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New comment by ma2kx in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

ma2kx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:57:41 +0000

It seems there opens a new market as Europe plans to abandon Microsoft products. First OnlyOffice / EuroOffice and now this...

New comment by ma2kx in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

ma2kx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:55:25 +0000

Init7 has on its blog another amazing write up https://blog.init7.net/en/die-glasfaserstreit-geschichte/

New comment by ma2kx in "Intro to Reality Pentesting"

ma2kx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:56:52 +0000

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/a-taxonomy-of...

I stumbled across this on Bruce Schneier's blog. It's a very interesting analysis, but what I think is missing are references to current research in sociology and psychology. It seems to be primarily a sociological model from the perspective of a cybersecurity expert, without any real connection to those disciplines.

That doesn't mean it's any less relevant. Conversely, there are countless analyses from psychology and sociology that examine the implications of software on our world without a technical background. Even though we've become quite adept at identifying individual symptoms arising from (social media) services, the fields of computer science and psychology still appear largely isolated from one another.

Given the current global situation, which has clearly been damaged by the internet and the exploits described in the analysis, closer interdisciplinary collaboration is urgently needed.

New comment by ma2kx in "The beginning of programming as we'll know it?"

ma2kx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:42:24 +0000

https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-...

> In comparision, Nakamura had the assistance of an older version of Rybka (about 200 points less than Stockfish's 3200+ rating), and it ran on a 2008 MacBook. Of course, he also had his 20-plus years of chess knowledge in play.

New comment by ma2kx in "The beginning of programming as we'll know it?"

ma2kx — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:36:03 +0000

Here is a Match where Nakamura played with Rybka against Stockfish from 2014: https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-...

And here Nakamura still reached 4.5:3.5 vs Komodo in 2016 https://www.chess.com/news/view/komodo-beats-nakamura-in-fin...

Hikaru surely has more matches like that, but I don't know if they can be found in chess databases or if they were only streamed on YouTube.

New comment by ma2kx in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

ma2kx — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:22:02 +0000

I think this conclusion in itself is more introspection than reading the news. After all most news events are external and whether you read about them or not doesn't make any difference. Its really more the opposite of introspection.

New comment by ma2kx in "The beginning of programming as we'll know it?"

ma2kx — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:37:32 +0000

In chess, engines have long been stronger than humans, but for a long time a (super) grandmaster with an engine was still better than an engine alone.

New comment by ma2kx in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

ma2kx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:26:43 +0000

I think it will be less of a local versus cloud situation, but rather one where both complement each other. The next step will undoubtedly be for local LLMs to be fast and intelligent enough to allow for vocal conversation. A low-latency model will then run locally, enabling smoother conversations, while batch jobs in the cloud handle the more complex tasks.

Google, at least, is likely interested in such a scenario, given their broad smartphone market. And if their local Gemma/Gemini-nano LLMs perform better with Gemini in the cloud, that would naturally be a significant advantage.

New comment by ma2kx in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

ma2kx — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:03:36 +0000

There exist restricted Shells. But honestly, I don't feel capable of assessing all attack vectors and security measures in sufficient detail. For example, do the rbash restrictions also apply when Python is called with it? Or can the agent somehow bypass rbash to call Python?

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

New comment by ma2kx in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

ma2kx — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:41:55 +0000

Its a bit annoying that there are so many solutions to run agents and sandbox them but no established best practice. It would be nice to have some high level orchestration tools like docker / podman where you can configure how e.g. claude code, opencode, codex, openclaw run in open Shell, OCI container, jai etc.

Especially because everybody can ask chatgpt/claude how to run some agents without any further knowledge I feel we should handle it more like we are handling encryption where the advice is to use established libraries and don't implement those algorithms by yourself.

New comment by ma2kx in "curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd"

ma2kx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:48:49 +0000

Why not just use netboot?

New comment by ma2kx in "Cult of Claude – The largest directory of Claude Code skills and agents"

ma2kx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:00:09 +0000

I know how mcp and skills work. My comment was more about the hype.

New comment by ma2kx in "Cult of Claude – The largest directory of Claude Code skills and agents"

ma2kx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:00:49 +0000

So skills are the new mcp?

New comment by ma2kx in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

ma2kx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:06:41 +0000

The physical bottleneck to system memory remains. Therefore, I assume that better results are achieved by manually adjusting which layers are offloaded.

I would prefer to use system memory to cache different models, focusing on things like embedding, rerankers, and TTS. This is sufficient to run a more complex RAG locally, for example, via Mem0, and then use a larger LLM via the cloud.

New comment by ma2kx in "Unsloth Studio"

ma2kx — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:42:03 +0000

Nice! Is there something planned to run the finetuning via hf jobs or runpod?

New comment by ma2kx in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

ma2kx — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:48:54 +0000

As a non native English speaker my own words wouldnt be in English. If I express myself in English I soon struggle for the right words. On the other hand I think when I read some English text I'm quite capable of sensing the nuances. So it feels when I auto translate my text to English an than read against it again and make some corrections, I can express my thoughts much better.

New comment by ma2kx in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

ma2kx — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:42:54 +0000

How about translating tools? As a non native speaker, especially for longer text, its far easier to express your thoughts and not struggle for the right words. Should I may be highlight if I used e.g. google translate?

New comment by ma2kx in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

ma2kx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:05:09 +0000

The MacLeod Life Cycle reminds me on the 5 seasons of the illuminati calendar:

Verwirrung Season of Chaos January 1-March 14

Zweitracht Season of Discord March 15-May 26

Unordnung Season of Confusion May 27-August 7

Beamtenherrschaft Season of Bureaucracy August 8-October 19

Grummet Season of Aftermath October 20-December 31

From the book Illuminatus!