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That was very good, thank you!

I'm not sure what codex helped with for the Lenovo case, if all that was required was open the stick and stick the sdcard into a computer.

It's crazy that Lenovo will still be trusted to build secured hardware after that. It's not even a vulnerability at this point, I'm not sure how this could pass any form of security review, let alone having anyone review the design and approve it. They must have known it was nothing they pretended and still decide to sell it.

> an interim fix using epoxy over the card

It was

Yes. By and large the talks of LLM as the reason for all the layoffs across big tech are just a marketing spin. Companies are going through rounds of cost reduction for reasons that are as old as the invention of the stock market.

I always think of that line from Doctorow: "If you want to know how Amazon will treat its coders once they can be readily replaced, just look at Amazon warehouse workers and drivers".

Of note, something similar exists in OSMAnd~. You can download wikipedia articles for areas you downloaded. It's very useful when you visit a place IMO

Randomly resolve some requests with 127.0.0.1

I reckon that was an attempt to fend off the enemy. "Everyone expects us to set 196 bits of entropy, but you know what they won't expect? A single byte!"

Hey that's a byte of entropy! And one of the rare cases where choosing a larger value might offer you better "protection" against serialized brute force attacks

> That doesn't excuse what Elizabeth Holmes did or explain what others in her circle may be guilty of.

Thanks!

Surely the documentaries are made in a way that's depicts that very accentued, manipulative, borderline psychopathic person. This is likely more than she was in real life. She might even have been motivated by genuine will to improve the diagnostics field. So yeah you might be "deceived" by these docudramas.

I fear that this kind of poetic write-up muddies the water into "oh, maybe things are more nuanced, and played on her weird personality and background to make things look worse, maybe it wasn't so bad".

People got misdiagnosed and suffered directly because of her. She's every bit guilty of that, as deserving of a harsh judgement as any person directly causing that kind of harm.

What a great post!

I won't add my own anecdotes cause I think by now we've proven it's a shared experience.

Health professionals have the same gaussian distribution as the rest of humanity. It's a little biased to the right because there's a selection process, but by all means geniuses are few and far between, people who merely made it exist, and on average people are average. But since there's a selection process, and they made it through, they will at the very least feel like they are abnormally qualified to do the job. This gives them overconfidence in their skills.

Now look the dentistry field, composed of sadists who felt since a young age a calling to drill holes in other people's teeth, and who get compensated linearly with how many holes they drill. Will that's incentivize them to drill more than necessary? Will their ego get in the way to overjustify any small operation they can get through?

Conflicting incentives x overconfidence = screwed up practice. This dude did a study 20y ago across 50 dentists, not a single one gave the same diagnostic. https://web.archive.org/web/20250216213753/https://www.rd.co...

I was sitting at the movies with my kids 2w ago, watching the last Shawn the Sheep movie. Reflecting over how in 2026 they are still animating frame by frame with clay puppets, how they still embrace their craft while a cheap and easy solution exists, and how good the results look. And wondering what that was telling about me. Shawn the Sheep had a profound impact on me, an adult in my fourties.

> Cadillac's Sergio Perez, [...] was less kind. "It felt like you were in a rental kart and you ran out of time," the Mexican explained. "You were putting your foot down and accelerating and nothing was coming.

You know the problem is really bad if even Cadillac drivers notice the difference.

I'm not sure I understand the difference between the problem and the solution there. If I understand correctly (which maybe I am not), it seems like this boils down to "you don't need SQLite memory, you need text based memory". Which is maybe ok, I'm all for low-tech, but I doubt this is any better than what it's posed to replace.

My main issue with LLMs is that by construction they work primarily by addition, and are very task oriented. If you have documentation, it adds blobs corresponding to its task and that's it, and soon enough you need to break your documentation onto chapters and you're back at square one.

Yeah, maybe if a bottle of crappy wine is less than $30, people will buy it.

That rings so true!

I'm vibe-coding an app to practice german, I want the most bare-bones possible, just something for myself. In the sign-in page, the clanker added SEVEN slogans and catch-phrases:

- A more human way to learn - Find your words. Then make them yours. - Good conversations make a language stick. Start where you are, and build from there. - One conversation at a time - Thoughtful practice. Your pace. Your progress. - YOUR LANGUAGE SPACE - A quiet space to learn, made just for you. - Sign in to pick up where you left off.

Thanks to AI and IoT, we can now have vibe coded fridges and ovens that might have fantastic features and work 80% of the time!

The future truly is incredible

> Competitors may have copied most of the form factor

Samsung unveiled its first foldable in 2018, what are you talking about?

I never thought I'd defend apple, but that was the arguments people (myself including) were making about iPads. So I wouldn't presume this won't find a public, starting with the apple fans.

I find the form factor repulsive though, doesn't fit comfortably in a pocket and seems pretty thick. Screen durability is described as "we have premium material" and an "scratch resistant" coating, but no mention of free screen replacements like samsung is doing ; so I assume you'll have to shelve off half the price of the device every year for a new screen. I think this might not be a great device.

So I guess I agree with you

I think that's because it's adding to the cost of solar, effectively making it an barrier to entry; when other provinces or states have financial incentives to install solar panels instead.

This measure sounds a bit disingenuous since Alberta has such a large petroleum industry and this type of measure targets in particular renewables, it looks like a punitive tax. If the problem really is recycling costs, make them payable on recycling (like, again, many products such as used drywall or oil)

I found a few websites where it looks like qbittorrent instances are communicating to conspire and download illegal copies of copyrighted material.

> Our environment will collapse and the fat cats will still deny

It is, and they are. We keep hitting record X Y and Z temperatures, cyclones, etc, and they're on the brig shouting "it ain't global warming you morons"

You're assuming that we keep the same system and that no sacrificing can be made. Technology is seen as the only solution because of the primary assumption that we need to keep growth and late stage capitalism. Degrowth, relocalisation, lower consumption are all solutions that would work better than technology (there are very serious people out there who demonstrated that technology won't replace the energy we need, Jancovici to name just one).

Technology is the only option in constant system, but with nothing happening, the system won't remain constant for long, and sacrifices will have to be made, not by choice.

Not op, but a common tactic is to put honeypots in a page set to be forbidden in Robots.txt. Not respecting Robots.txt is making you a bad crawler. I have marginal blog, but its somewhat indexed and it gets tons of traffics from crawlers

Couldn't agree more, but I think it's majorly a "geek" thing. I'm using i3 on my personal linux and aerospace on my work mac ; vimium in the browser, Neru on the other apps (does something similar to Neru). I recently ended up finding a way to create user-scripts for electron app and since then I'm adding vimium-esque extensions (e.g. in Teams) wherever I go.

I wish this was a default, but also that there was more of a standard to navigate UIs. That's why I really like vimium and other similar extensions, it's following the vi logic across websites, rather than having to learn everyone's idea of how to navigate.

To this day I am still calling the website Twitter and access it every single time typing twitter.com. That rename was so dumb. So, I really love the name

I do like my BW kobo, but it's on the slow side, even just when switching pages on the stock app ; and that's annoying. Sometimes because it's stuck it doesn't register the page change, and then it will highlight text instead. That's breaking the reading flow and I really hate that.

You forgot the sign-up "CTA" button bold and wide, with a microscopic "Sign-in" button somewhere in the footer.

Once again, as everytime I see this, the policy only dictates that you ask for consent to track personal information from people. The problem is not the cookie banner, it's that every fucking website extracts your pants size to sell it to Facebook.

It's likely a good thing, and I don't like attacks ad ominem. But also there comes a point where the sum total of what you did becomes negative enough that you lose the benefit of the doubt. You're past redeemable, and anything you do becomes immediately suspicious.

He could give his entire fortune to UNICEF and retire as a monk, I would still probably think this is part of a scheme.

But yeah advocating for open source anything is a good thing, I guess. Ironic if you think about he's been fighting to keep FB's algorithms hidden.