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Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:50AM (#50314509)
> These are people who have little passion to do what they do, and for whom their role is primarily a chore.

I think maybe this is the realisation I'm coming to with the people in my team and it sucks. I didn't realise it when I joined them 2 years ago, before they started really adopting LLMs use. Trying my best to redirect thay frustration in hopes I find a team that I feel are as passionate as me.

And I'm the junior engineer getting annoyed at the senior engineers at my company doing it...
Re:Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:10PM (#50112475)
My understanding was this was a non stop cat and mouse game from what I've heard regarding those efforts. I get why this happened a lot maybe a year ago, but I was under the impression those same people are just using the likes of GLM 5.3 or Kimi K3 now. Considering how close these are to Opus or Fable capability, especially considering it doesn't require the account banning risk and effort to use whatever latest prompt works for social engineering. I could be wrong though, I'm not that close to that scene.
Re:Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:26AM (#50100839)
I spend most of my time in open weights land, so other than knowing the program existed, I didn't realise there were tiers to this.
Re:Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:51AM (#50100605)
> I have the Cyber Verification Program enabled on my account, which hasn't helped.

This is funny to read. Either you can be more "verified" than the other guy, or it's badly implemented.

Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:31PM (#50097091)
I've been using https://nono.sh which uses landlock instead of bubblewrap. I had a look at all the similar alternatives when I started using it and everything else I could find was far too vibe coded for me to trust, especially for this.
Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:17PM (#50096930)
You should try dsh then. It also had a web ui.
Re:EmbeddingGemma 2 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:29AM (#49989882)
The image search in the Edge Gallery app of theirs is really incredible. Blows their Screenshot app out of the water for what I wanted it for. I stopped using it when they quietly changed their wording around it suggesting it would use Gemini instead of Gemini Nano, which was the whole reason I was excited about it.
Re:Pirating the Pirates on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:15AM (#49888929)
I don't read it that way. If you start using words like container and encoding, I feel you have to describe what those words mean and I suspect the writer probably felt that level of detail might have caused the article to drift away from the point. I have personal experience of accidentally going into too much detail when describing remuxes to non technical friends, and had later opted to describing almost exactly as the author did, because that description I think conveys the purpose pretty well.
Re:Pirating the Pirates on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:28AM (#49888289)
I highly suspect someone has already made a fan edit of Oppenheimer like you've described. I searched for a few moments and found 3 already and one already describes re-cutting it in chronological order, among many other changes. Always surprises me how much effort and passion people put into fan edits. It's a facinating scene in itself with how many edits exist out there.
Re:Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:59AM (#49776522)
The first thing I always want to know is, what does OP's project offer over pre-existing mature ones? Especially important when I'm seeing an increasing amount of projects that don't seem to even bother considering pre-existing projects.
Re:More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:59PM (#49748472)
Surely the exercise that comes with using public transport outweighs that. I feel like being able to zone out and not having to focus on driving, is more relaxing to me.
I wonder how their talks with Apple went. Having this run on the TPU opposed to just the GPU, which drains a significant amount of battery life by comparison, is what I'm really interested in.
The fact that those issues existed for so long while the entire time where not issues with other inference runtimes is more the point. And I think are indicative of future incompetence.
Re:.gitignore Everything by Default on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:21AM (#49584670)
I wish there was a culture in the team I'm in now to share each others dotfiles (which I feel would lead into sharing so much more including tools, processors, etc), especially since I fall into that group of the new, younger rookie. I appear to work with people who have a lot of experience and knowledge and the atmosphere is seemingly otherwise not competitive (non profit organisation). Is this common? Is it going to be hard to find a team like that?
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:17AM (#49156126)
Why ELI8 and not the ubiquitous ELI5?
I've been to IMAX a lot of times and not a single time had a bad audience member. Whereas I've had at least one at each of the independent and arthouse ones I've been to sadly. I suspect in my case the tickets being significantly more expensive at IMAX keeps any disruptive people away.
Re:Back to Kagi on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:31AM (#49006522)
Kagi do have an LLM offering if that's what you still want. While still benefiting for your own search results curation and being more privacy orientated. I'm very happy that I can basically have the best of both worlds from them.
I know there's a lot you can do in k8s to mitigate it, but I didn't think that prevented it outright.
Since this enables container escape, sounds like this might still impact quite a lot of us?
Which sadly appears to not even be holding for them now that they decided to start displaying ads on their App Store.
Re:Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @08:55PM (#48129796)
I feel like the suggestion to just delete your Meta account is unhelpful and even harmful in some situations. I know a lot of us in this field don't mind having a small social circle, but for us that struggle to even have that, or that the process of doing that, requires you to be as open and reachable as possible to make it easier to create or maintain friendships, this often requires having an account to use Messenger (I know regionally this may differ).

Being difficult in this way, when most other people, particularly non technical people, don't have a problem with this, in my experience significantly hurts your opportunities and limits the types of people you socialize with in real life, which I think can eventually be harmful.

Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:32PM (#48057416)
If this is still the same install that you've been using since 38, you might find a clean install resolves some issues (whether or not your upgrade got botched). Also helps me get rid of software I installed that I don't use anymore, which I feel is relevant to this article. But part of why I love Silverblue so much is I don't have to worry about upgrades getting botched and fwiw as well, I haven't noticed any of those bugs on 44 across several very different machines.
Re:WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:31PM (#47760565)
The database changes late last year is laying the grounds for other database engines[1].

[1] https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-lib...

Re:Claude Managed Agents Overview on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @11:07PM (#47698859)
Not sure popularity necessarily suggests it's good, but possibly just what people have most heard of or is easiest to setup with. This is going to be even more true now that Claude subscriptions are going to be essentially vendor locked.
Don't even need to use llama-swap anymore now that llama-server supports the same functionality.
Comparing this project to is-odd seems very disingenuous to me. My understanding is this was the only way you could use llama.cpp with Claude Code for example, since llama.cpp doesn't support the Anthropic compatible endpoint and doing so yourself isn't anywhere near as trivial as your comparison. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
I would hazard a guess that it's because there's been many debates about contributing PRs that might be perceived as AI slop. Not saying that's the case here, but it's possible the fix might be a poor one, not follow the project's guidelines, or one which the contributor doesn't fully understand, but doesn't care because it fixed the issue. I would guess the better approach would be to submit a bug report with the same information the LLM used, and maybe suggest there the fix the LLM provided. Unless this really was a tiny patch and none of the above concerns applied.
Re:Freemediaheckyeah on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:17AM (#47121331)
Whose "they"? Private sites do a phenomenal job at preserving a large amount of rare content.

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