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Same here, just got a notification that one of my watched aur packages got taken over of someone random because it was orphaned.
Kernel level anti cheat is really the maximum effort of locking down a client from doing something suspicious. But today we still see cheaters in those games running these system. Which proofs that a game server just cannot trust a random client out there. I know it's about costs, what to compute on client and what to compute in server side. But as long as a game trusts computation and 'inputs' of clients we will see those cheating issues.
Re:Gnome forbids AI generated Shell Extensions on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:24AM (#46336408)
That does not make any sense to me. A human can produce software that is at least as bad. Vice versa, a good developer can also create good software with AI. They should focus on actual quality - the outcome - and evaluate it neutrally rather than making such stupid blanket statements.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:28AM (#45965569)
It's so crazy and scary that Cloudflare is the single point of failure for the internet.
> Or is the performance of those models also worse there?

The context and output limit is heavily shrunk down on github copilot[0]. That's the reason why for example Sonnet 4.5 performs noticeably worse under copilot than in claude code.

[0] https://models.dev/?search=sonnet+4.5

Re:Guiding an LLM for Robust Java ByteBuffer Code on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:56AM (#43717858)
> You do mentoring because the pay off is a junior that develops into a senior; writes better code more efficiently. But what's the pay off with going through this process with AI?

This point is so underrated, when discussing about replacing junior devs with AI.

What a coincidence, today is the annual LAN party with my school friends. We've been doing this once a year between christmas and new year for many years, and I enjoy every second of it.
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:46AM (#41004744)
Imagine a supply chain attack on a closed system and nobody finding out about it.
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:44AM (#41003680)
That's crazy, imagine you have thousands of office PCs that all have to be fixed by hand.
I recently had a xz moment where the rust zip crate was taken over by a single person and the original crate was completely replaced. I'm still not sure if this was legit or not: https://github.com/zip-rs/zip-old/issues/446
Sadly not my region. Maybe I'm 2024 able to get one.
I currently have the same problem, I would like to root my dreame roboter, but unfortunately I can't get the components for the dreame PCB, or nobody sells me a ready soldered dreame PCB. Too bad there is no alternative, but that makes it really hard for people with a dreame robot to use the project.
I wouldn't say that soldering a pcb [0][1] yourself is beginner-friendly but I understand your argument. Some robots are unfortunately still very difficult to root (which is not valetudos fault), which makes getting started with the project very cumbersome.

[0] https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html

[1] https://github.com/Hypfer/valetudo-dreameadapter

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