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Decoy Font 6 days ago

I expected this to be a font which shuffles characters and glyphs (requiring more effort to type it) resulting in nonsensical text but visually readable page.

Yeah I have some devices that expect the manufacturer charger (I guess it's pre-negotiated to 19V or something) and I'm not even sure what was the point in giving it a USB C connector.

This is true but I can do the same on free ChatGPT without even logging in. I wouldn't pay $5 a month for that functionality, much less $20 (or >$1000 to be able to run it at home).

SOTA AI for "serious" work is in a different position, used by fewer people but with big pockets and sometimes a pathological dependence on it.

If you're already losing and losses are capped past some point (worst case just kill yourself), high stakes gambling is quite logical. Of course in reality, gamblers are rarely driven by game-theoretical analysis.

Immich 3.0 20 days ago

When we talk about "E2EE" messenger apps, that usually means more than just using HTTPS. VPNs can certainly help with encryption in transit, but that's a very different concept.

Unfortunately this comes up a lot, with people asking if Immich supports end-to-end encryption and getting told to use LUKS or Tailscale.

I believe 32-bit was chosen partially due to implementation efficiency reasons. It makes sense because you can allocate a 4GB mapping, so there is no need for a second software virtual memory layer. Also perhaps they internally require tagged pointers, which are much cheaper, especially if aligned, if the pointer is only 32 bits

For a moment I thought this was another case of AI psychosis, like the post from week ago about the "content-addressed lattice heap" but this is actually pretty neat.

Ironically news outlets like to use the phrasing you rightfully point out as absurd. Not sure if they just do it randomly or only when they get orders to push a certain narrative.

Car plows into Christmas market in Germany, killing at least 5 and injuring 200

MCP is dead? 2 months ago

Don't most companies have a Git repo for skills that you can pull?

It is a fantastic init system/service supervisor. My problem with it is basically everything else. I think its developers see systemd as central to the entire system, basically the userspace counterpart to the kernel. I prefer the approach of 'dinit', but I understand why they designed it that way.

Due to this design they often have underspecified interaction between the different components, since the assumption is that everyone will use largely the same baseline systemd environment and as long as it works, who cares what it does underneath. If the different parts were more independent, they would be forced to develop a cleaner API contract between them.

Childhood Computing 2 months ago

SDL is a relatively high level API and framebuffer style graphics work fine on it. I think there are some edge cases for X11 with non-compositing window manager where you will get interesting glitches if the window moves.

I'd agree if POSIX provided something like an open() flag which made the changes visible atomically, but as it stands, the rename() idiom is the mainstream way of durable file writing, so it is commonly used. Practical example using busybox sed: (GNU sed detects this case and refuses to overwrite)

  / # stat /dev/null
    File: /dev/null
    Size: 0          Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   character special file
    ...
  / # sed -i 's/foo/bar/' /dev/null
  / # stat /dev/null
    File: /dev/null
    Size: 0          Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
    ...

Hard links suffer from the general issue of there being two styles of writing to a file - open(2)/write(2) vs rename(2). Depending on the internals of each program you use to update the file, you will get very different results.

This is one of the ugliest parts of POSIX design, making idioms like -o /dev/null and file attributes unpredictable (I've had a server run out of disk space because a root-owned process used rename-style writing on /dev/null)

AFAIK Lambda and everything else will use micro-VMs. No serious company would use a shared kernel design for workloads in different security contexts. (Personally I wouldn't even use the same hardware host, but sometimes sacrifices have to be made)

And how many of those actions do uncached downloads instead of building self-contained offline images... Speaking of which, I wonder if GitHub has implemented any HTTP interception for common mirror sites, like used by apt, etc.

GTFOBins 3 months ago

If you have /proc available, you don't even need to disable ASLR (all mappings are available to you)

You can't restrict management to specific vlans

This bit me as well, FYI Zyxel switches seem to be among the few that do this properly, even on cheapest models. On the other hand their web interface cannot be used over SSH or other tunnels... The software side of network equipment is in a sad state, no wonder the hyperscalers moved to whitebox switches

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

I strongly suspected that there was some pre/postprocessing going on when trying to get it to output rot13("uryyb, jbyeq"), but it's probably just due to massively biased token probabilities. Still, it creates some hilarious output, even when you clearly point out the error:

  Hmm, but wait — the original you gave was jbyeq not jbeyq:
  j→w, b→o, y→l, e→r, q→d = world
  So the final answer is still hello, world. You're right that I was misreading the input. The result stands.