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You're free to let strangers download illegal images from a proxy running on your IP, but I sure as hell won't.

Samsung scored highest on https://www.rtings.com/ for my criteria, and I'm happy with the purchase. I didn't connect it to the network, of course. (I had to stop my handyman from connecting it and he seemed to think I was crazy for insisting.)

A funny quip to be sure. But one could be counter-pedantic and say the title never promises empires. It promises to take place in a time period where empires exist.

LLMs fall back on things like that when there's nothing good worth mentioning about a project. They simply emit tokens. If there are no good tokens they could emit, they emit bad tokens instead.

6.2MB - actually a bad thing

pure Go - irrelevant at best

no fzf - actually a bad thing

What do you call the time period between "new package is released" and "automated security scanners have analyzed the package"? That sure sounds like a release cooldown to me.

It's bold to call something that has prevented real-world attacks "security theater", with the justification that one day the world might change enough that it's less likely to prevent future attacks. Was the printing press worthless, just because we have laser printers nowadays?

Anyhow, If you believe LLMs will kill security research, then surely you must also believe a cooldown of 1 week would be enough time for your favorite LLM to analyze a new package version?

the app just hung there trying to figure out how long its command line can be?

That's common on linux. Many tools read from stdin if a file path isn't given: cat, xargs, base64, cksum, etc.

The citation thing is a little silly, I'll give you that one.

If he wanted AI slop, I'm sure he's capable of asking an AI himself. He asked a forum full of people because he wants a real answer from a knowledgeable person. If you didn't have anything to contribute, you could have just left it for someone else to reply.

Yeah, it turns out human culture has a lot of depth and complexity, even so-called "mid" culture. If you think you can write a better explainer, I'd love to read it.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

How would a USB drive work without connectors?

Obesity is inversely correlated with income.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/237141/us-obesity-by-ann...

Whoa, I have my very first crazy internet stalker. What fun!

Do an internet search for "go garbage collector benchmark" if you're curious what the grownups are talking about.

Consumers are the last group I would blame.

https://www.usda.gov/about-food/food-safety/food-loss-and-wa...

food waste is estimated at ... 133 billion pounds ... in 2010.

USA population in 2010 was 311M. 133B / 311M = 427 pounds per person.

I sincerely doubt the average consumer throws away 427 pounds of fresh food in a year.

Yeah that's not great. It's easy to be faster than go if you haven't thought about memory management yet. I bet go with GOGC=off is faster than plain go too.

You're just doing the same thing and further proving my point. Thanks, I guess?

Good for what? A hammer is good for driving a nail, but not good for driving a screw.

Safe for what? My house is safe for humans, but not safe for tropical birds.

Clean enough for what? Our water is clean enough to wash my ass, but not clean enough to wash a telescope mirror.

Sorry but life is not a Disney movie where some things are unequivocally good/safe and other things are unequivocally bad/unsafe. There are gradients and conditions, and communication requires a shared language between participating parties to navigate them.

safety in general

This is impossible. General words like "safe" and "good" are subjective, and useless in a technical context unless you ground the discussion by giving them specific definitions. Otherwise everyone ends up talking past each other.

That would mean no language can ever be considered safe, because any language can emit bytes to a file that will later be executed.

So you would prefer weapons that cannot reason at all?

Um, yes? It's bad enough humans are murdering each other. At least a human can in theory be held accountable for pulling the trigger. The last thing we need is an unaccountable ralph loop reasoning about which schools and churches to bomb every time it wakes up.

if it had a better llm underpinning it

Ah yes, the "LLMs are intelligent, you're just not using the newest fanciest model" fallacy. This time with innocent lives on the line. If only we used ChatGPT-8.9 instead of 8.8, those poor kids would still be alive today.

GitHub is meant for developers. Plenty of OSS has forums or Zulip/Discord chats for ordinary users to get support in a more casual way. Sometimes not, but there's just as much closed source software with poor support too.

GP proposed the site should solve the problem once at the source, and everyone benefits. You counter-proposed that every individual reader should take manual action on every headline they see. That's a lot of redundant wasted effort across the userbase.

To continue your analogy, that would be like if Gmail got rid of spam filters, and then told people to stop complaining endlessly and manually copy every email they get into SpamGPT to ask if it's spam or not.

> I don't want to deal with AI or AI slop

You should add more AI to your life

I hope you can see how this is not a useful suggestion.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/08/apple-new-artificial-in...

Of course. Do you think this was on purpose? All part of Apple's brilliant master plan?

Here's Cloudflare's T&C in comic form, for those with short attention spans.

https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/41879001445/the-intern...

Definitely not. I've never seen a human trapped in that kind of infinite loop. Humans know that if they don't stop at the end of the day, they don't get to go home to their wife, and if they don't finalize their list of issues, they never get their contract paid out.

SISC is there because it's not notable, so the busybodies haven't even noticed the page exists. Odin, however, is notable, and that put it on their radar as a target for attacking its notability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

Did you expect comedy specials to be an exception to this?

If a stock market observation has no predictive power, then it's worthless.

I look forward to your weather report too: "It's always sunny outside until one day it starts raining. Every time."

Daily reminder that TypeScript's type checker is not sound.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/C4TwDgpgBAcg9gOwK...