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Mikina

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  • Collaborative project to document AI-contaminated FOSS

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  • Ah, damn. Bitwarden has Agents.md. That doesn't really fill me with confidence, and it's the most critical software I use.

    I need to update my threat model, I've trusted them quite a lot to the point of using Bitwarden for MFA for less-important services (so it's not really MFA, since both my password and MFA token is in Bitwarden, but it's super convenient), and only had Yubikey for my Bitwarden account, so as long as the app itself isn't compromised I should be good (and Bitwarden has a pretty good track record as far as I know), but if they are going to start vibe-coding their tools then it's probably time to move to a proper MFA.

  • Just the Browser - remove AI features

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  • What browser are you using that isn't just a modification of chromium/firefox?

    Honest question. All i know about are only forks that basically do the same thing as the scripts try to do.

  • 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 Linux video editing 𝘽𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍 than paid: kdenlive - BreadOnPenguins

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  • How does it compare to Shotcut? It was my go-to for (very minor) video editting.

  • ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

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  • Wow, you're saying that the thing with main selling point being approximate summarization of sources/text and guesstimation of solutions erodes skills related to parsing sources, thinking about text and comming up with solutions?

    Who would have thought.

  • Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs

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  • Do we really need datacenters to host (load balanced) web servers and services?

    This could challenge the business model of Big Tech!

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  • Oh, damn. You're right.

    When I first saw this, I read through the readme, and it sounded pretty cool. Needless to say, I know nothing about physics.

    I didn't suspect AI in the slightest, until I saw this comment thread.

    Now I'm pretty taken aback. Looking at it again, it should be pretty obvious. I wonder what was it about the way it was presented that made me believe it and not suspect AI in the slightest, because that's a mistake I don't really want to do again.

    Probably a combination of passionate presentation, topic I know nothing about combined with topic I love (game engines), and my whole interaction being "this is pretty cool" and moving on. I did try looking for some actual sources about the Tesla's mythical "standart model", which I found none, plus got suspicious about definiton of "standart model" feeling like it doesn't match what the text was talking about, and I just moved on, but the conclusion I had was "i wonder what will turn up out of it", instead of "probably llm halucination" as ot should've been.

    Oh well, I guess it's time to properly lock in on actual textbook knowledge in fields I'm interrested in, because recognizing stuff like this in tutorials/posts and eventually books will be only harder, and it won't be really feasible to rely on "I'll research it on the internet when I need it"

  • WCGW : AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah

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  • Remember the bug in the RTG that killed several people due to a race condition being a problem that blasted them with extreme amount of rads?

    That was 99.999+% reliabilty. How can they be ok with 80? Or even 99? You're just ok with potentionally killing 1% of patients? What the fuck.

  • The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate

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  • I had no idea, and this hurts. I have a few, but fond, memories about DeviantArt when I had a short phase on highschool where I was drawing for a bit (which was more than 10 years ago). It didn't last long, but DeviantArt was a large part of it.

    Hearing they are commiting to AI art - THE platform for actual artists (at least it was, 10 years ago), who AI hurts the most, is insane. That's pure betrayal. I hate this.

  • What's the best course you've taken in 2025?

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  • I don't really do courses anymore, but one thing that kind of matches the questions was playing through Turing Complete.

    It's a game where you start with NAND gates, and slowly build up from there. Other gates, then a counter, adder, single-bit memory, etc, where every puzzle uses the component design's you've build before. Eventually you build up to an ALU, RAM, add instructions and connect it up to a working CPU.

    It's super fun, and even though hardware isn't really something I usually look into, it has taught me a lot, way more than college courses about CPU architecture. Plus, seeing (and actually programming, in later levels) on a CPU of your own design, using your own opcodes, is actually pretty cool.

  • Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI

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  • I wouldn't be surprised if Unreal Engine being C++ is also a relevant factor in this, with Unity doing their bullshit while lagging behind in almost everything feature-wise.

  • Roblox requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie for age verification [U: Global]

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  • I mean, the (I think) CEO said that the predator problem on their platform "is not a problem, but an opportunity".

    I know it's taken out of context, and his take was along the lines of trying to improve child safety and explore tools and way how to prevent it, but the whole interview was still pretty unhinged, and it was not a good take.

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  • AI Training: Training LLMs on the prose of this book is strictly prohibited without a Community Benefit Agreement.

    It's available in a Github public repository.

    While I couldn't find any specific clause in GitHub ToS that would explicitly mention that you give them a permission to train on it, it does have a clause that you are allowing them to (among others) parse and analyze the content as necessary to provide the service, which if I'm not mistaken is what they are using to justify them training their AI on public repositories, since technically their service is also Copilot.

    Also, I think they accidentally replaced their LICENSE with README. https://github.com/chrisnchips42-blip/Logos-of-Aether-A-Measurement-Theoretic-Foundation-for-Physics/commit/7703fd43b859b6177738ca276e5eeafd77e17598

  • First code coded

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  • To add to this excelent answer, one thing that made me really understand and realize quite a lot about how do CPUs actually work, and why is most of the stuff the way it is, was playing through the amazing "Turing Complete" puzzle game.

    The premise is simple - you start with basic AND/OR/NOT gates, and slowly build up stuff. You make a NAND, and then can use your design. Then you make a counter, and can use that. The one bit memory. An adder. A multiplexer. All using the component designs you have already done before.

    Eventually, you build up to ALU and RAM, until you end up with a working CPU. Later levels even add creating your instruction sets and assembly language, but I never really got far into that part.

    It's a great combination of being a puzzle game - you have clear goals, and everything is pretty approachable and very well paced. I had no idea how is memory done on the circuit level, but the game made me figure it out, or had hints when I got stuck.

    And seeing a working CPU that you've designed from scratch is pretty cool, but most importantly - even though I've had courses on hardware, CPU architecture and the like on college, there's a lot of stuff I kind of understood, but it never really clicked. This game has helped tremendously in that regard, and it was full of "aha moments" finally connecting a lot of what I know about low-level computing.

    I'm not even into puzzle games that much, but this was just a joy to play. It was so fun I sat through it in one session, up until I got to a complete CPU. I very highly recommend it to anyone.

  • Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

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  • Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you saying that you use LLMs as refactoring tools, so things like to move code around, rename stuff, extract functions, and make changes that don't change the logic?

    Or is it something else? Because as far as I know, LLMs are pretty bad at not making random changes, even if told to just reorder stuff, plus we have a lot of deterministic tools for that job, so I guess you probably mean something else. Honest question.

  • Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024.

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  • Link, for most of the people in this thread surprised that Proton does what it's pretty clear in saying they'll do.

    And people getting into trouble for using proton for stuff they are saying not to do.

    https://proton.me/blog/protonmail-threat-model

    Not recommended

    If you are attempting to leak state secrets (as was the case of Edward Snowden) or going up against a powerful state adversary, email may not be the most secure medium for communications. The Internet is generally not anonymous, and if you are breaking Swiss law, a law-abiding company such as Proton Mail can be legally compelled to log your IP address. A powerful state adversary will also be better positioned to launch one of the attacks described above against you, which may negate the privacy protection provided by Proton Mail. While we can offer more protection and security, we cannot guarantee your safety against a powerful adversary.

  • Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024.

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  • The EU prepares ground for wider data retention – and VPN providers are among the targets

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  • I've eventually switched from NameCheap to Cloudfare, because they kept drastically raising my email domain price.

    Cloudfare is one of the few (not sure if the only one) who has guaranteed wholesale prices (as in, the prices set by the tld owner), with nothing added on top. I moved my domain over, and I saved around 15$ a month.

    The best thing to do is buy a domain in some other registrar, like NameCheap, because they will give you the domain for cheaper than wholesale (and then raise your price by a lot in the next few years, way above wholesale). So I just buy it cheap, and once the next renewal is higher than wholesale, I move it over to Cloudfare and keep it there.

  • We Mass-Deployed 15-Year-Old Screen Sharing Technology and It's Actually Better

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  • This is a really good point.

    This post is a great example of what will skipping a research and just trusting the first solution you find lead to.

    When you are researching the thing yourself, you usually don't find the solution immediately. And if you immediately have something that seems to work, you're even less likely to give up on that idea.

    However, even taking this into account (because the same can probably happen even if you do research the thing yourself - jumping to a first solution), I don't understand how it's possible that the post doesn't make a single mention of any remote desktop protocols. I'm struggling to figure out how would you have to phrase your questions/promts/research so that VNC/RDP, you know - the tools made for exactly the problem they are trying to solve - does not comes up even once during your development.

    Like, every single search I've tried about this problem has immediately led me to RDP/VNC. The only way how I can see the ignorance displayed in the post is that they ignored it on purpose - lacking any real knowledge about the problem they are trying to solve, they simply jumped to "we'll have a 60 FPS HD stream!", and their problem statement never was "how to do low-bandwith remote desktop/video sharing", but "how to stream 60 FPS low-latency desktop".

    It's mindboggling. I'd love to see the thought and development process that was behind this abomination.

  • We Mass-Deployed 15-Year-Old Screen Sharing Technology and It's Actually Better

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  • Uh, I'm pretty damn sure I have seen an office with hundreds of people, all connected remotely to workstations, on enterprise network, without any of the problems they are talking about. I've worked remotely from a coffee shop Wifi without any lag or issues. What the hell are they going on about? Have they never heard about VNC or RDP?

    But our WebSocket streaming layer sits on top of the Moonlight protocol

    Oh. I mean, I'm sitting on my own Wifi, one wall between me with a laptop (it is 10 years old, though) and my computer running Sunshite/Moonlight stream, and I run into issues pretty often even on 30FPS stream. It's made for super low-latency game streaming, that's expected. It's extremely wrong tool for the job.

    We’re building Helix, an AI platform where autonomous coding agents...

    Oh. So that's why.

    Lol.