SahAssar

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Comment · 1 day ago
> GTA

I'm guessing you mean GTA 3, but then we also had GTA Vice City... and GTA San Andreas. Which are all three in the top 5 selling games for the PS2.

Comment · 3 days ago
Does /etc/ssl/cert.pem not exist if you don't install XCode?
Comment · 6 days ago
Seems like it's due to the recent brotli bugs. The other blocker is stratis, but to be honest I'm not sure if that is a no-go.
Comment · 6 days ago
> If you are a legally operating company in the US just saying it's banned is enough, the threat of enforcement is enough pressure.

Is there precedent for the US actually "banning" software? I know for example the Kaspersky ban and tiktok ban, but both of those were either banning the sales or banning the service. IIRC neither made the actual software illegal.

What is an example of a specific software being illegal to possess? What is an example of a specific software being illegal to use if it is not used to break other laws (copyright, etc.) or talks to banned service providers?

Closest thing I can think of is restricting the export of cryptography in the 90's, but that was not even close to what you are suggesting.

Comment · 6 days ago
It didn't. They are probably referring either to Quad9 being ordered to block resolving certain hosts (and therefore deciding to not offer service in france) or the french prime minister sending a notice to ISPs to prepare DNS blocks for twitter, facebook, etc.

In both cases this is not taking the whole country offline, and for both of them you can easily bypass the "block" by using any other DNS provider. You don't even need VPN/TOR or anything else complicated.

Comment · 13 days ago
Those are not really usable as something you toggle on/off when needed, since they are under the battery cover and you are strongly recommended to only flip them while the phone is off.

Cool that they are there, but not suitable for what most people actually want.

Comment · 16 days ago
I mostly agree, but again, You said "Open-weights means weights are released under an open-source license" and I asked "According to who?"

"Open weights" is for the most part a term that is meaningless besides being technically able to run it on your own hardware.

I don't think we have a proper term for what you are reaching for, and proper open-source models (training, training-data, etc. being fully open) are scarce.

Comment · 16 days ago
Besides including the sota could you include a link to the best previous open-weights (and if possible fully open-source) model?
Comment · 16 days ago
> Open-weights means weights are released under an open-source license.

According to who? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_weights:

> Publishing these values allows others to download and use the model, while permission to modify, fine-tune or redistribute it depends on its license.

Those restrictions are definitely not compatible with the definition of open-source/FOSS. I think you have a much stricter view of what open-weights means than the industry.

Comment · 23 days ago
First ever pTLD?
Comment · 23 days ago
Do you also think that of the original 7 gTLDs (.com, .edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .net, and .org)?
Comment · 23 days ago
But with a compiler you can see why the compiler did what it did, with AI you have a black box. Even if you fixed the AI model to be deterministic you could still not see why it produced the specific output for that specific input.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think my take would be to report it anonymously (via support/marketing/etc.) and in the report strongly encourage them to create a path for security reports (either via a bounty or just a security email). When fixed or actually dismissed post publicly on anonymous channels, with a section saying how they could have created a channel for these reports.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not. The cookie only gets sent to the domains/servers you specify and is not accidentally exposed via browser history or copying a link.
Comment · 1 month ago
FYI: the videos on your site do not work for me, requesting them only returns LFS metadata:

    < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    < Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:35:26 GMT
    < Server: Apache/2.4.68 (Debian)
    < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
    < Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
    < Upgrade: h2
    < Connection: Upgrade
    < Last-Modified: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:23:37 GMT
    < ETag: "85-65b575b9634c9"
    < Accept-Ranges: bytes
    < Content-Length: 133
    < Content-Type: video/mp4
    < 
    version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
    oid sha256:9f7709c3cb163bf07a762873332fe40e552f750bcf310ce77c77f5b197b61426
    size 92474860

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