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by sneak 8mo ago
The only reason you ask for these capabilities is because you want to use these capabilities. That is, the news here is that DoW (formerly DoD) is willing and able and interested in using SOTA AI to enable processing of domestic mass survei
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by sneak 8mo ago
Thought this was something related to Oxide Computer - they might want to be careful with that branding.
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by sneak 8mo ago
> We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully unde
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by sneak 8mo ago
Their decisions couldn’t have been that bad, as you are still an active user.
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by sneak 8mo ago
> She is convinced they were eating babies. I do worry (a little) that she will go over the conspiracy theories deep end. Nothing to worry about; she already has.
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by sneak 8mo ago
key reuse, and probably other issues in a homebrew cryptosystem that wraps AES. is there a reason we aren’t using high level crypto libraries in 2026?
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by sneak 8mo ago
given that go has an ssh server in stdlib or close to it, this might even be a oneshot prompt with opus.
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by sneak 8mo ago
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest originally published as a standard in 2003, apparently. HTTP equivalent: https:/&#x2
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by sneak 8mo ago
WTF doesn’t llms.txt go in /.well-known/ ffs it’s 2026, web standards people need to stop polluting the root the same way (most) TUI devs learned to stop using ~/.<app name> a dozen years ago.
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by sneak 8mo ago
Tokens aren’t that expensive. I built a CapRover clone that’s actually free software for <$1k. I imagine it wouldn’t be much more to modify a fork of Mattermost to add in their pay-gated features like SSO and message expiry etc.
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by sneak 8mo ago
A static site? Because any hop can inject arbitrary code which your browser will then execute. TLS doesn’t just offer confidentiality, it also offers integrity.
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by sneak 8mo ago
It won’t be the demise of general purpose SaaS like CRM, though it may be the rise of ridiculously full featured f/oss alternatives. However, niche stuff like vertical-specific CRUD apps that used to be able to charge a heavy SaaS prem
463.
by sneak 8mo ago
None of it is product. It’s all personal free software that I’ve designed over many years that I didn’t have time to implement before. No KPIs, just useful tools for myself and anyone else who finds them valuable.
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by sneak 8mo ago
> People are really attracted to using LLMs on deep thinking tasks, off shoring their thinking, to a "Think for me SaaS". This won't end well for you, there's no shortcuts in life that don't come with a (huge) c
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by sneak 8mo ago
It’s done in Europe’s second busiest airport, Amsterdam Schiphol. I saw the advisory signs (so they can pretend that you gave informed consent by walking out of the jetbrige) up just last week. https://media.licdn.com/dms&#
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by sneak 8mo ago
It’s all of the EU. It’s literally illegal to sell new cars without a radio transceiver in them.
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by sneak 8mo ago
There are car wash services that will come to where your car is and wash it. It’s not wrong!
468.
by sneak 8mo ago
All of those are normal things for operating any business, and are not limited in the usual case. Liquor licenses notwithstanding. There is no default-deny for getting a business license or opening a restaurant in a commercially zoned area,
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by sneak 8mo ago
“on its face” is doing the heavy lifting here. Banking is highly regulated but you don’t need government permission to open new branches. The food supply chain is heavily regulated but you don’t need government permission to start new res
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by sneak 9mo ago
I’d happily host that blog. Contact info is in my profile.
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by sneak 9mo ago
All forms of citizen power, such as widespread publishing, will eventually be tied to strong ID requirements. You can’t illegally retaliate against citizens if you don’t know where they sleep at night.
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by sneak 9mo ago
Your bank and mobile data carrier and cable company already did for you, on your behalf. It’s all searchable via your phone number, which you have to provide to all the apps you DO sign up for, so they can easily query your name, photo, ad
473.
by sneak 9mo ago
Fun fact: it’s illegal to open new hospitals without the permission of the government. There are multiple layers of corruption at work here. (They also cap the number of doctors, and clinics, etc).
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by sneak 9mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio... > That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written poli
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by sneak 9mo ago
Is it really “without permission” if it’s from a server for which the access credentials have been deliberately published to the entire internet?
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by sneak 9mo ago
Millions of people voluntarily use Gmail which gives a lot more useful data than EEG output to DHS et al without a warrant under FAA702. What makes you think people who “have nothing to hide” would care about publishing their EEG data?
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by sneak 9mo ago
Yup. Even after a device reboot at that time, too. Still doing it a half day later. Odd.
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by sneak 9mo ago
Precisely! It’s easier and simpler for everyone involved if we stop pretending a simple money transaction is something other than a simple money transaction. This is one of the reasons I do contracting: the social expectations around vendo
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by sneak 9mo ago
People are often (and well should be) sacked for mistakes all of the time. There’s a world of difference between a casual error and gross negligence.
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by sneak 9mo ago
Something at this link crashes both MobileSafari and iOS Firefox on my device.

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