Posts by nsimic

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web

Snowcrash

this reminds me of neal stephenson and snowcrash. gargoyles put the information on the net and library gives them a cut of the profits. so it's a question of how the information is priced or rather who sets the price. and nobody priced it well so far. its the actual reason micropaments died the first two times.

stephenson doesnt actually solve it either. ots not pricing, it's a revenue-share pool: the Library system tracks consumption and redistributes proportionally. same as ad revenue always did

2hich is probably where this actually lands in practice, not micropayments, but bulk licensing deals between AI labs and publishers (openAI and reddit), with them eating the pricing internally and reselling to end users.

less like snowcrash, more like spotify.

AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say

Serbian language

Could be Bosnian or even Croatian.

Based on the sample given on the website it would be hard to say it was really Serbian variant.

Maybe there were other comments not posted in the original article.

(Born in the Balkans)

Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS

I'm a sw dev. I don't understand what he means by:

> The business logic is all going to these agents. These agents are going to be multi-repo CRUD

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11

please correct me if I'm wrong, but is NexPhone "booting" Linux really news? because by that definition (running Linux in an VM on top of Android), literally most Android phones can "dual-boot" Linux and Android.

dual-booting windows is news, but let's face it, who wants that, really?

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

No. Just no.

I keep hearing this all over the place."AI works! You are just using it wrong"

Everyone compares AI with some of the previous enabling technologies like the internet, mobile or even software itself.

The gains in every one of those technological revolutions were immediate and obvious. The only reason there are no AI related productivity/revenue gains right now (besides for the companies slinging AI hardware or software) is because there aren't any to be had.

This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite

Lords of Midnight also needed a second or two to render the current scene

OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update

any peripheral has been able to do it for years now

I'm still using this in my daily work:

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_9x14

both as the font in the code editor and in any ui that let's me specify it

Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users

Re: Bingo!

> based on Microsoft Longhorn?!

the source of the "scenic" BSOD views

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

The real problem with windows 11 start menu:

- hit start button

- type the first few letters of the name of the app

- wait for a couple of seconds

Why god, why? A laptop with an i7 processor, 16 gigs of ram, an ssd and a handful of apps installed. That shit should equal to a no op and appear instantly. I know it's a minor gripe, but it really shows no one in Redmond is doing user centric testing

AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

Re: Temperature ?

They took it from thermodynamics.

They use temp definition as a measurement of randomness in the system.

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Re: ChatGPT prompt:

That is a bit hard as there are many C compilers out there.

But let's assume you had a programming language that has only one compiler.

Now only thing left to do is somehow convince everyone to add this programming language to a major os kernel ... Oh, wait...

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

I skimmed through the thread and it seems like Linus' comment was more about moving to a forge (like GitHub/gitlab) from email (centralized vs decentralized patch submission) than about R4L.

To me looked like Hector tried to make a leap to R4L because of the similarities in handling (and probably to raise more support).

Sad because avahi is actually successful in getting the fruity people to see the light.

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd

Re: A very significant data point for the systemd fanbois

There is a minimal implementation of an init system called machined

IMO shows that, if your goal is to write an init system, you can do it in 400 LOC

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

Re: Interesting . . .

> compile-time code execution

zigs comptime doesn't execute code exactly (or at least that is what I gathered from the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618130)

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

Doctorow asked a great question. What useful thing remains after the bubble bursts? Maybe it's the compute capacity. Who knows what happens once the GPU time is dime a dozen

Re: Reality will bite in the end

Still no fiber where I live and the distance to the nearest node supports paltry 12 Mbit over DSL. So I get my internet via mobile network - 4G was nice until it became so saturated that I got regular drops and went in and asked for 5G. Live next to a road that is one of the main entryways for commuters into the city. You could measure the drop in speed and ping as they start rolling in and out.

Either not many have 5G or the tech is able to better handle such loads, but haven't had connection issues since.

Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware

I would have liked 2xWLAN so I can mesh a couple of them.

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

a literal quote from it or just a general vibe?

Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu – but with a different focus

Re: "A Few Small Repairs" are needed.......

fedora [does spins](https://fedoraproject.org/spins/xfce/) so you can have fedora with XFCE (or other wms).

and I'm sure you can use it without btfrs too

side note: been running home NAS experimentally on fedora server edition with btrfs (sw raid) for 5 years now - had no data loss so far even after one of the disks died

The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world

Fundamental problem

the chain of conclusions in the article has one weak link

> A human will define an API and some input and output formats, and specify some tests that it works

this has been tried and failed many times before, just look at BDD, CASE tools, 4GLs just to name a few.

Fresh programmer's editor on Linux lies Zed ahead

> In less than four thousand lines of code.

this sentence and it's context symbolise all that is wrong with software development today

Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert

Re: For those who like to listen rather than view

I just logged in to write the same thing.

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

Why not

VSCode?

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Re: a dead-eyed robot selfie against a landscape of mid-'90s clip art

I liked the title of your comment and fed it into DALL-E:

https://imgur.com/a/obMlN2k

Smuggler caught with 256 Intel Core processors wrapped around him in cling film

Re: Polynomials

If he stopped at 255, he might have gotten away with it

Windows Terminal hits the big 1.0: Fit for production?

Or trying to find "SQL Server Management Studio" which actually responds to ssms (because thats what the exe is called)

BOFH: Is everybody ready for the meeting? Grab a crayon – let's get technical

you bastard!

Re: New Episode?

DAAS => disappointment as a service. quite fitting for this day and age.