cowboylowrez

This reliably inevitable rationalization comes up in every thread it seems, and its ultimate goal is to humanize AI. This is what the big guys want us peons to believe and it works so well, I have even been lectured by an AI for being rude, the implication was that I was logged in and it would be a shame if anything happened to my account.

Quit trying to make AIs human, people who are trying to make AI human keep forgetting that humanized AI's have only the morals relevant to their mission, there is no profit in humanizing AI's because if we continue on this track of humanizing AI's, we being stupid humans will grant them civil rights expecting these new AI's with rights will somehow respect our rights and thats a fundamental misunderstanding of how AI'S actually work.

fast cgi has a good one, length then binary follows, if the length is 127 or less, the length is contained within one byte, if not the length is contained in 4 bytes, then the data follows. Midi has a similar scheme for representing some numbers, the high order bit denotes if there's another byte of the number following or something like that lol

A comment about enshittification will most certainly get downvoted by the enshittifiers and I'm guessing there's a few enshittifiers in any crowd lol

I'd love to vibe code with an army of agents, I just don't know if I could afford to vibe debug the resulting mess lol

I do agree, but maybe there is a valid mechanical conversion thats applicable in the postgresql codebase? I do get what you're saying but on the other hand, if he's passing tests with his conversion then this is different than some hypothetical, I'm just saying I would believe his claim on this one. I'm not going to port my erp to it yet but the performance win could actually be there.

Yeah the fact that length() can't count null containing strings accurately is interesting.

I do understand the mindset, in college, math was pretty authoritarian in nature.

"Enforce authoritarian type-checking when inserting new content into tables" lol you can really get into the mindset by reading these threads. I think having the strict defaultable at the database level seems like a good option, maybe they think everyone will pile into the new default and leave the old databases in a state of decaying disrepair?

My only experience with versionitus type things is with microsoft sql and other "enterprisey" things that used it and its hard enough without huge upgrade blockers like text in an integer field lol still they're willing to add the default to the table create statement. I'm thinking that sqlite folks feel that things like type safety, database consistency are disliked authoritarian attributes, and I'm sure thats a consideration in letting old code touch databases that old code doesn't understand.

Its wierd that they didn't like having a pragma for any new table creation even at the database level but they allow this problem factory:

  "Because of a quirk in the SQL language parser, versions of SQLite prior to 3.37.0 can still read and write STRICT tables if they set "PRAGMA writable_schema=ON" immediately after opening the database file, prior to doing anything else that requires knowing the schema."

I guess for ID reuse a rationalization could be that theres only so many integer values that can fit into a certain number of bytes haha

"SQLite began as a TCL extension that later escaped into the wild." case closed, everything else is a rationalization but who doesn't like a good rationalization every now and then?

There is an expectation that threads are more performant than processes all else being equal. Obviously there is some work involved to make "all else be equal", like maybe threads have less isolation from each other etc but if you can mechanically convert code to use threads where it used to use processes I can see the claim standing up.

I agree with this especially as these laws specifically still allow kids to carry smartphones and use them away from parents watchful eye. There is no protection here. Get the kids off of the internet, there is nothing good for them there.

Now as I've thought this through some, I could see where selected networking could be made kid friendly, you know, like a top level dns where you need to prove yourself to be underage or heavily vetted adult with id verification, and this entire tld could be made kid friendly. I don't doubt that most of today's dns infrastructure is probably not up to the job, but a very tight and heavily vetted registry for .kids for example (or maybe better as kids.<country> as laws vary) would solve all of this. Make a subset of the internet kid safe and serve the kids that.

The fact that all these proposed laws still give kids general tcp/ip access at the physical level means we do conclude exactly what my parent commenter says, its not really about the kids, its about the free and unfettered flow of information that must be stopped. In the US, its getting close to illegal to disseminate information but once factual information does indeed become criminal in nature, you need to catch the perps and thus the IDs attached to packets of fact carrying information.

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No, I'm pretty sure declining birthrates are caused by the smartphones, either that or the AI lied to me again but I'm still pretty sure its the smartphones.

"Recent economic research links the rise of smartphones to the persistent decline in birth rates. A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study estimates that early smartphone adoption accounts for 33% to 52% of the drop in the U.S. general fertility rate, particularly among teenagers and young adults under 30"

-- this quote is from AI and could be a complete fabrication

Yeah, I've thought about this some. I as a website owner do not want to babysit your kids. Parents probably do not want me babysitting their kids either. I should be able to put meta data in my website that says "for adults only" and that should be it.

I'm not against kids having some sort of child friendly network access. The trouble is that there is no tech that is child friendly any more, its all vibe coded crap that keeps no one safe at all anymore with hidden traps inside the cesspool of crazies posting all sorts of wierd crap conspiracy shit.

Heck a super beneficial appearing thing like wikipedia is literally an encyclopedia yet the GOP for instance can't stand it if someone talks about any sexuality at all or some other bogyman subject of the hour.

Just ban kids at the internet's points of entry. Phones, Modems. Age gate amateur radio too, no kids interested in amateur radio anymore anyways, no packet switched communications at all until 18 or whatever.

Yeah but we can sanction the parents. If your friends at school were having sex with strangers for money and their parents were doing the pimping, society would like to have a word.

Why is letting your kids sext with adult strangers any different? Is it because the only "pimping" you are doing is giving in to your brat nagging for an iphone?

Who's buying your kids internet access? Are they getting it on a street corner from a stranger? lol I doubt it.

There is nothing good on the internet for kids. If we ban kids from the internet this will all go away. Make a smartphone every bit as regulated as alcohol or cigarettes or sexual intercourse. If a parent is found providing their kids alcohol, cigarettes, sex, or internet, we have to hold them accountable and rehabilitate the kids from their traumatic experience. These parents deserve serious prison terms, and those victimized kids will need to be institutionalized as they are now traumatized for life (plus their parents are deservedly now serving decades in prison for child abuse).

Why are we pushing our kids onto the internet? There is nothing there for them. Any politicians pushing for kids internet access are probably doing it for nefarious reasons in my opinion. The internet is not really all that safe for adults either, why are we pushing kids onto it?

They're outsourcing their babysitting lol there is no war against Zuckerburg unless you buy your brat a smartphone

hopefully folks won't share copies of this book online or anything! that would suck!

I'm thinking this will be a natural progression because part of the "AI slop deluge" are now real bug reports generated by these AIs. I'm glad for this noise around the regression as so many more folks are now aware of this issue.

I wonder if the maintainer got jumpy because of all the llm generated valid bug reports lately?

"When you're out of Bud, tough Schlitz"

nobody should have a gripe against civil services, I want civil services but I'm not going to want them delivered by murderous crime syndicates.

yes wrap everything in transactions

  set @balance = (....

still, anytime you use an isolation mode besides serializable you have to know the details and even with serializable if you aren't catching on failure in your app then you're sending your deadlock or timeout message to your end user.

I used to debug procedures with "sleep" tsql interspersed through code, this way I could deliberately overlap procedure executions and see how that went.

In my last job I had to support app developers who were happy with the "nolock" keyword even when marshalling info for updates. Shortly before I left that job in disgust I was at least able to have the developers quit using "nolock" everywhere, unfortunately their remediation to prevent use of the "nolock" keyword was to use "SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED" at the top of their code haha

yeah 3 bucks a gig here for quite a while, finally got a kinda sorta unlimited connection recently. I scripted up a meter of sorts to watch my traffic and its amazing how much is just trash. video advertising of any sort is awful. there were many sites that if I just forgot about them in the browser window they would happily reload periodically and trash my days budget lol, then using "links" for just reading really shows off how many websites just reject you for not having javascript.

now I'm working on upgrading my computer lol

"functionality of the software" has already been mentioned haha

it sounds like you are fully capable of manufacturing that weapon if you really wanted to.

A significant portion of the HN population could probably jury rig something up, it just has no value in the wikipedia case when you can simply hop on a compromised internet device, no spoofing needed. In the context of "foreign country posts lies with bogus ip", ip spoofing just can't compete when you can get the real deal full on two way functional tcp/ip connection from any acquired proxy device legal or not.

Look you're trying to make believe you have a secret weapon on a website where most folks know how computers work lol quit trying to make secret weapon happen when you don't actually have one.

sure, but if your objective is to post from an ip other than your own, your second link would compare poorly against just renting some compromised host or cell phone from your friendly anonymous proxy black market. why try to shoehorn some wierd tunnel into wikipedias web server infrastructure when you can just post your propoganda with a genuine tcp/ip connection from a hacked cell phone lol

The term IP spoofing used to really only apply to some networking layer in my experience, placing bogus ips in headers was more likely called header forgery and happened in the application. It wouldn't make sense for wikipedia to rely on easily forged headers when they can simply examine the network connection and use that address.

Actual IP spoofing still can't really impersonate a valid tcp connection unless its all send and no read, even with your second link, both sides of the "tunnel" have to spoof the source ip in their messages so thats not likely going to happen with wikipedia unless their security gets broken somehow and in that case well all bets are off lol

nice rabbit hole, I like the new yorker, here's a few other bits lol I love that he had the contractor sleep on a mattress on a concrete floor and now has to pay for contractors resulting pain and suffering.

https://www.archpaper.com/2026/03/kanye-west-lawsuit-employe...

https://www.elledecor.com/celebrity-style/celebrity-homes/a7...

I'm really envious of the rich they get to do the craziest things