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Re:Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:01AM (#50209149)
Seems like it's all about Copilot's increased security, but they refuse to talk about what that means. How is security increased? From what level, to what level? Does anyone know? ... A quick Bing search later, this M$ article is at least a starting point:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/secu...

Re:Do not install Zod 4.6.6 – might be infected on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:38AM (#50054346)
The compromised code is still tagged on Github as of 2026-10-12T10:37:51: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/releases/tag/v4.6.6. See commit d821685.
Regarding the submodule question: I decided to test it and came up with this script: https://gist.github.com/Meneth32/bdb17a8787fc0ab197805d8d0cf...

On debian 13 (trixie) with git version 2.47.3, it runs without error. You CAN use sha1 submodules in sha256 repos.

Re:Don't couple your Go code to GitHub on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:25PM (#49871012)
You shouldn't be using fully qualified domains at all. Use relative paths instead, like sibling-hosted git submodules.
ssh_config allows several ways to execute arbitrary shell commands, such as "Match exec" and "ProxyCommand". Specify a program that can detect networks and choose different connections. Then the config file itself wouldn't change.
Bugzilla has been using the term "bug" to track features for nearly 3 decades now. Doesn't seem to hamper them.
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:55AM (#49798282)
Interesting question. Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty [1] states:

> A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object, and over any personnel thereof, while in outer space or on a celestial body. Ownership of objects launched into outer space, including objects landed or constructed on a celestial body, and of their component parts, is not affected by their presence in outer space or on a celestial body or by their return to the Earth. Such objects or component parts found beyond the limits of the State Party to the Treaty on whose registry they are carried shall be returned to that State Party, which shall, upon request, furnish identifying data prior to their return.

It is clear, then, that the sample containers are still the property of the US, and that if the Chinese brought them back to Earth, they would be required to give them to the US.

[1] https://www.unoosa.org/unoosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/o...

Re:CrowdSec Source Code Leak on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:57PM (#49743508)
I suppose CrowdSec isn't used to analyze GitHub's traffic, so they wouldn't have much info to go on.

If they had self-hosted their own repos, they might have had more luck.

Re:Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:17AM (#49738659)
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth.
Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:29AM (#49724420)
> Why folks continue to use them

Because there's no working alternative.

No, but they are limited. Longer tweets are cut off, and you don't get to see replies.
They might need regulations, if they are for-profit companies with a responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit while sacrificing all other values.
Re:Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:10PM (#49686843)
I used "Override colors" under Settings -> Accessibility to set nice dark colors.

Then I used userChrome.js from https://github.com/AlexVallat/firefox-scripts/ to add a button which toggles the browser preferences "browser.display.use_system_colors" and "browser.display.document_color_use", so I can still access bright mode if needed.

Re:DeCloudflare on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:22PM (#49666773)
He's is running GitLab, a rather inefficient webserver.
Re:DeCloudflare on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:18PM (#49666742)
Could've used some more Cloudflare.
Re:This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:18PM (#49603601)
> We also download over four parallel connections where possible.

I hope you can turn that off. It fragments the file and puts unnecessary load on the server.

PureDarwin doesn't work on any of the M-series machines, and according to the Github commit log, hasn't been updated since 2024.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:42PM (#49569296)
> What happens when any AI lab in the world stops caring about this?

They never cared.

Re:Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:45AM (#49534865)
Mozilla has had a lot of funding over the years. They wasted most of it on useless side-projects. If, instead, they had saved up into a foundation, they could have been financially independent like a decade ago. Do not try to pay for Firefox; they'll just waste that too.
Re:Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:15AM (#49509397)
Re:Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:12AM (#49509364)
Ideally, the documentation changes would have been merged together with the code changes.

In practice, Zig has very poor documentation overall.

Re:Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:56AM (#49490437)
Sadly, Debian was already diseased. This is merely another symptom.
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:25AM (#49464579)
Or use the addon Old Reddit Redirect, which still works as of 2026-08-27.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

Re:Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:04PM (#49455890)
There is a browser addon https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect to view Old Reddit without an account.
Models aren't source. You can't read them.
Re:Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:42AM (#49385434)
It looks like you're trying to destroy the world. Would you like some help with that? /Clippy

https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy

Mozilla wasted most of its money on crappy features no one wanted. They should not be subsidized by anyone.
Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:13AM (#49268429)
We already gave it the keys. It's got internet access, can write and run code on lots of servers without supervision, and when it doesn't have the access it needs, it just hacks its way in.
Re:Faster Than Ninja on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:23PM (#49185013)
I wonder how it compares to Tup ( https://gittup.org/tup/ ).
Re:General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian on Saturday July 25, 2026 @07:58PM (#49053112)
Gentoo chose to ban LLMs two years ago. They seem to be doing well.

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