Is this just a Click Bait Advertisement for the Financial Times? The link is just "Cisco Finally Did it, now subscribe to find out what they did." and the HN headline is just as useless.
http://archive.today/bVoD9
Readit Newspmontra commented on Cisco Finally Did It ft.com/content/b27ae706-6... · Posted by u/naves
I use a tablet as smart TV. As a bonus it's portable around my house. I'll look into Linux tablets when Android will get too obnoxious to bear. Are they a thing? Basically I need VLC and not much more.
I see the hair on my iPhone. That’s a nice touch.
The next step will be adding a web in a corner, to make us think we cracked our touchscreen /s
Someone needs to design a super dumb and robust system where I can safely store all my keys on all devices I use an account. The fact that whatsapp, signal and other platforms tend to have a primary device for keys is bonkers to me. A primary device that can randomly die, get stolen or fall in a lake.
I have lost chat histories more times than I can remember, and I have to be extra diligent about this these days.
I don’t even want to think about pgp when I have to manually take care of this problem. Not because of my own skills, but because I could never make it reliable for my family and friends on their side.
So, the requirement is a system to store all your keys and that it can be duplicated as many times you wish. It looks like a local password manager, let's say keepass. I use it and have copies of the encrypted db on every device of mine, plus the client to access the passwords. I don't know if it qualifies for dumbness but it feels pretty robust. It survived the fall into the lake test (a river in my case.)
But I see every customer of mine using web based password managers, because they want to share and update passwords with all their team. Of course those password managers can use E2E encryption and many do, but my instinct is that if you are using somebody's else service for your data, you can be locked out from your data.
Anyway, it's the concept of having many passwords and having to manage them that's not dumb enough. The most that people do is letting the browser store and complete passwords. The password can be the same 1234pass on every single site.
Major Japanese train stations have so many platforms (Tokyo have 22), 1 platform for each route or destination.
In Germany train station a platform can host multiple route.
That's always the case for through stations, I believe. However even terminus stations don't have their platforms locked to a fixed destination. Milan Central station has 24 platforms and each of them hosts multiple routes. Rome Termini has 32 platforms, same thing. You can monitor departures at this link, if you are very patient to keep track of them
https://iechub.rfi.it/ArriviPartenze/en/ArrivalsDepartures/M...
Of course usually the same train departs every time from the same platform. I think that it helps everybody.
pmontra commented on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration ankursethi.com/blog/gemin... · Posted by u/speckx
I have had way too many arguments over the years with product and sales people at my job on the importance of instant self-signup. I want to be able to just pay and go, without having to talk to people or wait for things.
I know part of it is that sales wants to be able to price discriminate and wants to be able to use their sales skills on a customer, but I am never going to sign up for anything that makes me talk to someone before I can buy.
If it's only pay and go why have Sales at all? At the very best you need only a slimmed down Sales Department, so being against pay and go is self preservation.
pmontra commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
Desktop and mobile: Firefox and uBlock Origin.
Mobile: Blockada to prevent apps from reaching their ad servers. NewPipe.
Desktop: Freetube.
uBO has the bonus to have an element picker that I use to remove the empty areas where ads would show. I do it for sites that I use often. I also remove some useless menus and headers. I particularly hate sticky ones.
pmontra commented on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026... · Posted by u/puttycat
People will commonly hold LLMs as unusable because they make mistakes. So do people. Books have errors. Papers have errors. People have flawed knowledge, often degraded through a conceptual game of telephone.
Exactly as you said, do precisely this to pre-LLM works. There will be an enormous number of errors with utter certainty.
People keep imperfect notes. People are lazy. People sometimes even fabricate. None of this needed LLMs to happen.
Fabricated citations are not errors.
A pre LLM paper with fabricated citations would demonstrate will to cheat by the author.
A post LLM paper with fabricated citations: same thing and if the authors attempt to defend themselves with something like, we trusted the AI, they are sloppy, probably cheaters and not very good at it.
pmontra commented on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) anders.unix.se/2015/12/10... · Posted by u/turrini
RMS could have taken a photo of his screen, or done something cheeky like dump his screen to a padded ASCII text file and submitted that. Stick in the mud.
Most likely that photo would have been on film in 2002. Shoot it, then wait to shoot all the pictures on the roll, bring the roll to a shop, get the prints, either scan the screenshot or mail it, with a stamp. A Polaroid would cut most of the wait time to zero. Anyway, still a lot of trouble compared to a few years later.
By the way, I think RMS doesn't have a mobile phone even now. Somebody's else could have taken a picture for him. Phones with cameras were not common back then because what would you do with it on GSM?