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throwawayqqq11··on Trump announces reforms to psychedelic drugs [video]
5D chess to fight back the migrant cartells. With the borders closed and freedom-pharma doing their part, we wont see fentanyl deaths anymore.
throwawayqqq11··on Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
Are you taking action or would you if you could?
throwawayqqq11··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
https://theweek.com/world-news/israel-legitimisation-cell-ju...

> How Israel's 'Legitimisation Cell' is justifying journalist killings in Gaza

throwawayqqq11··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
I think automated scanning can be positive for the defenders, when the rate of introducing new vulnerabilities vs fixing old ones is < 1 (detection rate + infra is a factor too ofc). In that case, AI can become the many eyes to check FOSS and those projects will eventually reach a "secure" state.
throwawayqqq11··on SDL bans AI-written commits
> Whats next

To show you your hyperbole: Allowing monkeys on typewriters.

LLMs are neither IDEs nor random.

I am very sceptical about iterative AI deployment too. People pretend the success threshold is vibing somethging that gets widely used, but its more than that. These one-shot solutions are not project maintenance. Answer yourself this one, could LLMs do what the linux kernel cummunity did over the same time span? This would be a good measure of success and if so, a strong argument to allow generated contributions.

throwawayqqq11··on Ask HN: How can we weaken China?
Why should we?

Exploring the motivation might reveal the brought up disadvantages already exist else where. So what threat is unique to china?

You could also ask the invers. How can china strengthen us. And one thing i could envision is, china passing laws for sustainable product design, so eg. electronics are robust, repairabe and most importantly, recyclable. Would be nice to see china ramping up and following their sustainability goals and do what western countries will fail on too.

throwawayqqq11··on Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
Your overly simplistic graph about population growth omits steady falling birth rates and more importantly, why they are falling.

But why should i explain when your mind is occupied with africa when mentioned in a side note and that it comes with an article opening like this

> To understand what’s at stake regarding the Mediterranean

... occupied with africa and implying harmful migration without ever basing it.

But a cheap 100 year projection expressed _in a single graph_ in a way does fit into a conversation about overconfident stupid people.

throwawayqqq11··on Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
There is a better 4D chess explanation of why Alon bought twitter and i hate to bring it.

When he bought it, right wing publications all over world got excited because twitter was the global / official communications channel for alot of entities and largely considered left leaning. When your plan is to disrupt that bubble and amplify right leaning narratives (he helped trump1 getting elected with it), you better cover your tracks and make that purchase look like an accident.

throwawayqqq11··on Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
Your entire point of humans being clumsy and stoopid and not inherently evil is generally true but for this benign incompetence is why all the discrimination layers, from scool grades to referals, etc. exist.

Whould you give a physician making life-or-death decisions and opsi-budget before you walk away? No. Then where do you draw the line until this irresponsible behavior becomes evil? Evil is defined here not by the individuals intentions but by the outcome.

Would you agree with me, that all the decision makers and elites sabotaging renewable energies and sustainability are evil? Keep in mind, they all might have their clumsy excuses.

throwawayqqq11··on High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain
What triggered me was the proposed Arc<dyn TRAIT> as a quick fix. I was highlevel rustin along the learning curve as the article describes until i stumbled uppon dyn-compatible types and object safety.

It is too easy to trap yourself in by sprinkling in Sized and derive(Hash) ontop of your neat little type hierarchy and then realize, that this tight abstraction is tainted and you cant use dyn anymore. As a follow up trigger: This was when i learned derive macros :)

throwawayqqq11··on The Brainrot Industrial Complex
I recently saw these collectible cards for sale, targeting kids. I wish them a quick and painful insolvency.

https://www.blue-ocean.de/neuroblast-brainrot-party/

throwawayqqq11··on 'The Thinking Game' [video]
I didnt like this documentary a single bit. There was nothing to learn, no red thead, just people telling anecdodes from start to finish. When there is not even a trace of critical reflection, it starts to smells like marketing.
throwawayqqq11··on France pulls last gold held in US
You are right, the harm of unstable currencies is a matter of public perception but boiling the frogs slowly still does harm. Inflation is a significant, longterm, bottom-up wealth pump and simply pointing to empirical evidence is a point against unstable currencies, not for them.

How cryptocurrencies are mined is secondary in that regard too because their values is also purely based on perception, since there is no large authoriry backing that currency by eg. demanding , spending and regulating it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k3NN_NZOdhY

throwawayqqq11··on Claude Mythos: 'It's a PR Scam' – Ed Zitron [video]
Marketing being dishonest wouldnt be such a problem when people would expect it to be so. Unfortunately, when you look at the investments and thus the economic alignment, alot of powerful decisionmakers take that same marketing at face value. Framing this as a scam or delusional isnt that far fetched imo.
throwawayqqq11··on France pulls last gold held in US
To explain why de/inflation is bad:

The primary function of money is its trade value, to "lubricate" the real economy to let goods and services flow. When the value is unstable, people are inclined to not spend or not accept that currency, which contradicts the free flow of it and in severe cases harms the economy.

Crypto'currencies' have the same problem. By nature, they are no currency but investment for which instability is required. No crypto bro would hype their 'currency' because there would be no pumping. Arbitrage trades are considered being for fools or insiders.

throwawayqqq11··on Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
Would it be possible (practical) to uniquely identify large numbers of users and even bypass anonymization efforts like tor and VPNs with this?
throwawayqqq11··on LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
Figure this: You could plaster a page with the most obtrusive ads imaginable without ever showing a cookie banner, when they collect no private info.

Most people, including folks on here, think cookie banners are a problem, but they are just an annoying attempt to phish your agreement. As long as these privacy loopholes exist, we will keep hearing such stories even from large corporations with much to loose, which means the current privacy regulations do not go far enough.

throwawayqqq11··on Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies
Iran is sanctioned for so long now, they had no other choice than to become as independent as possible.

Cutting communications hinders iran less then outsiders trying to spark a revolution. I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.

> litteral arrogance

True.

throwawayqqq11··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
> When Us attacks Cuba

> Cuba might drone strike US homeland

> Cuba gets flattened

Being a superpower means being free of ethics or reason. 'We are the good' sufficently summarizes a regular US-born worldview.

You also shouldnt be too naive to think, US citizens would bring up ethics or reason when choosing their leaders or commenting on their own countrys aggression.

Why do you think, the world is unfair? Some decades ago, we had a world police.

throwawayqqq11··on Agents of Chaos
Now, can you see the doomsday, when you broaden your "system level" definition to span multi-tenant processes? Eg. corporations <-> government agencies <-> citizens, and LLMs are used by all sides, because otherwise the quantity would be unmanageable.
throwawayqqq11··on President's new science council: 9 billionaires and 1 scientist
Which means no cure for my mind virus. I guess ill have to fall back to steak and raw milk then.
throwawayqqq11··on Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
Being critical about billionares is empirically supported. Trump wouldnt exist if not supported by other psychopaths and now he selects even more unethical bootlickers for offices and rewards equally deranged amigos.

Jazz9k just drank too much coolaid from billionare owned and election meddling twitter, i guess.

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

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401368611_Psychopat...

https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_128

throwawayqqq11··on I decompiled the White House's new app
Thank god there are still republicans left.

But snark aside, the next elections will be decided around damage control. Yes, the old school dems are pretty spineless (corrupt) but i guess even they feel the temptation of revenge and taking out political opponents for good. I really hope the new generation of democrats succeeds and breaks the corruption ties.

throwawayqqq11··on Order Granting Preliminary Injunction – Anthropic vs. U.S. Department of War [pdf]
> they just have to treat the government like any other customer when it comes to doing or not doing business based on ideological differences.

Which is what anthropic did? Nation states aswell as companies want to control their business involvements. The difference is, companies manipulating representatives will never be as fundamental (hopefully) as an arbitrary legal basis for governments to force companies. The orwellian angle comes from the total authoritarian one.

throwawayqqq11··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
I will always wonder why the elites prefer building bunkers when they have been politically overrepresented the whole time.
throwawayqqq11··on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information
Why dont they just offload the legal burden onto the users with a "Enter your * or decline" and move on? Taking this half compromizing position is easier to defend i think.
throwawayqqq11··on Why I love NixOS
Such a pity that the article didnt touch on running rust nightly or the sometimes statefull nature of user configs of some programs. The 5% painful part was just around the corner.
throwawayqqq11··on Why I love NixOS
Yep, i am doing the same. I have a central remote flake repo where all my machines, services, etc are defined and they all run tweaked autoupdaters to periodically do full updates. I push commits and wait and forget. It feels like maintaining your distro everywhere, no matter where you ssh in. And soon, i will migrate that repo off a central platform (github) into radicle or something and turn some of my machines into seeders. Then, with offsite data backups, my house could burn down and github go dark, i could still recover, maybe in the future even bootstrap from my smartphone. A big step towards digital sovereignity.
throwawayqqq11··on Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)
Be it eletric or thermal, i came here for fried hardware and left disappointed. Now i have to wrangle my curiosity to what happens when you lighter-spark a usb port for the rest of the day.
throwawayqqq11··on CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
When you sandbox your apps on debian already, there should be no security difference doing so on nixos, no?

The globally accessible /nix/store is frigthening, but read-only. Same applies to the nixos symlinks pointing there. This vulnerability was enabled by a writable /tmp and a root process reaching into it. This would be bad on debian and nixos.

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