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Perhaps it is time to implement the lessons learned from Perl's taint checking[1], but this time for AI agent harnesses instead[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking…

Your framing assumes that because the hammer is there, its manufacturing cost vanishes. In reality, someone had to pay that cost, and a holistic view has to decide whether building…

Fact is that I can actually read TFA, while your link is paywalled.

This isn’t a random Nazi analogy, it’s a cautionary tale about how stepwise exclusions plus bystander apathy work. The whole point is to think about it before it’s too late.

Studying how a processor running an operating system actually behaves by peeking right through the privilege barrier is the ultimate wall hack. Who needs noclip when we have Fracta…

Sorry, but when it comes to chipsets, they're not even close. The DGX Spark uses a GB10 with 128 GB unified LPDDR5X memory, while the DGX Station has a GB300 with 496 GB LPDDR5X (C…

It's free, but not unlimited. Besides rate limits, new sign-ups get 1000 credits (requests), and once those are gone, they're gone for good. Only business accounts might get a coup…

One shot: Taking a shot, just once. Zero shot: Knowing you had a shot but choosing not to. Minus one shot: Not even realizing there was a shot.

Not everyone owns one of the limited range of devices that Linux Terminal is available for. For example, no Snapdragon chips currently in use support the "non-protected" virtual ma…

Two words: proprietary installers. If an installer expects to be able to overwrite a file and fails to do so, it might crash, leaving the user with a borked installation. Of course…

An originally macOS-only product, too. Also, the documentation on Github, linked to by the ad, shows only Mac keyboard shortcuts for operating Raycast.

Moon implies there is a planet the moon is orbiting. So unless the planet and its moon are too close to the sun the long term result could also be: solar system.

Reading comprehension, my friend. The article you linked to is about the dropped plan to require ID for permission to work in the UK. The parent commenter is referring to age verif…

In the Netherlands they used to broadcast software as part of the Hobbyscoop radio show. It was generic BASIC code that could run on a variety of home computers, requiring a small …

Netflix has been checking accounts against public IP addresses and local networks for ages, at least in The Netherlands. if I use my Dad's account, I get flagged as being "not on t…

Developers, developers, developers, developers[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcSviC7cRM

> Why would it plunge instead of re-focusing on things that are intrinsically important? Because a lot of the economy is focused on creating and maintaining a surplus[1]: make peop…

> Years on, our primary data source is literally holding dozens of subscriptions to every commercial provider we can find, and enumerating the exit node IP addresses they use. Assu…

The stylus and cartridge needed to play the record were included on each spacecraft. The instructions to assemble the record player were included on a protective aluminum cover.

This title is misleading. As explained in the comments, there are still non-free binary blobs in the firmware. Please reserve phrasing like "100% X" for things that are indeed "0% …

Dongle-based license management or DRM isn't the same as product tying; each dongle just validates the license for the use of a piece of software. But forcing customers to only use…

I believe it would be redundant to explicitly grant freedom of speech to an organization such as a union, as its individual members inherently possess this right.

Corporations can be held criminally liable, but they can't go to prison. And while lots of countries have gotten rid of the death penalty, a corporation can actually be "executed" …

Note that you need to be on a paid Google Workspace plan before pointing your DNS MX records at Gmail as provider, or else your emails will either be rejected at best or simply van…