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Comment · 1 month ago
If it does exist, why would it work this way, and not the obvious way of streaming logs… which would not cause an outage if it failed.
Comment · 1 month ago
AI was supposed to mean artificial intelligence. It was hijacked, and AGI was coined to be the name of actual AI. Since we are apparently redefining AGI, what will the real artificial intelligence be called?
Comment · 2 months ago
They’re adding the cache consumed across all of their servers. It’s not one giant deep cache.
Comment · 2 months ago
I wonder how hard it would be to create various firmware updaters for drives or other devices.
Comment · 3 months ago
Trust shifts to the producer of the open weight model, based on the global communicated experience of all models they’ve ever produced.
Comment · 3 months ago
It has already happened and the open weight models will only improve. Best to accept that and determine the optimal way forward.
Comment · 4 months ago
TLS also allows for the contents of a boot image to be hidden from others.
Comment · 4 months ago
The lack of ads, and the algorithm for sorting the feed.

I think the spectrum runs from social media, to forum, to news feed… maybe other things. HN isn’t toxic.

Comment · 4 months ago
I assume it would be chrome debug, and their chrome plugin, like it is on macos and windows. They could punt arbitrary app control easily enough.
Comment · 4 months ago
That happens with execve(). clone() allows you to not copy the page table prior to the execve() call.
Comment · 5 months ago
Yes, it is. You do have to have some infrastructure you trust somewhere to validate an attestation report from the confidential VM.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
That’s for rx, not tx. When you close a socket with data in the send buffer, that does not trigger a RST. If you just close the socket normally.
Comment · 6 months ago
Signal doesn’t provide anything in the message other than… “there are pending messages.” Signal wakes up, fetches them, then generates notifications on the phone itself.

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