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New comment by estebarb in "Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks"

estebarb — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:34:17 +0000

Mosty probably: not. Traffic passes throught the ASIC, usually it is not processed on CPU or custom code. Unlike typical web servers, that reduces the attack surface as there aren't software parsers (a common place where vulnerabilities hide). Additionally the OS may have additional protection measures, such as signing each binary, signing the booting image and limiting which syscalls can be done by any binary.

New comment by estebarb in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

estebarb — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:14:57 +0000

I really do not get the obsession with translation, particularly bad translations and translating by default. Most people who browse websites in languages other than the official local one are fluent in that other language.

Google Chrome keeps insisting that Spanish is Galician. PowerPoint insists on changing the spell checker back to the wrong language and ignores setting the language for the whole presentation. On Linux, ChatGPT insists it must enable the spell checker in the local system language, so everything is always red.

Privacy aside, a lot of software seems to be built assuming people cannot be multilingual.

New comment by estebarb in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

estebarb — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:34:10 +0000

I dislike this approach. In my opinion it is much useful a 1x/2x billing based on hour like Deepseek does. Being unable to use it at the hours I need it makes me want to remove the service, not upgrading it.

New comment by estebarb in "A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's"

estebarb — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:57:58 +0000

Now, if I could afford 4...

New comment by estebarb in "ReactOS 0.4.16"

estebarb — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:03:22 +0000

That is how you get a hardware provider to stop selling you stuff

New comment by estebarb in "OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users"

estebarb — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:00:53 +0000

Personally I have been using Deepseek V4 flash and it is enough for my needs. You can use OpenCode Zen/Go and also get access to many other models, including OpenAI ones. Writing purpose specific agents can make cheaper models close the intelligence gap with the most expensive ones

New comment by estebarb in "Ox Alpha"

estebarb — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:13:05 +0000

I'm suspecting it is Deepseek flash-vision-exp V4

New comment by estebarb in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

estebarb — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:53:33 +0000

What happens if we train models (GPT or human students) using the outputs of a model with text havingbthose watermarks? Is there something preventing the watermark from being learnable?

New comment by estebarb in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

estebarb — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:53:29 +0000

I prefer V4 flash, but Luna is ok and included in the OpenAI plan I'm already paying, so... that is the reason I use it.

I gave DeepSeek $50 around june, and I haven't been able to exhaust them yet. The model is super cheap and more than enough for my needs.

I'm my opinion, Flash V4 is less pedantic than OpenAI models, less prone to unsolicited prescriptions and less prone to "helpfully" reinterpreting my instructions (wrongly, of course).

New comment by estebarb in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

estebarb — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:27:18 +0000

I practically switched to doing everything with Luna or DeepSeek V4 flash. I haven't feel the need for the more expensive models.

New comment by estebarb in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

estebarb — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:15:02 +0000

Language distribution shifts. Eventually people will start adopting the distribution used by LLMs, making classification harder.

Also, this doesn't even consider the case where people use LLMs to translate their original works. Or people that use it for spelling/grammar checks.

Personally, I believe these checkers do more harm than good. Any false positive can ruin someones life.

New comment by estebarb in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

estebarb — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:35:31 +0000

This will cause cognitive debt anyway. As mentioned in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21972v1: "When students rely on these outputs as a substitute for their own reasoning or critical engagement, the learning process is fundamentally compromised. Genuine learning requires the active construction of meaning, integration of knowledge, and reflective engagement with content. These processes cannot occur through passive consumption of syntactically correct but semantically hollow responses. Without this deeper cognitive work, learners risk mistaking linguistic fluency for understanding, thereby undermining the very goals of education".

Personally, I don't think we will ever be able to reconcile using LLMs and cognitive debt. Even before LLMs we were aware if it: we knew people moving to managerial/PM roles eventually get their coding skills rusted. Well, now we are all in those managerial roles...

New comment by estebarb in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

estebarb — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:48:25 +0000

Oh wow, even scammers care about usability and their employees' well-being. What's the excuse for bad UX in internal company software?

New comment by estebarb in "Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library"

estebarb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:51:07 +0000

I'm really not sure how this would work. I don't know how the ACM works, but in IEEE you would have to give them your publishing rights. However, training a LLM is not publishing by itself, it is a derivative work? Any way, at this point authors should be entitled to monetary compensation, not the publisher. The deal is totally different.

New comment by estebarb in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

estebarb — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:53:35 +0000

Session cookies do not require a banner.

New comment by estebarb in "Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B"

estebarb — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:06:58 +0000

Moving money around is harder than it seems

New comment by estebarb in "A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)"

estebarb — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:11:10 +0000

I don't understand why almost always the AI doomerism needs to give embodiment the AI. Real life is not a movie needing visual effects.

AI doesn't need a body of itself to became dangerous. A politician could get into ChatGPT induced psychosis, that doesn't require a physical body, and it could happen now or even 3 years ago... I'm sure it has already happen...

Other pointed risks are interesting because they are basically the risk of empires loosing their tributary states. The world has always seen war mongering states trying to preserve their abusive advantages, humans doesn't need AI for that.

Overall, I would be far more concerned about some really dangerous humans than AI itself.

New comment by estebarb in "1-Bit LLM in the Browser"

estebarb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:34:25 +0000

I tried the smallest ome, the only available, and got an error:

``` Could not load.

Error: failed to call OrtRun(). ERROR_CODE: 1, ERROR_MESSAGE: Non-zero status code returned while running GroupQueryAttention node. Name:'/model/layers.0/attn/GroupQueryAttention' Status Message: Failed to create a WebGPU compute pipeline: A valid external Instance reference no longer exists. ```

New comment by estebarb in "A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering"

estebarb — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:30:27 +0000

Real programmers use butterflies (mandatory xkcd reference) https://xkcd.com/378/

New comment by estebarb in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

estebarb — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:38:42 +0000

But what users prefer? Given this is for marketing, which results produce more conversions? From the examples shown, personally I strongly preferred Claude Opus in all cases.