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New comment by r4indeer in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

r4indeer — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:36:02 +0000

I'm conflicted on the use of AI in CTFs. On the one hand, they are supposed to mirror real-life scenarios, so of course you should be able to use any tool that would be available to you in real life.

On the other hand, CTFs are fundamentally a game and a competition which are supposed to be fun and compare and improve ones skill. So when I let an LLM generate the entire solution for me, what's the point anymore? I did not learn anything. I did not work for that place on the leaderboard, I just copied the solution. And worst of all, I did not have any fun. It's boring.

So how does using AI as a solver not feel like cheating?

New comment by r4indeer in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

r4indeer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:59:18 +0000

The deal is in contrast to Anthropic and OpenAI who wanted additional restrictions regarding the use of their models for autonomous weapon control and domestic mass surveillance. The US government agreed to these terms in the case of OpenAI [0], yet publicly denounced Anthropic for wanting the same thing [1].

[0] https://openai.com/de-DE/index/our-agreement-with-the-depart...

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-...

New comment by r4indeer in "Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools"

r4indeer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:56:25 +0000

If QC gets to the point where breaking RSA and ECC in the real world is actually going to happen, I'd imagine you will find a consensus rather quickly.

New comment by r4indeer in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

r4indeer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:29:41 +0000

Ok, fair point. However, I would consider any MDM-enabled device fully "compromised" in the sense that the org can see and modify everything I do on it.

New comment by r4indeer in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

r4indeer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:23:36 +0000

The argument regarding no certificate pinning seems to miss that just because I might be on a network that MITM's TLS traffic doesn't mean my device trusts the random CA used by the proxy. I'd just get a TLS error, right?

New comment by r4indeer in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

r4indeer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:40:59 +0000

Bubblewrap is exactly what the Claude sandbox uses.

> These restrictions are enforced at the OS level (Seatbelt on macOS, bubblewrap on Linux), so they apply to all subprocess commands, including tools like kubectl, terraform, and npm, not just Claude’s file tools.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sandboxing

New comment by r4indeer in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

r4indeer — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:23:52 +0000

> This would only apply if they were distributing the GPL licensed code alongside their own code.

As far as I understand the FSF's interpretation of their license, that's not true. Even if you only dynamically link to GPL-licensed code, you create a combined work which has to be licensed, as a whole, under the GPL.

I don't believe that this extends to calling an external program via its CLI, but that's not what the code in question seems to be doing.

(This is not an endorsement, but merely my understanding on how the GPL is supposed to work.)

New comment by r4indeer in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

r4indeer — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:37:25 +0000

I fully agree. The original comment and the other replies to it are bewildering. There was nothing to gain here, yet people are throwing ad hominem attacks left and right.

New comment by r4indeer in "I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod"

r4indeer — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:31:18 +0000

Firefox on Android seems to be unaffected.

New comment by r4indeer in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

r4indeer — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:55:38 +0000

The next paragraph also reads...

> However, The Guardian reported that Lidden’s solicitor, John Sutton, had criticised the Border Force for how it had handled the incident, describing it as a ‘massive over-reaction’ because the quantities of material were so small they were safe to eat. He reportedly said that he had been contacted by scientists all around the world saying that the case was ‘ridiculous’.

New comment by r4indeer in "The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems"

r4indeer — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:23:57 +0000

In addition to the other comments: If you are on NixOS, you can use nixos-enter [1].

[1] https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Change_root

New comment by r4indeer in "New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups"

r4indeer — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:46:31 +0000

At least for the "to the right" part, I think the monotonicity of time has that one covered unless someone invents a time machine to improve metrics in the past.

New comment by r4indeer in "Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16"

r4indeer — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:07:40 +0000

FYI, assuming that is your web server, your TLS certificate expired end of last month.

New comment by r4indeer in "NixOS is not reproducible"

r4indeer — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:56:32 +0000

Personally, I like a lot of things about NixOS.

Redeploying a machine has never been easier for me as all of my config is stored in a git repo in a few .nix files. I don't need to remember what I installed or configured somewhere in /etc five years ago, I can just look in the .nix file for that machine. Everything I configure or install is synced across my desktop and laptop through imports (unless specified), which makes the experience very seamless.

When something goes wrong e.g. after an upgrade, I just reboot and choose the previous generation from the boot menu. If I just want to try out a package, I can get a temporary shell where that package is available. If I don't need it after all, it just gets garbage collected.

When working on a project, I can use a dev shell where everything I need to build/test that project is isolated so I don't pollute my root namespace.

New comment by r4indeer in "SSH as a Sudo Replacement"

r4indeer — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 04:33:40 +0000

Sounds like what you have is similar to the idea of a bastion host, even if not quite the same.

New comment by r4indeer in "How to get stuff repaired when the manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court"

r4indeer — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:25:00 +0000

> Now an old fashioned light bulb shouldn't be expected to last a decade, but an oven?

Funnily enough, there actually was the Phoebus cartel [1] which sought to reduce the lifespan of incandescent light bulbs to around 1,000 hours and raise prices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

New comment by r4indeer in "Stop Using Discord"

r4indeer — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:42:09 +0000

Mastodon is decentralized / federated, so the page load time depends on the instance you're visiting.

New comment by r4indeer in "What's that touchscreen in my room?"

r4indeer — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:40:59 +0000

Only 2 left, probably for a while already. I'd guess that's old stock.

New comment by r4indeer in "ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format"

r4indeer — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 06:41:06 +0000

> What if they don't have packages you need?

Unlikely. But if so, you can provide the packages yourself: https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_tex.html#wegotem

> What if your paper isn't written with LaTeX?

Then they still accept PDF or HTML. See: https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html#formats-for-te...

New comment by r4indeer in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

r4indeer — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:30:33 +0000

The tweet was updated five minutes later to correct 550 to 505.

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1726599700961521762?s...