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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:29AM (#50334361)
Yes, but the ecosystem is far less mature. I managed to dump the contents of my S90F using this repository: https://github.com/chris-ritsen/samsung-tv-root/releases

The root is transient, and Samsung TVs also have Knox security which I presume you really don’t want to trip. Some parts of the file system are protected by SMACK which even root can’t access.

I’m working on reverse engineering the applications that run in that SMACK context to see if there’s any way to gain access.

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:32PM (#50310424)
Honestly, as the expectations change I don't see you really have a choice unless you're in the top 1% of engineers and can essentially dictate your terms. Even then I'd say the clock is running out.

At some point (we might already be there) someone insisting on doing everything manually will be seen like a carpenter who does traditional joinery. They might exist, but they're never going to be a significant percentage of the market compared to 4 guys with nail guns knocking walls together in hours.

Because for the vast majority of cases, "good enough" is good enough.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:23PM (#50172132)
Do you have an example of something that a nation did solely for the good of mankind with no vested interest in the outcome?
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:38PM (#50157736)
> It took a while for the DMCA to happen after Napster.

By the time they came for Napster technology had already moved on. I can still download entire albums and movies in minutes 2 decades later. Heck, Usenet is still a bastion of piracy and that's been around for 46 years.

Re:Reactions to 100 Solutions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @07:28AM (#50031836)
What’s to stop people from ignoring these altogether and continuing their own work?

“Dumping unverified results” seems to imply that those results come with an obligation of some kind.

Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:47AM (#49977079)
Do we though, really? Because every single piece of technology that's been slowly eroding adults privacy is doing the same to children.

My argument isn't that we should let "the wrong people" setup their own camera, or strap cameras to their face and walk around, or whatever the next thing is to come along and record people with impunity.

My argument is that, if you want to solve a problem then address the actual problem. In this context, there's no way to know whether someone is a creep before they act on their creep-like nature, so the safest things to do for children is ban recording of all under 18's in public as a strict criminal offense. Security cameras, mobile phones, glasses, implants, whatever.

Today, the suggestion is wildly unthinkable as a complete overreaction, but in the 1990's there was a brief moment where that could have actually been the outcome, at least outside of the USA. I suspect if people knew then what it would look like today - even disregarding smart glasses altogether - that the opposition would have been stronger.

Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:14PM (#49970862)
I'm not. Fight away, I enjoy watching someone piss into the wind as much as the next person so long as I'm not standing too close.

Society at large spent a long time ridiculing people with these concerns, are you really so shocked that I am enjoying the moment where the issue comes home to roost? I'm not obligated to be a constructive member of society in all regards.

Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:39PM (#49970371)
One mans doomer is anothers realist, I guess. I'm 40, and every year I've been alive I've had less privacy than the one that preceded it and I see no reason to believe that trend will continue. I'm open to compelling arguments if you think I'm wrong.

Maybe if we started with the "strap cameras to the face of the population" plan we'd all have been less inclined to act like frogs in rapidly warming water. Alas.

Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:25PM (#49970188)
People care more about the illusion of privacy than actual privacy itself.

Even if we banned smart glasses, we'd still see ever-expanding networks of privately owned cameras that record every movement you make. We'd still have networks of ring cameras and similar devices. We'll still have ever-increasing use of AI to sort and categorise the content.

Privacy is dead. Smart glasses are just an uncomfortable reminder of this fact, and banning them without addressing the over-arching issue is similar to sticking our collective head in the sand.

Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:17PM (#49970081)
I 100% agree with this outlook. People that have ignored encroaching surveillance for decades at this point are finally concerned once we start suggesting we literally strap them to the face of a sizeable chunk of the population.

Personally, I gave up years ago. People don't care about actual privacy, they just care about the illusion of it.

Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @09:23PM (#49771679)
It’s a local craft fair. By every reasonable definition of the word, it’s not serious.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:27PM (#49769851)
Do you offer to pay them in exposure? Or do you offer them actually money commensurate with the work and skill they provide?

Because if it’s the latter we’re back to money being the barrier. And if it’s the former you should go and check with your local artists how much they love working for exposure.

Re:Making Startups Powerful on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:19PM (#49689308)
> Can anyone offer any advice or experiences on talking people out of trying to prematurely squeeze out every last penny?

Yes. Lend them many more pennies, removing the necessity for short-term profit taking and allowing them to run at a loss until they decimate the competition, capture the market and then start raising prices to the point that they are more profitable than had they taken the short-sighted approach.

Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:23PM (#49637083)
How large and pixel dense does a display need to be for it to convincingly fill an image sensor?

I suspect it’s significantly less than millions.

Re:LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:07PM (#49617063)
I do this, but increasingly modern TVs complain about not being connected to the internet in general. Usually once every day or two I get a pop up on my Samsung 90F complaining that network access of required for some feature that seems to run on a timer.
It differs based on when you purchased the car and package. I have “Advanced Autopilot” (which is no longer for sale in my market) that does not stop for stop signs or traffic lights.

Earlier this year they stopped selling Autopilot altogether in the US and Canada.

Too much variation to make a call on whether their version sips have been stopping under these conditions.

Re:Hang on to Your Firefox on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:38PM (#49530716)
99% of the time I just change my UA to Chrome and the incompatible site works fine.
Re:Hang on to Your Firefox on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:33PM (#49530674)
Firefox doesn't report every keystroke put into the Awesome bar back to Mozilla, AFAIK.
Re:More Fucked Today Than Yesterday on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @07:42PM (#49442257)
I don't quite know why, and I don't think it's particularly your fault - but I find this a very depressing response to the information laid out in this article.
The training data likely references Claude significantly more often than Kimi, given the popularity of the models. There will simply be more examples of “Claude” being the response to that question.
It's altered, sure. I think inherent degradation is a step too far though.
Re:Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:31PM (#49405193)
Thanks! Might have been the multiple attempts at getting it to format nicely in a short amount of time.
Re:Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:40PM (#49404557)
I’m running Qwen3.8 aggressive uncensored Q4_K_P on a 4090 in a loop against the 2026 CrackMe CTF challenges.

Using oh-my-pi in a prebuilt environment that I let Qwen build too.

Codex wouldn’t even look at the files - literally, as soon as it read something with CTF it shut down. Didn’t even offer to fall back to a dumber model.

Re:Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:29PM (#49367447)
I tested Qwen 3.8 on the Blade CTF last night, it took 3 hours but got the correct answer.

I know that didn’t answer your question but I was looking for a test suite and couldn’t find anything.

After reading the logs, there is far less doom looping than with 3.6, but whether that’s a one off or not is up for debate.

Q4_K_P

Huh, I was just watching a YouTube video that claimed the limited ability of China to predict weather in the Taiwan Strait is a factor in what makes it hard to invade.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:38PM (#49029973)
Knowledge is precious and worth preserving, sure, but a specific copy of a book? Unless they're doodling in the margins of historical documents or rare manuscripts, I personally can't see any reason why it should matter.
Re:Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:13PM (#48913581)
Socrates thought similar of reading and writing, if that analogy lands any better.
Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:52PM (#48902119)
Depends what the git history is supposed to show. Personally, I prefer people to leave their mistakes and reversions - though I'd require more description messages than "oops" or "fix", something that explained why it was being reverted or swapped out would be the minimum.

Sometimes you try things one way and they don't work out, so you go in a different direction. Capturing why this happened and when can go a long way towards explaining downstream decisions that might seem confusing to someone with a fresh perspective.

Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype on Sunday July 12, 2026 @05:38PM (#48885077)
Socrates thought the same of reading and writing, that it would weaken the memory and isolate people from one another.

1966 saw the peak of calculator protests, where math teachers claimed similar things of calculators.

I worked on Half-Life mods with friends I met in IRC in the late 90's - so about 13 onwards. We "released" stuff to forums all the time, though very few updates ever got released.

Less interesting stuff like basic save game editors too.

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