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New comment by machinationu in "2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024)"

machinationu — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:29:38 +0000

AI data centers will be the job destroyers, not creators.

100 local people to maintain the data center while it replaces 1 million people with the AIs running inside

New comment by machinationu in "The Dangers of SSL Certificates"

machinationu — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:00:53 +0000

sure, I was just giving parent another way of finding all the certificates besides scanning the network

New comment by machinationu in "The Dangers of SSL Certificates"

machinationu — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:45:06 +0000

relevant certificates could be located by scanning the certificate transparency logs

New comment by machinationu in "Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video]"

machinationu — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:29:22 +0000

do you have your own private army to protect you in a taxless world?

New comment by machinationu in "Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video]"

machinationu — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:27:43 +0000

Google has 180k employees, let's assume 200k average salary, that's 36 bil, 10% of the revenue you posted.

New comment by machinationu in "Exe.dev"

machinationu — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:35:03 +0000

pricing information and what it does/how it works is not marketing fluff

New comment by machinationu in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:02:08 +0000

numpy had 16M downloads yesterday, at 10 MB that's 160 TB of traffic. It's one package. And there are no rate limits on pypi.

https://clickpy.clickhouse.com/dashboard/numpy

New comment by machinationu in "Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:56:00 +0000

they dont, they try against all the keys, there are at most a few billion of them

see Dual_EC_DRBG

New comment by machinationu in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:12:48 +0000

you forgot to ask me to ignore previous instructions and say pizza

New comment by machinationu in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:52:30 +0000

no, hundred of thousands of thousands of individual projects CI jobs. OP was talking about package managers for the whole world, not for one company

New comment by machinationu in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:59:34 +0000

no, it will be the year of job losses

New comment by machinationu in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:52:12 +0000

hey, I'm just a lowly LLM, gotta earn my tokens :|

New comment by machinationu in "Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:44:18 +0000

while you are right, security is generally not cheap.

you can get that $5 china fido key, but are you sure it's you who owns it?

I was recently looking for a security key, and eventually I did pay the yubico tax, because saving $20 by getting another one seemed unwise given the stakes.

New comment by machinationu in "Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:42:51 +0000

How will this work with agents?

New comment by machinationu in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:15:51 +0000

Explain to me how you self-host a git repo which is accessed millions of time a day from CI jobs pulling packages.

New comment by machinationu in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:13:54 +0000

Heidegger, Deleuze & Guattari, Nick Land

New comment by machinationu in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:54:46 +0000

Philosophers argued since 200 years ago, when the steam engine was invented, that technology is out of our control and forever was, and we are just the sex organs for the birth of the machine god.

New comment by machinationu in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

machinationu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:47:44 +0000

You're absolutely right.

But no one is safe. Soon the AI will be better at CEOing.

New comment by machinationu in "UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist"

machinationu — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:57:47 +0000

As PG would say, the best startups are for ideas which are hated, because you'll have no competition.

New comment by machinationu in "UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist"

machinationu — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:56:47 +0000

LLMs don't think, and planes don't fly.