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Re:Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:03AM (#50286698)
This is amazing work.
Re:LiberNT - A free NT operating system on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:48PM (#50250705)
Not sure how to feel about the "Let's fork ReactOS and vibecode hundreds of commits per day" approach.
Who needs DRM like HDCP if you can just use the capabilities baked into the TV to your advantage?
That's one of the weirdest takes on here in a while.

I can develop security exploits myself just fine without the use of AI. Many people don't have the capability to use Photoshop and free online porn to deepfake someone else they might or might not personally know into a realistic video...

Re:OBS Studio 33 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:29AM (#50219892)
Thanks for chiming in and linking that, that was an interesting read. As much as I understand CEF's reasoning for making this shift, it's baffling that they don't provide a universal way to implement what you now had to implement yourself.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:32PM (#50212560)
What if I want to vote against both Apple and Google but still be able to do my banking business?
You think the writing's bad? The "comics" are so off-putting they ruin whatever sliver of merit this article may have had.
Re:How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:53AM (#50206580)
Interesting to see the difference with Astra.
Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:06AM (#50003095)
Mind you, this is OpenAI's cherry-picked example
Wonder when Astra is going to definitively "solve" the Voynich Manuscript.
Re:Web Search API on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:15AM (#49964452)
It always did, but who pays it is shifting.
Re:Web Search API on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:13AM (#49964428)
Seems like this uses Exa, as well as two other providers.
Re:City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:23AM (#49953721)
That's just demonstrably not true, the foliage alone adds a lot of polygons, so do the stairs.
Re:I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:27AM (#49920303)
There are enough tells in there that I'd definitely wager it was co-written by AI
Re:Self-Hosting on the Dark Web on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:36AM (#49875155)
Not enough to be worth it.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:49AM (#49874831)
I've seen medical specialist take Google's AI answer as truth. Nutty.
Re:A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:00PM (#49779474)
> I’m distributing 32-bit builds (but requires SSE2) because there’s no advantage to 64-bit here, and these builds work (almost) everywhere

Kinda ironic given the article's subject of 16-bit mode no longer being available...

Re:GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:46AM (#49739391)
They didn't pay for training
I wonder of the CEO ever got back with an update. It seems awfully quiet in that thread.
Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:52PM (#49557646)
If your solution can't survive public scrutiny, it doesn't seem like a trustworthy solution?
Do the words "at scale" magically remove all responsibility and reliability?
Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:31AM (#49479098)
You might like Daylio. It's free, local-first (with optional backups to your own cloud or device), and has a good UX.
Re:Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:15AM (#49372232)
Interestingly, that page notes:

According to Microsoft programmer Raymond Chen on his blog The Old New Thing, Red moon desert was originally intended to be Windows XP's default wallpaper, but was allegedly changed due to some testers feeling it resembled a pair of buttocks, leading to O'Rear's other photo Bliss becoming the default wallpaper. While this wallpaper was temporarily set as the default wallpaper during Whistler, this story does not appear to be true; Bliss had already been selected based on extensive research by design manager Rob Girling and his team, and the Luna visual style shares the same color scheme as the wallpaper. It is more likely the wallpaper was set to default as a decoy; the unleaked Lab06 build 2415 predates build 2423, and shows Bliss set as the wallpaper.

Distributing something for free doesn't mean you don't have patent obligations if you do it in the country that patent is valid in. On top of that, many corporations do sell their distribution of Linux.
Re:How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:09PM (#49335205)
I don't think this changes anything about the point I was making.
Re:How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:57AM (#49330096)
I'd want to blame Go's compatibility guarantee for this, but I can't because it wouldn't actually stop them from adding a proper solution for this..

Just like the magic comments, it's a sad thing to see appear in this language because it feels like magic incantations one has to know that bend over backwards to not actually extend the language to fit the use case.

Re:Qwen3.8 27B on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:28AM (#49296426)
It's back for me
But why, though? I have never seen a performance hit from it that would warrant that.

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