What are the advantages of this?
It supports linking two Android devices.
Readit NewsMindless2112 commented on Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field phys.org/news/2025-10-swa... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Or geothermal uptake is nothing compared to regular volcanic activity. Earth's poles swap positions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
> Reversal occurrences appear to be statistically random. There have been at least 183 reversals over the last 83 million years
Whether this is part of one is anyone's guess.
There was a time when we could say "our greenhouse gas emissions are nothing compared to regular biological processes," and yet here we are.
Mindless2112 commented on DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
I'm honestly kinda curious why nobody's blocking these IPs from sending data near the source.
Like, I can come up with plenty of possible reasons, and reasons why it could potentially be very bad if ISPs started cracking down on this, but I don't actually know any reasons.
Are any talking about why / why not? It seems like this whole insecure-IoT-device thing would probably dry up pretty quickly if people's internet was cut off when one was detected. They can then turn around and lambast / sue / etc the company that sold it, putting pressure on the source of the problem. Right now there's no reason for sellers to do anything at all to ensure security, afaict.
So... not actually arguing in favor of it, but definitely curious about any stated ISP / core networking system's stated reasons.
> “The outbound and cross-bound DDoS attacks can be just as disruptive as the inbound stuff,” Dobbin said. “We’re now in a situation where ISPs are routinely seeing terabit-per-second plus outbound attacks from their networks that can cause operational problems.”
ISPs are starting to feel the pain, so perhaps in the near future they will do something about it.
Mindless2112 commented on Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground independent.co.uk/tv/news... · Posted by u/Pete-Codes
I knew it was going to be China.
China's infrastructure building is beyond impressive. I always come back to this map of China's high speed rail built in 16 years (2008-2024) [1].
China is actually run by a meritocratic bureaucracy rather than the dumbest of people who do nothing more than sell pardons, run crypto scams, transfer government funds to the wealthiest of people, pander to religious hallucinations and sell out their constituents for board seats and jobs after their political career from the very billionaires that were buying them in office. And no, it's not just one party that does this although the current administration is particularly egregious.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/highspeedrail/comments/1drmc2v/grow...
I, too, am jealous of China's high speed railroads. However, on the whole, China has overbuilt their infrastructure, and that may not look so smart in 40-50 years when the maintenance bills start coming due.
Mindless2112 commented on Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander masteringemacs.org/articl... · Posted by u/TheFreim
Kinesis Freestyle Pro? I've got the non mechanical version (mechanical wasn't available when I purchased) and it's held up for many years. It's a great keyboard IMO.
The Freestyle Pro is almost a good keyboard. The Esc and function keys are all offset to the left by one key compared to a standard layout, which drove me nuts. I have a Freestyle Edge RGB now, which I like much better. (Though I replaced the wrist rests with some from Goldtouch.)
Strange that Mozilla is going to rely on an internal team at Google to build a decoder for them in Rust, when Google is the one trying to kill JPEGXL.
It's two different teams inside Google. Some part of the Chrome team is trying to quash JPEG XL.
Mindless2112 commented on The Apache Software Foundation's New Logo news.apache.org/foundatio... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
It's a nice logo, but...
> So why would we change it? As a non-Indigenous entity, we acknowledge that it is inappropriate for the Foundation to use Indigenous themes or language.
Mindless2112 commented on Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"? minimaxir.com/2025/08/llm... · Posted by u/minimaxir
Yes, but are you going to special case all of these pain points? The whole point of these LLMs is that they learn from training data, not from people coding logic directly. If you do this people will come up with a dozen new ways in which the models fail. They are really not hard to find. Basically asking them to do anything novel is at risk of complete failure. The interesting bit is that LLMs tend to work best a "medium difficulty" problems. Homework questions and implementing documented APIs and things like that. Asking them to do anything completely novel tends to fail as does asking them to do something so trivial that normal humans won't bother even writing it down.
Tokenization is an inherent weakness of current LLM design, so it makes sense to compensate for it. Hopefully some day tokenization will no longer be necessary.
https://github.com/trufae/fxos-app-lemmings
* https://github.com/tomsoftware/Lemmings.ts
* https://lldb.camanis.net/level/play/473/1/Just-dig