Ok, as others noted, the tool in question is hardly a solution, but what is, then? I mean, presented like that, it's pretty crazy that everyone just downloads and runs 5GB executable blobs from Hugging Face. Does anyone review them somehow before they are accepted and gather 10K downloads on HF? Or is it really another totally mindbogglingy crazy thing that happens right now across all world, and everybody just shrugs and waits for catastrophic breach of security of planetary scale to happen?
Readit Newskrick commented on AIsbom – open-source CLI to detect "Pickle Bombs" in PyTorch models github.com/Lab700xOrg/ais... · Posted by u/lab700xdev
Cool, but honestly I always end up regretting another device that is not just plain "non user-firendly" Linux. First you buy Synology because it's just quick and easy to set-up, and "I'll figure the rest later". But when time comes to figure the rest out, it's just so unreasonably inconvenient. In theory, it is just Linux, and DSM is just for convenience, and there are special packages intended to use Docker and install stuff and all, but there are so many "user-friendly improvements" on top of that, that I get tired even just thinking about all the hoops I have to jump to do something super-simple and end up choosing some another device for all tasks that theoretically would be a good fit for my NAS to perform. The only good thing is hot-swap and automatic volume rebuild, that is super convenient. But, honestly, are these 2 minutes of convenience worth the rest? I don't know.
krick commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia
I seriously don't quite understand the point of using a VPN that doesn't offer you clean residential IPs somehow (and I don't really know good VPN like that). Most services where I really want to use VPN are well aware of VPN IP blocks and just won't allow any of these famous VPNs (that I am aware of, at least). And services that don't care if it's my real IP or not… well, usually I don't really care about exposing them to my real IP either?
I mean, ok, there are use-cases. But commercial VPNs exist under specific premise, you know, and they just don't offer what they claim to be offering. Unfortunately.
krick commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
I probably shouldn't be surprised, but… so, you are saying, Apple can remotely brick YOUR device? For any reason, let alone "because of a mistake"? Heh, and I was considering to buy my first iPhone. I mean, seriously, I can only shrug at the fact that anybody accepts these terms at all.
krick commented on A “frozen” dictionary for Python lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/jwilk
You can't really tell though. Maybe the dict is frozen but the values inside aren't. C++ tried to handle this with constness, but that has its own caveats that make some people argue against using it.
Indeed. So I don't really understand what this proposal tries to achieve. It even explicitly says that dict → frozendict will be O(n) shallow-copy, and the contention is only about O(n) part. So… yeah, I'm sure they are useful for some cases, but as Raymond has said — it doesn't seem to be especially useful, and I don't understand what people ITT are getting excited about.
krick commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
> Also Google "Elsagate" to see what sorts of things people would like to do with Disney characters. Or a YouTube search for Elsagate.... Elsagate shows the level of effort that people are willing to put into this (a strange combination of laziness, but extreme effort poured into enabling that laziness).
I still wonder what motivates the people behind that sort of thing. It'd be easy to understand if it were just porn, but what's been described to me is just... bizarre.
Well, bizarre is the point. Surely you do understand that this is the content to gather kids views, because there is a ton of kids on the internet, and they can be monetized. I don't know what kind of research they do on their audience and if they purposefully want to traumatize kids as much as possible, but I suppose all this shit does capture kid's attention more than just Disney characters fucking.
krick commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
I see that my ability to communicate things obliquely as is my habit and the hallmark of my personal style is doing as well as ever on HN.
FWIW, I personally liked the joke.
krick commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
> both NixOS and Arch enable the QR code kernel panic screen
Interesting, I use both (NixOS on servers, Arch for desktop) and never seen that. Seems you're referring to this: https://rust-for-linux.com/drm-panic-qr-code-generator (which looks like this: https://github.com/kdj0c/panic_report/issues/1)
Too bad NixOS and Arch is so stable I can't remember the last time any full system straight up panicked.
This is so cool! I love things like that, it feels like fresh air after years and years of anachronistic retro-vibes that seem to be a part of C-programming culture.
krick commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape
Sure, everyone wants to "stop silly people replying to my comments by posting LLM-generated garbage", but rules are rules, so you should understand that by introducing a rule like the one you propose, you also automatically forbid discussions about "here's a weird trick to make LLM make stupid mistakes", or "biases of different LLMs" where people reply to each other which prompts they tried and what was the result. Obviously, that's not what you've meant (right?), and everyone understands that, so then it's a judgement call when this applies and when it doesn't, and, congratulations, you've made another stupid rule that no one follows "and that's ok".
"A guideline to refrain" seems better. Basically, this should be only slightly more tolerated than "let me google for you" replies: maybe not actively harmful, but rude. But, anyway, let's not be overly pretentious: who even reads all these guidelines (or rules for that matter)? Also, it is quite apparent, that the audience of HN is on average much less technical and "nerdy" than it was, say, 10 years ago, so, I guess, expect these answers to continue for quite some time and just deal with it.
krick commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags
How’s the battery life?
Cannot properly evaluate now. I never really use it without a cable for too long, and by now the battery must have slightly degraded too. Anyway, it never was Macbook-level, I guess, and it's an oldish model, so you should check actual reviews for current models that you are interested in, there always was plenty of them for ThinkPads (at least, the last time when I looked for a new laptop).