WireGuard should still work. Tons of different providers. I trust Mullvad but ProtonVPN has a free tier. If they start blocking WireGuard, check out v2ray and xray-core. If those get blocked... that means somehow they're restricting all HTTPS traffic going out of the country
I'm generally on the opposite side of the political spectrum but I agree with a lot of your points.
While some rules make sense in terms of inclusivity, a lot of them will probably cause more confusion than anything...
I really hope those that try to impose their world view too heavily onto others won't inadvertently push the political pendulum further right despite the fact that these rules feel more puritan/religious than liberal.
The conflict between the US and the rest of the world might be the death of open source. Most GitHub handles and whatnot are anonymous. A competent malicious actor would not directly link themselves to Yandex or any other suspect entity. Perhaps they'll want us to provide ID just to publish source code like Android is making app developers do?
This would not be unprecedented. China already requires you to register to publish a website.
Indeed. And it's not a recent phenomenon either. I lost my first ever paycheck to PayPal randomly freezing my account. Was never able to get it back. Never used it again
I have an early batch framework (i7 11th gen) still in use (I have no other laptops or a PC).
A few benefits I've gotten out of it:
- I spilled almost a liter of milk on my keyboard, really gummed it up. Keys stopped working. Got it replaced for pretty cheap.
- Linux just works. No weird driver issues
But...
- Battery life is horrible. I pretty much just have it plugged in whenever I can. When off battery, I use the cpupower frequency set command to limit to 1000MHz which is fast enough for vim anyways. Compiling stuff becomes a bit slower but since I write Go, it's not too bad.
- Fan noise is loud
- My specific laptop had a weird sensor bug where it would sometimes randomly get throttled to 200 MHz. Framework didn't really help or replace it.
Honestly it'll probably last me another 5 years before I need to switch out the mainboard. I don't do anything intense like gaming.
Wow, that xkcd really scares me. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
It's definitely something that could realistically happen in the near future, maybe even mandated by the EU
Beyond the big players like Digicert, I'm surprised smaller companies have survived LetsEncrypt for this long. They mentioned it in this post ad well, most are moving towards free providers. I wonder if we'll see more shutting down in the next few years. One thing I think they could compete on is validity period as LetsEncrypt keeps lowering theirs
From Brave in one of the replies: "We’re working on agentic AI and will have another blog soon about how we’re making it secure."
This seems like pretty big news. Everyone is making the browser AI now. I can only hope Librewolf strips out whatever random anti-features show up in Firefox as well in the future
I hate the naming so much. I cannot tell at all which is meant to be newer or superior. It's also an odd benchmark considering the LLM should be running on the GPU with shared memory rather than CPU
This is pretty interesting. It's hard to tell from the video exactly how to do it. Looks like it'll take a lot of practice. I wonder if there's anywhere else where you can apply spins similar to table tennis and the like.
Cisco had approx 90,400 employees in 2024. So around 0.25%. Not much in the grand scheme of things. There was a 6.48% increase from 2023 to 2024, so it might just be a very normal case of replacement or over hiring
I find this totally reasonable. I think it's a good way to fund open source. I just hope this doesn't create any perverse incentives to make self hosting harder than necessary
This is one thing I liked about my uni course back in the day. One of the assignments was to build an entire application within SQL (using triggers, stored procedures, etc) and very minimal bindings to a skeleton written by the professor. It's impressive how much you can do with just Postgres or MySQL
I've had this exact problem before, though not with such high amounts. To make it worse, it was Monero rather than Bitcoin, which made tracing impossible. In the end, I just had to produce emails/documents proving I was paid in crypto a couple years back & the associated increase in value since then. I got the crypto into my bank via a sketchy non-kyc exchange and somehow they didn't care about that at all.
This just reminded me that I have Zed installed but haven't used it at all yet. Neovim is a bit too sticky with all my custom shortcuts. Will uninstall it and try this version out when I eventually decide to migrate
100% agree. During high school, I stumbled upon a bug bounty by pure chance, landing a nice fat $50k, with which I bought my own laptop, paid for uni, and most importantly, removed all the stress/pressure for having to get a scholarship. Having those on my CV made getting internships really easy, which in turn also made getting a job much easier.
Beyond just money, I was also able to enjoy life, play sports, travel, etc. all of which were unimaginable growing up in a lower/middle class family where even food prices were a concern.
I wish I had that kind of power. The European labs get funding from HQ on a per project basis and it takes a lot of effort to convince them to do anything. To even contribute code to open source, we need to fill out a bunch of paperwork, much less fund open source projects that work specifically against some other team's objectives. I'd personally just IP block Huawei's entire ASN since much of it is customer controlled and used for scraping. I know a ton of sites are already doing that since I get IP blocked on my work laptop all the time while doing research with their VPN on
I've seen a lot of traffic from Huawei bypassing Anubis on some of the things I host as well. The funny thing is, I work for Huawei... Asking around, it seems most of it is coming from Huawei Cloud (like AWS) but their artifactory cache also shows a few other captcha bypassing libraries for Arkose/funcaptcha so they're definitely doing it themselves too.
I own a Framework 13. It’s slightly overpriced but I would take it any day over a MacBook. It runs Linux perfectly fine with no driver issues and is in general pretty high quality.
I don’t think that’s bad to be in the raw training data per-se. Such content will be RLHF’ed out. Some users will certainly ask it for such tasks and it will somewhat deliver
As long as it’s aimed at people with Chinese citizenship and not anyone that looks remotely Chinese (e.g. Singaporeans, Koreans, etc), I’m not too concerned. They do have laws that force us to look more closely without devolving into pure racism.
The only thing keeping me on an iPhone is that mine hasn’t broken yet and I dislike waste. I got my current phone from a relative that was going to throw it away. Not being able to side load apps & use for development means I pretty much never touch it except for offline maps. It doesn’t even have a SIM card in it
Tangentially related: Is it currently possible to have interop between Go and Rust? I remember seeing someone achieving it with Zig in the middle but can’t for the sake of me find it. Have some legacy Rust code (what??) that I’m hoping to slowly port to Go piece by piece