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This just proves that you can cram pretty much anything into the client/server dichotomy if you just define "client", "server" and "request" broad enough. Similarly, I remember how…

> If you’re not a major criminal, bitcoin whale, or intelligence target this is almost certainly academic. Thanks, that's what I thought.

Still, this is a pretty crazy definition of "anyone".

> Anyone with physical access. I think it is understandable from the phrase. Sorry, I'm probably dense, I still don't get it. You steal a laptop, you open it, the screen is locked …

> Except that, for more than two years, the encryption key remained resident in memory across suspend, leaving it there for the taking by anyone who seized the still-powered laptop…

Well, when they announced it (7 months ago) I got laughed out of the room when I said this will be at least 1k$ because of the RAM crisis, and people quoted famous Youtuber "Moores…

I can understand the joy of running things yourself, and can also see the privacy aspect. However, I pay ~3$ per 1M/tokens for that model on Openrouter, and it's not even quantized…

That engineer went on to create Brave, a browser that pays you Monopoly money for watching ads, injected affiliate links, installed their commercial VPN without asking, and leaked …

I wouldn't say these are "basic bugs". The first is specific to using 'rrsync', and the second is when using the rsync daemon, and I can't remember when I last saw a system using t…

These servers had no fan control whatsoever, they always ran full blast. That's not untypical for rack servers, because as written: they are designed for server rooms, and you're s…

OK, then you're in luck. I had a bunch of old 1U rack servers and even in the next room it was too annoying to run them (they had a bunch of 40mm fans which always ran at full spee…

Nice post and technically impressive work. I agree we need to understand the build pipeline and be able to do things locally. However, depending on your electricity cost, it might …

Well, if Apple killed it, Lenovo killed it even more. I recently was looking for a laptop for a student. The Lenovo E14 Gen7 is 800 Euros here in Germany (where prices are always h…

Looking at all the unmerged pull requests in ripgrep, you can see what's going on. I will not link him here, but for instance, there's a "Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft", wh…

You can't release this under MIT license, as it contains a ton of various different things under various different licenses, from GPL to proprietary.

But it's also plug&play for anyone stealing your laptop, see for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941021

So you consider calling something "ironic" an extreme position? On a more general note, you will find that many people are uncomfortable with the idea that AI will replace human wo…

Any argument can be taken to any extreme. This is why it's a popular rhetorical tactic, called "appeal to extremes".

I think we can agree that this is not something anybody will actually use, but rather an homage to "They Live", and IMHO, letting this be done by AI is in contrast to the basic pre…

So telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself, because you're using natural language instead of saws and hand planes?

Oh well, they really do their best to alienate people as well. They just completely overhauled their UX, and after that update, people at my company were so confused, they couldn't…

> Nicholas Carlini, a researcher at Anthropic, orchestrated 16 parallel Claude agents to write a production C compiler in Rust. No he didn't. The compiler is bascially useless as i…

Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.

Google is fine with everything if it's their service. I've completely blocked *.bc.googleusercontent.com, because it's basically used as a spam farm for years now, but Google could…