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New comment by quantummagic in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

quantummagic — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:11:26 +0000

In fairness, that isn't due to a lack of compute.

New comment by quantummagic in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

quantummagic — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:23:29 +0000

It is naive to think that this is being done without the full support of the government. They won't step in to stop it.

New comment by quantummagic in "Scouting's Real Crisis Is Not Marketing. It Is Decades of Neglect."

quantummagic — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:25:06 +0000

The LDS wanted it to continue to be more of a faith-based organization, and also objected to combining boys and girls together into the same program. Ultimately they left the organization at the end of 2019, taking about 20% of the membership with them.

New comment by quantummagic in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

quantummagic — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:45:46 +0000

> zero improvement on end-user experience.

Maybe not by itself, but it does allow for the ecosystem to be audited, in a way that ultimately benefits the end-user. It really is an important part of a healthy supply chain.

New comment by quantummagic in "The Serial TTL connector we deserve"

quantummagic — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:36:48 +0000

One side could be flush with an enclosure, but it's not clear how you attach the other side to a cable. There doesn't appear to be any housing to cover soldered wires, for instance.

I've Solved AI Alignment,'Godfather' of AI, Yoshua Bengio

quantummagic — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqDFs2sbiY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074544

Points: 1

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New comment by quantummagic in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

quantummagic — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:22:46 +0000

Even if we accept your premise, laws don't just appear; they are an organized response to a recognized problem. But everyone has been sleeping on the problem lurking in our infrastructure, undermining any impetus to enact such laws. And the people screaming from the mountain top (like Stallman), trying to raise awareness, were routinely mocked and marginalized by those all too happy to accept convenience and expediency, over more sustainable values.

New comment by quantummagic in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

quantummagic — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:18:19 +0000

> Gemini’s smug...

Anthropomorphizing these systems is dangerous, whether coming from the bullish or bearish perspective. The output is statistically generated by a machine lacking the capability to be smug.

New comment by quantummagic in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

quantummagic — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:48:18 +0000

Everyone, including Linus Torvalds, who rejected Stallman as too political or ideological, and advocated for "pragmatism" instead, is part of the reason we're where we are today. And it's going to get a lot worse, before it ever gets better.

New comment by quantummagic in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

quantummagic — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:43:51 +0000

I wouldn't hold your breath. The government is reliant on them for surveillance, censorship, and propaganda. It is a synergistic relationship, not adversarial.

New comment by quantummagic in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

quantummagic — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:05:58 +0000

Not of the host system, assuming we're talking about a compromised VM, running as a non-root user.

New comment by quantummagic in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

quantummagic — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:31 +0000

It's not always as easy as you imply. All the attack vectors you mentioned, require root on the host, before you can make the change or install the trojan.

New comment by quantummagic in "The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape"

quantummagic — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:08:53 +0000

Same. Not going through a captcha for a random link.

New comment by quantummagic in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

quantummagic — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:59:56 +0000

Didn't see a pdf of your thesis, except on your web-site[1]. But the version there (at least as it renders on my machine), has numerous formatting issues. For one egregious example, look at the letter spacing in the title and legend of Figure 2.2 (page 27): "civilia ns", "Pe rs ona lity s core". I'm sure the content is great, but using it as an example of Typst prowess, seems ill-advised.

[1] https://huijzer.xyz/files/f72fa09561f20162.pdf

New comment by quantummagic in "Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services"

quantummagic — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:01:23 +0000

That goes without saying. But there are a few bug reports and issues that have gone without a response for months. It seems abandoned, rather than finished to perfection. Not to mention that systemd is a moving target, with new features released quite often.

New comment by quantummagic in "Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services"

quantummagic — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:14:39 +0000

I'd welcome such a tool, but it makes me nervous that it hasn't had any activity at all in three months. Was this just a single-shot effort, and move on?

New comment by quantummagic in "How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker"

quantummagic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:46:14 +0000

> ... harder to view any modern site ...

Seriously? Have a few concrete examples to back that up?

New comment by quantummagic in "Cursor Camp"

quantummagic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:52:28 +0000

With Firefox, moving the cursor is really unresponsive and difficult, at least with my touch-pad. Taking many swipes to move even a little bit in each direction. It's a much more enjoyable experience with Chrome.

New comment by quantummagic in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

quantummagic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:36:31 +0000

So, we need a lightweight local LLM, that is tuned to remove ads from online LLM results.

New comment by quantummagic in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

quantummagic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:43:30 +0000

Yup. And eventually there will be online learning, that doesn't require a formal update step. People keep conflating the current implementation, as an inherent feature.