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New comment by kevinrineer in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

kevinrineer — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:45:47 +0000

Know any harnesses that explicitly don't have a "yolo" mode?

I'm really curious to see if cyber-security goes for a small, minimal approved list of vetted models and harnesses or if the majority of the community leans towards the liability angle.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"

kevinrineer — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:31:59 +0000

One could compare it to the immediacy of an actor's overnight success shaped career.

New comment by kevinrineer in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

kevinrineer — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:19:19 +0000

Most business security cameras are powered by something and are most likely not tied to the emergency power lines.

This correction is not an endorsement.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

kevinrineer — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:40:33 +0000

Thanks for the rec. That repo is young, but the owner seems quite experienced.

I'll happily try it.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

kevinrineer — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:29:45 +0000

I am curious about your confidence for NFS for the nix store.

My thoughts, ignoring my technical disagreements, would be that you'd want to setup clients to have a specific set of software per their government role. A nix store could expose more software than you planned on supporting (e.g. forgotten software or licensed software).

New comment by kevinrineer in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

kevinrineer — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:24:46 +0000

> Sextant: a graphical interface for NixOS management as an alternative to Intune, by Bram Buijs [1]

Now that's a fairly interesting project and a way to actually bring technology like NixOS to the administrators in the way they expect. From my experience (sample size one, yes) there are more systems administrators that use web interfaces for management than DevOps IaC folks. This would be a good bridging solution if it is a successful project.

[1] - https://members.dawo.community/en/blog/blog-1/dawo-nixos-wor...

New comment by kevinrineer in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

kevinrineer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:40:59 +0000

There's also the risk that VS Code is a "trusted" application in many enterprises because developers force it to be. VS Code's node runtime (and plugin system) executing somewhat arbitrary Javascript means that any dev servers become vulnerable to exploits you otherwise might not have prepared to defend against [1].

Otherwise, you could see Javascript running on a server and instantly know something was odd, depending on the server.

[1] - https://www.darktrace.com/blog/darktrace-identifies-campaign...

New comment by kevinrineer in "I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB"

kevinrineer — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:53:28 +0000

I guess I'm poor then because my homelab has nodes with these specs.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Can gzip be a language model?"

kevinrineer — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:35:23 +0000

Wonderful link. Just commenting to add: in the first video, Grant mentioned it would be a trilogy series.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Jev-Leftpad"

kevinrineer — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:02:46 +0000

> me: That's enough setup, you're exactly right.

So that's where in the training set current models get that phrase! /j

New comment by kevinrineer in "Brood War Bench"

kevinrineer — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:57:03 +0000

AlphaGo, Watson, Stockfish, Eliza. I can name so many of the interesting stuff and each new LLM just comes and goes.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

kevinrineer — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:48:19 +0000

To be honest, I feel that the ceiling is higher in Windows. I just today dealt with a faulty HP Printer driver that caused wuauserv (Windows Update) to report that I had to reboot every day. Finding which files were corrupted in `C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\` was not an easy task.

I've also this prior week fixed double digit Wi-Fi issues, my institution is dealing with the deprecation of MSCHAPv2, and so on.

Not going to say MacOS is free of issues either - from my experience with screen flickers / blackouts on full screen video playback with quick transitions.

In my experience this year, the grass is not greener in any desktop OS.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Grok outage"

kevinrineer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:08:41 +0000

Why are so many people invoking Thundering Herd without the RCA from the vendors? I just find it so intriguing.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs"

kevinrineer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:53:51 +0000

> According to The Information, OpenAI has reportedly purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios in recent months for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents.

I do hope they verified this claim and didn't just read the headline. I'm not interested in subscribing to that source to find out unfortunately.

New comment by kevinrineer in "I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year"

kevinrineer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:06:18 +0000

> I don't even have a pricing page, i try to see how much i get can from each client, from $5/mo to $100/mo

That seems ethical. Vibes based fees.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

kevinrineer — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:22:37 +0000

I too like running the same kernel for months on end. Just kidding, I restart periodically, especially when there's a kernel patch.

To those who worship uptime, how many kmods do you have loaded? Must be nice not subscribing to openwall/NVD/CISA/cve.org

New comment by kevinrineer in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

kevinrineer — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:35:38 +0000

I'm still rocking my nvidia 2060, which I had purchased for $400 at the time.

I struggle to imagine purchasing multiple 1k+ cards on my own dime.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

kevinrineer — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:29:53 +0000

I'm a bit surprised that this kind of incredibly engineered hyperconverged rack system isn't doing some form of liquid cooling.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

kevinrineer — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:30:54 +0000

Not only that, but do you really want to be handling the contract negotiations, sales, business taxes, insurance, and everything else?

Being a sole-proprietorship means doing things you aren't skilled in and, most likely, not interested in doing. When I did it, I had a horrid work-life balance and I would not recommend it.

New comment by kevinrineer in "Expertise in the age of AI"

kevinrineer — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:00:55 +0000

The referenced gap is the supposed numeracy of developers 5 years ago and developers today, whether they be junior or senior developers.

There is a strong downward trend toward decreasing numeracy in high school graduates and it has existed, supposedly, since 2013. This observation seems to be extrapolated to developers in the quote you reference.