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New comment by aaron_m04 in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

aaron_m04 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:28:45 +0000

I don't think it'll become impossible or even illegal, but better safe than sorry.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

aaron_m04 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:42:11 +0000

Yes. Grab those open-weight models while you still can.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

aaron_m04 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:41:18 +0000

I've learned so much awk from Claude!

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

aaron_m04 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:46:15 +0000

> And to clarify, this means encrypt it before it gets to the VPS. Just having full-disk encryption is not enough because cloud providers can dump RAM. There are tools that easily extract encryption keys from RAM.

True, but at the very least, you won't have to worry about discarded SSDs having your data in plaintext.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle"

aaron_m04 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:45:02 +0000

If you carefully re-read what GP wrote, you'll see there's no reference to Earth's orbit or 1 AU in there. GP wrote about the solar wind scattering cosmic rays when it reached some point in its outward travel.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti'"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:46:49 +0000

Or we could fly less.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

aaron_m04 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:13:53 +0000

I wouldn't assume that. I would wish to see numbers on that first.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The AI Productivity Gap"

aaron_m04 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:24:59 +0000

> Imo the future lies in a solid core programs with powerful plugin frameworks that expect all plugins to be code that was never read.

What makes you think that?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:35:09 +0000

Err, last word is "analogy"

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:34:37 +0000

This could've been a much better article without the strained Tower of Babel article.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

aaron_m04 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:56:43 +0000

I had to enable "exploit protection compatibility mode" to use my credit union's app.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

aaron_m04 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:53:58 +0000

> [...] until I noticed Google had force bundled a 'Wicked For Good' movie promo theme with the latest security update.

This is how users learn to not update anything.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis"

aaron_m04 — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:16:31 +0000

How could anyone answer that with any level of certainty?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

aaron_m04 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:01:01 +0000

Yes, but do these enthusiasts care at all if it meets some need for the users? I suspect that they do.

And how can they find out how well it meets that need other than receiving (respectful!) feedback?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

aaron_m04 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:52:00 +0000

> it's a non-profit (well, a for-profit owned by a non-profit) that needs to make a big profit in a short amount of time.

Can you please elaborate on this need to make a big profit? Where does the need come from?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning"

aaron_m04 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:49:43 +0000

Why do you say it's almost certainly untrue? Capital is well known for trying to suppress wages.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing"

aaron_m04 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:08:36 +0000

Depends on the business.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:49:43 +0000

I could've sworn I saw something in the last month or two about BITBLT or DirectX changes on Windows.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Keep Android Open"

aaron_m04 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:01:54 +0000

Google is a step ahead of that, with their device attestation technology. Now apps can make sure they are only running in an approved environment.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:53:03 +0000

This article feels a little suspect. They beat the AI drum a bit hard. So I go to https://workweave.dev and of course their business model is tied up with LLMs.