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mlvljron SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

You're absolutely right, I have hallucinated this. Would you like to find some real CVEs next?

mlvljron SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

Honest take, this is a critical CVE.

mlvljron Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub

Was Flashpoint

"Original games do fade" -- turned you into the seagull

The protection description text was on the loading screen, white letters on dark by, bottom-center

mlvljron Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

Claude?

mlvljron How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)

Won't hold against a squatch tho :)

mlvljron Qwen3-Next

Going through shredder

mlvljron C++: Strongly Happens Before?

Can't wait for the 25 yo seniors to make this the crown jewel of their interviews

mlvljron How to Debounce a Contact (2014)

By ancient Egyptians?

mlvljron Tesla delays Cybertruck's range extender, reduces its range

Would happen with any browser, just stop driving for a minute if you have to read

mlvljron Paint.net

There is a clone, Pinta.

mlvljron Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

Had. Last month.

mlvljron Pencil Project – open-source GUI prototyping tool

Links to the ZIPs on https://pencil.evolus.vn/Stencils-Templates.html appear broken, folks.

mlvljron Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

I think this was the tool that was happily reporting copying my files over to a USB stick despite there being copying errors (for which it didn't check, apparently).

Left me puzzled with regard to why copying over a new image still led to the older one booting for a while.

Switching to a different USB slot (2 VS 3) solved it, iirc (and I think I never used Rufus again).

mlvljron Show HN: Simplenetes – I replaced Kubernetes with 17k lines of shell script

Now do this with .bat files :)

mlvljron Ask HN: How do custom software dev firms make money?

https://youtu.be/uSLscJ2cY04

mlvljron Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux

He is right though, watermarked w10 has no time limit, and comes with what seems only a few limitations, like inability to customize the taskbar location, for example.

mlvljron A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)

How dare you, sir, attack the *n dream!

mlvljron Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files

Still just watermarked, in fact.

mlvljron Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

The only two times my HDDS failed, was with WD. The first one was after the shipping refurbished as new in 2000s scandal.

mlvljron Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C

How much UB does your own code contain, folks (and what practices do you follow to avoid it)?

Cheers from the shadowland :)

mlvljron “Sequel” to the million dollar homepage using WebGL

A million dollar Dark City :) (y)

mlvljron Map of usage of intensive care beds in Germany

Aren't both of you guys of ex-USSR origin though? :)

mlvljron Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

Russian skills, huh? :)

mlvljron Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?

There was a book featured in a HN post about a year ago - an older Linux source with extra commentary, used by students in China, I think (book is in English)

mlvljron Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?

Sqlite

mlvljron Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

Heeiille

can I buy being upvoted outta the shadow ban?

mlvljron Total sleep deprivation impairs attention and higher-order cognitive processes

Don't forget how well financial stability correlates with monetary well-being!

mlvljron “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”

I heard https://beagleboard.org/black can boot and run Linux w/o any blobs either in bootloader or kernel (provided you're OK with a sub-par screen resolution and not using the onboard GPU)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584880 and others might have details on WiFi and such

mlvljron Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C

Allen Holub did something like that for his patterns book, btw :)