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New comment by howenterprisey in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

howenterprisey — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:02:11 +0000

Yeah, wikipedia has its own user script system, and that was what was disabled.

New comment by howenterprisey in "IT Staffing Firms (TCS, Cognizant, Infosis Underpay Developers by 80–100%"

howenterprisey — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:48:40 +0000

In that case their pay would be 20% less than market rate because the percent change is based on market rate, not the new value.

New comment by howenterprisey in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

howenterprisey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:37:28 +0000

> This appears to be an AI-generated draft with severe hallucination problems bordering on WP:HOAX. For one, it calls it the "Margo Largo Accord" -- a name that is not and never was real. The draft also claims the accord was already introduced, and goes into detail about its supposed contents, effects, and reactions to it; the problem is, no actual accord was introduced at the time (or now), so pretty much all of that is made up. The sourcing gives an impression of WP:SIGCOV [significant coverage] but almost all of it appears to be background information about various topics that aren't the accord.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio..., the discussion that concluded with the article's deletion

New comment by howenterprisey in "What you need to know before touching a video file"

howenterprisey — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:57:38 +0000

In the anime fan subbing community (which this document is likely from), it's very common to hate on VLC for a variety of imagined (and occasionally real but marginal) issues.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]"

howenterprisey — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:35:38 +0000

Two different systems; on the mod side there are two different UIs (one to set each) as well. Yeah it's weird.

New comment by howenterprisey in "How we automated federal retirements"

howenterprisey — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:12:39 +0000

That's what saying "noticed with Gen Z" means.

Reply to edit: generations are sequential; if you've noticed something with one generation it means that you're not accusing the prior generations of the same thing, otherwise you would've used different wording.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

howenterprisey — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:59:55 +0000

You can just as easily add context to the first example or skip the wrapping in the second.

New comment by howenterprisey in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

howenterprisey — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:42:45 +0000

I interpret the sense of "literally" here in the opposite way, i.e. without it the sentence may be taken to mean that the books metaphorically stop mid-sentence, but with it, they're saying that it's non-metaphorical and they really do. It would be bizarre wording otherwise.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers"

howenterprisey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:20:57 +0000

Since my work is vaguely related to superconductors, I saw this comment and was excited to dig into all the errors in the article, but actually couldn't find any in the parts discussing the superconductors specifically. (I don't know data centers and can't comment on that bit.) 77 K is indeed an appropriate temperature for LN2 coolant for high-temperature superconductors like they're using. What errors did you see?

New comment by howenterprisey in "New updates and more access to Google Earth AI"

howenterprisey — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:29:06 +0000

Maybe Geoguessr players would be good at identifying them as well?

New comment by howenterprisey in "Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench"

howenterprisey — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:26:39 +0000

Am I to interpret https://gist.github.com/jacobkahn/bd77c69d34040a9e9b10d56baa... as it making a test that only asserts false and saying that the test exercises the function in question?

Edit: I misunderstood what was being tested; the test is correct.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

howenterprisey — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:25:04 +0000

Okay, but now that's an unfalsifiable statement. What makes you think the burners are tied to the well-known accounts?

New comment by howenterprisey in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

howenterprisey — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:11:13 +0000

My thesis is that Wikipedianon's comment implies Wikipedia editors (specifically, "well-known" editors and "admins") doxx each other all the time, but that's hilariously wrong. Doxxing mostly comes from assholes outside the community, such as those who post on Wikipediocracy.

Yes, on-project doxxing gets OS'd but it also results in discussions and bans which can be reviewed. And from those you can easily determine that it's truly rare.

When I said to go to the forums, that was unfortunately unclear wording; I meant it's trivial to verify that Beeblebrox didn't doxx anyone in his postings.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

howenterprisey — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:53:31 +0000

When I said anyone can verify it, I meant it; go make an account on wikipediocracy, go to the "Wikimedian Folks Too Embarrassing for Public Viewing" forums, and go through the posts by that user.

Quite to the contrary, it's a very transparent organization because edit histories are public. It would be trivial to link to any instances of doxxing on the project, unless they don't exist, which they don't. Wikipediocracy doesn't count when talking about Wikipedia doxxing.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

howenterprisey — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:29:52 +0000

Hi. I was an arbitrator who voted to suspend that arbitrator. There was no doxxing involved, which anyone can verify. Barely anything else in your comment is correct either. Doxxing is an issue but from where I sit it's much worse from people outside Wikipedia.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Is the doc bot docs, or not?"

howenterprisey — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:06:22 +0000

You're just explaining what the word "nondeterministic" means when you put it before "finite automaton", which doesn't have much to do with what "nondeterministic" means in other places.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Stop Killing Games"

howenterprisey — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:59:09 +0000

The requirement is not to be standalone end-user distributable, the requirement is that it be somehow possible for an end user to set it up, which is a lot easier, unless the developers don't even know how to set up the backend. But that's a low bar still.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

howenterprisey — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:18:11 +0000

My current phone actually has this (ROG 9) and it's really nice! I had to put my phone in a cupholder recently and the side charging port saved me from having to balance it on the charging cable. (It also has a headphone jack.)

New comment by howenterprisey in "Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights"

howenterprisey — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:32:58 +0000

I think "supposed to" is overstating it given that I've only ever seen it used by this one publication. To boot, I wouldn't pronounce the word they use it for, coordination, (in context, "piloting it demanded constant coordination") with a syllable break, either.

New comment by howenterprisey in "Claude 4 System Card"

howenterprisey — Sun, 25 May 2025 18:32:23 +0000

I like reading the system prompt because I feel it would have to be human-written for sure, which is something I can never be sure of for all other text on the Internet. Or maybe not!