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New comment by kikoreis in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

kikoreis — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:28:09 +0000

"Nothing" is not accurate in the context of Debian as per comments above; it's not like Github in that sense.

New comment by kikoreis in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

kikoreis — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:26:38 +0000

Debian itself is actually great: https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/

New comment by kikoreis in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

kikoreis — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:23:30 +0000

Well. This is Debian, known for how strict they are about vetting developers. I just remembered Sladen refusing to key sign because my passport circa 2005 didn't have a machine readable slug in it.

https://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint

New comment by kikoreis in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

kikoreis — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:35:29 +0000

Yeah.

And there is also the group of parents that at the moment have decided no device is safe enough to be given to a child or adolescent.

They are a good litmus test of the bill; would they be happy to provide devices if there was age verification built in?

I am in this group and I wouldn't.

New comment by kikoreis in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

kikoreis — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:12:28 +0000

Do you have children? Have you witnessed what they can do with restricted $300-2000 devices? My kids hack restaurant tablets at every place we go. I don't even know how they do it most of the time.

This is going to be one hell of a slippery slope. And the actual publisher-driven proposal in this thread is so much more useful; I would love to filter out anything with excess violence and generally NSFW content from my view of the Internet -- and I am over 18.

New comment by kikoreis in "What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is"

kikoreis — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:45:13 +0000

It's not completely wrong, but overly simplistic:

> In 2006, Amazon launched what is now AWS, exposing the internal compute, storage, and database services its retail group had built. The internal pitch was identical to Marketplace seven years earlier.

These were not internal services, and it wasn't exactly the retail group that built them (Chris and Ben were dedicated to EC2 and the team ran remote from Seattle). Nor was Marketplace run on the 1P Amazon platform, so it would have been a strange analogy to use for a pitch.

In the end, though, the point is the same as I made elsewhere in the thread — once you are big enough you can try and bootstrap pretty much anything adjacent to your business and have a good shot at success.

New comment by kikoreis in "What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is"

kikoreis — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:38:16 +0000

This read was mildly interesting, but I'm left thinking that the study of any sprawling monopoly will come up with similar mildly interesting and irrelevant rationalizations of success. Once you get as as big as Amazon was in the early 2010s, provided your culture doesn't melt down (by itself no small feat), you are well positioned to expand and flatten adjacent parts of the economy.

So the question is whether you read this to be inspired by it and attempt to create your own monopoly, or to be afraid of it and start thinking about regulation. Or both :-)

New comment by kikoreis in "Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy"

kikoreis — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:02:57 +0000

Actually there is a long and storied history of mechanisms created to compel American companies to comply with requests for digital intervention. A good starting point is the concept of the NSL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

Relevant acts include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act and the more recent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

New comment by kikoreis in "Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application"

kikoreis — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:12:59 +0000

Oh this almost makes me want to go back and consider NFS for our local lab. I used to run it but everywhere having a centralized SPOF was a constant concern, and there isn't a simple HA story for it sadly.

New comment by kikoreis in "Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage"

kikoreis — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:04:10 +0000

As a user for over a decade, just here to submit my appreciation. healthchecks.io is fantastic.

New comment by kikoreis in "How virtual textures work"

kikoreis — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:33:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

New comment by kikoreis in "Learning from context is harder than we thought"

kikoreis — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:24:22 +0000

> Without any context provided, the state-of-the-art model, GPT-5.1 (High), is only able to solve less than 1% of tasks. This starkly demonstrates that the data is contamination-free, as the model is almost entirely incapable of solving the tasks without learning from the context.

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[With context provided,] on average, models solve only 17.2% of tasks. Even the best-performing model, GPT-5.1 (High), achieves just 23.7%.

New comment by kikoreis in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

kikoreis — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:05:22 +0000

Swofy makes a little media player that has physical buttons; the crowd here at home really likes them: https://a.co/d/9icRCCs

New comment by kikoreis in "A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland"

kikoreis — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:43:11 +0000

Your comment made me think of Charli XCX's recent post https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-...

Who was the actress?

New comment by kikoreis in "It's not always DNS"

kikoreis — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:58:52 +0000

Resolver limitations, as opposed to server or protocol issues, are in my view the main reason why "it is always DNS".

New comment by kikoreis in "Fast"

kikoreis — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:37:27 +0000

Oh it's lwn.net for me!

New comment by kikoreis in "OpenAI is building a social network?"

kikoreis — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:33:24 +0000

(Stretching a definition of social network.)

Not strictly but Debian, where member inclusion is done through an in person chain of trust process so you have clusters of people who know each other offline as a basis.

Also, most WhatsApp contacts have been exchanged IRL, I presume.

New comment by kikoreis in "Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight"

kikoreis — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:39:18 +0000

Through regulation?

New comment by kikoreis in "Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet"

kikoreis — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:13:33 +0000

Well yes but headscale?

New comment by kikoreis in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

kikoreis — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:18:38 +0000

Perhaps even stranger, MinIO have publicly stated they have revoked an Apache 2 license grant to a third party, Weka: https://blog.min.io/weka-violates-minios-open-source-license...

Not sure what their counsel is thinking there..