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New comment by skupig in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

skupig — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:43:10 +0000

It's equally possible there was one engineer with some free time who thought it would be cool.

New comment by skupig in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

skupig — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:39:55 +0000

Yeah, or to put it a different way, an ineffective, easily corrupted, and insufficiently representative government is the problem.

New comment by skupig in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

skupig — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:33:30 +0000

>replace the current economic system with something where we're not all in a fierce knife fight to try to stay employed

Jobs will become even more scarce, so how does that follow?

>robots can liberate us from capital's death grip

We are already live in a world sufficiently technologically advanced to feed and house everyone, and yet we don't.

New comment by skupig in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

skupig — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:34:26 +0000

It's so naive to think that US companies won't do (or aren't already doing) the exact same thing but for money.

New comment by skupig in "Steam Machine launches today"

skupig — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:54:55 +0000

I have a less powerful PC in my living room that's connected via ethernet

New comment by skupig in "Steam Machine launches today"

skupig — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:24:11 +0000

Nope! That's just how a normal conversation works.

New comment by skupig in "Steam Machine launches today"

skupig — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:27:40 +0000

I'm looking at the performance stats streaming a game to my living room PC right now, and total latency is about 4-5ms, which would be unnoticeable even on a 120hz TV.

New comment by skupig in "Steam Machine launches today"

skupig — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:19:40 +0000

Maybe you're out of touch, they pretty much look like the typical young nerd from Seattle.

New comment by skupig in "Steam Machine launches today"

skupig — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:33:02 +0000

If you already have a powerful desktop PC in your house, streaming via Sunshine/Moonlight is pretty much perfect these days.

New comment by skupig in "Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center"

skupig — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:39:16 +0000

We call them "jokes"

New comment by skupig in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

skupig — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:09:02 +0000

The article glosses over this, but it looks like the next variable in the struct is conveniently the first parameter to the function, so you can run arbitrary code with system() or whatever. But, yeah, you would need some other exploit to defeat ASLR.

New comment by skupig in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

skupig — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:03:24 +0000

You would also need some sort of ASLR leak to make this exploitable

New comment by skupig in "The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true"

skupig — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:34:25 +0000

I'm not really sure what your point is. That was just the most recent paper linked on that repo, which is a convenient list of some relevant papers. There are probably a lot more recent studies, but it does convincingly show that models are still absorbing bias in a way that can affect prediction.

New comment by skupig in "The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true"

skupig — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:05:27 +0000

There has been plenty of research that shows LLMs encode social biases. It seems pretty obvious even before looking at the research that training on the whole internet will end up encoding widely-held social biases and stereotypes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07111

https://github.com/angl1n/social-bias-llm-vlm

New comment by skupig in "Training our own AI models"

skupig — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:46:29 +0000

It's not OK, but it's a fact.

New comment by skupig in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

skupig — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:53:05 +0000

That "opt-in" is going to be a vaguely-worded auto-filled checkbox and the "consent" will be stretched far beyond what any user thinks they're agreeing to.

New comment by skupig in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

skupig — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:50:29 +0000

That doesn't make any sense. The US enjoys its position of economic power because it has the reputation and wealth to attract skilled people and keep them here.

New comment by skupig in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

skupig — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:34:06 +0000

You can automatically be a citizen through descent of most countries in Europe and Asia, and everywhere in North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis#Jus_sanguinis_st...

New comment by skupig in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

skupig — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:22:28 +0000

I don't think that's necessarily true, I think companies are lazy and highly invasive anticheat is an easy win they can license from a 3rd party. Algorithmic security, server-side heuristics, and human review can get you far. I have very, very rarely seen a blatant cheater in Overwatch (maybe 3 times in 10 years?), for example, and yet it's been playable via WINE for almost its entire lifetime.

New comment by skupig in "Colored Shadow Penumbra"

skupig — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:57:10 +0000

I think the effect the author is talking about is definitely caused by atmospheric scattering, but the painted effects are different. Those are more likely inspired by overexposure, aberration, HDR, etc. Makoto Shinkai specifically is a filmmaker and often emulates camera effects like lens flare.