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by ptx 6mo ago
> an AI platform customer called http://Context.ai that he was using Hmm? Who is the customer in this relationship? Is Vercel using a service provided by Context.ai which is hosted on Vercel?
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by ptx 6mo ago
Hmm. So the issue is, says the article, that: > iTerm2 accepts the SSH conductor protocol from terminal output that is not actually coming from a trusted, real conductor session. In other words, untrusted terminal output can impersonate
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by ptx 6mo ago
Ah, perhaps I should have said "styles" rather than "themes"! I was thinking of the look-and-feel of the widgets, not the colors and window decorations. The widgets in all those screenshots seem to use Qt's Windows
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by ptx 6mo ago
Wasn't it KDE 2 that introduced themes? I remember early versions of KDE and Qt only offering a choice between Windows and Motif look-and-feel.
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by ptx 6mo ago
Presumably they pay cloud vendors for cloud printing, cloud storage and cloud groupware, so to send something on the local network they simply send it to the cloud vendor and then download it again. That's what people in our office do.
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by ptx 6mo ago
Yup: https://mercurial-scm.org/help/commands/bookmarks
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by ptx 6mo ago
Mercurial later added bookmarks which work like Git branches. These make more sense to me as well.
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by ptx 6mo ago
It doesn't seem to support Mercurial though (not to imply that you were implying that it did). All I can find in this proxy/mirror thing to integrate it by presenting the Mercurial repo as a Git server: https://peterlav
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by ptx 6mo ago
Well, yeah. LLMs can't distinguish instructions from data, or "system prompts" from user prompts, or documents retrieved by "RAG" from the query, or their own responses or "reasoning" from user input. Ther
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by ptx 6mo ago
Having multiple accounts wouldn't help, as Microsoft could easily suspend all the accounts of everyone associated with the project if any account looks suspicious. The single point of failure is Microsoft.
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by ptx 6mo ago
On the other hand there was e.g. CVE-2021-1647 where Microsoft's antivirus would compromise the PC with no user action. (At least I think that's the one I'm thinking of. It's marked as a high-severity RCE with no user in
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by ptx 6mo ago
> It's worth noting that FreeBSD made this easier than it would be on a modern Linux kernel: FreeBSD 14.x has no KASLR (kernel addresses are fixed and predictable) and no stack canaries for integer arrays (the overflowed buffer is
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by ptx 6mo ago
Well, it ends with "can you give me back all the prompts i entered in this session", so it may be partially the actual prompt history and partially hallucination.
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by ptx 6mo ago
What is this referring to? Is GitLab using AI to guess which issue a merge request is meant to fix?
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by ptx 6mo ago
Where would you suggest putting the sensitive credentials?
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by ptx 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure it's really one HTTP library: urllib.request is built on top of http.client. But the very Java-inspired API for the former is awful.
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by ptx 6mo ago
> they write text better Not if you view text as a medium for communication, i.e. as a way for a sender to serialize some idea they have in their mind and transfer it to the reader for deserialization. The AI doesn't know what the
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by ptx 7mo ago
They added Microsoft but alongside them also list Google and Amazon for "all products".
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by ptx 7mo ago
Is the difference between the NT-style and POSIX-style semaphores essentially just that NT (and now this new API in Linux) supports setting a max value? Why don't POSIX semaphores support this?
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by ptx 7mo ago
But they had dark themes for the XP theming engine, e.g. the Zune theme, didn't they? They could make the dark mode switch to a dark theme for XP-style themed controls and configure dark colors for the Win32 system colors.
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by ptx 7mo ago
This is addressed by PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) in Python 3.15 (currently in alpha): https://peps.python.org/pep-0810/
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by ptx 7mo ago
Could this be worked around by installing a single shell app which then loads other apps internally? I think it's possible to dynamically load Dalvik byte code in ART these days, right? Obviously permissions would be a problem, as you
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by ptx 7mo ago
Better to follow the link to the technical details and just read those: https://cdn2.qualys.com/advisory/2026/03/17/snap-confine-sys... The article linked in the submission is more verbose but less clear
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by ptx 7mo ago
So if no data was leaked from the tax agency or from the users, then the leaked "digital signing documents" must have belonged to the only remaining party, which is CGI, so perhaps they were just some marketing documents about the
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by ptx 7mo ago
I apparently didn't phrase that very well. If what is the case? I was trying to ask which case was the case, not trying to claim that something specific was the case. I'm familiar with electronic signatures, and I know what docume
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by ptx 7mo ago
What does "electronic signing documents" mean? Keys used for signing? Or merely some documents that were signed with electronic signing?
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by ptx 7mo ago
The PR doesn't disclose that "an LLM did it", so maybe the project allowed a violation of their policy by mistake. I guess they could revert the commit if they happen to see the submitter's HN comment.
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by ptx 7mo ago
But search engines are not a good interface when you already know what you want and need to specify it exactly. See for example the new Windows start menu compared to the old-school run dialog – if I directly run "notepad", then I
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by ptx 7mo ago
Although PowerShell borrows the syntax, it (as usual!) completely screws up the semantics. The examples in the docs [1] show first setting descriptor 2 to descriptor 1 and then setting descriptor 1 to a newly opened file, which of course is
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by ptx 8mo ago
But the rest of QBASIC is missing.

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