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PhilipRoman

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PhilipRoman
·ieri·discuss
This is true but I can do the same on free ChatGPT without even logging in. I wouldn't pay $5 a month for that functionality, much less $20 (or >$1000 to be able to run it at home).

SOTA AI for "serious" work is in a different position, used by fewer people but with big pockets and sometimes a pathological dependence on it.
PhilipRoman
·5 giorni fa·discuss
If you're already losing and losses are capped past some point (worst case just kill yourself), high stakes gambling is quite logical. Of course in reality, gamblers are rarely driven by game-theoretical analysis.
PhilipRoman
·8 giorni fa·discuss
When we talk about "E2EE" messenger apps, that usually means more than just using HTTPS. VPNs can certainly help with encryption in transit, but that's a very different concept.

Unfortunately this comes up a lot, with people asking if Immich supports end-to-end encryption and getting told to use LUKS or Tailscale.
PhilipRoman
·8 giorni fa·discuss
How are VPNs related to end-to-end encryption?
PhilipRoman
·13 giorni fa·discuss
Hah, someone from UK seems to have a camera pointing to his cannabis plants... Hopefully the guy has a "loicense" for that, otherwise it would be a hilarious way to get busted
PhilipRoman
·15 giorni fa·discuss
Isn't consulting one of the most high-margin areas in general?
PhilipRoman
·25 giorni fa·discuss
Right up there with fun, safe math optimizations
PhilipRoman
·26 giorni fa·discuss
I believe 32-bit was chosen partially due to implementation efficiency reasons. It makes sense because you can allocate a 4GB mapping, so there is no need for a second software virtual memory layer. Also perhaps they internally require tagged pointers, which are much cheaper, especially if aligned, if the pointer is only 32 bits
PhilipRoman
·26 giorni fa·discuss
For a moment I thought this was another case of AI psychosis, like the post from week ago about the "content-addressed lattice heap" but this is actually pretty neat.
PhilipRoman
·mese scorso·discuss
Ironically news outlets like to use the phrasing you rightfully point out as absurd. Not sure if they just do it randomly or only when they get orders to push a certain narrative.

>Car plows into Christmas market in Germany, killing at least 5 and injuring 200
PhilipRoman
·mese scorso·discuss
Don't most companies have a Git repo for skills that you can pull?
PhilipRoman
·mese scorso·discuss
Because it costs money? Believe it or not, most places don't pay you 6 digit salaries for shuffling around YAML.
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
It is a fantastic init system/service supervisor. My problem with it is basically everything else. I think its developers see systemd as central to the entire system, basically the userspace counterpart to the kernel. I prefer the approach of 'dinit', but I understand why they designed it that way.

Due to this design they often have underspecified interaction between the different components, since the assumption is that everyone will use largely the same baseline systemd environment and as long as it works, who cares what it does underneath. If the different parts were more independent, they would be forced to develop a cleaner API contract between them.
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
SDL is a relatively high level API and framebuffer style graphics work fine on it. I think there are some edge cases for X11 with non-compositing window manager where you will get interesting glitches if the window moves.
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Yes, only... 25m? You must have a bigger room than I do :)
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I'd agree if POSIX provided something like an open() flag which made the changes visible atomically, but as it stands, the rename() idiom is the mainstream way of durable file writing, so it is commonly used. Practical example using busybox sed: (GNU sed detects this case and refuses to overwrite)

  / # stat /dev/null
    File: /dev/null
    Size: 0          Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   character special file
    ...
  / # sed -i 's/foo/bar/' /dev/null
  / # stat /dev/null
    File: /dev/null
    Size: 0          Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
    ...
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Hard links suffer from the general issue of there being two styles of writing to a file - open(2)/write(2) vs rename(2). Depending on the internals of each program you use to update the file, you will get very different results.

This is one of the ugliest parts of POSIX design, making idioms like -o /dev/null and file attributes unpredictable (I've had a server run out of disk space because a root-owned process used rename-style writing on /dev/null)
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
If you use the VPN for the Web, browser fingerprinting is a major threat outside of specialized scenarios
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
If you blindly TOFU ssh sessions, those can be pwned easily in many common use cases. Legacy software configurations like NFS with IP authentication will be bypassed. Realistically the most likely scenario is using your home as a VPN, or a DDOS node.
PhilipRoman
·2 mesi fa·discuss
It also sets a HN=1 cookie, so you may need to clear that or use incognito