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New comment by jdiff in "My server is a phone now"

jdiff — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:34:05 +0000

How many phones have you tested this with?

New comment by jdiff in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

jdiff — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:15:39 +0000

Not trying to argue you out of your preference, but trying to understand it: Why would you want to be able to accidentally hide parts of the page by having a sidebar open, or extended too far? I don't understand why the page should pretend to take up the whole window and ignore that it does truly live in just a viewport. I get why aesthetically it might be pleasing, but isn't that pretty short-lived when faced with serious practical drawbacks?

New comment by jdiff in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

jdiff — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:56:02 +0000

According to a new uncle to your comment, not whois or RDAP.

New comment by jdiff in "When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation"

jdiff — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:00:09 +0000

It's a grammatical error, sure, where is the indication of slop?

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

jdiff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:48:48 +0000

Writing certainly reinforces more than that when you're not just starting out. It's a poor learning tool. When you have no grasp at all of the meaning, yes, it'll only enforce the syntax you can grasp at that point. I'll maintain that it's a good reinforcement tool, especially to the ends mentioned in the article.

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

jdiff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:55:32 +0000

Writing reinforces. You won't learn from blind uncomprehending rewriting, sure, but when you already know the field, writing gives you the space to comprehend and digest. Certainly more than copying and pasting or blind acceptance of generated code. It doesn't have to be fun to be better.

New comment by jdiff in "Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours"

jdiff — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:13:34 +0000

At least one model can today. https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus-hybrid

New comment by jdiff in "AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them"

jdiff — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:00:38 +0000

They ignored the same copyright laws in many other cases. Why do we believe they were abiding strictly by it this time?

New comment by jdiff in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

jdiff — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:33:16 +0000

No. The holy grail goes undiscovered for now.

New comment by jdiff in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

jdiff — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:51:44 +0000

Embed text in an image, a human will read it just fine. Perfectly visible but opaque to AI. It'd be obnoxious to turn it into an attack, but you can replace letters with images in phrases so that humans read "she believed" while AI reads "he lied."

New comment by jdiff in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

jdiff — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:48:07 +0000

If they're told to upload it as an opaque blob and only reference it by name, it may not react that way. So the attack may work, but it would also only last as long as you have billing limits left to feed it. It's not clear what would be accomplished by this extremely expensive and brief feedback loop.

New comment by jdiff in "Neutrino-1 8B"

jdiff — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:03:08 +0000

It is, but why? And what's with the bizarre way of phrasing that? Why the bizarre observation that, indeed, nobody asked for it?

New comment by jdiff in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

jdiff — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:43:05 +0000

My gut says there are fewer people in that group than there are people who would've learned something who now decided learning something isn't worth the effort. A net loss.

New comment by jdiff in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

jdiff — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:30:14 +0000

Do these hacks make bun less secure than other runtimes? I find it a little hard to believe you can get much more robust and performant than V8 or SpiderMonkey without cutting some corners that notably went uncut by either for all these years.

New comment by jdiff in "Ah, the Codeberg Drama"

jdiff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:47:37 +0000

All are quite large leaps.

New comment by jdiff in "Ah, the Codeberg Drama"

jdiff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:08:56 +0000

Where will this slope slide next? It doesn't seem all that slippery to me. First they came for the LLMs, Lord knows plenty of people are speaking up, but who will they come for next in the dead of night after a majority of voting members publicly decide to boot them?

New comment by jdiff in "Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium"

jdiff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:00:11 +0000

If you were interested, check out Browsh. It's a similar project but based on Firefox and it's been around for quite some time now.

New comment by jdiff in "Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium"

jdiff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:05:47 +0000

Codeberg recently changed policy to not allow primarily AI-authored projects.

New comment by jdiff in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

jdiff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:48:04 +0000

My point is, these guardrails were implemented before the current admin ever intervened in Fable. They have the exact gangster mentality you describe. Many CEOs are lining up to kiss the ring, some literally offering gold bars, and we can see how that pays off for them.

But doesn't the timeline of events indicate that these guardrails are internally-driven, not externally-driven? I'm trying to attribute the guardrails and their severity appropriately.

New comment by jdiff in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

jdiff — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:07:30 +0000

What kind of metaphor? You can be a metaphorical nanny state of something smaller like a household or comment section, I suppose, but even then not with a single statement. The problem with a nanny state is the scope. And people expressing contrary opinions isn't nannying.