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ribcage··on CU Randomness Beacon
Things like these are absolutely idiotic. Every single computer, be it a laptop or desktop or a phone, are able to produce randomness. Why in the hell would you trust a random website?
ribcage··on One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
There really needs to be an open source project for a PC motherboard.
ribcage··on Cloth
Video game Hitman from 2000 had cloth. Mirror's Edge from 2008 had tearable cloth. And I am pretty sure they weren't the first.
ribcage··on Use Long Options in Scripts
Yes, that's what I use. Sometimes I still get tempted to use echo because there's less typing...
ribcage··on Use Long Options in Scripts
Yes. The famous echo on Linux systems does not have it and therefore it's impossible to print the string "-n o p e", because -n will be interpreted as an option.
ribcage··on New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
The real tragedy is that our processors try to win a bit more speed by sacrificing simplicity and therefore increasing the chances of such exploits. The other tragedy is that our operating systems are obsolete and have worthless security. Back in the day when UNIX was relevant, a hundred people could use it at the same on a mainframe with no fear of it breaking, now one person cannot safely use a single computer.
ribcage··on CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
Mankind for some reason is blind. Doing CTRL F for the magic word in this Hacker News thread yields no results. There was a political conflict amongst Chinese people which had it's peak at the moment the virus appeared. If not for the virus, that conflict would have ruined China's image for decades and centuries to come.
ribcage··on The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all
Most cheap foods with chocolate already have little cocoa in it. The essence of chocolate is made up of three parts, a sweetener like sugar, an oil with a high melting point, and cocoa oil has one of the highest melting points out of plant oils, but is often mixed with cheaper oils like palm oil or coconut oil, which have a much higher melting point than most oils, but still not as high as that of cocoa oil. And the third part is the cocoa solids. As far as I know cocoa beans are both fermented and roasted. I think there are other plants suitable for making something similar to chocolate, turns out mango seed oil has a melting point similar to that of cocoa oil.
ribcage··on Moon
I often wonder if it's just my imagination or is it really like that. I am still not sure.
ribcage··on SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)
It's not profitable to make operating systems secure because that encourages use of cracked software, and such software is where most malware comes from.
ribcage··on Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor
I am pretty sure ordinary people will be amazed by this technology even after a thousand years.
ribcage··on The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction
Someone should ban "AI" articles on Hacker News.
ribcage··on ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem
Debian = Debra + Ian
ribcage··on ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text
plaintext is obsolete. Only good for storing passwords.
ribcage··on Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry
Let's automate everything, so we don't need to do anything just lay in our bed.
ribcage··on Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
Unfortunately some humans are just violent in nature. Or perhaps most. When robots become as intelligent as humans, some people might enjoy abusing them like they once enjoyed abusing people of different skin color.
ribcage··on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds
The universe would die of shame right now if it knew it's humans are spending their time questioning garbage like this.
ribcage··on Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL
The first thing I do after installing a web browser is disable search for the URL bar.
ribcage··on Meta Movie Gen
AI destroying mankind has always been a theme, but it's probably not going to be in the form of a physical war. This picture generation will probably have a very negative impact on mankind. Imagination is one of the driving forces of mankind, and so is our desire to realize the things we desire. When these generators become a common thing, human imagination and intelligence will start inevitably degrading. Nobody will bother painting pictures, making music, making video games or movies, when anyone can just see and hear whatever they want instantly. And people will brobably work all day long just so come home and pay to use these generators. This has the potential to destroy mankind by destryoing the human spirit.
ribcage··on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve
Steam sells software and prevents you from copying it and using it easily. Not something you want to happen to a Linux distribution.
ribcage··on Evolving the ASF Brand
And this will probably mark the end of Apache. All good things come to an end. I never even associated their name or symbol with native Americans. This is idiotic.
ribcage··on Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars
Your friend is probably a retard if he invites you for a coffee and tells you to engineer a plant to terraform Mars.
ribcage··on Are animals conscious? New research
Humans are animals, not plants or mushrooms.
ribcage··on New open source GPU is free to all
Are you kidding me? A modern CPU should run Quake at 600FPS at 720p. Yes, CPU.