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sebazzz··on SAML: A fractal of bad design
Neither does OpenID Connect, it is all form submits or GET redirects.
sebazzz··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
The Digital Euro also.
sebazzz··on SAML: A fractal of bad design
> ODIC cannot operate with a private-network IdP

Why not? The flow can be entirely client side. OpenID discovery and PAR is optional and those would require direct connections

sebazzz··on Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
I do (not) miss the part where it restarts halfway because something got written to disk.
sebazzz··on Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS
That is isn’t even IIS but mostly SCHANNEL and http.sys.
sebazzz··on US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged
So natural caverns - empty spaces in the Earth - are used to store oil, but they shouldn’t be drained because it damages them permanently. Can anyone explain why it is useful as storage then? It is like a battery you arent allowed to discharge past 30%.
sebazzz··on The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized
Not a waste either, it doesn't cost them anything. The debt is on EA.
sebazzz··on Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
In the Netherlands: This exactly, generally after a few days you get a call by the "company doctor" (it is not from the company, but the literal translation) with an invite to discuss your health issues.
sebazzz··on I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F
Figma is notoriously bad, by having the agent write javascript to communicate with the mcp.
sebazzz··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
Intent is hard to prove if it is not published.
sebazzz··on Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
Yup, Windows Azure App Service is just IIS.
sebazzz··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
> When it comes to the big AI players feeding their future models I 100% just assume that they suck up any data we send them. Am I cynical?

There is a reason enterprise contracts and plans exist. And I think even on that account we're going to find out at some point that LLMs are training on that extremely useful data.

sebazzz··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
What I fail to understand: Who or how are these AI generated pull requests paid for? There is nothing to gain financially by creating all these AI generated pull requests - yet the increasingly more expensive tokens have to be paid for somehow. How is it paid for? Or are these authors using all their free GPT5.4-mini tokens from Github until hitting the rate limit, day after day? Or are they running some local AI model on their GPU like Qwen and heating the room in they work in, day after day?
sebazzz··on 86Box v6.0
How is the stability? A few years ago I could barely run The Great Green Mouse Hotel because of emulation flaws causing the CPU to do weird things and either crash apps or the Windows 98 itself, or the emulator.
sebazzz··on No more JetBrains products for me
That is possible, but if swapping happens due to memory pressure it can still cause slowdowns in unrelated parts of the same or other processes.
sebazzz··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
If Bambu Lab goes after Orcaslicer, then it makes sense they will get scrutinised for the AGPL violation.
sebazzz··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
> P.S. You should play a lottery/powerball ticket

Actually, they should not. That collision and winning the lottery would be even rarer.

sebazzz··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
Well it would be statistically even rarer for that UUID collision to happen and the earth to be destroyed by an asteroid.
sebazzz··on Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA
What is the difference between this and using normal OCR and then running that output through a LLM? It seems such a bazooka way to kill a fly to me using a modelime Qwen.
sebazzz··on Chernobyl wildlife forty years on
Yes it is very good cinematic. Unfortunately it is far from the truth.
sebazzz··on Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Haiku, right?
sebazzz··on Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"
Who would have put "Trump accelerates the green energy transition in 2026" on their bingo card?
sebazzz··on NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
> Even with all the simulators and months of rigorous testing, sending up something that can (in the worst case) break the probe has to be terrifying.

I would guess that even that case is partially accounted for by a watchdog that is hardwired into the system.

sebazzz··on Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box
> It is quite embarrassing to ship a CPU emulator with broken floating point math as the default.

It was also quite embarrassing to ship a real CPU with broken floating point math.

sebazzz··on Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#
With UnsafeAccessor you can often avoid reflection.
sebazzz··on How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
I wonder how the voting components are protected from integrity failures?
sebazzz··on Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland
They are quite expensive and there is not something similar on the market (even not from house brands of Aldi, Lidl, etc).
sebazzz··on A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs
You still have things like git squash etc.
sebazzz··on What Is OAuth?
Ouch, reminds me of hours debugging OAuth2 implementation in my Surface 1 app for Twitter because the nonce or some other checksum was not calculated correctly.
sebazzz··on Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
If I am not incorrect, for early boot applications, the application must be set to use the native subsystem.
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