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im3w1l commented on Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know kroah.com/log/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/voxadam

pedrozieg · 6 days ago

CVE counts are such a good example of “what’s easy to measure becomes the metric”. The moment Linux became a CNA and started issuing its own CVEs at scale, it was inevitable that dashboards would start showing “Linux #1 in vulnerabilities” without realizing that what changed was the paperwork, not suddenly worse code. A mature process with maintainers who actually file CVEs for real bugs looks “less secure” than a project that quietly ships fixes and never bothers with the bureaucracy.

If Greg ends up documenting the tooling and workflow in detail, I hope people copy it rather than the vanity scoring. For anyone running Linux in production, the useful question is “how do I consume linux-cve-announce and map it to my kernels and threat model”, not “is the CVE counter going up”. Treat CVEs like a structured changelog feed, not a leaderboard.

im3w1l · 6 days ago

Well consider this: Two projects with the same amount of actual security issues. one project is willing to say "this bug doesn't affect security" and is willing to take accountability for that statement. Another project is not willing to do so. As a result the former has a lower count and the other a higher count. Which is better for a user valuing security?

As the actual number of issues is the same you might say it doesn't matter, but I don't agree. As a user it is easier to deal with "here are the n issues", than "here are m things any n of which are real".

im3w1l commented on Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better frequal.com/java/AppletsG... · Posted by u/pjmlp

cube00 · 8 days ago

> banks to stop using it for online banking apps

I never understood why so many banks flocked to building their online banking in applets when it wasn't like you needed anything more advanced than HTML to view balances and make transactions.

im3w1l · 7 days ago

Java did many things very right. It's a really fast language. It's memory safe. It could run anywhere. It had well-thought out namespacing at a time where namespacing was a concept most people barely knew they needed it. It had an advanced security model.

It was a very reasonable bet at the time imo.

im3w1l commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan

mikkupikku · 10 days ago

Carol is a very uncommon name, it was last popular in the 40s and 50s so almost every Carol you find today will be in an old folk's home. The odds of two truly independent instances of somebody named Carol appearing in this manner of circumstance is extremely small.

Edit: https://www.babynameatlas.com/name/carol

Also, it came from reddit therefore it is fake. Reddit is a dumpster fire, if we're being generous it's a website for playing around with creative writing exercises. The not so generous interpretation is that reddit users are deranged internet point addicts who habitually lie to get their fix.

im3w1l · 10 days ago

To go full schizo conspiracy theory: It may also not be a coincidence. There may be someone that dislikes that one Carol, knows she has schizophrenia and a smart fridge. They design this ad, or perhaps just plant the idea of it at the company they are working for with the intention of harming her.

If there really was a Carol I think police should look into this theory just to rule it out.

im3w1l commented on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm theverge.com/report/82065... · Posted by u/evolve2k

jchw · 13 days ago

> and modern multiplayer games with anti-cheat simply do not work through a translation layer, something Valve hopes will change in the future.

Although this is true for most games it is worth noting that it isn't universally true. Usermode anti-cheat does sometimes work verbatim in Wine, and some anti-cheat software has Proton support, though not all developers elect to enable it.

im3w1l · 12 days ago

I think if Linux gaming becomes popular someone may come up with a solution where you run a native linux kernel-mode anticheat. That somehow connects to the wine-hosted game.

I'm not sure how I feel about that, but it's what I think will happen.

im3w1l commented on Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust github.com/Hugo-Dz/sprite... · Posted by u/HugoDz

krisoft · 15 days ago

> The purpose of zoomed out comparison is to show the quality reduction of applying this tool.

Reduction? Shouldn't the tool be improving the quality of the image? If it is reducing the quality then why do it?

> The purpose of zoomed in before picture is to show how a typical pixel misalignment.

Okay, but how does this supposed "misalignment" look on the picture? Would I even notice it? If not, does it matter? Did they just zoom in, and draw a misaligned grid over the zoomed in image? Or the grid fault lines are visible in the gestalt?

> Aligned pixels can be easily imagined.

Everything can be easily imagined. Misaligned pixels can be imagined. They could just write "our processed images look better" and let me imagine how much nicer they are. The purpose of a comparison is to prove that they are nicer/better/crisper whatever they want to claim.

im3w1l · 15 days ago

The way I see it, converting something to pixel art is akin to lossy compression or quantization. The goal is to retain as much detail as possible given the constraints.

The exact way that pixels are misaligned is a feature of the specific AI models that generated the almost-pixel art.

im3w1l commented on Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust github.com/Hugo-Dz/sprite... · Posted by u/HugoDz

krisoft · 16 days ago

It feels weird to me that on the before/after comparision they felt the need to zoom in on the “before” but not on the “after”.

Either both should have the magnifying glass or neither. This just makes it hard to see the difference.

im3w1l · 15 days ago

The purpose of zoomed out comparison is to show the quality reduction of applying this tool. The purpose of zoomed in before picture is to show how a typical pixel misalignment. Aligned pixels can be easily imagined.

im3w1l commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter

wowamit · 16 days ago

It's really frustrating to see every innovation eventually crammed into advertisements. The brightest minds spend most of their energy figuring out effective ways of serving ads.

im3w1l · 16 days ago

The brightest minds figuring out how to manipulate the beliefs of the masses is a time-honored tradition.

im3w1l commented on The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy aliveness.kunnas.com/arti... · Posted by u/ekns

im3w1l · 16 days ago

There is another asymmetry that this article misses. Fear leads to inaction. Hope leads to action. The article seems to argue that we need to punish inaction. But this goes against the principle I just mentioned. Instead we could (and do) reward action. Recall the profiteer in point VII. Maybe he was critized. But he also did make a profit. Reward. In China, passing good samaritian laws undid damage. Why because lessening fear was enough for hope to prevail. Hope of gratitude and reward.

Like anon908 I also thought this was llm-generated, but unlike him I thought it was still a worthwhile read.

im3w1l commented on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship kerrick.blog/articles/202... · Posted by u/Kerrick

sailfast · 17 days ago

Sure, but this ends up poisoning any sort of culture and creating all sorts of in-group nonsense which is almost impossible to undo.

It’d be like using Blind as your company chat - nobody goes on there to say how great their experience has been, and the tone infects everything else.

But maybe I’m just not very fun at parties…

This should be avoided at all costs by creating a culture that is receptive to people’s concerns and doesn’t do stupid things without explanation - but I get how difficult that is in reality and most orgs end up messing this up.

im3w1l · 17 days ago

Maybe I'm a bit unfair to you but to me your comment basically reads as wishing employees would be good little cogs in your machinery rather than people. Like making friends is natural human behavior. Forming friend groups is natural human behavior. It's not nice to disrupt this except that of course everyone has to be able to work together when needed.

im3w1l commented on Willis Whitfield: Creator of clean room technology still in use today (2024) sandia.gov/labnews/2024/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

bigDinosaur · 19 days ago

Density/proximity are far better incubators for innovation than people being bored and isolated on farms. Also not sure where the idea that 'freedom' is associated with farms comes from? How free are you if you must wake up at 4am and work for 12 hours to barely make a profit?

There are exceptions. They are notable for being exceptions.

im3w1l · 19 days ago

The freedom of a farm is that you don't have a boss telling you what to do (if it's your own farm). It's also harder for the government to know what is going on in the middle of nowhere meaning they can't enforce the law as well.