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nithssh

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nithssh··on Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT
We have already seen LLM misuse by counsels around the world. While this judge use is being tried out in the open for what seems like the first time in the world, I wonder how long until judges do the same thing as software devs and barely look at the output.

Inb4 Vibejudging

nithssh··on Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
Which Indian state is this? I'm assuming something southern.
nithssh··on SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable
That non-steam-deck section is glorious.
nithssh··on GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)
The post had some nice structural discussion about digital forensics
nithssh··on I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years
The author wants a DRM that won't stop working in older platforms. He wants DRM. The problem is that the DRM is on a rolling release, and non-latest versions are not supported. His concerns would be solved if the games are able to pin to a specific DRM version/policy
nithssh··on I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years
Lots of the key people working on things like SDL that Value very heavily relies on are also very vocal critics of the Steam Input API. Steam Input is a bastardization of SDL technically.

I have personally benefitted from the steam input feature in niche cases, but the way it hijacks everything by default even when not enabled does seem to be poor engineer-ship. I have run into some issues when doing controller management within games, only to realize it has to be solved at the steam level.

nithssh··on # [derive(Clone)] Is Broken
This is the best explanation I've read of this limitation
nithssh··on Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
I used to wonder what was the play with pouring so much money into making a React framework the default. Now I understand the play
nithssh··on Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
Sounds interesting, is there anything online about this?
nithssh··on Steve Jobs would have fired everyone
It would be more grey on white than you think. It's not just Gaussian blur, they also have noise layers in the shader.
nithssh··on A year of funded FreeBSD development
Very enlightening piece on how corpo sponsorship of OSS work. Thanks to the author for writing this.
nithssh··on Rsync's defaults are not always enough
There are a lot of reasons why just making a copy of the files you need to another FS is not sufficient as a backup, clearly this is one of those. We need more checks to ensure integrity and robustness.

BorgBackup is clearly quite good as an option.

nithssh··on Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator
This is great for web developers who have to manually write multi-browser compliant code. Fat frameworks might take care of the cross compat stuff, but for those raw dogging, this will be good.
nithssh··on Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container
Running containers inside VMs in multitenant scenarios is so common that Google though of inventing gVisor which you can think of as a highly paravirtualized guest OS that is lighter than a full VM but still based on similar virtualization principles for isolation.
nithssh··on Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container
I read the first line and expected LLM spam, but I was wrong. Thanks for the detailed comparison.
nithssh··on How Kerala got rich
Isn't Kerala's economy held up by remittances and duct tape?
nithssh··on US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
Land of the free after all
nithssh··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
They have VAC and the newer version that they promised would save CS2 hasn't exactly changed much from CSGO days in terms of results.

I would love for Valve to prove it is possible but so far they haven't shown it can be done without leaving a bad experience for legit players (due to delayed ban waves, etc) despite the repeated claims.

nithssh··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
Makes sense considering Valve has maintained that kernel level AC is not required and has not included one in their own games, but let's be honest, unfortunately you have to often wonder if your enemy is having a good day or if he's hacking in CS but not so in valorant for a reason.
nithssh··on Meta Fires Employee Making $400k per Year over a $25 Meal Voucher
I wonder how explicit and clear they were about the intended purpose of these vouchers. I can see myself saying fck it and using it however I feel without thinking much since it seems insignificant, unless they make a deal of it.
nithssh··on China Is Losing the Chip War
This is a super weirdly written article that reads like something I would expect to be written about Xi and China in a Chinese publication.
nithssh··on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Gospel