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tyingq commented on Amiga Unix (Amix) amigaunix.com/doku.php/ho... · Posted by u/donatj

Sharlin · 8 days ago

> Did I mention it hasn't been updated in a decade? Put your Amiga UNIX machine on the net with no firewall and you may see it rooted faster than a Win98SE box running IE5.

I presume this was written back around 2005 or so, but honestly color me impressed if there has ever been malware targeting Amix in the wild.

Also, ouch :D

> Table 1: Unix standard → Amiga UNIX alternative

  mail   elm
  more   less
  finger Finger
  vi     emacs
  cc     gcc

tyingq · 8 days ago

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/522

tyingq commented on Software Pump and Dump tautvilas.lt/software-pum... · Posted by u/brisky

kshri24 · 10 days ago

What worries me even more is tens of thousands (or even magnitudes higher) half-baked, over-hyped, vibe-coded spaghetti "open-source projects" released publicly for clout or to attract investment.

It is like all the garbage papers you find in academia that you need to sift through until you find that one good paper. Needle in a haystack.

2026 will be the year of vibe-code driven enshittification. Github will be the casualty.

tyingq · 10 days ago

It will be interesting to watch how they decide what new data to train on if most of it is low quality.

tyingq commented on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores finance.yahoo.com/news/am... · Posted by u/trenning

FireBeyond · 12 days ago

My fiancee used to work at a place called "Decent Pizza". Their motto "Not the best but not the worst."

tyingq · 12 days ago

My favorite in this space was the MadTV skits about a computer/video dating service called "Lowered Expectations".

tyingq commented on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files simonwillison.net/2026/Ja... · Posted by u/simonw

behnamoh · 13 days ago

I wonder if the era of dynamic programming languages is over. Python/JS/Ruby/etc. were good tradeoffs when developer time mattered. But now that most code is written by LLMs, it's as "hard" for the LLM to write Python as it is to write Rust/Go (assuming enough training data on the language ofc; LLMs still can't write Gleam/Janet/CommonLisp/etc.).

Esp. with Go's quick compile time, I can see myself using it more and more even in my one-off scripts that would have used Python/Bash otherwise. Plus, I get a binary that I can port to other systems w/o problem.

Compiled is back?

tyingq · 13 days ago

If you asked the LLM it's possible it would tell you Java is a better fit.

tyingq commented on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) theatlantic.com/national/... · Posted by u/BoorishBears

skrebbel · 17 days ago

I'm not that autistic but I simply can't deal with Guessers. The idea that I have to play some kind of 4D chess game to figure out what I am and am not allowed to ask or do makes me extremely stressed out. How am I supposed to map out the wishes and expectations and goals of everybody involved? Isn't that, in fact, borderline rude? What if I guess wrong? Everybody loses when that happens and it happens all the time.

Growing up in the east of the Netherlands made this worse; the Dutch are widely known as rude and direct (ie Askers), but in the rural east this is very much not the case. Everything there runs on a mixture of "what will the neighbours think" and "what will people expect me to do?" and it's just maddening. Fortunately I was sufficiently tone deaf as a youth to not notice when I was getting it wrong, and when I grew old enough to figure that out I moved to places where you can just ask stuff. It's nuts that such a small country can have such a widely varying cultural differences but it's very real.

I live in the south now and here I can ask everybody everything and people won't feel bad for saying no. It's lovely.

I also figured out that my mom (a total Guesser like everybody in my family) loves me even if I get this wrong! So I just began to treat her like an Asker and verrry explicitly spell out that it's totally fine to say no, no really it is, I'm not asking for a favour, I just want to know what you want, really mom it's true. It stresses her out! The idea of being asked point blank for her personal, disregard-other-people preference is just entirely outside her normal way of thinking. She has to do hard effort to disregard other people's wishes, it's just all totally mixed together in her brain. I know it's not nice of me, but the alternative is that we (my wife and I) keep getting it wrong and accidentally visit too often or too little or invite them to parties they don't want to go to and so on.

So yeah, protip for askers, treat guessers who love you as askers. They'll forgive you for it and everything else becomes easier.

tyingq · 17 days ago

That makes sense if it's in moderation. An overzealous asker can disproportionately eat up people's time. Context as to why you're asking helps set priorities.

tyingq commented on IP Addresses Through 2025 potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-0... · Posted by u/petercooper

johnmaguire · 19 days ago

NAT is not a firewall: all it does is rewrite packets, it does not drop them.

tyingq · 19 days ago

You have to squint a little and see they mean that most consumer routers don't map inbound unsolicited packets to anything internal unless the user specifically configured it to. Which is basically a firewall.

tyingq commented on Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/voxadam

Legend2440 · 19 days ago

> Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.

>“There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, especially those with vocational training,” said Karp, speaking at a World Economic Forum panel in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. “I do think these trends really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill.”

Idk man, that sounds like a crock of nonsense. Previous waves of automation sure didn’t stop the demand for immigrant labor - if anything, it’s only increased.

tyingq · 19 days ago

Really curious how it's going to kill the need for immigrants in construction, agriculture, food service, hospitality, lawn care, cleaning, building maintenance, etc.

Maybe the idea is all us displaced software folks end up in the fields picking fruit?

tyingq commented on Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models twitter.com/cryps1s/statu... · Posted by u/pizza

yencabulator · 20 days ago

Consistent 25-35ms to 1.1.1.1. You won't see >60ms unless you're deprioritized, and that's about your choice of plan not about what the network can do.

tyingq · 20 days ago

I would be surprised there are not some amount of oversubscribed geo areas, or remote spots with longer paths, etc.

It does seem good for many, just perhaps not all.

tyingq commented on Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models twitter.com/cryps1s/statu... · Posted by u/pizza

blacksmith_tb · 20 days ago

It's gross, but of course we think many ISPs are abusive in similar ways? I haven't ever used a Starlink connection, I wonder if their latency a problem for VPNs or tunneling.

tyingq · 20 days ago

They say 20-60ms, users seem to report 30-200ms. Seems very dependent on where you're at.

tyingq commented on AI Destroys Institutions papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/sean_the_geek

ahartmetz · 24 days ago

Given how nobody properly understands LLMs, I doubt that they are intentionally designed like that. But the effect... yeah. I can see that happening.

(By the way, are you confusing affordance, the UX concept, with affordability?)

tyingq · 24 days ago

You can intentionally market the use cases without knowing exactly how they work, though. So it's intentional investment and use case targeting, rather than directly designing for purpose. Though, the market also drives the measures...so they iteratively get better at things you pour money into.