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non-disparagement clauses doing a lot of heavy lifting here
Cool idea, especially the plugin security angle, but WordPress’s real strength is its ecosystem. That’s going to be hard to replicate.
Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? No. Test Your ISP on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:19AM (#47602088)
RPKI makes BGP safer, not safe. It helps prevent some hijacks, but attackers can still mess with routing paths. Feels like we’re patching a trust-based system rather than fixing it.
“More neurons = intelligence” always felt like an oversimplification. If that were true, we wouldn’t be surprised by birds or octopuses anymore.
Re:How to Turn Anything into a Router on Monday March 30, 2026 @10:41AM (#47574989)
“Just use OPNsense” is great advice for production, but terrible advice for learning. This article is valuable precisely because it shows how little magic is actually involved in routing.
Re:Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:59AM (#47564293)
IPv6 isn’t that compelling on a simple home network, but avoiding NAT and easier end-to-end connectivity are pretty real advantages.
Re:Say No to Palantir in Europe on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:54AM (#47564241)
Petitions don’t do much on their own, but they’re often how pressure starts. And ‘not European issues’ feels off when these companies operate globally anyway.
Re:Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:58PM (#47547469)
The pill tabs are what get me too. I can ignore most visual changes after a while, but those somehow manage to feel both more distracting and less informative at the same time.
Re:ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @02:34PM (#47507144)
Not sure how to feel about this. Does this mean ARM is slowly moving from just licensing IP to actually competing with companies building on top of it?
Re:Autoresearch on an old research idea on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:31PM (#47495376)
Partially—but science also questions the hypothesis and the metric. This mostly assumes both are correct and just optimizes within that box.
Re:Autoresearch on an old research idea on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:05PM (#47494404)
This feels less like automated research and more like structured trial and error with a decent feedback loop. Still useful, but I think the real bottleneck is how good your eval metric is. If that’s weak, the whole loop just optimizes for the wrong thing faster.
Cool idea, lock screen notes actually solve a real annoyance. But yeah, you might want to rethink the name—it’s likely to turn people off before they even try it.
Feels less like malice and more like people just not thinking about others. Still, on a plane you’re stuck for hours—rules like this make sense.
The goal seems to be breaking the real-time guidance scammers rely on. 24h probably works, but it feels like a heavy tradeoff for legit users.
I’m more curious about how robust this is against modern systems. A lot of newer facial recognition models are trained on occlusions, masks, and heavy makeup — so this might be less effective than people assume.