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New comment by rurban in "No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure"

rurban — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:17:01 +0000

No, pure TACO.

Glad that even right-wing US policy commentators now use that word, I thought only Europeans used for him. The right direction

New comment by rurban in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

rurban — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:19:19 +0000

If they would have watched Carlini's "unblocked" talk on youtube, which is much more detailed than the blog post, they would not need this writeup. He was worried about the reproducers of the zero-day's. Not the actual zero-days that much.

New comment by rurban in "Hungary Is a Laboratory for Illiberal Nationalism. The Results Are In"

rurban — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:40:48 +0000

The results are not yet in. Don't forget how "sovereign democracies" do elections. Just look at how Russia, Turkey, Georgia or the US are doing their elections. Vladislav Surkov, Putin's wizard was right. Just give them bread and circuses.

New comment by rurban in "40x Faster Binary Search"

rurban — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:32:59 +0000

Fine and dandy, but 40x faster trumps all algorithmic theories. You need to teach and implement cache-oblivious algos.

New comment by rurban in "40x Faster Binary Search"

rurban — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:06:40 +0000

Of course cache misses dominate over search or eytzinger.

Algorithmic courses are only for theoretical stone age computers.

New comment by rurban in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

rurban — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:49:49 +0000

Raft consensus with pairs? I smell bulls*t there. Even when they say it's 8, it boils down to pair-wise checks, without any consensus. Just the consensus of wrong.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTEthernet looks like bolting time-guaranteed switching networks onto randomizing ethernet hardware. Sounds incredibly cheap and stupid. Either stay with guaranteed real-time switching, or give up on hard real-time guarantees and favor performance, simplicity and cheap stock hardware.

Monkeys in space.

New comment by rurban in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

rurban — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:34:59 +0000

Torvalds promotes exactly that. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse

New comment by rurban in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

rurban — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:42:42 +0000

What they don't tell here, but a german researcher told yesterday on radio, was that the initial conflict arose in the 90ies, when one large group of Ngogo chimpanzees raided a nearby group and killed all males. Thus they came later to that insanely large number of 200 members, which a decade later lead to this conflict with the two groups already seperated. Similar to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War observed by Jane Godall.

Also missing is the Killer Ape theory of the sixties which led to the research that chimpanzees have much higher lethal conflict numbers than humans.

Also, this Ngogo group is highly researched, and many many films where made about them.

New comment by rurban in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

rurban — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:21:55 +0000

In my case a firmware provider went out of business, and in one particular device the firmware gets stuck in an endless boot loop. It tries to calibrate some led's, but forgets to round some differences, so it can never converge to a proper calibration.

Device is bricked, firmware is secured with a signing key, refactoring a new device is pretty hard. The current one needed 10 years of development. I'm on the wait to either patch the firmware by finding the problematic byte (if it's patchable, round() needs much more), or to wait for the original dev willing to release an update on his own. BTW Claude opus got much better than ghidra lately. It's perfect.

I see the value of protected firmware updates, but business has to survive also.

New comment by rurban in "Under oath, Frank Lloyd Wright introduced himself as "world greatest architect""

rurban — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:29:16 +0000

What's the problem there? He knew his status, everybody else also

New comment by rurban in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

rurban — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:35:04 +0000

Aba wouldn't have said: "Send X bitcoins to my priority hotline at this IP and I’ll read the message personally."

Because aba knew about how email worked, unlike Satoshi. A hotline is not at in IP, it is at a domain with an MX record. Satoshi was a Windows guy.

New comment by rurban in "Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V"

rurban — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:54:04 +0000

Ross Bamford doesn't sound spanish to me

New comment by rurban in "Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V"

rurban — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:46:25 +0000

> Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU-Linux®) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines.

Love that Linus quip! Hopefully it will be. Non-POSIX sounds exciting

New comment by rurban in "Writing Lisp is AI resistant and I'm sad"

rurban — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:00:51 +0000

And for prolog I have to use the most expensive opus, which really should be a haiku task. Prolog is so simple. Still didn't get my solvers to work right

New comment by rurban in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

rurban — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:55:17 +0000

See https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

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

rurban — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:37:19 +0000

You have to ask Anthropic and OpenAI, not Google. They are still way behind.

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

rurban — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:21:54 +0000

They will keep it for a while, but it is now named Collabora Office. That's where the development is happening.

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

rurban — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:59:25 +0000

I have no idea what they are talking about. But is now clear that the TDF filed the lawsuit against Collabora, and then based on changed bylaws expelled the Collabora members. Suicidal tendencies.

Also, the future of LibreOffice is extremely bleak now. No further development, no maintainance, and losing the biggest contracts to a strong competitor, OnlyOffice.

Which is kinda unfortunate for us now. The TDF keeps the name, just as Sun did with OpenOffice. And Collabora has to find a new name. Which was already done 11 days ago: https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/plugins/gitiles/core/

But can they win back the EU contract for OnlyOffice?

New comment by rurban in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

rurban — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:31:14 +0000

It's written by a bot to avoid fingerprinting.

https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/surveillancefindings-new...

New comment by rurban in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

rurban — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:39:43 +0000

That's what I did with my Austrian goverment ID during the COVID times. Had to go the embassy to identify myself. Those times the Deutschland ticket was still cheap, so no problem.