Why would you use UUIDv7 rather than UUIDv4 though?
UUIDv4 is much more scattered (i.e., uniformly distributed), which heavily degrades indexing performance in databases.
Readit Newsmagnio commented on Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets alexsci.com/blog/uuids-an... · Posted by u/8organicbits
magnio commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
npm and pnpm are badly affected as well. Many packages are returning 502 when fetched. Such a bad time...
You're absolutely right about the AI-generated look. I'm not a UI designer, so I relied too heavily on AI for the frontend. I should probably study designs from other websites and create something more custom instead. Thanks for the feedback!
> You're absolutely right
Perfect satire. Thank you.
magnio commented on The App Store was always authoritarian infrequently.org/2025/10/... · Posted by u/bertman
When I moved to iPhones a few years back (death of Windows Mobile, and I wasn't suffering Android again, see every reason under the sun why), I set some really hard limits on not being in the ecosystem. It's a good phone, but I won't buy paid apps, do not accessorize beyond a case. Everything I use tends to just be client apps for things I do on the web at a desk.
(Apparently a few years ago was... like six years. Dang the base model iPhone 11 got me really far.)
Same. I switched from Windows to macOS three years ago, and I tried my best to only use cross-platform softwares (or none at all, in many cases where websites suffice). Thanks to Electron many apps work on both Windows and macOS nowadays.
Is there any precedent in US history for what the administration is asking of the nations top universities? Incredible they have to deal with this.
While the current climate is not comparable, I find the actions and general attitude of the current US government similar to that during the McCarthy era.
Which led me to this very interesting article from 1965: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1965/6/17/the-university-...
In it, the author described the attacks on specific personnels and public villainification of Harvard. More tellingly though, the author wrote the article for students in the 60s, who, growing up a mere decade after, most likely considered the events "an aberration which could not have lasted", and that, "the whole [McCarthy] period has an air of unreality".
Those who did not know history are bound to repeat it. Unfortunately, no amount of textbooks and historical resources seems to be sufficient to impart lessons to subsequent generations, and we are bound to repeat it after a few cycles.
magnio commented on Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1 arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871... · Posted by u/chintler
Why?
ARC-AGI is one of the few tests on which human can complete easily while LLMs still struggle. This model scores 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, the latter is comparable to Claude Opus 4 and GPT-5 High, behind only Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Grok 4 Thinking, for a model about 0.001% the size of commercial models.
On Android, long press home button activates Google Assistant that can OCR the current screen and translate immediately. Unironically one of the only two features keeping me on Android until now.
It's mind blowing to witness the speed and rapidity with which we have
* Completely alienated key allies via an erratic and unpredictable tariff policy
* Significantly undermined faith in US economic data and fiscal policy via overt politicization of key economic institutions
* Increased the deficit by almost $3 trillion after vowing to reduce the deficit
* Signaled far and wide that pay for play is the new norm, whether for pardons or favourable policy. Preferably paid in crypto, but with in kind payments being acceptable.
Is there any wonder that other countries are unwilling to trust the US? The only hope we have is that the current bout of madness in Washington DC is a one time aberration, but who knows!
This "pay up for trade access" is similar to the tributary system of feudal China. Every year, neighboring countries of China like Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam sent envoys to Imperial China, paying gold, women, and exotic products, in return for recognition of their sovereignty (subject to the supreme authority of Chinese emperor), military protection, and access to trade routes within China.
It is interesting to see the resurgence of such imperial practices in modern-day America. I think it worked out quite well for the Tang dynasty, but arguably that was because all East Asian feudal states were authoritarian monarchy back then. A logical next step would be for POTUS to declare himself as the supreme leader of the world, emend educational materials to propound the idea that the US is superior to other tributary states, quell all internal cries of undemocratic practices, and ban books that promote historical knowledge to avoid unnecessary dissent.
While Python being more widely used than JS, it's interesting the majority of attacks and breaches come from NPM. The consensus seems to be that Python offering a standard library greatly reduces the attack surface over JS. I tend to agree with this, a decently large Flask python app I am working on has 15 entries in requirements.txt (many of which being Flask plugins).
https://www.sonatype.com/blog/pytorch-namespace-dependency-c...
https://socket.dev/blog/pypi-package-disguised-as-instagram-...
https://socket.dev/blog/monkey-patched-pypi-packages-steal-s...
https://socket.dev/blog/malicious-pypi-package-targets-disco...
https://socket.dev/blog/typosquatting-on-pypi-malicious-pack...