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Re:Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:12AM (#50350524)
Om Firefox mobile, the controls are way too sensitive. I could barely aim at things. Also the joystick indicator stays in place even though you can press and drag from anywhere.

The loading is extremely slow - I'm not sure I need all the objects loaded before selecting the first level.

Also I'm not sure if some textures didn't load, but the first level is just... almost empty to random things on the floor? It doesn't have any interesting surroundings.

Re:My Favourite Laptop on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:41AM (#50349922)
There's no laptop that doesn't need spare parts. Even if some model is known for reliability, it doesn't matter when you're suddenly the unlucky one. Or when it drops on the ground and something cracks. Not that I have perfect information, but in a calculation similar to insurance - I'd rather have something a little bit less reliable but with cheaper spares/repair than "perfectly reliable" but needing a full replacement. (Or apple's "we can replace all of the inside or all of the outside")
This reminded me I wanted to check how small can I make chrome by disabling all the unnecessary features. I'd really like to get something I can swap in the electron packages to reduce the ram usage. Sometimes it's worth fighting for the resources we pay for.
> These are both signs of a maturing market.

I wonder when will oil companies reach the point of a maturing market... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/fossil-f...

Re:Cloudflare experiencing multiple active incidents on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:13AM (#50349010)
Yeah, the link should be to https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?type=incident

They have an incident of the incident status page...

Re:Cloudflare experiencing multiple active incidents on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:01AM (#50348942)
s/incidents/maintenance tasks/
Re:Paper straws worse for the environment than plastic ones on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:51AM (#50348884)
It looks like the details of the report are not published, but there's a call to do so: http://www.ikld.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=342710
Re:WorkOS reports security breach on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:10PM (#50347103)
At any point, any company and individual is in the state of "We have no evidence that your application data was accessed." I get what you're trying to say, full verification is tricky, and there's nothing wrong with rotating credentials just in case in those situations. But you're implying way more than that and there's no reason for it.
It's from Xenocide. It was between Ender and Novinha.
> Comparing it to the US isn’t really meaningful considering the EV market here is on life support.

I think that's the thing being pointed out...

It's really not much different than most cars people use every day. Nothing weird is happening with my seats. (Sealion 7) And I put 40kg+ in the boot without problems either. I've not seen reports of this being a problem overall - maybe you just got very unlucky?

I get not liking something for personal preference reasons, but going as far as garbage and cheap quality in this case just... doesn't match reality. It's a perfectly fine car that works. Lots of people are happy with it.

Re:Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:14PM (#50344677)
That's not what the message says though. It implies using marketing cookies there, not externally. They could've said "Click to play from YouTube (may involve cookie tracking)" if it's actually for YouTube
If I remember the details correctly, the AI-like entity optimised the communication to subvocal, but his wife felt disconnected, noticed him turned away in bed whispering to the AI.

There's some lesson there...

For a specific service only, not the networks. But that doesn't even matter that much - if you require the attacker to get both into the network and into the device, that's a significant improvement.
> about having pointless services listening for no good reason

I think you'll find that for most people, plugging the laptop in and having the network immediately available and automatically seeing their local printer is a pretty good reason.

Re:Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:43PM (#50343435)
"Click to accept marketing cookies and enable this content" on a video? Have some shame, developers...
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:22AM (#50338051)
Don't expect closed source to protect you. LLMs are very happy to analyse binaries and decompile functions you need. It's barely harder to deal with software you don't have the source for. I did both security and reveng work with LLMs and they don't slow down.
Re:Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:43AM (#50337492)
Unfortunately the cost of HSM is the cost of two of them, overprovisioned for your projected needs over years, and staff who know how to use them safely both in terms of security design and not losing access to everything in case of an issue.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:07AM (#50334947)
Would a projector fit in your space? There are 4k laser projectors with really good quality these days. And they don't come with any apps, just HDMI port. The good quality laser ones are so bright that you can see them pretty well during the day.
Re:AI text watermarking and quality loss on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:19PM (#50329350)
The paper is pretty clear that (non-distortion) watermarking doesn't impact the quality of responses, but may change the quality of the system. Those are very different things and the paper treats them as such.

On the other hand when you quote that, you drop the "system": «it can “lower overall quality” after all». And make unsupported claims from that: «But “inter-response diversity” affects how most people use these systems too.» - which could both use a citation and doesn't show is a practical problem.

> The prior answers in your example of asking for x alternatives influence the following answers too much in a way a re-roll doesn't.

They're influenced to not do what the last answer did which is the whole point. Can you define "too much" or show why it's an issue?

Re:AI text watermarking and quality loss on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:35PM (#50321657)
It's an interesting review, but it seems to mix some things together. Gruber's claim is that we shouldn't sacrifice quality, but none of those sources show that's what's happening. Having less diversity in answers could mean you're more consistently getting a better/worse/same quality answer. There are lots of people complaining about not being able to get a real temperature=0 answer - they'd actually welcome the consistency too.

The practical example of not liking the sentence is not great in my opinion. Instead of just re-rolling the answer, why not continue in that thread and say what you don't like? Or request 20 alternatives, say which go in the right direction and request 20 more? Retrying from scratch with one sample is a waste of time and doesn't indicate anything about quality.

Basically, it's all theoretical - show us the actual benchmarks/samples where the quality is consistently degraded.

Re:Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:34AM (#50304510)
Yeah, it shouldn't. But at that point it's not "Why didn't Claude detect the hack" but rather "Why isn't Claude running all processes at your company autonomously", which is a bit silly. We know it isn't and it's not at that level, because anthropic employs engineers.
Some laws are there not to guarantee compliance, but to enforce rules, fines, and punishment. For example the laws forcing you to declare bribes in various situations are not there to make you actually declare them.
Re:Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:13AM (#50304206)
I'm not sure where you see the flex. If someone gets hold of the token allowing the upload of your app to the store, it's completely irrelevant how good your internal code/review systems are. They've been completely bypassed and never triggered.
Re:Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:34AM (#50303666)
This is a cheap troll, but just in case someone is wondering: This extension likely never hit the standard workflow and/or repository. Most likely someone got the credentials and uploaded a locally modified version. No review system at anthropic has seen this version.
Re:Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:13AM (#50303412)
> modern Qwen and DeepSeek

It's worth checking different behaviours across the available models from time to time. What you end up preferring may be very dependent on what you do. For example while being diligent is nice in a lot of situations, sometimes I ask a personal agent a question and mimo spends 10min validating the answer in a few different ways. Sometimes I want that big research, sometimes I just want to know what that transformers toy is called.

There's also a huge difference is writing style. I'll take GPTs version of a commit summary over Claude and its copies any time.

Serious answer:

- they provide a service, not software

- you'd also need a maintained /24 of IPs with good email reputation

- unless you want to only use an email client, you need to do lots of testing on the web editor part for how the formatting gets interpreted in other clients, how to render weird emails correctly, how to protect the privacy in external resources, and lots of other things

Even with an LLM that's both a multi-week implementation and an infra management project for life. Their users in general can't do that. (There's a handful that could)

Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:56PM (#50294878)
Can you link to a specific ruling that supports this?
> Batteries are traditionally grid-following, so they'll just follow whatever frequency the grid is already running on.

Is there in theory an amount of batteries with inverters where enough energy is created to "not notice" the spinning generators going away? I.e. everyone is trying to follow the frequency that's already flowing therefore everyone sees some frequency flowing? Or would it be like talking with echo/delay where they start slowing down by always being behind until everyone stops?

Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:24AM (#50287829)
So it was a Hungarian $ - got to know :)

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