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New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:17:58 +0000

Maybe curl is just... better hardened? Firefox posted hundreds in April.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

knowaveragejoe — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:17:16 +0000

I think this cynicism is more borne out of a despair for the average person stuck in all that. They often don't know that there's something else, that you can just Do Things.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:54:36 +0000

This is called consignment and is an industry unto itself, usually for antiques since you need a lot of space. You give them your goods and they sell them. You get a cut if they actually sell.

I'm surprised nobody has really mentioned this in the thread. Does anybody remember the "trade in anything" day GameStop just had? https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/08/gamestop-tra...

Obviously they're going to need to liquidate a lot of this stuff. It can be quite lucrative if done right. You're basically getting inventory for free.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

knowaveragejoe — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:15:15 +0000

> I saw a claim that Claude Mythos cost ~$10B to train.

Can you cite this? That seems absurd.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

knowaveragejoe — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:11:49 +0000

As the article states, there's both training and inference dedicated chips.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:41:02 +0000

To use mobile data, yes you'd have to prove some kind of identity in one way or another.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:40:22 +0000

He's closer than you might appreciate.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

knowaveragejoe — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:42:23 +0000

You can buy a phone on amazon right now and not sign for anything.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:24:47 +0000

I see. Are there other similar projects for other ecosystems? I guess more broadly I'm intrigued by the idea of the decentralized supply chain concept, the way you described it sounds like it was more broadly applicable.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "EFF is leaving X"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:04:11 +0000

I'm convinced you didn't actually look through this and just assume that these were bans for mentioning something like "there are only two genders".

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:02:58 +0000

Is FAIR wordpress-only?

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

knowaveragejoe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:39:48 +0000

Isn't some of Gemini's functionality on Android on-device?

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source"

knowaveragejoe — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:26:34 +0000

One nice thing about LittleSnitch on linux is that it comes with a web UI by default. Is there anything like that for headless systems using OpenSnitch?

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

knowaveragejoe — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:18:17 +0000

No, they really aren't. But I wouldn't put it past "trad" types.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

knowaveragejoe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:32:38 +0000

> No. LLMs do not confabulate they bullshit. There is a big difference. AIs do not care, cannot care, have not capacity to care about the output. String tokens in, string tokes out. Even if they have all the data perfectly recorded they will still fail to use it for a coherent output.

Isn't "caring" a necessary pre-requisite for bullshitting? One either bullshits because they care, or don't care, about the context.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

knowaveragejoe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:53:27 +0000

More likely: the local news reporter doesn't know the difference, or didn't think there was a difference.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

knowaveragejoe — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:53:23 +0000

I'm sure they do, yet the models really are getting scarily good at this. This talk changed my view on where we're actually at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

knowaveragejoe — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:47:07 +0000

This is all downstream of the backlash against social media and AI, and it's attacking the symptom rather than treating it IMO. You don't need to abandon digital tools entirely, you need to control how they're used in the classroom.

Not every kid can learn concepts just by having them explained verbally or with simple, inanimate diagrams. Desmos etc were incredibly valuable for unlocking certain concepts.

Also, you can't ctrl+f a textbook. Sure, you might find what you're looking for in an appendix or ToC.

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

knowaveragejoe — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:40:51 +0000

> Only if you are asking surface level questions.

I find it pretty accurate well beyond that level. How much of that is actually a problem in K-12 education?

New comment by knowaveragejoe in "Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free"

knowaveragejoe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:20:40 +0000

Okay. There are other criticisms of datacenter buildout that make this kind of product valuable. Moving on.