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Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:56PM (#50204350)
To display the chain. Just search for used bicycles on some online marketplace and you'll see the majority of them are shown with the chain facing towards the camera.
Re:NixOS is making me less afraid on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:17AM (#50167695)
It’s less scary because when an LLM messes up, you can roll back its changes, which is much easier to do in NixOS, as opposed to other Linux distros where you have to take filesystem snapshots.
I realized there was a puzzle about halfway through the movie. But there is no way I'm spending another 56min just to complete the challenge.

It's a good movie, though. For anyone who's interested: https://maraoz.com/the-secret-of-psalm-46-transcript/

Re:Immich v3.0.0 Released on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:02PM (#48769837)
Note that Cloudflare Tunnel blocks requests above 100MiB, which makes it impossible to upload long videos. This is being addressed in https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/22385
Re:A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype? on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:39AM (#47886025)
In the same article you linked:

> Due to concerns about large language models being used to generate deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale, we are only releasing a much smaller version of GPT‑2 along with sampling code .

7 years later, these concerns seem pretty legit.

Looks like this was restored 2 weeks ago[0], 3 days after Anthropic said OpenClaw requires extra usage[1]. At this point, it's hard to take this seriously. No official statement and not even a tweet?

[0]: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/d378a504ac17eab2...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

Re:Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:17AM (#47598244)
The thing is BOT only applies to a handful of applications. So Geekbench scores with BOT applied aren't as representative.
Re:Why I love NixOS on Monday March 23, 2026 @03:57AM (#47486536)
Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:26AM (#47464790)
It's possible to auth with your fingerprint (or even a YubiKey) in sudo. It's a functionality provided by PAM, after all.
Re:Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:46AM (#46853493)
$0 at SignPath. Quite a few OSS projects use it.
> What packages are you talking about?

Maybe Python: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1azkxnn/whats_ho...

Does this mean GitHub will finally support IPv6?
Re:I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:01PM (#45465090)
The iPhone vibrates when you swipe up just enough to reach the app switching screen.
Re:KDE launches its own distribution on Thursday September 11, 2025 @04:01AM (#45209061)
They admit

> Flatpak is currently a pretty poor technology for system-level apps that want deep integration with the base system.

Therefore they ship those apps on the base image, rather than as Flatpaks. I don’t see what’s wrong with this approach.

Re:RSS Is Awesome on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:40PM (#45059477)
There are projects which generate web feeds for websites that don't have one.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub

Well, LLMs do pass the Turing Test, sort of.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

Re:Deepseek R1-0528 on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @11:01PM (#44122716)
I won't call it "binary blob". Safetensors is just a simple format for storing tensors safely: https://huggingface.co/docs/safetensors/index
Re:Google Shared My Phone Number on Monday May 26, 2025 @04:00AM (#44095087)
There is one in your CV: https://danq.me/cv
Re:AMD's Strix Halo – Under the Hood on Friday March 14, 2025 @12:44PM (#43364396)
AMD makes exclusive deals with ASUS regularly. I guess they're just good friends.
Re:Working with Systemd Timers on Thursday March 13, 2025 @11:41PM (#43359393)
IMO Systemd Timers provide much better control over how the cron job is run.

Need to distribute lots of cron jobs evenly to avoid overloading the system? Use RandomizedDelaySec.

Some cron jobs are flaky and you want to re-run if it fails? Add Restart=on-failure to corresponding service.

Some cron jobs conflict with each other? Set Conflicts=foo.service or maybe Before & After.

Sure, all above are possible with shell scripts. But systemd provides a standard, reliable way to define these properties.

Re:VSCode's SSH agent is bananas on Saturday February 08, 2025 @10:06AM (#42983394)
It's possible to detect "curl | bash" server side. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34145799
Re:IMG_0416 on Monday November 11, 2024 @01:56AM (#42105020)
> Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API

With yt-dlp you can do this:

  yt-dlp ytsearch5:IMG_0416
which searches for IMG_0416 and downloads the first 5 of them. There is no need to use YouTube API.
Re:From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:33AM (#39904545)
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...

[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...

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