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Re:There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:29AM (#50194405)
I think OP's point is that, if the attacker already has root, they haven't gained any new capabilities from the CVE. They could just do whatever they wanted much more directly. Therefore, the inherent risk seems fairly low.
Re:Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:57PM (#50171803)
But they do that via things in their control. For example, banks that don't follow FATCA cannot access the US banking system. It's rare for the US to send law enforcement to banks that don't comply

The UK would have been perfectly justified in saying 4chan can't access any of their systems.

Re:Recreational Programming on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:17PM (#50081205)
He's the "doing ui in c to piss of react devs" guy, right?
Re:Evolving programming languages in the AI era on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:28PM (#49862014)
Because human review is a serious bottleneck and optimizing something that isn't the bottleneck isn't helpful
Re:Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:18PM (#49637548)
Which makes sense.

In a conversation about code, the most likely answer is often some comment about backwards compatibility.

In a conversation about a legacy enterprise app, the most likely answer is often going completely insane

Re:GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:03PM (#49637427)
I still think this is because, on a new release, it works on some prompts the previous ones did badly at, because new weights do well on a different set of prompts.

Then after a few days you notice the prompts that it does badly on that the old ones did fine with and everyone is convinced there's a regression when it's just a different part of prompt space

I'd put Kevlin Henney up there with him. His talk on 1968 alone is pretty amazing
Re:The August 17 outage, and the work ahead on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:52PM (#49381359)
Sure, but the new patterns are several years old at this point.

Not adapting is a choice

So that you can name a section of code without polluting the namespace.
It's training data might have a ton of examples of people hurrying and screwing more after being yelled at
Re:AI's top startups are barely publishing their research on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:11PM (#49104683)
Yeah, but that capture is usually just hosted spark usage.

The AI usage has mostly been getting it to explain error messages

> “The source described leading AI labs or their allies approaching the administration every 3-5 months with an idea to ban open-source models.”

That's going to hit first amendment grounds pretty quick, the same way that software in general did.

The modern version of the decss flag will be a character that says "I think good weights are {...weights go here...}"

They could, however, ban any payment to a chinese entity, or any entity owned by a chinese entity for inference/ai services/etc

Re:AI makes programming differently difficult on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:31PM (#48997046)
It does make it correct in the reality sense

If someone says something happens and the code says something else, the code wins.

Re:Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip on Sunday July 19, 2026 @03:25PM (#48970974)
The article mentions that the "pranksterish" groups who took psychedelics weathered it just fine. They didn't have an expectation to disappoint. Irreverence seems to be just as good

It does sound like the opposite a bit, it sounds like attempting to create a spiritual practice, or assign spiritual significance at all was what did him in

Give how default gcc and clang are, along with the recommendation to update the standard instead of gcc and clang, it sounds like the standard is noncompliant with standard C++

Standard in the sense of commonly used or supplied

whistles

3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot

Re:Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:29AM (#48707613)
Generally speaking, things that you sell (the legal term is commercial speech, iirc) is more able to be regulated by the government.

The government can ban the sale of those things to minors, generally. So the category of porn sites that require a credit card and pay gate the content might be regulateable.

But that's not how places like pornhub or xvideos operate

Re:Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:14AM (#48707454)
It would probably also be illegal for the government to mandate a paywall.

The issue is not that age gates are illegal, but that the government forcing people to use age gates is illegal.

Re:Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online on Sunday June 28, 2026 @09:53AM (#48707271)
There's a big difference here, in the US anyways, neither alcohol nor nicotine have first amendment protections. Basically all content delivered over the US does.

That's a much thornier legal issue

Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:19PM (#48549329)
> It is not disingenuous, maybe a little loose on the 'meaning', but your definition is rather narrow

The thing is that every other country does have what they're describing.

> The Color Purple has been challenged many times in order to be removed from public library circulation and public school curriculums.

And yet nobody challenged it to get it removed from US Amazon. Amazon _is_ forbidden from selling certain books in other countries. It's so not the same thing

Ahh, more supplement. I must have misread as more absolute amount
Do they need more vitamin D? I thought they just needed more sun to get the same vitamin D
You're not wrong that a rationale is required.

But the master knowing when to break the rules because of tacit knowledge without being able to explain it is a real effect

Re:LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:22AM (#48356511)
> Radioactive decay shows that a young earth could not exist

This is one of the worst arguments against young earth creationism. You have to posit a being who can create the universe, but can't create already decayed elements.

> The problem we're seeing across many professions is AI output is not getting vetted by knowledgeable people

The problem is that output sometimes take longer to verify than to create in the first place.

That turns AI into a deeply negative ROI system for many applications.

1st amendment. There's a long history of carve outs around commercial products. But, if Linux devs (who aren't selling anything) went to the mat against this law, the government of California would lose and (at least part of) their law would be struck down.
Re:Deno 2.8 on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:08AM (#48236990)
> The article mentions Zig as a factor, but is micromanaging memory really gaining over 2x vs node?

As someone who has optimized by reducing/batching heap allocations, 2x seems within the realm of possibility, depending on the exact circumstances.

That being said, iirc, node also has more hooks for things like observability than bun does, which might hurt it here

> There's not really enough info to know if this is just a coin toss or something more.

The difference is always having one or two devs who care. Every successful software project I've ever seen has had a few devs who care way more than is healthy

> It can't block a federal warrant.

Exactly. If they all submit to federal warrants, and the state has a law effectively against that, then it becomes illegal to use the cameras.

That probably just means it's illegal for local governments to use cloud based cameras in Illinois

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