Why aren’t they making gpt-5.2-codex available in the API at launch?
They can't train on the API.
Readit NewsMallocVoidstar commented on GPT-5.2-Codex openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
MallocVoidstar commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia
Oh wow, I had no idea that “virtual location” is even a thing. Imo it should not, I don’t even see a use case for that, it just seems like straight-up lying about the traffic exit location.
Glad to see the provider I occasionally use, Mullvad, passed the test.
I used a VPN that had a virtual location of China for a while, which avoided ads on some websites; China blocks those sites, so those sites don't have any ads in China, but the VPN exit wasn't actually in China so it could reach the sites fine.
MallocVoidstar commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
Related: https://www.reuters.com/business/disney-sends-cease-and-desi...
> Walt Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Alphabet's Google, CNBC reported on Thursday.
MallocVoidstar commented on When a video codec wins an Emmy blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
For whatever reason, the file sharing community seems to strongly prefer H.265 to AV1. I am assuming that either the compression at a preferred quality, or the quality at preferred bitrates is marginally better than AV1, and that people who don't care about copyright also don't care about patents.
Pirates are generally slow to transition formats, but AV1 is also not better than H.265 (in practice) at the high-bitrate encodes.
Scene rules say to start with --crf 17 at 1080p, which is a pretty low CRF (i.e. it results in high bitrates): https://scenerules.org/html/2020_X265.html
AV1 would most likely result in slower encodes that look worse.
MallocVoidstar commented on When a video codec wins an Emmy blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I'm confused - why aren't video codecs winner take all?
Who still uses paten encumbered codecs and why?
AV1 is still worse in practice than H.265 for high-fidelity (high bitrate) encoding. It's being improved, but even at high bitrates it has a tendency to blur.
MallocVoidstar commented on Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025 quad9.net/news/blog/doh-h... · Posted by u/pickledoyster
I think code to implement http/1.1 in whatever software stack they use would have been shorter than the blog post...
According to the RFC:
>The messages in classic UDP-based DNS [RFC1035] are inherently unordered and have low overhead. A competitive HTTP transport needs to support reordering, parallelism, priority, and header compression to achieve similar performance. Those features were introduced to HTTP in HTTP/2 [RFC7540]. Earlier versions of HTTP are capable of conveying the semantic requirements of DoH but may result in very poor performance.
I'd bet basically all their clients are using HTTP/2 and they don't see the point in maintaining a worse version just for compatibility with clients that barely exist.
MallocVoidstar commented on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model starflow-v.github.io... · Posted by u/vessenes
you don't "appreciate" anything, you're just posting LLM comments
MallocVoidstar commented on Mozilla's latest quagmire rubenerd.com/mozillas-lat... · Posted by u/nivethan
> It might be hard to believe for my younger readers, but Mozilla took on Internet Explorer that was just as entrenched as Chrome is now, and they kicked proverbial posterior! They did because they offered a better browser that respected the people who used it, and gave them agency in their browsing experience.
That is revisionist history. Firefox succeeded because MS was sitting on their hands with IE, and it was stagnating. Firefox didnt do the opposite of what IE - you could argue Mozilla was doing what MS should have been.
It wasnt about "respecting users", or "agency" but simply implemented standards properly.
And that's going to be a hard problem with Chrome because you're up against a browser that is moving very, very, fast.
I started using Firefox with version 1.5, as did many of my friends, and we were doing it because it was flat out better. We did not care about 'stagnating' or standards.
MallocVoidstar commented on Adventures in upgrading Proxmox blog.vasi.li/adventures-i... · Posted by u/speckx
You told an LLM to generate three possible responses to HN articles and then just started pasting all three?
MallocVoidstar commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer
If you added up all the outage time caused by DDOS and all the outage time caused by being behind auxiliary services that have their own outages... I wonder which would be larger?
I'm not too worried about someone DDOSing my personal site. Yeah, they could do it. And then what? Who cares?
> I'm not too worried about someone DDOSing my personal site. Yeah, they could do it. And then what? Who cares?
Your host, assuming you're hosting your site on a VPS. Many of them have a policy of terminating clients who get DDoSed.