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New comment by janice1999 in "[dead]"

janice1999 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:28:45 +0000

There is also Seraph (prevents common attacks, remote software etc) from the team behind the KitBoga scam-baiting streamer.

"Powerful anti-scam software that proactively detects, blocks, and alerts you to online threats before they cause harm. " https://www.seraphsecure.com/

New comment by janice1999 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

janice1999 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:57:39 +0000

Well, one did suddenly develop the need to tell users continuously about apparent white genocide in South Africa.

New comment by janice1999 in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

janice1999 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:32:03 +0000

Many of the UK's post-Brexit trade deals have been the previous EU one with a slight tweak. Even the much touted US beef deal was built on an EU scheme and was rather minimal at that. It's not surprising then that the EU and UK are similar. The lack of UK growth over the EU is a big indictment of Brexit from an economic perspective.

New comment by janice1999 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

janice1999 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:10:32 +0000

A huge thank you to the KDE team. Plasma is good (finally) on Wayland for me (AMD graphics, single hi-dpi screen). I finally switched over from GNOME and I am happy with the experience.

New comment by janice1999 in "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"

janice1999 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:25:57 +0000

Related: "You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop."

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-ba...

New comment by janice1999 in "AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year"

janice1999 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:31:56 +0000

I'm sure the AI is not biased and has a diverse training data set accurately representing the war-torn and impoverished countries these asylum seekers are coming from.

New comment by janice1999 in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

janice1999 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:26:05 +0000

... and also share those images with dozens of companies and potentially have those images leak online. Example: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photos-robot-roomba-vacuum...

New comment by janice1999 in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

janice1999 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:24:36 +0000

Just a reminder: "Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-i...

New comment by janice1999 in "The AI water issue is fake"

janice1999 — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:43:27 +0000

Because water access is constrained geographically. You have to pipe it in if you use it all up. The US is seeing the worst spring drought on record: https://time.com/article/2026/05/10/drought-US-farmers-crops...

New comment by janice1999 in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

janice1999 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:45:54 +0000

Americans are just as regulated and with even more egregious regulatory capture (see the American broadband/mobile provider cartel). At least Europeans get a little consumer protection.

New comment by janice1999 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

janice1999 — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:15:00 +0000

It's going to work for the most part. Most people know that. It's a file by file, mostly function by function, conversion from one low level language to another with a very large test suite (with lots of Rust unsafe to work around differences). I've done that for C tools and it's fine, with some obscure edge cases here and there. The challenges are going to be making the new, very ugly, alien codebase idiomatic Rust in future and adding features or debugging the complex issues. I wish the developers luck. They're in for a slog.

New comment by janice1999 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

janice1999 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:55:24 +0000

I'm curious how much this would cost a paying customer. Can you please give us an estimate?

New comment by janice1999 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

janice1999 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:48:52 +0000

Has he estimated the token cost for this (if he had to pay that is)? I'm curious how much this would cost a paying customer.

New comment by janice1999 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

janice1999 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:44:35 +0000

The benefit of using Rust is that you know exactly where the unsafe code is so you can handle it explicitly and deliberately to avoid issues by imposing carefully crafted constraints... oh.

New comment by janice1999 in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

janice1999 — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:51:23 +0000

How did you guys detect it? Do you use it internally or do you monitor popular packages?

New comment by janice1999 in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

janice1999 — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:51:55 +0000

You need to create and sign into a Zed account to use their prediction AI (Zeta) in order to get 2000 free predictions.

https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction

New comment by janice1999 in "Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance"

janice1999 — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:35:32 +0000

The US had to leave the medicine rot in warehouses. The AI chatbot said it was DEI.

New comment by janice1999 in "Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy"

janice1999 — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:19:35 +0000

> ABC4’s crew was also issued a trespassing notice.

The class system in the US has never been more on display with the datacenter build outs. A senator who attacks a journalist gets them threatened by the police. Town halls to listen to local "concerns" are charades where they look for any excuse to arrest anyone who voices opposition [1].

[1] https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/arrest-made-duri...

New comment by janice1999 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

janice1999 — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:11:03 +0000

Wow, that's bad. Looks like the warnings about TPM and remote attestation being a backdoor to total digital lockdown from the Stallman contingent were right.

New comment by janice1999 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

janice1999 — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:02:06 +0000

I've never seen a CAPTCHA like that. What's it used for? Google Cloud services?