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by the_biot 7mo ago
As much as I love "Songs of Distant Earth", I suspect a Hollywood version of it would amount to "giant lobsters vs space marines", whereas in the book they're a minor sideshow.
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by the_biot 7mo ago
Yeah, I remember the two parties accusing each other of essentially the same thing -- destroying a 25-year business relationship over short-term greed, for no good reason. It's good to see the result of the court case, now at least we
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by the_biot 7mo ago
Very true, I see people increasingly polarized on this topic. I also see it in the rollercoaster of votes on my post. If it wasn't clear, I think we're (as a society) destroying ourselves by believing in all this generative AI cra
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by the_biot 7mo ago
It could be, but are vendors actually upgrading kernels along with firmware updates? In my experience it's more like, ship 5+ year old kernel and then forget it forever.
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by the_biot 7mo ago
What sort of things are people doing in their SQL queries that make them CPU bound? Admittedly I'm a meat-and-potatoes guy, but I like mine I/O bound. Really amazed to see not one but several generic JIT frameworks though, no idea
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by the_biot 8mo ago
The FAQ, under "How can OSE evolve in the long term, especially in an AI-powered world?" appears to state a very pro-AI view. I think this is hopelessly naive. The LLMs crapping out code are shamelessly ripping off open source cod
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by the_biot 8mo ago
How do you know? The excessive comments?
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by the_biot 8mo ago
The keyword here is "built". I find when people use that, instead of "wrote", it's just AI slop. That only works if there's a sliver of honesty left though.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
One of the problems created by the LLM storm is that open source software, once published, gets stolen and regurgitated by LLMs, minus the copyright notices. As an open source author, how do I go about scratching my itch without contributin
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by the_biot 8mo ago
This looks amazing. I tend not to go along with the Rust hype, but routing protocols are pretty much all complicated binary protocols with lots of options and edge cases. I can't think of a more appropriate use of a language that enfor
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by the_biot 8mo ago
Last Nokia I had, I only charged it about every two weeks. I used to go on business trips and not even bother to bring the charger.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
You misunderstand. This is not a small adjustment you need to make. You didn't write it at all.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
I would add that with this attitude and how new this initiative is, there's very little chance it will still be updated 5 years from now. Really this sort of thing needs to come from Easylist or similar, who have a track record of main
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by the_biot 8mo ago
I was, until I read this article. What a bunch of bullshit.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
They don't actually publish the comments under the article, only a link. I've long suspected sites doing that are fully aware of how shit the comment section is, and try to hide it from casual viewers while keeping the nutjob gall
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by the_biot 8mo ago
Frankly I'm a little sceptical about the claim that large ISPs are blocking telnet on their core routers. Core routers need to forward traffic, not inspect it. I don't see why a large ISP should burden its core infrastructure with
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by the_biot 8mo ago
That's the worst thing I've seen all week. The DDoS networks of 20 years ago, now out in the open and presented as real business. Thanks for the info, wish I didn't know :-(
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by the_biot 8mo ago
Has this actually been investigated and proven to be true? I see allegations, but no facts really. It seems to me to be just as likely that people are installing LLM chatbot apps that do the occasional bit of scraping work on the sly, cover
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by the_biot 8mo ago
"Brussels" is often used to mean the entire blob of EU and related institutions.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
Agreed, very nice. Turns out the whole game is written in Lua (minus rendering and such I assume). The source is fully readable, I was amazed how high-level that code was. Writing mods was ridiculously easy.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
Agree, except I thought his political views were rather more obvious, to the point that it's a little annoying (IMHO of course). I'd describe it more as hard-left than anarchism, too.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
Annotating the decompiled code is very much part of the workflow in using Ghidra, but the UI is not really intuitive. If you right-click on variables, function names etc there are a bunch of options for annotation. You can also edit the fun
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by the_biot 8mo ago
Awesome work! Enriching the disassembly with known constants and labels is great, great stuff. As somebody else suggested, try Ghidra's decompiler. It produces very sloppy C code, but still reads faster than assembly most of the time.
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by the_biot 8mo ago
That's what I thought of right away as well. We may end up with a blacklist of "known AI slop peddlers".
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by the_biot 8mo ago
This is the way. I disagree with your 24-hour timeline -- give it a week -- but whether and how they respond tells you a lot. Being welcoming to new contributors is crucial for the health of a project. One time I was interested in contribut
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by the_biot 9mo ago
I think that's what happened here. I spotted the fake because it has a large number of unused pins, which would not be the case with an FTDI chip that was literally made for this. I think it's just some generic microcontroller emu
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by the_biot 9mo ago
What's this? Hardware specifically for game cheating? Got any links?
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by the_biot 9mo ago
I did catch one vendor using a HAL across a whole SoC product line, a very low-level HAL that sat between SoC hardware registers and kernel drivers. It effectively made the drivers use scrambled register locations on the AHB etc, but if you
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by the_biot 9mo ago
That is truly sad :-(
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by the_biot 9mo ago
You're right about federation having failed in those instances, or at least failed to take over the world as was expected. But Forgejo is a git + associated services application first and foremost. It's clearly on the up, and this

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