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> Of all the languages I code in in VSCode, Golang is the most frustrating to use as I can’t jump to definitions with Cmd + Click the way I can in JS, PHP or Java.

Odd, what extensions are you using? I use only go.dev extension and intellisense has been working great for golang dev for years.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion "AI", students, and epistemic crisis

They trained on copyrighted material and scraped stuff they shouldn't have.

That's why they "cant" show sources.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Eric Weinstein and Terrence Howard Debate 1 x 1 = 2 On The Joe Rogan Podcast [video]

"plus ellen A B that is equal to the" ... at https://youtu.be/4ChuiS6lUv0?si=35bpjGt3QRBTJ1hv&t=32

does not give any confidence the producer understand what's even being said.

(they just threw some auto captions in there)

ellen is supposed to be "ln()" as in a logarithmic function

shzhdbi09gv8ioion I Received an AI Email

Business as usual iow. Used to be scrum masters, then javascript "experts", then crypto bros.

Snake oil salesmen we called em back in my day ;-)

shzhdbi09gv8ioion I Received an AI Email

Not quite AI, but I been getting targeted spam from shitty startups and some job offers for the last couple years to my github commit email. It is scraped from github as I use it nowhere else.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Sublime Merge

Just disable update check?

shzhdbi09gv8ioion AirPods fast connect security vulnerability

Compare firmware version of your AirPods with the advisory.

Select the AirPods under Bluetooth on your iPhone, firmare version is shown as "Version".

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers

The rationale is in the part you forgot to quote.

And you are comparing apples with oranges. busybox hexedit is not a GUI app.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Remote shell to a Raspberry Pi at 39,000 ft

You're right and I used to do the same for years (dyndns xD)

But my current ISP required me to pay extra for a static IP, where their ordinary "dynamic IP" offering shares IP and don't allow for direct connections from the internet. This never used to be the case.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Remote shell to a Raspberry Pi at 39,000 ft

Engagement like your comment is why it is on the frontpage.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Generating audio for video

> Ideally without making anything up.

I have no idea anymore if this is sarcasm or a straight up belief.

What serious professional would gamble on hallucinations?

shzhdbi09gv8ioion I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA

See OSINT. It's well established terminology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features:

  - Ad blocking
  - SponsorBlock
  - Subscriptions without account
  - Latest videos from your subscriptions
  - Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
  - and more

making youtube a usable thing again

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

shzhdbi09gv8ioion The 'Dead Internet Theory'

> The dead internet theory essentially claims that activity and content on the internet, including social media accounts, are predominantly being created and automated by artificial intelligence agents.

The theory predates the current era of AI generated content:

> The dead Internet theory's exact origin is difficult to pinpoint, but it most likely emerged from 4chan or Wizardchan as a theoretical concept in the late 2010s or early 2020s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

And just my personal 2cents; I believe this was the result of predatory SEO.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Rust Is for the Engine, Not the Game

This kind of comment does not belong on HN.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Ganjifa

About as exciting as thinking bonsai and banzai are related.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

What can I say...

Anyway, this is how google explains it:

  > Search uses personalization to improve results
  > Personalization is when you get Search results tailored to you based on your activity.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/12412910?hl=en

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news

One way to address this kind of attack is by vetting the source. If you put some effort into it, you could possibly conclude that for example nytimes.com does not auto generate nonsense stories with AI, so you could then assume their text is written by humans.

Of course this falls apart in this day and age, where many seem to rely on whatever flows thru their social media feeds / reels.

It is certainly a user problem, where we need to counter by educating ourselves to deal with this the new reality of bad actors being common place, educate ourselves and our peers, and permanently solve the social chain of trust-issue in our digital lives with new technical solutions.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

Google results are tailored on a number of factors such as location, your past searches and whatnot.

The same deal with the ads. Advertiser wouldn't pay for advertising of their product in a region or to a demograph they don't care for.

I'd be more surprised if you did get the same result as parent.

shzhdbi09gv8ioion .NET for NES Game Console on 6502 Microprocessors

It predates the first standardized C versions:

  * ANSI C by 11 years (C89)
  * ISO C by 12 years (C90)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#K&R_C

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution

Give wezterm a try: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html

It is cross OS (learn once and use the same terminal in Windows, macOS and Linux), actively developed and written in rust

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)

The first video card with a programmable pixel shader was the Nvidia GeForce 3 (NV20), released in 2001. [1]

1: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-nv20.g644

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Will Stone Replace Concrete

We are running out of sand to make cement and concrete [1].

1: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313170-we-are-running-...

shzhdbi09gv8ioion Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology

It's a very cool map, but it is actually scandinavian in origin (Swedish). I also noted the "italian map" remark in the article.

It is in latin tho, and created in Rome. It is the oldest "complete" map where scandinavia is depicted with any kind of accuracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina