Hackbraten

The terms in question don't even mention quality issues. The argument is about the unclear copyright status of generated code. Also malware risk.

What happens after a couple of players have obtained marketshare and the market has consolidated?

I think there are diminishing returns to be had.

How is that sustainable?

Are security researchers going to be doing free labor for you indefinitely for exposure?

For a big enough production run, you'd likely ship an HSM to the factory

I figure that the factory is exactly the adversary in the whole threat model? So why give them the keys to the castle so they can moonlight their own genuine batch?

How is fulfillment not a nightmare?

This is the correct answer. `ic(foo(123))` can be written as `print(f'{foo(123)=}')` without depending on yet another third-party library which is not pulling its weight.

It’s still bogus and not a real file format. Just MP4 files renamed into MP5.

That loophole has become very difficult:

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/...

The seam is who’s on top.

Of course there was going to be a seam somewhere. Albeit not the kind of seam I expected.

I wonder when they're finally going to one-up each other with the 18650 model number itself? Make it 18660, 19650 or 18650000!

Anecdote: back in 2004, a friend brought home a cheap digital audio player from her vacation to China. IIRC, it said on the front panel that it could play back MP3, MP4, and MP5.

An easy happiness formula is:

[list of eight things that may be extremely difficult for people with depression]

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LPT: Please have a codeword or phrase that you use with your loved ones

They keep refusing ideas like these on the grounds of them being “not stupid” and “able to see through such attempts immediately, 100% of the time” and “do you think we’re stupid?”

Nuclear is contained

Except when it de-contains itself.

If $CONDITION, then please don’t use this software might be construed as a legal restriction.

I looked at Datadome and HUMAN, but they would be hundreds of thousands a year at our traffic scale, and I suspect may also have false positives.

I can confirm. DataDome has been making my life a living hell. It thinks my phone is a bot, so I can no longer use PayPal and other quasi-monopoly services while on the go. DataDome will reliably block me on the first request.

Fuck DataDome.

Most notable is his "Report on an Unidentified Space Station" which is quite haunting.

See also last month's thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501012

Linux-based smartphones exist. Are they going to be e-waste?

There are so many beautiful parks.

No. I don't want to go anywhere anymore. All the sidewalks are full of SUVs, blatantly blocking my way even though it's prohibited.

Police is looking the other way.

City council doesn't react to inquiries because (as stated in the protocol of one of the meetings) "complaints sent by citizens are anecdotal anyway, and they tend to be concerned with just the one street where they live."

I try to avoid leaving the house as best as I can. Going outside has become pure rage fuel for me.

Software that implements residential proxy networks is always covert and never consensual.

It doesn't matter if page 42 of the Terms and Condition "clearly states it." This does not constitute informed consent.

Why just subscriptions?

I use OpenRouter because I prefer flexibility, which means I pay per-million-token prices.

QWERTY is just one national layout among many. It’s not the “standard” by any meaningful metric. Why not let people use whatever layout they like?

In which they put a bold faced text overlay across the thumbnail and make sure to include at least one algospeak self-censorship asterisk („sh*t“). Bonus points if the word wasn’t even a curse word.

I will not buy a car.

Normal visitors get in for free

Except for the unfortunate minority of normal visitors who always get misclassified as bots and get denied access regularly.

I wouldn’t be complaining if Cloudflare’s misclassifier bit any user with the same small probability. But it keeps biting the same users over and over again.

Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder.

Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.

What do you mean by comparison?

Your comment compares Lithuanian homebrew tech to Ukrainian military-funded tech and claims that the former is grossly inferior to the latter. That comparison is what they're challenging.

What are you saying about nukes?

According to your comment, homebrew tech was not going to prevent World War III. This can come across as unconstructive because in general, even small things can make a difference (or be a first step towards something that will.)

Their comeback "explain what your plan is against nukes" is just another way of saying "your comment just dismissed an idea but failed to present a better idea on its own," or more generally, "let's remain constructive."

It's about danger of interceptors vs danger of detection.

What's with that "vs" trade-off?

You're saying avoiding detection requires high altitudes.

What do interceptors have to do with that?

2026 JavaScript feels nothing like 1995 JavaScript. Likewise, both HTML and CSS have been gradually improved.

Maybe all three are, in their respective current form, good enough. Replacing them would almost certainly be a net loss.

That’s Anubis. [0]

[0] https://anubis.techaro.lol

And what if upstream is problematic?

Then don’t install the package.

It’s on you to decide whether you trust upstream or not.

You’re free to use any scanner you want on the upstream sources if it makes you feel safer. (I’m currently working on a makepkg extension that allows just that.)

The core and extra repos are curated, and every package maintainer is doing their due diligence (and more) to protect the users. But on the AUR, nobody is going to do that work for you.