akersten

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by akersten 5mo ago
Hmm, that QR code workflow doesn't look very accessible. Can we preemptively ADA this thing out of existence somehow?
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by akersten 5mo ago
> How do you describe in a legal way the difference between a useful feature people want and an addictive feature they don’t want? For laws like this it always boils down to "I'll know it when I see it" which is such a sho
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by akersten 5mo ago
Agreed on all fronts, I should have been more precise that this particular vector was mitigated
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by akersten 5mo ago
2024 which is ancient history. This is not true anymore, the models now are trained to prevent abliteration by spreading out the refusal encoding See https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19056
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by akersten 5mo ago
Am I getting old or can you guys actually read this site? The text is tiny and gray...
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by akersten 5mo ago
Okay and Chrome provide a service displaying the illegal content to the user. What now?
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by akersten 5mo ago
The stakes just aren't high enough for us to implement any of this crap for the Internet in the first place. Let alone an entire government-administered hardware supply chain.
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by akersten 5mo ago
Ok, so those bills in NY and WA about making it illegal to sell printers that don't detect firearm parts are dead in the water, right?
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by akersten 5mo ago
> Surely the precedent would have to be that a model trained on GPL code has itself been infected by GPL, and therefore must have all source/weights released I don't see how this follows, unless we also agree that humans who ha
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by akersten 5mo ago
will using claude via opencode get me banned this week or is that not until next week?
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by akersten 5mo ago
> I do not trust them, so I Why does this sentence end in anything other than "immediately transferred them to another registrar"?
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by akersten 5mo ago
GitHub issues (well, PR comments specifically) is possibly the clearest example of developers not knowing how their users use the product. There are only 3 important user stories that matter for this workflow and none of them are done well:
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by akersten 6mo ago
I'd go long Google too if using Gemini CLI felt anything close to the experience I get with Codex or Claude. They might have great hardware but it's worthless if their flagship coding agent gets stuck in loops trying to find the e
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by akersten 6mo ago
kind of sad that the CSS specification wound up with this clunky `light-dark(white,black)` thing instead of literally anything more extensible like, `themed(dark(black), light(white), retro(purple))`. Then you'd be able to have a cool
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by akersten 6mo ago
how your users' browsers choose to render `about:blank` while waiting on your page to be delivered is outside of both your control and concern on Gnome i've got system-wide dark mode turned on and idk, my Firefox is dark gray unti
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by akersten 6mo ago
> Could probably create exceptions for bullets used at the gun range, so you can become proficient and safe. Amusing to imagine the red diesel of sport shooting - better hope the tax authority doesn't find any combustion-proof dye o
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by akersten 6mo ago
I guess to me, I'm looking at it from the perspective of diffing the repo between the squashed commit on main and the tip of the incoming PR. If there are merge conflicts during the rebase in files that don't appear in that diff
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by akersten 6mo ago
> Conflicts spawn most likely because PR A was squashed, and once you squash Git doesn't know that PR B's ancestors commits are the same thing as the squashed commit on main. Yeah, and I kind of see how git gets confused beca
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by akersten 6mo ago
I've no issue with the logic of needing to update feature branches before merging, that's pretty bread and butter. The specific issue with this workflow is that the "update branch" button for PR B is grayed out because t
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by akersten 6mo ago
Does it fix the current UX issue with Squash & Merge? Right now I manually do "stacked PRs" like this: main <- PR A <- PR B (PR B's merge target branch is PR A) <- PR C, etc. If PR B merges first, PR A can merge
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by akersten 6mo ago
It seems to parse just fine? They create some unknown mixture of methanol/ethanol (who knows what the ratio is, who cares, like you said, depends what you're making it from) and then raise it past the boiling point of methanol, t
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by akersten 6mo ago
> This is actually a myth. I’ll have to see if I can find the papers I read but mass spectrometry has shown that methanol comes out throughout the entire process. The idea that things come out at their boiling temperature is a drastic ov
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by akersten 6mo ago
Fundamentally it's a fuzzy signal and people shouldn't rely on it. The general public does not understand Boolean logic (oh, so the SynthID is not there, therefore this image is real). The sooner AI watermarking faces its deserved
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by akersten 6mo ago
It would be a better analogy if tobacco companies sold ad space on their packs and chose not to do business with a private for-profit anti-smoking solicitation group.
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by akersten 6mo ago
Any good payload analysis been published yet? Really curious if this was just a one and done info stealer or if it potentially could have clawed its way deeper into affected systems.
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by akersten 6mo ago
> The brackets are a few years wide, so it could take a bit of waiting. There are millions of people moving between the proposed age brackets every day . This is a DoB-gifting firehose to ad tech.
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by akersten 7mo ago
> 9-0 against the record labels. Love to see it. I'm still mad about the Sony rootkit[0] and the people sued for absurd amounts over downloading a few MP3s back in the 00's. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords(pbxscience.com)
402 points by akersten 7mo ago|403 comments
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by akersten 7mo ago
> 4Chan has blocked the entire UK IP range. And honestly this is more than they really should even have to do. I think it does go above their obligation. They're doing Offcom a favor here, they don't even have to figure out how
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by akersten 7mo ago
> there's a sense that blocking these imports is an affront to base philosophical freedom in a way that prohibiting physical imports isn't. It would serve UK legislators well to explore that tingling sense some more before they

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