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You're saving a fraction of a cent per device, while banking on customers not sending it back as defective because it didn't charge when they tried it with a random cable. If it is…

They skipped out on literally 2 resistors. That's it, that's all that is required for real USB-C charging.

No? Passive fully-featured USB-C cables had the same amount of wires and active components, which really is just the e-marker chip, since day one. The same 5 Gbps cable can now do …

The "cost" they're cutting of course being 2 simple resistors, that cost absolutely nothing. So less of a executive decision and more a case of whoever designed the board didn't do…

I've been running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (and 3.5 previously) locally and it's a great model for many small tasks, probably a significant chunk of what most normal people are using LLMs f…

I don't know what kind of straw man you built up in your head, but I can assure you I don't believe in any of that.

And demand will probably go up a lot further still. Right now fuel prices are kept artificially low by every country releasing their strategic reserves, but these will run out at s…

> If a PKGBUILD is running a command to download something not listed in source, that's a sign that something nefarious could be happening, and such a PKGBUILD absolutely requires …

> You do realize that the people relying on the service also get served malware, right? The service is already disrupted. Huh? No they don't. I'm not sure what part of the attack y…

From the concrete example someone posted below, you'd see that a post-install hook exists, literally this line: > install=toggldesktop-bin-deps.install And the toggldesktop-bin-dep…

"Hey, let's take down all of npm, because there's a package that installs something malicious, and some people may install it without reviewing it first. The thousands of other peo…

Some of these have corporate backing and/or better funding and thus more manpower to review things, but yeah it essentially applies to all of them. It's no accident that there's ne…

I assume you're talking about the "remote: " messages? I've only ever seen those on push operations, not sure if they're even available for clone. Maybe they'd be an option, but th…

Any and all modifications to PKGBUILDs may download something and execute it, that's the very purpose of PKGBUILDs, to download and install new software. I'm sure it would be great…

You seem confused about how the AUR works. There is no "client" like you're talking about that can show the user anything. There are AUR helpers, but these are completely unaffilia…

No it shouldn't. You don't break everyone's workflow just because some people refuse to take basic security advise seriously. > New API should have infrastructure for informing use…

People need to get into their heads that the AUR is just a collection of user-produced PKGBUILDs. You have to review the source of every PKGBUILD from the AUR you install, full sto…

What points could we even discuss? It's all terribly vague and I imagine nobody here can even tell how that supposed 'strategy' is different from the one 5 years ago. And half of t…

"IPv6 is weird. One of the more strange parts of the standard is that every interface's link local addresses are in fe80::whatever`." How is IPv6 weird here, it's the exact same th…

I can't even register, it tells me "Something went wrong on our side. Please try again later.". And from a quick scan of the website, I don't see how yours is different from the mi…

The more I think about this, the more I become convinced that consciousness, as understood by humans, is meaningless once you can stop, store and replay the internal machinery that…

> Consciousness is not produced by the cortex but rather by the brainstem, where signals from all over the body converge (e.g. pain, hunger, itchiness, etc). Which just begs the qu…

LLMs still do not pass the turing test as it is commonly understood. Ask the right questions, and it becomes apparent very quickly which party is the machine and which is the human…

And yet, it's exactly what all the AI companies are doing. However much it costs them in server costs and good will seems to be worth less to them then the engineering time to spec…

> But Clawbert seems like a worse attack vector than just getting OpenClaw itself to execute the malicious instructions. OpenClaw already has root access. Well the assumption was t…