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New comment by foul in "EDG C++ front-end goes public"

foul — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:26:08 +0000

I think so, you'll have to translate their AST/IL to freepascal.

New comment by foul in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

foul — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:15:18 +0000

Market manipulation or slowing down demand for chips for a bit/moving the offer elsewhere temporarily?

New comment by foul in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

foul — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:31:39 +0000

Then they start to use their "well-earned" money to bend the world to their worldview, but "it's their right!". Of the people you bring up, i've been affected just by Musk (his endeavours are a net contributor for global warming), I'm still suspecting you should get fucked with your freely expressed opinion.

New comment by foul in "Vinix – A modern operating system written in V"

foul — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:01:18 +0000

Hi Alexander, cool! Will return to dabble with it.

New comment by foul in "WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE"

foul — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:25:34 +0000

It has its share of vulnerabilities but flaws in core are rarer, more (a lot more) (i swear to god a LLM would be better) in the modules ecosystem. Also like most CMSes they are still vulnerable to what i call the "webapp bug" (you install this blob on a hosting that should not be aware of what you dump on there and allows you to run a php file on any subdir, while with a CMS, whatever you use, only a very limited number of files should be allowed to be reached, executed or even included in any php call).

New comment by foul in "WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE"

foul — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:25:08 +0000

Ahahah I remember to have patched themes for clients by hand, years ago. A different time, where a core team would for whatever reason leave security holes around to be sure you need three frameworks around their pile of dung code.

New comment by foul in "WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE"

foul — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:19:42 +0000

pearcmd and register_argc_argv are just examples. get_page_template was unsanitized in some themes, that's the flaw, you could then combine it with one of a million unauthorized file upload in wordpress plugins to try and eval code. An attacker would like to use upload + this chain of requires (instead of just uploading a php) because of hardened configuration and the pwn can go unnoticed in the logs.

Also, with pearcmd (if you can get to that, there's no open_basedir) and containers a novice sysadmin will publish insecure sites.

New comment by foul in "Vinix – A modern operating system written in V"

foul — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:22:37 +0000

How are things going with V btw? In the past i've seen some bad press about this programming language.

It was nice to use when I tried to dabble with it.

New comment by foul in "At this point I feel like AI companies selling Fear"

foul — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:42:05 +0000

That's such an outlandish idea! What made you suspect this? (sarcasm)

New comment by foul in "It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta"

foul — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:32:58 +0000

Meta should just close. It's like wanting to change CEO for the dioxin factory.

New comment by foul in "A/I shuts down"

foul — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:59:55 +0000

I'm a gentleman and beyond that it's merely more likely (we are on HN and it's a newish user) that it is a bot, compared to their being a "meta shill" or a "monomaniac". You can skim their comments history for more information.

New comment by foul in "Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)"

foul — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:47:47 +0000

  >Like, how could two-way links work? I mean, they can't, obviously? Links go 
  >around text, so they have to live on a document. The author here mentions spam, 
  >but there's a far simpler structural problem that making links two-way means 
  >the links have to be stored... say it with me folks, as a stream of annotations 
  >on top of the underlying text! Links would go "on top of" your document, 
  >linking word 153 of paragraph 4 of document A onto word 96 of paragraph 13 of 
  >document B.
  >
  >But what happens if document B changes? Then it's going to have invalid 
  >backlinks! Well, it does work, because in Xanadu... all the documents you write 
  >would be transclusions of a "permascroll". Everything you ever write goes in 
  >the permascroll and then your Xanadu client would transparently publish a 
  >transclusion of your edited document. So "word 96 of paragraph 13 of document 
  >B" somehow gains actual referential integrity across changes to the document.

If I recall correctly, the site you browse in hypotetical Xanadu-land has to mirror the reference (for transclusions) and get downloaded back (for two-ways links). Payments and that levy system are there because without some freedom to copy content you get dead links with extra steps.

New comment by foul in "Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It"

foul — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:13:57 +0000

> it seems fairly clear that A/I was providing services to organizations listed as Terrorist Organizations by the US, UK, and Canada.

It isn't fairly clear, there's no due process, there are no proofs or clues, only Trump's and Shideler's word on that.

New comment by foul in "Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It"

foul — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:11:11 +0000

Anyone from a nation that signed the Statute of Rome. Guess what, USA not only hasn't joined the ICJ but has historical laws in place that will make them intervene even with military force to free a US citizen in the hands of the ICJ.

New comment by foul in "Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It"

foul — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:05:56 +0000

It's thoughtcrime and it wasn't even the PKK.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/4a3850cc-9186...

New comment by foul in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

foul — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:43:27 +0000

To some thin extent (opposition to racial profiling and big copyright), mayhaps. People protest against Guantanamo, not for ISIS, and protest against identification, not for looking at pedo porn.

New comment by foul in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

foul — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:39:51 +0000

Any western /b/ and /pol/ is or has been a church for an ideology of fascism and pedophilia, furthermore politicians and cops LOVE to blame the platform when someone posts a manifesto and then exit the house to kill people with guns. They tend to spot this pattern because they disrupt grassroots movement just like that: agent provocateurs or controlled places will work to ensure that the status quo will not change no more than what is tolerated. My limits for free speech are very broad and would certainly tolerate a lot of 8chan, but don't ask me to close my eyes and don't ask me to be sympathetic

New comment by foul in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

foul — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:08:33 +0000

Yeah you're not, what you've done is basing your arguments on a false premise.

New comment by foul in "Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation"

foul — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:28 +0000

>free individuals

lol

New comment by foul in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

foul — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:59:09 +0000

It's bullshit made up by Shideler [0], and it's not even the PKK directly either that A/I supported, but some blog that reposts communiqués.

We'll see if the Bush- and Obama-style thoughtcrime back in action will lull USA citizens and make them forget the gas price.

[0] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/4a3850cc-9186...