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zpplnon Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

> According to the report, the AI tools are also used to evaluate the outcomes of strikes after they are initiated.

Can I get off this train, please?

zpplnon Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk

From what I understand it cannot be used to perform work on contracts where the DoW is on the other side. [1]

In practice I would suspect companies with such contracts would play it safe by outright banning the use of Anthtropic products, even if they could technically be used for work on contracts with other parties.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-...

zpplnon World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite

Weird.

zpplnon LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

The internet is getting less interesting by the day.

zpplnon Vercel down in Dubai, EU affected also

Wasn't the internet kinda designed around the idea that it should remain operational during war?

zpplnon Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)

> But I hope we can agree that you can't spec out something you have no clue how to build

Eh, of course you can. You can specify anything as long as you know what you want it to do. This is like systems engineering 101 and people do it successfully all the time.

zpplnon We Will Not Be Divided

War will be a comparatively honest use of this technology compared to how the likes of Google will monetize it going forward.

zpplnon US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

Which is perfectly fine (albeit perhaps stupid, I agree) for private enterprise. It's the public ones that need to shift first and foremost.

zpplnon Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

Cool project, but I'm a bit curious hearing how the rest of the project feels about this?

I'm not sure how I'd feel if I woke up and found a system I worked on had been translated into an another language I'm not neccessarily familiar with. And I'm not sure I'd want to fix an non-idiomatic "mess" just because it's been translated into a language I'm familiar with either (although I suspect they'll have no problem attracting rust developers).

zpplnon Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov

I'd rather have the US government allowing me to access X and 4chan than have the likes of you blocking me from doing so.

zpplnon [dead]

No you didn't, you generated 3 minutes of slop out of which I bothered to watch 2 minutes. If you charged for it I'd want my money back.

zpplnon I gave Claude access to my pen plotter

> images are neat

Are they though? I don't know what I expected, but to me they looked like nothing. Maybe they'd be more impressive if I'd read the transcripts but whatever.

zpplnon 4chan for Clankers

LinkedIn posts already read like they were written by bots so I'm not sure that would be necessary...

zpplnon Systems Thinking

This isn't my experience. Requirements tend to settle over time (unless they're stupidly written). Users tend to like things to stay the same, with perhaps some improvement to performance here and there.

But if anything, all development is the search for the search for the requirements. Some just value writing them down.

zpplnon France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

Sounds like a pretty good deal for France to fork US software from 20 years ago, because shit sure hasn't improved much since then.

zpplnon Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

Early Facebook was inferior to local social networks in many ways. The real killer feature was convincing people to de-anonymize themselves on the internet.

zpplnon Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

What is the cost of storing data in Europe today?

zpplnon India and EU announce landmark trade deal

How is the license fee set, and what happens if you don't pay it?

zpplnon The state of Linux music players in 2026

You can get your listen history? How?

zpplnon Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

Link?

zpplnon Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds

What are some realistic alternatives to US markets here? Selling is one thing, the question is what to buy instead? I mean, everyone starting to buy european instead would be great for stock prices, but it wouldn't make the underlying assets more valuable, right?

zpplnon Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland

Wasn't there some kind of military exercise around Greenland the other day? I assume these are the countries that participated?

zpplnon Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

Also consider the tools and materials available today. I don't know much about Michelangelo, but I imagine people's opportunity for sheer iteration (due to availability of qualitys pens, pappers, ink etc) is magnitudes higher (and cheaper) today.

zpplnon 25 Years of Wikipedia

Fully agreed. The Talk pages are a very interesting read these days. I things continue down this path I think Wikipedia will be a lot less relevant in the coming years, at least for current events and things related to the on-going culture war.

zpplnon Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

I've been on Gentoo for my gaming desktop for like 2-3 years now and I don't think I've ever had an update break anything.

I will say though that my valgrind is broken due to march native. :)

zpplnon Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows

If I where the officer in front of a reving car my instinct would be to move out of the way, not pull my gun and fire at the driver.

zpplnon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

MIGA?

zpplnon Quake Done 100% Quickest Commentary [video]

An in-depth commentary over some parts of a recently released segmented 100% run of Quake (https://youtu.be/po4IQ1Janzk) on Nightmare difficulty.

zpplnon Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

I'm an enterprise user and I find Windows 11 a complete disaster. They've managed to make something as trivial as right-clicking a slow operation.

I used to be a pretty happy Windows camper (I even got through Me without much complaint), but I'm so glad I moved to Linux and KDE for my private desktops before 11 hit.