minimum, and risk acceptance was increased. Absolutely successful, on time, on budget, contractors happy, end users happy. But it is a small project and still difficult to replicate at large and to spread the mindset to other sections at ESA. Source: me. I work at that project as ground segment engineer.
mauriciolange··on Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive
...to be alive today, the title without the "today" means something different
mauriciolange··on Two Dots Too Many (2008)
At first I was confused by the title (my fault) and thought that the article had to do with geo-localization. And only after several paragraphs I could switch to language localization :D
mauriciolange··on Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight
There were no last payload to be delivered. The remaining payload was intended to deorbit along with the second stage.
mauriciolange··on Big data is dead (2023)
source?
mauriciolange··on How OpenAI's Sora Model Works
I don't understand, from the article, how Sora works when handling a rotation of an object on another object (the leaves in the leaf covered elefant for example). The explanation goes only to the diffussion model, but not to how, from that model, a correct geometry deformation is derived at each step.
mauriciolange··on How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
At first I find it difficult to concentrate, but then I started really enjoying the article, and in way I think it is much better than current low-content-big-font websites. But yes, I was raised with this kind of content, so it seems that when I started enjoying was because I synced with a style that I already knew.
mauriciolange··on An evidence-based guide to expanding your comfort zone
Reading "A founder's guide to expanding your confort zone" instantly set me in my disconfort zone
mauriciolange··on Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?
I find very difficult to believe that any personal effort on mitigating CO2 emissions is worth it. A single decision by an individual working on a big company does make the difference, either for better or for worse, but not our own indvidual actions as CO2 emitters.
mauriciolange··on WeWork founder Adam Neumann suggests his apartment tenants plunge own toilets
What I find amusing about the article is not Neumann's declaration, but that it merits an article. The writer is used to call someone to plunge her own toilet?
mauriciolange··on What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
This was a code key, not a codified message, so there was nothing to break, but only the indication that messages could have been exchanged using this key.
mauriciolange··on Infinite patterns appear in numbers described as moving systems
Still not a sufficient explanation but I pretty much like the headline:

Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers.

mauriciolange··on The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions
Ahhh when I see this responses I (fondly) remember slashdot!!!
mauriciolange··on The case against the Twitter apology and our culture of performed remorse
https://web.archive.org/web/20221111171546/https://www.newyo...
mauriciolange··on Petrol pumps know when to turn themselves off
The youtube title is correct: "How petrol pumps know when to turn themselves off" as it explains the mechanics of the device.

But the op title is clickbaity. Please correct it.

mauriciolange··on NPR Dives into the Rise of the 'Stealership'
The article is a summary of the NPR original:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/08/30/1119715886/ins...

mauriciolange··on Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)
Forth is the exact same thing.
mauriciolange··on Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (2012)
Good point!
mauriciolange··on Home Sellers Are Getting Anxious. ‘They Feel Like They Missed Height of Market.’
It is paywalled....
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