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So HW passkeys in general can also be compromised?
Re:Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:44AM (#49918901)
So as soon as the attacker can download Claude Code, the whole machine can be comlromised and there's nothing anybody can do?
Is there an overview on how this works? E.g. if we code a contract in LAWS.bend, how is it enforced? What prevents my LLM model to skip a contract?
Re:Qubes OS Security in the Public Record on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:10AM (#48958341)
Would need to create a lab and throw LLMs at it to see if they can break anything. That would be an interesting paper.
Can't LLMs now just write books that aren't publicly available?
Re:Orchestrating AI code review at scale on Friday May 29, 2026 @07:53AM (#48321973)
Every iteration something can be found. How many times do you iterate e.g. on performance - use optimized struct, oh, you can change the architecture etc.? At that point one can just have a while loop for the agents to make changes until no comments left.
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Thursday April 23, 2026 @09:37AM (#47875617)
Linux first but the battery life measured on Win 11?
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @02:28AM (#47859810)
No Ryzen options? Also no 1600nits display for working outside. Battery and display brightness are the only reasons I'm sticking with Macbook Pro.Sad it's not a priority for any other manufacturer. Because that's all you need, quality display, battery and remote access.
Would be nice to look around in the cockpit view. And have city names etc.
Re:Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:19AM (#47310241)
Powered all the time on or powered off?
Re:My Week with OpenCode on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:25AM (#46599619)
Wonder how it compares to Kilocode
Re:CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution on Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:30PM (#46099079)
Seems to be a mixed bag regarding performance: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-ubuntu-2510-f43/6
Re:Signal knows who you're talking to on Sunday November 23, 2025 @06:40AM (#46022762)
All you need is metadata. Once you know your targets, install spyware (on one of them) and enjoy access to Signal's unencrypted msgs on the phone.

Almost feels like another CryptoAG with Snowden recommending it so much when he knows that metadata is enough.

Where are LLMs now?
The most useful feature with the worst UX. You have to type about:profiles and then create a new profile. But imagin you now want to move old profiles to a new computer and FF happens to run in a Flatpack. Yeah, much fun
Re:OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework on Monday October 06, 2025 @06:19PM (#45496941)
Couldn't the input be automatically described/guessed using a few rows of data and a LLM?
Re:OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework on Monday October 06, 2025 @06:16PM (#45496918)
Wonder how it compares to zstd-9 since they only mention zstd-3
Re:Signal's New PQ Ratchet on Thursday October 02, 2025 @02:51PM (#45453780)
Well, for some reason they're not worried about metadata. And the agencies mostly collect metadata...
Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:13AM (#45447333)
Wonder why everybody's first pick is CEPH which is known for being hard to optimize vs e.g. SeaweedFS
Re:I Run a Full Linux Desktop in Docker Just Because I Can on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:38AM (#44994078)
For me this opens the question of are there any good remote desktop solutions for multiuser systems around. Rustdesk is single user, TurboVNC works, but there can be lag.
Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:18PM (#44801022)
Would be interesting yo have sth like this for cars
Re:The FastLanes File Format [pdf] on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:04PM (#44674730)
Any comparison with https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex? Also any plans to integrate with polars?
Wonder how companies handle this. As a company you'd want to protect all the IP on a company device. And make sure no tmp gov is fiddling with the HW.
Errot 405
Re:Hydro: Distributed Programming Framework for Rust on Friday January 31, 2025 @03:14PM (#42891389)
Not sure what problem this is solving. For real applications one would need sth as ray.io for Rust. Academia ppl: let's make another data flow framework.
Why should one care if they're still under warranty?
Re:Apache Iceberg on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:33AM (#42831280)
Why would one choose this instead of DeltaLake?
How is this different than just using your SSH key?
Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail on Sunday December 22, 2024 @10:56AM (#42487106)
Thank you very much for sharing this, very insightful.
Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail on Sunday December 22, 2024 @07:01AM (#42485854)
Would be interesting to know how files get stored. They don't mention any distributed FS solutions like SeaweedFS so once a drive is full, does the file get sent to another one via some service? Also ZFS seems an odd choice since deletions (esp of small files) at +80% full drive are crazy slow.

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