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Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:46AM (#50351361)
Why doesn't your company just get each of them a 20€ subscription instead of paying per token?
In advertising, yes.
> Now you’ll have a router with a battery that the owner doesn’t know about and won’t service

In Canada, Bell has actually discontinued battery backup in their latest modems, supposedly because they were having trouble with modems not rebooting correctly.

> then it's on totally on them to make their systems hack-proof.

Sanctioning people who try to hack your system is part of making it hack-proof.

Some sort of federal trade commission?
Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:16AM (#50316920)
Harnesses don't use claude.ai login, they use your `claude` binary.
Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:09AM (#50316366)
No you don't, Claude subscriptions allow headless use (either via claude -p or by wrapping the session) for personal use.

T3 does it this way.

Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:58AM (#50316260)
> (You can’t use your Claude subscription.)

How come?

Re:How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:33AM (#50303653)
The radius at which the escape velocity is the speed of light.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:30PM (#50278669)
I found Anthropic to be pretty intuitive.
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:40PM (#50261827)
Just as JPod by Douglas Coupland predicted.
I'm not sure, I just inherited it. But there's some things like analytics that can only really run in the browser so that might be why.
Once for SSR, once for client-side; for each entry view.
We use nextjs at work and I hate it. Why write each view once when you could write it twice?

I'm open to the idea that we're doing it wrong and that there's a correct and pleasant way to write nextjs, but I think with the tools available today, everyone should just profile and optimize their app so they don't need to render it serverside.

Re:Why Gopher in 2026? on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:56PM (#50228168)
I feel the same about Gander (the Canadian Bluesky-compatible startup). The only content on it is people talking about how it's not Twitter. One of my top three beefs with it.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:43PM (#50198672)
My girlfriend deliberately watches the extra ads to get in-game rewards, so I can't even pihole the whole home network unless I exclude her phone. (I find that most of these games work fine if you block ads, but they also don't give you the rewards for watching an ad that never loaded.)
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:23AM (#50195825)
Yes, but in the end that's not their fault, and in a sense it's good that this happened. It was well understood from the invention of security certificates that private keys might leak and certificates will need to be revoked. Systems that were not designed with this in mind should never have been deployed, and should now be decommissioned and replaced.

It might even be sensible to intentionally revoke a small number of certificates every month, to make sure nobody is complacent.

The attacker may have known about the exploit for a long time and were saving it, but upon finding out that it was about to be disclosed, they decided it was now or never.
Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:45PM (#50186525)
Apps can integrate into iMessage, there's an API. You're thinking of sending and receiving actual iMessage messages as a full user, which they can't do.
Yes but it can't actually upgrade and release packages for discontinued distro release streams, that's a human problem.
Re:The compiler was supposed to end programming too on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:59PM (#50185844)
"Women didn't like it and left" is certainly an interesting interpretation of the systemic exclusion of women from a field when it transitions from low-prestige manual work to high-prestige intellectual work.
Unless the magical code generation machine can update packages that are no longer being updated, this isn't really a problem that can be solved with magical code generation.
That's not what it does. `php --version` may well not report the php version that's actually running.
Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:00PM (#50184168)
Because I own a number of USB C dongles and a number of HDMI cables, both of which are extremely common, but zero USB C to HDMI cables, which I'm assuming I could easily find on Aliexpress but have never actually seen before in my life.
Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:20PM (#50173482)
Great, just need to make sure I have a dongle and a 10' HDMI cable in my iPad bag.
Re:RepRapMicron on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:19AM (#50141842)
Does this mean we can print vinyl records?
I'm not convinced that it's possible to poison AI. Real data all correlates, fake data is all unique in its own way. I suspect feeding AI fake data is a waste of time.
Thank you for reminding me that we don't have Flash anymore. I'm counting blessings I forgot I had.
Re:Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:39AM (#50102254)
No, they're just avoiding bad press.
I think we're a breakthrough away. I don't think processing power is an issue. A 7B model has a lot of cruft (like knowledge of code syntax) that a character sim doesn't need. It should be possible to extract just the relevant parts of a larger and more powerful model and run it with the same resources you would run a general 7B model. We just don't have the ability to isolate and extract weights like that yet.

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