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nagaiaida··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
yeah, there's a consistent pattern of overpromising across this and other projects by the same person
nagaiaida··on Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
well it's my wired cap a stone's throw from buildings with google cloud logos on the side in a major us city, so...
nagaiaida··on Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
a simpler setup with broad feature parity would probably look more similar to nebula than bare wireguard
nagaiaida··on Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
yes, people often invoke "simply write safer c" but that doesn't make it any more realistic of a proposition in aggregate as we keep seeing.
nagaiaida··on Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module
(to be clear this is not me arguing for any particular merits of llm-based compression, but) you appear to have conflated one particular nondeterministic llm-based compression scheme that you imagined with all possible such schemes, many of which would easily fit any reasonable definitions of lossless and deterministic by losslessly doing deterministic things using the probability distributions output by an llm at each step along the input sequence to be compressed.
nagaiaida··on AI controls is coming to Firefox
perhaps someday ai will add the simple ability to pin a tab group like a normal tab but alas all it can do is suggest what tabs i group (a thing i am already intimately familiar with as the one who opened all the tabs)
nagaiaida··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
you may also be interested in nebula (although you'd give up the nice management ui)
nagaiaida··on 9front OS
zfs clone creates a writable dataset initially backed by a snapshot (and will prevent that snapshot from being deleted without first deleting the clone, even if entirely ship-of-theseused out of sharing any data with it)
nagaiaida··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
you've baked in an unfounded assumption that bitlocker is even initially enabled intentionally by someone who knows that's a choice they can make:

> Here's what happens on your Dell computer:

> BitLocker turns on automatically when you first set up Windows 10 or Windows 11

> It works quietly in the background, you won't notice it's there

> Your computer creates a special recovery key (like a backup password) that's saved to your Microsoft account

> You might be reading this article because:

> Your computer is asking for a BitLocker recovery key

...such as after your laptop resets its tpm randomly which is often the first time many people learn their disk is encrypted and that there's a corresponding recovery key in their microsoft account for the data they are now unexpectedly locked out of.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/el-gr/000124701/automatic...

nagaiaida··on I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine)
> In Podman, but apparently not Docker, you can do --network container:foo to join another container’s netns

that is precisely how you accomplish the same thing in docker

https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/#container-networks

nagaiaida··on FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
> you only really need a large amount of ram if you run with deduplication enabled, but very few use cases benefit from deduplication, so the better advice is to ensure you don't enable dedup

a lot of people parrot this, but you can always just check for yourself. the in-memory size of the dedupe tables scales with total writes to datasets with deduplication enabled, so for lots of usecases it makes sense to enable it for smaller datasets where you know it'll be of use. i use it to deduplicate fediverse media storage for several instances (and have for years) and it doesn't come at a noticeable ram cost.

nagaiaida··on Perl's decline was cultural
and people wonder why raku had so many things it needed to change to free the excellent core of the language and its ideas
nagaiaida··on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
sorry, is your contention here "spurious accusations don't require evidence when aimed at designated state enemies"? because it feels uncharitably rude to infer that's what you meant to say here, but i struggle to parse this in a different way where you say something more reasonable.
nagaiaida··on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
the mechanism of action for that attack appears to be reading from poisoned snippets on stackoverflow or a similar site, which to my mind is an excellent example of why it seems like it would be difficult to retroactively pin "insecure code came out of my model" on the evil communist base weights of the model in question
nagaiaida··on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
on what hypothetical grounds would you be more meaningfully able to sue the american maker of a self-hosted statistical language model that you select your own runtime sampling parameters for after random subtle security vulnerabilities came out the other side when you asked it for very secure code?

put another way, how do you propose to tell this subtle nefarious chinese sabotage you baselessly imply to be commonplace from the very real limitations of this technology in the first place?

nagaiaida··on NTSB report: Decryption of images from the Titan submersible camera [pdf] (2024)
they're talking about nargeolet

> Wreck expert Paul-Henri "P.H." Nargeolet, who was also onboard, told me he wasn't worried about what would happen if the structure of the Titan itself were damaged when at the bottom of the ocean. "Under that pressure, you'd be dead before you knew there was a problem." He said it with a smile.

(as recounted by Arnie Weissmann, in Travel Weekly article published June 22, 2023)

nagaiaida··on Removing XSLT for a more secure browser
> You say you turn JS off for security but JS has made billions of people more secure by creating a sandbox for these random apps to run in.

is "every website now expects to run arbitrary code on the client's computer" really a more secure state of affairs? after high profile hardware vulnerabilities exploitable even from within sandboxed js?

from how many unique distributors did the average person run random untrusted apps that required sandboxing before and after this became the normal way to deliver a purely informational website and also basically everything started happening online?

nagaiaida··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
you can also use pmset to programmatically enable/disable low power mode (which i do when the battery gets too hot for my liking even before thermal throttling kicks in)
nagaiaida··on Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable
perhaps some sort of society could be envisioned where even people who have demonstrated they cannot be trusted with their professional responsibilities don't have to worry about a place to sleep and food to eat as a result of such evidently necessary ostracization. if you take care of everyone in your society as a matter of course and principle, you gain the ability to simply remove people from positions they abuse without doing ongoing violence to them by preventing them from immediately finding further positions to abuse. under capitalism, these are linked, which is to everyone's misfortune.
nagaiaida··on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
banal, even.
nagaiaida··on David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
why pretend to have found a contradiction when a stronger reading of the comment is clearly that it meant to highlight the distinction between the creation of that value and its consolidation primarily into an individual's personal wealth?
nagaiaida··on Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy
a model of the world in which reducing the totality of a person to "junkie" is morally neutral does not seem particularly useful to me in a real-world context, and i would urge you to reconsider ascribing to such.
nagaiaida··on Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy
if drug use is an irredeemable personal moral failure as you cast it, surely you would be similarly unconcerned about anyone who partook once it become normalized; why worry when they'll either count as a junkie to you soon enough by developing noticeable follow-on issues, or they won't, primarily by dint of not having such issues?
nagaiaida··on Access Control Syntax
neat! i've never needed more than i could get away with by just sneaking the base stuff into the mandatory exports and keying the rest off a single arg, but that'll be handy when i do.
nagaiaida··on Access Control Syntax
personally, i like that raku goes the other way, with exported bits of the interface explicitly tagged using `is export` (which also allows for the creation of selectably importable subsets of the module through keyed export/import with `is export(:batteries)`/`use TheModule :batteries`, e.g. for a more featureful interface with a cost not every user of the module wants to pay).

it feels more natural to me to explicitly manage what gets exported and how at a different level than the keyword used to define something. i don't dislike rust's solution per se, but if you're someone like me who still instinctually does start-of-line relative searches for definitions, suddenly `fn` and `pub fn` are separate namespaces (possibly without clear indication which has the definition i'm looking for)

nagaiaida··on A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
out of curiosity, what else would you expect the side effect profile of something mediating the effects of a potent androgen on the body to look like?

it's not estrogen where you would expect breast growth (and can't count on any particular changes to sexual function anyway), it's inhibiting conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone which could have that effect, much like you could spontaneously develop gynecomastia without intentionally fiddling with your hormone balance. calling it unsolved sounds a lot like calling the very many conditions with medications that have more likely and worse side effects equally unsolved.

nagaiaida··on Lisping at JPL (2002)
i believe the point is more that bootstrapping a higher-level programming environment up from machine code shouldn't be the sole domain of so-called genius. a forth basically writes itself once you know how the execution model works, but these days we don't focus on teaching the end to end skills required to take arbitrary hardware and target it with a new, simple language.
nagaiaida··on Why old games never die, but new ones do
> Case in point, just look at how Newgrounds famously had a ton of games about shooting Muslims after 9/11 and mimicking South Park’s sense of humor. If you build the old internet in 2024, it’s not going to be the same as the old internet, because the people aren’t there. Or worse, you’re not allowed to be that anymore.

https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/chasing-the-d...

yeah i think i'm good not returning to this guy's conception of peak gaming

nagaiaida··on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
rather than say anything likely unconstructive myself in direct response to this, i would very much like to see you elaborate on your understanding of mao and what value and predictive power you find in this comparison.
nagaiaida··on Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
it's not that weird, this taken to its logical conclusion is effectively prolog's execution model
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