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ronsor commented on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism github.com/orgs/stoatchat... · Posted by u/ashleyn

longfacehorrace · 14 minutes ago

Looked at repos of the two loudest users in that thread; either they have none or it's all forks of other projects.

Non-contributors dictating how the hen makes bread.

ronsor · 12 minutes ago

In general, caving to online mobs is a bad long-term strategy (assuming the mob is not the majority of your actual target audience[0]). The mob does not care about your project, product, or service, and it will not reward you for your compliance. Instead it only sees your compliance as a weakness to further target.

[0] While this fact can be difficult to ascertain, one must remember that mobs are generally much, much louder than normal users, and normal users are generally quiet even when the mob is loud.

ronsor commented on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism github.com/orgs/stoatchat... · Posted by u/ashleyn

raincole · 19 minutes ago

At this point perhaps to not disclose AI usage is the right thing to do. Transparency only feeds the trolls, unfortunately.

ronsor · 17 minutes ago

I have been saying this for a few years at this point. Transparency can only exist when there is civility, and those without civility deserve no transparency[0].

[0] As a corollary, those with civility do deserve transparency. It's a tough situation.

ronsor commented on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism github.com/orgs/stoatchat... · Posted by u/ashleyn

ronsor · 22 minutes ago

It seems the thread was brigaded by militant anti-AI people upset over a few trivial changes made using an LLM.

I encourage people here to go read the 3(!) commits reverted. It's all minor housekeeping and trivial bugfixes—nothing deserving of such religious (cultish?) fervor.

ronsor commented on News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns niemanlab.org/2026/01/new... · Posted by u/mellosouls

ronsor · 2 days ago

Irony is AI scrapers will scrape anyway, even if the articles won't be archived. They're inconveniencing people for no reason.

ronsor commented on Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware theregister.com/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/beardyw

meisel · 2 days ago

I wonder what the internal conversations are like around memory safety at Apple right now. Do people feel comfortable enough with Swift's performance to replace key things like dyld and the OS? Are there specific asks in place for that to happen? Is Rust on the table? Or does C and C++ continue to dominate in these spaces?

ronsor · 2 days ago

Apple is already working on a memory-safe C variant which is already used in iBoot and will be upstream LLVM soon: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html

ronsor commented on US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Bender

ronsor · 3 days ago

Reminder that this now includes xAI and X

ronsor commented on Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel twitter.com/DrWhax/status... · Posted by u/CGMthrowaway

ronsor · 3 days ago

From one Twitter user:

> It's just a demo instance, but, these front ends are barely revealed to the public

This genuinely doesn't look any different from the control panels of commercial infostealers and RATs sold on Russian hacking forums. Those usually sell for between $200 and $20,000 depending on features and pricing model (one-time vs. ongoing subscription).

These spyware companies hype themselves up, but they're really not any different from Ivan's RAT-as-a-Service, besides having extra exploits to burn and wealthier customers.

ronsor commented on Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time khronos.org/blog/simplify... · Posted by u/amazari

afandian · 4 days ago

I had a relatively recent graphics card (5 years old perhaps?). I don't care about 3D or games, or whatever.

So I was sad not to be able to run a text editor (let's be honest, Zed is nice but it's just displaying text). And somehow the non-accelerated version is eating 24 cores. Just for text.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/23623

I ended up buying a new graphics card in the end.

I just wish everyone could get along somehow.

ronsor · 4 days ago

The fact that we need advanced GPU acceleration for a text editor is concerning.

ronsor commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

cluckindan · 4 days ago

> it's much harder to snoop on traffic

Unless you have a master key which decrypts all traffic.

ronsor · 4 days ago

That is not possible with modern TLS 1.3, which mandates perfect forward secrecy.

ronsor commented on Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) habr.com/en/articles/4462... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

varispeed · 6 days ago

Security through obscurity is not a great idea. This is what Apple's current approach is. For instance if your iPhone is infected with malware, there is no anti-virus software that can find it, because Apple doesn't let software to have such deep access that is needed for scanning.

ronsor · 6 days ago

> Apple doesn't let software to have such deep access that is needed for scanning

Normalizing "security" software running in the background to "scan" things has proven a social and technical disaster. Users think it's normal to have such activity (and receive random "virus alerts"), leading to over two decades of social engineering scams, fraud, and malware-delivery. On top of that, "security" software has a habit of creating its own security holes and problems. Look at game anti-cheats (one was just on the front page the other day), the CrowdStrike incident, etc.

OS vendors should simply deliver a secure OS. That isn't easy, but it's still easier and more reliable than shipping third-party "security" software after the fact.