It's well known some things will trip those flags, probably not what all of them are or why, but most of them inappropriately (e.g. rating IP trustworthiness, but also simple HTTP requests that look "odd"). It's also well understood you have little to no options available as contacting support, live human or not as it may be, is made intentionally opaque and difficult or completely impossible. They just don't care, there's no reason to when you're one of the many hundreds of millions using their service most likely at no cost, and it's not unique to Microsoft. It's not that they became incompetent (they are, objectively), they simply never cared about you.
Readit News0x_rs commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener
There's no mention of this in the article, so be aware there's multiple posts online about QC issues. Rotring quality has been going down over the years, or their name outgrew the actual quality of the product. Current generation of 600s especially suffer from: cracking of the body (0, 1); but most importantly for pens, the joint part that screws into the bottom and upper part of the pen is extremely susceptible to wearing out the thin and fragile upper part's threads, as they are two different metals. So you should be prepared to exercise your warranty if you purchase one.
0. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1fzacf9/...
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1439ru7/...
0x_rs commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
The war on the free internet is accelerating. Without real push-back to these dystopian laws and consequences for the people proposing and lobbying for them, you'll miss what will ultimately end up being a temporary anomaly of mostly unrestrained free flow of information. It's not an hypothetical scenario or something that will develop down the line, it's happening today, worldwide.
0x_rs commented on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-c... · Posted by u/dejavucoder
Weirdly enough I have the opposite experience where it will take several minutes to do something, then I go in and debug for a while because the app has become fubar, then finally realize it did the whole thing incorrectly and throw it all away.
And I reach for Claude quite a bit because if it worked as well for me like everyone here says, that would be amazing.
But at best it’ll get a bunch of boilerplate done after some manual debugging, at worst I spend an hour and some amount of tokens on a total dead end
Some great advice I've found that seems to work very well: ask it to keep a succinct journal of all the issues and roadblocks found during the project development, and what was done to resolve or circumvent them. As for avoiding bloating the code base with scatterbrained changes, having a tidy architecture with good separation of concerns helps leading it into working solutions, but you need to actively guide it. For someone that enjoys problem-solving more than actually implementing them, it's very fun.
0x_rs commented on Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power? lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
> Test Type: Idle desktop only (no applications or media playback, unless otherwise stated)
It's weird they didn't also include a simple web browser test that navigates a set of web links and scrolls the window occasionally. Just something very light at least, doesn't even have to be heavy like video playback.
I agree. My guess is the way this may be implemented could keep the system from entering a lower energy state in some way or another, something which would be far less noticeable during normal usage.
0x_rs commented on Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user brutecat.com/articles/lea... · Posted by u/brutecat
> This time can also be significantly reduced through phone number hints from password reset flows in other services such as PayPal, which provide several more digits (ex. +14•••••1779)
I've never thought about this but it's extra scary. If you have the same phone number and email address with enough services and they all mask in a different order for reset hints...
There's services that do this automatically for a price, and they've been around for a while, for e-mail, phone numbers, and much more. Any bits (literally, bits) of information given without authorization (or plausible belief it's the intended user on the other side) will be efficiently put together from a variety of sources, as there's no shortage of incentive, and many all over the world prodding services used by billions of people worldwide. And then eventually leaked..
Idk, isn't that how we got Chrome? Isn't this inviting someone else to be the new Internet abuse daddy?
No, that was Firefox. Chrome's spread was fueled by literal malware or spyware bundling it to get some of Google's sweet money and some of the most aggressive advertisement campaigns for any online product ever.
0x_rs commented on Why Blender Changing to Vulkan Is Groundbreaking [video] youtube.com/watch?v=7cta9... · Posted by u/mdtrooper
I have never had Blender take 1:52 to open... ill open it now cold. 5 seconds.
If you're wondering about the source of the benchmark, refer to the following, page 36:
https://www.vulkan.org/user/pages/09.events/vulkanised-2025/...
I'm noticing much more flattery ("Wow! That's so smart!") and I don't like it
Agreed. It was immediately obvious comparing answers to a few prompts between 3.7 and 4, and it sabotages any of its output. If you're being answered "You absolutely nailed it!" and the likes to everything, regardless of their merit and after telling it not to do that, you simply cannot rely on its "judgement" for anything of value. It may pass the "literal shit on a stick" test, but it's closer to the average ChatGPT model and its well-known isms, what I assume must've pushed more people away from it to alternatives. And the personal preferences trying to coax it into not producing gullible-enticing output seem far less effective. I'd rather keep using 3.7 than interacting with an OAI GPTesque model.
> No one would implement a bunch of utility functions that we already have in a different module.
> No one would change a global configuration when there’s a mechanism to do it on a module level.
> No one would write a class when we’re using a functional approach everywhere.
Boy I'd like to work on whatever teams this guy's worked on. People absolutely do all those things.
I'd be extremely careful about applying this thinking anywhere else. There's enough baseless finger-pointing in academia and arts already.