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by catoc 2mo ago
Pointless? If compiled mojo is faster, more memory-safe, and more hardware independent, that doesn’t seem pointless at all to me. (And now in the age of LLMs, the barriers to get started with a new programming language are lower than ever)
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by catoc 2mo ago
Personally I would never trust a coding agent or agent harness from Meta. I agree with their open-source model approach, but actually trusting Meta… to protect my privacy and my data… when it’s running on my personal hardware… Not . In .
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by catoc 3mo ago
I think most Amiga’s had 32-bit registers, but a 16-bit bus. (So to everything around the CPU they were 16-bit even though internally they could do 32-bit computations)
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by catoc 3mo ago
That makes sense - thanks. Do you use hooks for this?
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by catoc 3mo ago
Running Claude code 24/7 on a code base on that “second Mac” so you can always continue after a usage limit reset, from your main device or from your phone?
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by catoc 3mo ago
I just cannot come up with a good AI-is-actually-24/7-helping-me-out use case. Please help: I wánt to need this!
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by catoc 3mo ago
Scammers I can deal with - it’s the humbled and honoured actual humans that made me finally ditch LinkedIn, for…. nothing, just peace of mind and less vomiting
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by catoc 3mo ago
Bloat-bearing - a term used to describe LLM generated texts; has a negative connotation
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by catoc 3mo ago
Haha, nice. TIL. So all we need is ‘ controlled prompting’ to handle prompt injections :-)
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by catoc 3mo ago
Exactly! Attempting to handle prompt injections by prompting the model (not to leak sensitive data), is like attempting to stop a fire by burning the area around it
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by catoc 3mo ago
And then the secretary shared the conversation with 260 ‘partners’ and added everything you said to an LLM training corpus… So, NO, this is not “what secretaries were”
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by catoc 3mo ago
Agreed. And even etymology agrees: Plagiarize comes from plagiarius , latin for ‘kidnapper’. You cannot kidnap yourself
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by catoc 4mo ago
Yeah, the headline changed while I wrote my comment
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by catoc 4mo ago
Age Verification is not about “saving kids from spying/social media”. Same as Regulatory Encryption Backdoors are not about “protecting kids from child predators” This is framing. Abusing kids is bad. But that is not what this abou
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by catoc 4mo ago
Which shares your personal data with over 200 “partners”… thanks, but no
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by catoc 4mo ago
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by catoc 4mo ago
So then you need to know distance / roundtrip-length within centimeter precision as well (below 29.98 cm for sub-nanosecond precision… to be precise). Since cm precision is often not possible, is roundtrip-length an estimated average f
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by catoc 5mo ago
Then, since it’s about publishing (emails), they should have picked e-mprimatur (⌐⊙_⊙)
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by catoc 5mo ago
That… is true - thanks for editing your comment to clarify The initial thread read like “.com domains are exclusive to US” which they of course aren’t
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by catoc 5mo ago
It is not Source: own multiple, via EU registrar (Edit: Parent was edited after reply - parent statement is now correct)
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by catoc 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/44z6b
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by catoc 5mo ago
“Security through obscurity” has the connotation that it is the obscurity that achieves the security - which is bad. ”Security including obscurity“ is fine.
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by catoc 5mo ago
Would you have any more info? I have both: adobe synctool + issues with smb shares
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by catoc 6mo ago
Fair. And I my point was I really like the site! I promise to become lessvocal about the ads.
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by catoc 6mo ago
Such a great personal project! These kind of things is what the ‘www’ was created for - good vibes! Why riddle it with ads?
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by catoc 6mo ago
I know, always hard to tell on HN. Added the relevant declarative tag
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by catoc 6mo ago
> Are you sure it's a DDoS and not just a DoS? I think these days it’s ‘DAIS’, as in your site just DAIS - from Distributed/Damned AI Scraping
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by catoc 6mo ago
It’s only bad if you’re a closed, for-profit entity </sarcasm>
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by catoc 6mo ago
You’re calling people who critique Palantir “borderline Q-Anon” ? While you yourself think Palantir’s products are “like Excel” ? They are not. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai
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by catoc 7mo ago
I don’t see the downside here. If you don’t believe it, maybe disconnect from network before dropping the file?

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