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Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:44PM (#50330708)
No, but the initial claim was that it was
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:13AM (#50302867)
5000 is the cursor number for people on the cursor version of the store, not the VSCode store.
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:54AM (#50302717)
Has anyone managed to confirm the time that the backdoored version was released? None of my machines updated to it, I am wondering if it was saved by a combination of luck and

> This extension is not updated yet because new versions become eligible for automatic update 12 hours after they are published. It will become eligible in 2 hours.

Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:49AM (#50302676)
The screenshot is of the official marketplace
Re:PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025) on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:09PM (#50246195)
Why would anyone go to a forum for AI-generated content when they could just ask the AI themselves?
Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:55AM (#50240504)
Why bother with the expense if you are permanently soldering it in anyway?
Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:41AM (#50229775)
AND
Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:59PM (#50223080)
GitLab is just as bad, just not as big so doesn't get the coverage. https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...

And of course many people self-host which changes a lot of the equation (which you can also do with GitHub, but not for free - and FWIW our self-hosted premium gitlab has about an hour a day downtime, which we've been told by the team responsible is an unavoidable side-effect of backing up gitlab).

It's exactly the same as the people crying conspiracy about parts-locking for repairability, not acknowledging the real effects it had on phone thefts and the pressure at the national and governmental level to help solve the epidemic.
I used to have an oven whose clock would display 23:60 before jumping to 00:01!
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:28AM (#50043678)
And servers. Which of course it would rely on permanently to operate.
If you are interested in smart scopes and don’t mind missing direct observation, the Seestars or Dwarf 3 mini are getting pretty affordable (I borrowed a Dwarf to observe the solar eclipse - it came with solar filter - and playing around with it at night was very happy and got me into the hobby pretty deep so far…)
clearoutside.com, which is pretty reasonable at predicting cloud cover, says it gets the data from Meteosource.
Re:Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:26PM (#49851399)
…it’s Science Fiction
Re:Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:23PM (#49849444)
Lots of unnecessary whitespace, tabs changing colour to be confusing about which is selected…

They hired a new design lead who wants to make their mark, didn't they.

Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:21PM (#49758180)
This has been the behaviour when you launch but don’t connect a specific tunnel for at least a couple of years
Re:OpenAI Model Misalignment Report on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:52AM (#49738945)
I had my own “Misaligned AI” incident.

Whilst talking about debugging an electronics project I suggested that buying an oscilloscope would help diagnose a specific issue.

It “helpfully” pointed out a £15 logic analyser would do the job instead.

Traitor.

You are right! Computer use should be taught, tested and licensed exactly the same way of steering several tons of metal at 70mph are!
Using a computer wrong doesn't kill people.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:34PM (#49701711)
This is the “dynamic key area” in action
Re:Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:44PM (#49675725)
Sounds like they hit a wall and are looking to score points for it.
Presumably quietly added default-on because everyone had turned attribution off.

Again, if you challenge it “It came from my harness instructions” and obviously telling it not to in memory is about as successful as… any other instruction in memory, about 60% of the time.

Re:An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:04AM (#49461423)
This is a convenient handwave to pretend that they are violating when to the word of the license they aren’t.
Re:Black hole singularity is a surface not a point on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:33PM (#49439411)
Unfortunately, there is a rather large one not one sixth of that distance away (a million trillion miles is actually rather large - 170 kly - approximately double the size of our galaxy)
Re:Quantum battery upends the rules of charging on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:49AM (#49433118)
Most of that time could well be the last ~20%

My car takes 240KW (It still feels insane to be delivering that much power) and 10-80% (56KWh) is about 15 minutes and 80-100% is another 15-20 minutes

e.g. hurting the right people, _even if it hurts us too_
> Archive.org was sued for renting one book on an exclusive basis (unless one would return, another wouldn't be able to rent)

No, this is what they were doing before, but they explicitly started lending out "unlimited" copies, which is why they got sued.

Re:Rewriting in Rust on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:23AM (#49371872)
I believe that is "The Joke"
Re:Supersonic Trebuchet [video] on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:44AM (#49359690)
What are you throwing that isn’t a consumable, boomerangs?

Also pretty sure several parts of the mechanism would need to be considered consumable if operating over a long period.

Re:Amodei Re. Regulation on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:00AM (#49329494)
It did a lot more than that; no, it didn’t “solve” protein folding but for people whose interests are not “work out how protein folding works” it basically removes “solve protein folding” as one of the potential bottlenecks for what they actually want to study.

Turns out that “give a reasonable probability of being close enough such that you can bootstrap a solution out of experimental data” gives a very high utility and effectively obsoleted several experimental techniques overnight; pretty much “Molecular replacement” is about the only technique for phasing resolution anyone bothers with any more.

But again, “Bio” is an _extremely_ broad term; for every part of the field Alphafold had a big effect on there are a thousand different parts of the field that it did nothing for.

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