Charon77 (u/Charon77)

Charon77 commented on How kernel anti-cheats work s4dbrd.github.io/posts/ho... · Posted by u/davikr

Retr0id · a day ago

Until they require fTPMs, an attacker can just choose to use a regular TPM.

A more sophisticated attacker could plausibly extract key material from the TPM itself via sidechannels, and sign their own attestations.

Charon77 · a day ago

I remember there's a PCI device that's meant to be snooping and manipulating RAM directly by using DMA. Pretty much one computer runs the game and one computer runs the cheat. I think kernel anti cheats are just raising the bar while pretty much being too intrusive

Charon77 commented on MetaGenesis Core – offline verification for computational claims metagenesis-core.dev/... · Posted by u/Lama9901

Lama9901 · 2 days ago

What would change your mind? Genuine question.

The adversarial test is public and runnable in 5 minutes:

  git clone https://github.com/Lama999901/metagenesis-core-public
  python demos/open_data_demo_01/run_demo.py

If output isn't PASS/PASS on your machine, I want to know. If the protocol design is flawed, I want to know where specifically.

Known limitations are machine-readable: reports/known_faults.yaml

Charon77 · 2 days ago

First of all, I don't want to run anyone's code without proper explanation, so help me understand this. Let's start with the verifier. The 3rd party verifier receives a bundle, not knowing what the content is, not having access to the tool used to measure, and just run a single command based on the bundle which presumably contains expected results and actual measurements, both of which can easily be tampered. What good does that solve?

Charon77 commented on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job theverge.com/featured-vid... · Posted by u/speckx

rk06 · 4 days ago

I think this is a bit unreasonable. there are a lot of people applying to every job post. if a company can use AI to better filter the candidates, then it is an improvement.

there is issue only if AI is encoded with human bias, but treated as neutral and impartial judge

Charon77 · 4 days ago

Interview is a two-way communication. Just as companies evaluating the candidates, the candidates are also evaluating the company.

How would the company feels if the people applying uses AI avatar to answer the interview questions too?

Charon77 commented on Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP github.com/knowsuchagency... · Posted by u/knowsuchagency

Doublon · 7 days ago

We had `curl`, HTTP and OpenAPI specs, but we created MCP. Now we're wrapping MCP into CLIs...

Charon77 · 7 days ago

MCP only exists because there's no easy way for AI to run commands on servers.

Oh wait there's ssh. I guess it's because there's no way to tell AI agents what the tool does, or when to invoke it... Except that AI pretty much knows the syntax of all of the standard tools, even sed, jq, etc...

Yeah, ssh should've been the norm, but someone is getting promoted for inventing MCP

Charon77 commented on Put the zip code first zipcodefirst.com... · Posted by u/dsalzman

Charon77 · 8 days ago

In Japanese websites this is pretty much the norm. Govt, bank, marketplace, you name it. fills the address until the block, where you'll need to fill the rest of the numbers until your house address / room number

Charon77 commented on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/pabs3

t1234s · 12 days ago

With Motorola being owned by the Chinese company Lenovo can these new devices be used in secure environments? I remember when Lenovo took over making ThinkPads they were banned in some secure environments because of Lenovo links to CCP.

Charon77 · 12 days ago

The whole point about having an open platform from boot is you don't have to trust it. You run your own code from first power on.

Is it possible that it's backdoored, have a secret opcode / management engine? Probably, but that goes to everyone, as it's not practical to analyze what's in the chip (unless you're decapping them and all)

I don't know what secure environments you're talking about, if it's an airgapped system then you should be secure even when what's inside 'tries to get out'.

Charon77 commented on Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017) gimp.org/news/2026/02/22/... · Posted by u/ibobev

cmyk_student · 14 days ago

It's funny to hear that, because we get a large number of complaints that we haven't changed GIMP's interface at all from 2.10 to 3.0 and that's why we're "failing".

We try to be respectful of existing users (and again, we get lots of complaints that doing so "holds GIMP back"). If you have some examples of massive changes you've dealt with (and from what version to what version), I'm happy to look into them further.

Charon77 · 14 days ago

I think if Blender can do UI change, GIMP should too.

Charon77 commented on “Car Wash” test with 53 models opper.ai/blog/car-wash-te... · Posted by u/felix089

Charon77 · 20 days ago

I'm doubting the 29-ish percent of people submitting 'walk' are actually human.

Is it not obvious that you need a car to wash?

Are they using LLM to answer?

Charon77 commented on Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer jimmyhmiller.com/learn-co... · Posted by u/andreabergia

Charon77 · 24 days ago

In reverse engineering we often use Graph View to see execution flow as well. Glad to see it being used elsewhere

Charon77 commented on Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory) thebeni.ai/... · Posted by u/summerlee9611

augusteo · 2 months ago

Building on zemo's point about parasocial relationships: traditional parasocial interaction involves a performer who doesn't know you exist. Here the AI does respond to you specifically, which changes the dynamic.

Is it still parasocial if the other party is responsive but not conscious? Or is this something new that we don't have good language for yet?

Charon77 · 2 months ago

You need to first prove that AI is not conscious.

I find it hard to even convince others that I am a conscious person.

Maybe consciousness is just a matter of belief, if I see this AI and believe that it's a person, then I am talking to a conscious entity.

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