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agilob commented on Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem trigger.dev/blog/shai-hul... · Posted by u/nkko

sync · 3 days ago

That’s weird, pnpm no longer automatically runs lifecycle scripts like preinstall [1], so unless they were running a very old version of pnpm, shouldn’t they have been protected from Shai-Hulud?

1: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/8897

agilob · 3 days ago

Let me understand it fully. That means they updated dependencies using old, out of date package manager. If pnpm was up to date, this would no have happened? Sounds totally like their fault then

agilob commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan

jamesbelchamber · 11 days ago

We really need some legislation that outlaws this sort of control over devices we buy.

If someone wants to install an advert app on their fridge (I assume in exchange for money) then fair enough.

If I buy a tv I shouldn't just have to accept that, now or in the future, the manufacturer will sell advertising on it.

agilob · 11 days ago

>If someone wants to install an advert app on their fridge (I assume in exchange for money) then fair enough.

If you're advertising me milk on a fridge I paid full price of, send me a full sized sample of the product.

agilob commented on Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans academic.oup.com/ismej/ar... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

evilduck · a month ago

Makes me wonder if we're building towards another extinction/oxygen catastrophe type of event. Not one where the microplastics themselves are the primary driver, but because microplastics are not renewable in the environment without humans. With solar energy transitions, greater pollution awareness, and a population that's shrinking or leveling off, what will happen to all of the microorganisms which spent a great deal of energy evolving ways to metabolize plastics that suddenly lose that source of energy? They're suddenly less fit for their niche.

Or in a different area of concern, what happens to the plastic economy when plastics are no longer useful because they'll be decomposed too quickly? Sanitary packaging for medical supplies come to mind.

agilob · a month ago

I don't think they are unlearning how to eat other things. It's humans who will have to find a new way to build cars, planes, boxes, bottles and electronics. Think how expensive it will be once car tire or fiber-optic cable eating bacteria hits a major city. Your access to fresh food will be limited and you don't even have a single apple tree.

agilob commented on Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations guru3d.com/story/intel-ar... · Posted by u/qwytw

snowram · 3 months ago

I wonder why everyone keep saying "just put more VRAM" yet no cards seem to do that. If it is that easy to compete with Nvidia, why don't we already have those cards?

agilob · 3 months ago

AMD is growing up into doing that, they have a few decent cards with 20Gb and 24Gb now

agilob commented on Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/latexr

agilob · 3 months ago

For me Copilot keeps commenting something like "this changes typo in a documentation". The comment is now blocking automerge of the PR, so I have more work. I have to go to the PR and mark the comment as resolved. Thanks AI, thanks Microsoft, fantastic job burning electricity for this. At least Bitcoin created some value ;)

agilob commented on Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

Frummy · 4 months ago

Wow what could possibly be so bad that multiple people leave after just some days

agilob · 4 months ago

When the first names were announced I read some comments on r/LocalLLaMA that they assembled a team with too many high egos and this was going to fall apart, because of general soft-skills issues.

I know nothing about the situation, but that comment was strangely specific

agilob commented on Are we decentralized yet? arewedecentralizedyet.onl... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

jcims · 4 months ago

How would one measure old school federated contexts like IRC and NNTP in this way? I wonder would they would fare.

agilob · 4 months ago

Remember how freenode changed owner and pretty much everyone moved away from it in less than 1 week? It was easy and possible.

agilob commented on Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move neowin.net/news/hyundai-w... · Posted by u/duxup

jjani · 4 months ago

They're swapping out hardware, which is why they're asking money for this to compensate the labor costs. Not saying this justifies it, but the title is misleading.

agilob · 4 months ago

Swapping software, pentesting, testing, QA, CI/CD pipelines, image caches aren't free either. Can we then start making more money as software developers to patch CVEs? We clearly should consider holding ourselves to a lower standard. Your requests are getting 5xx errors? Pay me more to fix it, not my problem that your requests is failing.

agilob 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

WarOnPrivacy · 5 months ago

In the case of Android, genuine means:

    The operating system was licensed by Google
    The app was downloaded from the Play Store (thus requiring a Google account)
    Device security checks have passed

While there is value to verify device security, this strongly ties the app to many Google properties and services, because those checks won't pass on an aftermarket Android OS

The issue is being raised here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...

    I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. 
    Requiring a dependency on American tech giants for age verification
    further deepens the EU's dependency on America and the USA's
    control over the internet. 
    Especially in the current political climate I hope I do not have
    to explain how undesirable and dangerous that is.

As a resident of the aforementioned political climate, I find their concerns to be reasonable.

There are a number of comments in that same thread that indicate a mandate to utilize Google services may run afoul of EU member nations' integrity and privacy laws.

agilob · 5 months ago

So we wouldn't be real EU citizens, unless Google says so? Can we get rid of passports then? /s

agilob commented on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base businessinsider.com/repli... · Posted by u/jgalt212

agilob · 5 months ago

I'm dont think the AI is so much to blame. Giving an LLM that forgets previous instructions and rules access to prod is just idiotic. The computer promised not to execute commands, but it forgot. Makes me curious what policy that company has for granting interns and juniors access to prod.