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All Apple mobile devices I've used have had some form of low-level forced reboot method, akin to holding down your PC's power button. Though I can't say whether it's also something…

Nope, the kernel can load static ELF binaries. ld.so is only needed for dynamically linked binaries, and in fact many Go applications (for example, as they're statically linked) sh…

I've found this to be effective as well. Claude generally immediately identifies the stupid code pattern it used and tries to fix it (with somewhat varying results).

90% of 30% of total energy use. So, actually 27%. What a title.

I wonder how this compares to GrapheneOS in practice. >Operated by Murena, your Murena Workspace account @murena.io is at the centre of the ecosystem, allowing to store, back up an…

The Europeans have already cooperated with Americans so that each could read each other's citizens' private messaging which would be illegal for the locals. Keeping the data overse…

Greylisting is great until it delays your email login/signup verification codes for 20 minutes. Especially if they expire in 15. I guess this only shows how email is used for entir…

Per the tweet linked in the article there were also random bans in addition to the ban feed shitposting. https://x.com/KingGeorge/status/2004902566434668686

Python has LiteralString for this exact purpose. It's only on the type checker level, but type checking should be part of most modern Python workflows anyway. I've seen DB librarie…

It does, especially at the scale of operating systems. Bugs and vulnerabilities are always being found, with fewer and fewer people in the pool that might even theoretically want t…

Based on the various benchmarks linked here and in the OP, the name feels justifiable. "Mini" models tend to be a lot worse compared to the base model than this one seems to be.

> Are you aware that here you are arguing for criminal sanctions on the order of 10 years in prison, for writing a letter? It's about writing a letter that can result in someone el…

> Unlike GNU Emacs, JOVE does not support UTF-8. If this is still true in the latest versions, I find it pretty amazing that something like this has been maintained all the way unt…

Generally, yes: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/ Since the build is reproducible, it should not matter when it was built. If you want to trace a build back to its s…

"Security through obscurity" can definitely be defined in a meaningful way. The opposite of "bad security through obscurity" is using completely public and standard mechanisms/prot…

This is a Gmail-specific feature. I'd guess it's there for user convenience and some protection against typos (accidental or malicious). https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436…

Came across this today. Especially the collection highlights on Wikipedia [0] really made my day. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Bad_Art#Collection_h...

> The case I was making, is that weakhash(stronghash(m)) has the security of weakhash, no matter how strong stronghash is. I'll have to disagree. There are no known collision attac…

> H0(H1(m)) has the security of just H0. Hashes are not made to protect the content of m, but instead made to test the integrity of m. As such, a flaw in H0 will break the security…

I have to wonder how a company at the scale of GitHub can be so bad at keeping track of their status. Now 4 out of 10 services are marked as "Incident", yet most of the others are …

The flipside of this is availability. Your T2 coprocessor is now permanently tied to your data. This means if the chip dies, there's no recovery unless you have a backup encrypted …

I'd guess what they mean is there are two clusters with some clear distinguishing properties, and perhaps some resulting implications for treatment.

This isn't to say they wouldn't use "regular width" roads during wartime if necessary. No point taking that risk during peacetime.