I've been using it lots. I just chat with it on Telegram and tell it to look stuff up on the internet. The results have been higher-quality than the other AI chats available. And I like how the response comes through as a chat notification on my phone, which feels more natural. It's somewhere between perplexity and chatgpt/gemini deep research in speed and accuracy, but without having to "approve a plan" or all that annoying slow stuff. I'm using the kimi model. Overall, it's just been a better experience. I haven't even bothered getting into the other capabilities it has yet.
Readit Newsgeor9e commented on Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? · Posted by u/cvhc
Is the accusation the dad stole the crypto, or the dad AND the son stole the crypto ?
The headline is that the son stole the crypto. Maybe your sarcasm went over my head, and you're just saying that the dad is definitely involved too. In which case, probably.
geor9e commented on Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki/w/One... · Posted by u/validatori
On most devices, anti-rollback means "older firmware won't boot" or "you lose secure features." Here it seems to mean "try it and you permanently brick the device," with no warning in the updater and no public statement explaining the change
I don't know about most devices, but for all the ones I've messed with, eFuse anti-rollback always "bricked" them if you rolled back. It was a natural consequence of the firmware essentially being a binary with a USB flashing mode, plus a bootloader to continue into the operating system. If the firmware can't load at all due to failing eFuse check, then you can't load into flashing mode. The same thing would happen if you wrote garbage to the bootloader partition. That's enough for customers and journalists to call it "permanantly bricked". There might be some SOC recovery mode that lets you load a newer bootloader into RAM, but it would need some software tooling from the SOC manufacturer, and at that point few customers will figure it out.
geor9e commented on Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki/w/One... · Posted by u/validatori
This has been a commonplace feature on SOCs for a decade or two now. The comments seem to be taking this headline as out‑of‑the‑ordinary news, phrased as if Oneplus invented it. Even cheapo devices often use an eFuse as anti-rollback. We do it at my work whenever root exploits are found that let you run unsigned code. If we don't blow an eFuse, then those security updates can just be undone, since any random enemy with hardware access could plug in a USB cable, flash the older exploitable signed firmware, steal your personal data, install a trojan, etc. I get the appeal of ROMs/jailbreaking/piracy but it relies on running obsolete exploitable firmware. It's not like they're forcing anyone to install the security patch who doesn't want it. This is normal.
Simply enable the “cookie notices” list in ublock origin (available on every platform now, even iOS). According to the EU law if you don’t click accept it’s equivalent to denying.
But I don't want to auto deny. I want my shopping carts to work. I want websites to save my login and preferences. I just don't want the pop-ups. So this extension is great.
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geor9e commented on NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew livescience.com/space/spa... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Article about how the return capsule works: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52840482
geor9e commented on Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/montalbano
Not an expert here, so I’m genuinely curious how could a video stream (edit: with muted audio stream) possibly cause another laptop in close proximity to crash?
If this is just a fiction novel world‑building question: The video pixels create a bitstream to bitbang the gpu bus into emitting a 2.4‑gigahertz EMF signal to exploit a flaw in the Wi‑Fi driver.
geor9e commented on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me eiratansey.com/2025/12/20... · Posted by u/robin_reala
I'm a little bit confused about what's going on here. Is this nothing more than an LLM-generated summary of her post? She shows the metadata but also shows it coming up in the post. I don't use any of these apps so I'm not really sure what a normal user would have seen. ie, would that text have been appended visibly to her post, making users think she wrote that, but also have been in tags which would have optimized for search engines?
Either way, I don't know what to tell people. Social media exists to take advantage of you. If you use it, your choices are "takes more advantage" vs. "takes less advantage," but that's as good as gets.
Author posted to Instagram >
Author shared the Instagram link on Mastodon >
Mastodon mobile app unfurled the link into a preview >
app concatenated mystery text from a hidden metadata field in the Instagram page > turns out Meta's LLM wrote first-person inspiration slop in the "I" voice for SEO > Author feels impersonated
Is it really to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and being able to "focus on the higher-level, abstract work", to quote OP's words? I thought naively that engineering always has been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem solving. My guess is that the drive is toward power. Which is rather natural, if you think about it.
Science and the academic world
I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to be merely about an increase in revenue.
Is it to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and being able to "focus on the higher-level, abstract work", to quote OP's words? I thought naively that engineering has always been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem-solving. My guess is that the drive is towards power, which is rather natural, if you think about it.
Science and the academic world suffer a comparable plague.
It's frontier exploration that brings me joy. If a clanker can do something, then it's a solved problem. I use all the tools at my disposal to push the frontier of problems solved. Wasting my time re-inventing the wheel brings me the opposite of joy.