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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:19AM (#50349040)
Why use Rocky or Alma when you can use openSUSE?
Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:17AM (#50349029)
But shouldn't it be easy for their great models to fix it?
Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:42PM (#50347774)
Looking at their desktop apps, I don't think they're into optimizing.
No skipping leg days...
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:44AM (#50333510)
It's actually interesting for me to see that voting is on a Tuesday. Here it's always on Sundays. But as a direct democracy, we also vote a couple of times every year, maybe that's a factor.
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:30AM (#50326575)
> Spoken from a place of true entitlement.

Maybe. I live in Switzerland. Here even the poor can afford to vote.

Nevertheless, do these poorest really account for a third of all voters?

Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:23AM (#50325993)
Don't give them ideas...
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:21AM (#50325967)
He who remains silent seems to consent.
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:18AM (#50325941)
Of course. People say they have never seen someone so full of shit!
> Anecdotally, does this match anyone's actual experience?

Yes. In contrast to you, I really think many of my coworkers seem to get dumber by the day. Not all of them yet, fortunately, but many.

According to Claude.
Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:10PM (#50318462)
Ha, finally me being poor pays off!
Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:07PM (#50318435)
Well, we don't have to use the tools you mentioned.
Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:27AM (#50315527)
Production scale is not production grade I guess...
Re:Tell HN: Scribd Breached on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:33AM (#50314431)
Yes, but I think it also just shows the widespread ignorance and incompetence in many companies.

I'm not saying everything can be secured easily, but a lot of those leaks recently could have been prevented easily.

Re:Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:47AM (#50290948)
This is certainly an interesting project. I have to ask though, why C++ and not Rust?
Re:Emacs Turns 50 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:52AM (#50285716)
But GNU Emacs was not the first incarnation. That was EMACS on some PDP system in the 70s and Richard Stallman was already involved in that. Gosling Emacs only came years later.
Re:Why I Am a Programmer on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:20PM (#50247400)
Most software engineers are not in the same level as real engineers either, let's be honest here.
Provocative of what? Thinking about the issues that Python has? Why would that be a problem?

It IS a mess and it's causing problems again and again in real life. And it is particularly bad with Python. I don't see why this should not be pointed out.

Python certificate handling is a hot mess, even by Python standards.
Re:Is this the new cyber normal? on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:30AM (#50218563)
When did we start to shorten cyber security with just cyber? I see this quite often now and I think it's just stupid, it doesn't make sense.
Re:OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:41PM (#50215776)
> Once the agents agreed on a protocol for encoding and decoding these signals

That the agents had a means to that seems to do a lot of work here.

Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:49PM (#50213643)
Apple has been propagating Swift for more than a decade now and at least in theory, it should be on par with Rust in terms of safety I'd say.
Come to any rural and more or less mountainous region in Switzerland and you'll probably see more than 10 in every village ;)
Re:Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:40AM (#50178116)
That's what Claude wants you to think.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:39PM (#50169027)
One could argue the two (Musk's politics and Twitter's actions) are related
Looking at their expressions, they might as well have been captured...
Re:macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:38PM (#50142634)
But there is no Windows Phone anymore unfortunately.
Re:macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:34PM (#50142605)
Maybe they asked Claude to fix a vulnerability?

Can't have OpenGL security issues without an OpenGL context

Re:Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:24AM (#50138751)
> desktop Windows users were accustomed to frequent system crashes

Home users maybe. I've started with Windows NT 4.0 and don't remember it being crash-prone.

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