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Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:32AM (#50317099)
I wonder if the new economics of finding bugs means that they pay the amount they think the tokens cost to find it.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Sunday October 18, 2026 @08:02PM (#50146797)
Highly recommend.

Link: https://youtu.be/bAnwMdfcMVw

Re:I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:19PM (#50126879)
I just didn’t expect my HA to be talking to any external services without me explicitly setting it up.
Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:22PM (#50096988)
How did you choose who to listen to? The 2 that agreed?
Or, perhaps, developers would not require you to use an app when a website would perfectly suffice.
Re:WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:53PM (#50039670)
GPL v3.0 has a SaaS loophole. The GPL's trigger is conveyance (transferring a copy), not network access. Merely running modified GPL v3.0 code on a server and serving users over HTTP is not "conveying" under the letter of GPL v3.0, so it does not by itself obligate you to release source. This loophole was fixed in AGPL v3.
Dog fooding their own product. This isn’t new for Nvidia. For a long time they have been selling GPU cards, and also licensing the chips for other manufacturers to make their own cards. Similar for their automotive products, Shield, and DGX Spark.
Re:Pi 1.0 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:43PM (#49926864)
I just fixed something very similar in my setup. Except in my case the reasoning text was shown in dark grey on a light gray background. Very ugly and hard to read.

If I remember correctly, the reasoning text was being output using the italic ANSI code, which was being formatted funny on my terminal. I fixed it by adding a font that supports italics. I recommend taking a look at the ansi codes.

Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:00PM (#49757137)
> My wife and I have a mobile group/shared bot system where we can make mini apps and collab.

> Anything from baby stuff, groceries, shopping, planning, wine tracker app, simple/fun/useful data things, etc…

Can you elaborate on this? Sounds really cool!

Might be different for programmers… my experience is that—broadly speaking—programming ability is inversely proportional to how well dressed you are. I wonder if that is still true, or if I’m just old.
Re:Hacking my Keyboard to do Less on Saturday July 25, 2026 @12:23AM (#49044511)
I switched to a keyboard with a thumb cluster[0] a few years ago and have been loving it.

[0]: https://dygma.com/pages/defy

No way! That’s incredible! I’ve been follow the story for the last few days and assumed he was gone. How long until it’s a movie?
Re:Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:25AM (#48144869)
Amazing! Tristan’s entire website is a treasure. It’s a throwback to when the web was great.
I mean not really. There is a FUSE implementation, but you need an enterprise account https://docs.lakefs.io/v1.60/reference/mount/

I’m not seeing a kernel module anywhere..

Re:Phone is about to stop being yours on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @08:34PM (#47942750)
Offline PWA sites are very limited on iOS. If you force close Safari, look at your phone funny, or don’t visit the site regularly, the cache is cleared and you are stuck at a loading screen until you have internet again.

That’s what forced me to finally bite the bullet and pay Apple yearly so I could develop an app for my friends and I to use. Would have much rather kept it as a PWA.

The one takeaway I got from my engineering ethics class in college was that everyone has different morals. Debating if something is “moral” or not is useless. Education on a subject is useful, but once someone understands your point of view and still thinks it’s within/outside their morals, there’s nothing more to discuss.
I have a laptop with a touchscreen that I regularly forget is a touchscreen until I accidentally touch it.
Re:"Disregard That" Attacks on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:28AM (#47526644)
I really don’t want to work for the defense industry, but I have to admit that they do have very fun problems to solve. You know there are people at NRO who are dedicated to ship tracking via satellite. I assume they can easily track ships without cloud cover, but how do they do it when it’s cloudy? Heat signatures? Synthetic Aperture Radar? Wake detection?
Re:BC got rid of Daylight Savings on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:20PM (#47327679)
British Columbia, Canada
Re:A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:58AM (#47090554)
I’ve been using the Dygma Defy daily for over 2 years. Highly recommend.
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro on Thursday February 19, 2026 @12:34PM (#47076496)
That’s Simon’s goal. “All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple AI labs into investing vast resources to cheat at my benchmark until I get one.”

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-...

Re:Vim 9.2 Released on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:11PM (#47017911)
“Let’s spend thousands of dollars on lawyers to avoid donating to a good cause”. Large corporations can be so ridiculous.
Re:Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:59AM (#46986046)
Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.
Re:LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions on Thursday February 05, 2026 @03:58PM (#46905200)
Looks like Firefox is immune.

This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL chrome-extension://[PACKAGE ID]/[PATH] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manif...

On Firefox, web accessible resources are available at "moz-extension://<extension-UUID>/myfile.png" <extension-UUID> is not your extension's ID. This ID is randomly generated for every browser instance. This prevents websites from fingerprinting a browser by examining the extensions it has installed. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

Re:We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable on Saturday January 24, 2026 @09:35PM (#46750135)
Nothing drives more creativity from me than a tool in need of a project.
Tesla’s “autosteer” is significantly more advanced than the “lane keeping” feature I’ve seen in rental cars, or my own 2023 Jeep. My understanding is that autosteer will actively keep the car centered in the middle of the lane, while the “lane keeping” I’ve experienced will only adjust the steering when you approach the lane edge, which pin balls you back and forth like a drunk driver.
Re:Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:18PM (#46648945)
My company has a policy limiting the number of high level execs traveling on a plane at a time. I wonder if plane manufacturers have similar restrictions. It’d be an ironic to for them to simultaneously assert that their planes are safe for the general public, and also believe the risk is too high for a planeload of their execs to fly in one.
On Linux, if the blocks are page aligned, you could use mremap(2) to swap blocks very efficiently without using any additional physical memory.
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:58PM (#46507846)
What’s the maximum range to your phone to get notifications? I’ve been trying to cut back on my reflex to look at my phone every few minutes. It’d be great if I could keep my phone on a charging stand and be able to walk around my house and still get notifications.

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