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pluto_modadic··on SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
the idea of a caricature is to exaggerate the features someone is most insecure about. That's what Spitting Image is.
pluto_modadic··on AI Driven Testing
Some assembly required.
pluto_modadic··on Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
they could have gone with an oblivious transfer approach (where it's working on what looks like multiple problems at once, you don't know which)
pluto_modadic··on Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
1. score by the past paragraph (this is also how the verifier checks without needing a GPU, it takes the previous length of text)

2. same answer

3. no, it just needs the previous text, private key, and the matrix math (CPU is fine)

4. no, see above.

pluto_modadic··on Zed DeltaDB
Seems like Zed needs to clean up shop and fix their IDE first.
pluto_modadic··on Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures
what was the hardest part about this project?
pluto_modadic··on 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
by rolling your own they don't mean write a VPN from scratch, but host a VPN on a VPS.
pluto_modadic··on Europe's fires are just the start
well I have good news! normal people don't have to sacrifice, fossil fuel companies do. if the govt mandates something (like with the ozone layer, or with lead acid battery recycling), something that was once impossible becomes possible.
pluto_modadic··on Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions
the bare minimum award, for the only language and only registry where this regularly happens.
pluto_modadic··on Donate to GrapheneOS
:) nice, topical
pluto_modadic··on Substack writers, you need a website
oh it's more than the org. IIRC, it's also the founder.
pluto_modadic··on Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
being able to replicate it in the open means that there's nothing special about frontier models.

Frontier models would have to do something extraordinary or unique, or unreplicatable, because clearly there is no moat, and US companies are sitting on huge nvidia valuations and get surprised when competitors beat them.

pluto_modadic··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
there already is an app for that. https://f-droid.org/packages/net.oblivion.wipe/
pluto_modadic··on Good Tools Are Invisible
this reminds me of some programmers' blog where he talked about the line between when software does something helpful automatically for a user, vs the line of where it nags you to make decisions it could have made itself.
pluto_modadic··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
it's definitely a cool esoteric thing :) I bet some other features would make it gain traction.
pluto_modadic··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
codeberg's one job gets interfered with by freeloaders hammering expensive views (like git blame) inconsiderately.
pluto_modadic··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Disney and Nintendo's very litigious and successful lawyers have entered the chat
pluto_modadic··on Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing
IIRC tailscale is directly P2P, sidestepping a large part of the infra costs...
pluto_modadic··on Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl
so - sometimes systemd's build is reliable, sometimes it causes problems. Are these good additions and do they solve real problems, or are they just for cohesion of systemd itself or introduce problems?
pluto_modadic··on AI is slowing down
I think he doesn't need to understand the technology to point out the books are cooked. a business can sink in either way: the technology flops or the finances flop. he's arguing the /finances/ would flop. he doesn't argue that the /technology/ would flop, only that they can't come up with the money to pay their debters.
pluto_modadic··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
I think the earlier commenter is right. If a parent fails to... well... "parent" that's on them. Locking down the internet to republican-approved sites only is not the answer.
pluto_modadic··on Ask HN: Is Claude Opus 4.8 broken?
it may be a harness bug, based on the github issues.
pluto_modadic··on Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore
this seems like a strawman... of /course/ you'd use the IDE to do ref renames?? AI isn't for that...
pluto_modadic··on Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
musk's public image is well known, and the statement is reflecting a useful heuristic / business sense; some customers really would use claude less knowing that it's buddies with musk now. Your own immaturity leaks through. I would say that the one weakness for OP is that people okay with using claude but not okay with grok might be a different size overlap than expected (either more people fine with both, or more people disjoint, or it just doesn't factor in for people).
pluto_modadic··on OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
OsmAnd still hasn't fixed utah addresses. If I enter in how we call addresses in local slang, it has no idea how to find it.
pluto_modadic··on AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Why do I have a feeling that this will be ignored as biased by the people who need to read it the most.
pluto_modadic··on Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Excited to try this out on headscale someday :)
pluto_modadic··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
This is kinda... rude. Like saying that a GUI doesn't serve a purpose when people could read the TTY.

CI gives you areas for your bash scripts to run in self-contained small runs, that may trigger other runs, in a repeatable fashion on a clean environment, on a GUI anybody in your team can see. It gives you quick integrations into things.

CD lets you repeatedly deploy - without forgeting a step that was only known to Phil, the guy that retired three years ago, remembering all the steps and doing something dependably.

Or... you could do bash scripts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SnEd1RWUU (Just use a VPS, bro)

pluto_modadic··on We are discontinuing the dark web report
huh. did their source / login get burned?
pluto_modadic··on Key Transparency for the Fediverse
oooooo. but can it play doom?

congrats. excited for this. hope the mastodon team can integrate it.

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