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Re:A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:39PM (#50345059)
The point of data visualization is to communicate through graphical representation of information.

If you have to specify everything in text and you don't intend to actually communicate anything through graphics and if you only focus on pure, sterile mathematical functions which don't have an ideological component that could be biased to begin with... then surely you can see that your statement is the trivial one.

> The graph still shows the function in that domain neutrally

The key word being "in that domain". You can use the same excuse every time you mislead people with statistics. The fact that your choices can mislead people proves that they're not neutral.

Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:15PM (#50327549)
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Re:A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:16AM (#50326997)
By limiting the graph to [0, 2pi] and presenting it as a graphical approximation of the function and domain, you've obscured the fact that the function is periodic. Visualizing the interval [-3pi, 3pi] would make it more obvious that the function is periodic.
Their recent update on this situation was hilarious.

> Our [new] approach to containment starts with a paramount requirement: the limits on what an agent can access must hold even when the agent tries to circumvent them. We define a strict security boundary around the resources the agent is authorized to use and design the surrounding infrastructure to enforce that boundary—even when agents make sustained, sophisticated attempts to breach it.

https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-trainin...

"The Capture" seems like a more realistic forecast in the current climate.
Re:Smear Campaign Towards GrapheneOS on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:08AM (#50324492)
> I don't really know what these guys' (Murena and GrapheneOS devs) problems are with each other

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355370

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363163

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The founder of Murena strongly implies that the difference between /e/ and GrapheneOS is that GrapheneOS is designed to protect pedos, for example. I think that explains a lot.

https://www.clubic.com/actualite-604786-murena-e-os-intervie...

Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:21AM (#50314650)
> where you can basically just scope VPNs to a subprocess rather than having to use some system wide network filter with split tunneling or whatever. Wireguard has huge usability issues due to that.

You can run wireguard in userspace with something like wireproxy which connects to a wireguard peer and acts as a proxy for your subprocess.

[1] https://github.com/windtf/wireproxy

Re:Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:57PM (#50309341)
The most fascinating thing about this is how american billionaires can speak in public and advocate for abolition of private [computing] property (means of production), to give full control over these resources to a handful of megacorporations (the party), in effect letting them control and command the economy (central planning). It's the communist boogeyman wearing a trench coat under the banner of capitalism!
Re:5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:13PM (#50306971)
It's almost the same thing. Both psilocybin and 4-aco-dmt are just (?) prodrugs for psilocin which is the psychoactive compound associated with magic mushrooms.

It's not like those horrible synthetic THC analogues we see in Europe that can kill people.

Over here Vitamin D often comes in spray bottles that you're meant to just spray in your mouth. It's more convenient for me than a pill because you don't need to open a container or a glass of water, takes 5 seconds.
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:24PM (#50306200)
What's "that"? Running your own hardware, using a CLI to manage servers, or touching anything below your application layer?
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:04PM (#50305878)
That's unlikely because Cursor (and VS Code) enforce a 12h delay for all extension updates by default. Malicious extension was only live for 11h so you shouldn't be affected unless you reduced it.
> Under normal protocols, the driver would be expected to continue moving at a maximum of 40km/h according to their line of sight, and not at normal speed on a track designed for speeds of up to 200km/h.

I think this has been misreported and it's even worse, EU register of infrastructure says that maximum permitted speed for this section is 270km/h and the sections before it are even higher.

https://rinf.data.era.europa.eu/unified-search?view=map&q=JT...

> But nobody has been able to prove this in any studies, even in ones outside of the school environment.

What do you mean? Here's one published last year:

> This study does not provide evidence to support the use of school policies that prohibit phone use during the school day in their current form, given that no differences were observed in mental, physical, and academic outcomes for adolescents attending schools that permit, versus restrict phone use. However, the negative associations found between increasing time spent on phones/social media and worsened mental health and wellbeing do provide evidence on the need to address phone and social media use in adolescents, and school policies should be developed as part a more holistic approach. [...]

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...

> From all the evidence I’ve seen, the disastrous effect of social media is everywhere but in the data.

This study doesn't say anything about the effects of social media on students.

It finds that phone bans in schools are not associated with measurable improvements in mental health. This is not the same as saying that social media and phone use aren't harmful, it only means that phone bans in school don't independently improve mental health outcomes.

A similar study from a couple of years ago [1] reached the same conclusion, however they had more data which exposed the hidden correlation (emphasis mine):

> Implications of all the available evidence

> This study does not provide evidence to support the use of school policies that prohibit phone use during the school day in their current form, given that no differences were observed in mental, physical, and academic outcomes for adolescents attending schools that permit, versus restrict phone use. However, the negative associations found between increasing time spent on phones/social media and worsened mental health and wellbeing do provide evidence on the need to address phone and social media use in adolescents, and school policies should be developed as part a more holistic approach. Preventative efforts should also consider how other behaviours that influence mental health and wellbeing are influenced by increased phone/media use, such as sleep, physical activity, attainment, classroom behaviour and problematic use.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...

Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:05AM (#50289278)
> can any devices actually put such a malformed message onto the carrier network? It probably requires at least a custom app that would never be allowed on an app store, if it's possible at all.

The author has provided an APK that claims to do just that. Hacking tools aren't allowed on app stores, no, but that has no bearing on the severity of vulnerabilities they exploit.

> And do any carriers actually let it go through their network and to a device like a normal message? It's entirely possible the malformed message would crash some software in the carrier's processing stack first and so never be delivered.

Apparently, unless you're accusing the author of lying.

> And if it doesn't, they could easily add a check to block such messages.

Your ISP could block RDP but that doesn't lessen the severity of RDP vulnerabilities, shift responsibility, or lessen the need for the vendor to respond in any way, that's not how this works.

This is an Android vulnerability and it should be assumed that the carrier is indifferent, actively hostile, cooperating with law enforcement to carry out this attack, or someone might carry out this attack using an IMSI catcher.

> It's difficult to believe they don't already have some sort of protection against spamming tons of messages to any device.

20? I doubt it. Do you think the author is lying?

> It's also entirely possible it works differently on different carriers, and some but not others might add blocks for this

Indeed. What's indefensible is Google's classification that this isn't a security vulnerability.

What difference does that make, genuinely?

Are there systems that can warn drivers and prevent collisions without external signaling, like ACAS?

Driving a train and driving a car are two completely different challenges.

If signaling worked properly then it wouldn't matter whether the train was driven autonomously or not, the "problem" becomes trivial. Establishing and continuously verifying that signaling is working properly is the hard part.

Without signaling you're limited to crawling speed just like humans are when they don't have any signalling .

All of your comments are coming up as [dead]. I vouched and upvoted your first one shortly after you posted it, I think that's probably why you couldn't edit it anymore.
However on page 8 the document states that these "session logs" don't record commands, they're just audit logs of when, where, by whom the sessions were initiated.
Re:About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:26AM (#50273178)
> Plenty of apps run Terminal commands in the background

Most notably agents like Claude Code and Codex? Easy to check if you ask it to run:

    $ curl 'https://dv-g3b-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/'

    Your client successfully connected to the site. That's bad!
To nay-sayers: There is real discontent and there are real grassroots protests, however that movement has been hijacked and turned into a widespread astroturfing campaign that's calling for protests and unrest all across Europe.

Spain: https://files.maldita.es/uploads/2026/10/6adf4cb02eb11captur...

Belgium and Austria: https://files.maldita.es/uploads/2026/10/6adf4cdc68db4captur...

Germany: https://files.maldita.es/uploads/2026/10/6adf4ccfdee54captur...

France and Germany (inciting violence): https://files.maldita.es/uploads/2026/10/6adf6524f4131pasted...

^Source: https://maldita.es/investigaciones/20261026/tiktok-manifesta...

There are more of these posters circulating and calling for protests in every European country that locals know nothing about and never actually happened (i.e. Oct 17): https://www.tiktok.com/@genz.rights/photo/769540155445459688...

Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:18AM (#50271312)
Yes something like that has been done, the solution uses asymmetric cryptography instead of symmetric and it protects the entire communication stream instead of just opening the gates - it's called Wireguard.

I jest, but you're describing authentication protocol which uses the UDP destination port field to carry each character of the "one time password" in a roundabout way. You could simply send 1 packet containing the password to the daemon.

I've never seen it used in the wild but apparently, it exists: https://github.com/mrash/fwknop

I also don't think the showcased response to the food question is any good?

Throwing out food that was at 6 °C for 2 hours without tasting it is really paranoid, the answer should be "it depends". If not following government advice/requirements on safe storage conditions (which is tailored to high risk populations) meant certain illness then I would be seriously ill at least once a week, but I've never been.

I would be waaaay more worried about catching a norovirus from someone who didn't wash their hands than raw meat being kept at 4-8C for 12h.

I don't think Wikipedia is a good benchmark here. Try 30 random articles and see how much of that information you would want to have with you in an emergency survival scenario.

Either way the comparisons here are unfair. An LLM that runs off a backpack-sized solar panel and a laptop might be a substitute for a broad, low quality, surface-level encyclopedia but it's many orders of magnitude worse than a library of books.

I would argue that in a survival situation the accuracy of information becomes even more important. If an LLM to misidentifies a plant (or a medical condition, its treatment, etc.) it could put you in an ER, but in a survival situation that could kill you.

The fact that a subset of systems are in a less vulnerable configuration doesn't have any bearing on the CVSS score.

> Specific configurations should not impact any attribute contributing to the CVSS Base metric assessment , i.e., if a specific configuration is required for an attack to succeed, the vulnerable system should be assessed assuming it is in that configuration. [1]

For a vulnerability to score a 10 its Attack Complexity must be 'Low' (broadly speaking: it doesn't require target-specific customizations or mitigations [1]), which isn't the case with php2shell.

Here's a breakdown of that 9.2: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H...

[1] https://www.first.org/cvss/v4.0/specification-document#Attac...

Budgeting for over a month without power is unheard of. Extreme scenarios ("dunkelflaute") are measured on the order of hours, maybe days, and they get shorter and less frequent the larger the grid is.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:23AM (#50221514)
I never called you stupid. You were needlessly aggressive 9 months ago, you were extremely aggressive before I weighed in yesterday, and now you're playing the victim, again.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:44AM (#50219618)
I'm skipping it because it's a waste of everyone's time, you're incapable of accepting new information, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong:

First you incorrectly claimed that multi-line RUN commands aren't supported still require that ugly legacy syntax. When that was proven wrong, instead of saying "good, I wasn't aware", you went on a tangent about its adoption and wanted to interrogate my knowledge -- Yes, obviously I know that running all commands in one RUN block is beneficial because it reduces layer count and image size.

Your revolutionary idea of "transactions" is already implemented through multi-stage builds. Except those are even better than transactions because individual steps are still cached, independent components can be built in parallel and they don't invalidate each other's cache. Finally the artifacts are copied into the final image, leaving behind unnecessary layers.

Re:Is this the new cyber normal? on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:00AM (#50218890)
> Now the simple knowledge that there might be an exploitable memory issue in some given piece of software is enough for bad actors to point LLMs at it and find the issue in hours.

It is all but certain there are exploitable memory issues in Chrome, Firefox, Node.js, Linux kernel, Nginx, etc.

Can we expect CVEs in a few hours? I'm sorry I ruined everyone's weekend.

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