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Youtube and android have strong network effects. I don’t think openai has anything close to comparable. They tried I am sure, I recall an app platform they added to chatgpt, but I haven’t heard of it in ages so I assume it hasn’t been a dominant factor.
I also don’t get the impression there is enough training material available exclusively to openai it’d be such a factor.

I cleaned it up. Your editor doesn’t like to nest formatting apparently. Using an editor that lets you write the markdown directly is probably better, and you are probably already familiar with markdown anyway, since it’s used all over the place.

2025-07-09 “Sometimes, when one door closes (lack of code signing) in life, another one opens (vulnerability).”

The sentence sumarizes well the situation in the previous version, 8.8.2.

There were - and still are - many false-positives reported in the previous version v8.8.2, by the antivirus software due to the absence of Windows code signing certificate. How to install the root certificate:

1. Double-click the certificate, it may tell you it’s invalid, ignore that and click: “Install Certificate…”.
2. In the Certificate Import Wizard, select “Local Machine”, then click Next.
3. If prompted by UAC (optional, depending on admin Previleges), click Yes.
4. Choose “Place all certificates in the following store”, then browse and select “Trusted Root Certification Authorities”. Click Next.
5. On the final page of the wizard, click Finish to complete the installation.For detailed instructions, see Notepad++ User Manual.

We’re still trying to obtain a certificate issued by conventional Certificate Authorities, for a better user experience. But let’s be honest: it’s probably not happening. Notepad++ isn’t a business - it’s certainly not an enterprise - and apparently, that makes a popular open-source project invisible to their gatekeeping standards.

If the “gatekeepers” won’t issue a certificate under the name we deserve - so be it. At least it spares us from wasting time and energy on a frustrting process that demands we beg for a new certificate every 3 years. The Notepad++ Root Certificate may not carry their approval, but it leads us to freedom.

Edit (2025-12-03): Starting with v8.8.7, Notepad++ binaries - including the installer - are digitally signed using a legitimate certificate issued by GlobalSign. As a result, Installation of the Notepad++ root certificate is no longer required. We recommend that users who have previously installed the root certificate remove it.

It’s not a key, it sends left win + left shift + f23. Can’t be disentangled from those other modifier keys, true remapping is impossible unless you can get to the keyboard firmware. Even under linux.

No idea why noone mentioned it, but this exists.

https://generalfusion.com/

The core idea of combustion is using momentum to achieve combustion to generate back momentum (and heat).

The laser fusion detonation is similar, but I find other concepts reflect the idea way better.

General fusion uses liquid metal, that is compressed into the center trapping a bubble of fusion gas under extreme pressure for a moment. Inspired by cavitation bubbles in water that when symmetric enough can produce light and evaporate metal.
The fusion then bounces back onto the liquid metal, and fusion products are absorbed by it, so the heated liquid can be cycled into a heat engine. I don’t think there is an intention to recover mechanical energy though.

Another approach is dynamic z-pinch. Helion would be an exanple.
You form a magnetic enclosure trapping fusion gasy then push the magnetic enclosure inwards, compressing the gas to fusion. The charged fusion products (needs fusion that doesn’t emit neutrons) are again trapped in the field, pushing against it with far more speed, effectively far higher temperature, causing the field to exoand again against the controlling magnetic coils, that now operate in reverse generating current from regeneratively breaking the push.

I think this is the closest analogy to combustion engines. An initial push is inserted via momentum (of the magnetic field), which compresses the fuel, combusting it, increasing pressure/temperature, pushing back against the confinement which now absorbs the (magnetic) momentum, turning it back into power.
The only difference is that between cycles the power to keep the next cycle going is stored in capacitors not as momentum of something. And ofc the thing in motion is a more intangible magnetic field, together with currents running in magnets, not physical mass.

The entire renewal process is fairly cheap, resource wise. 7 day certificates are already a thing.
In terms of bandwidth you could easily renew a billion certificates a day over a gigabit connection, and in terms of performance I recon even without specialized hardware a single system could keep up with that, though that also depends on the signature algorithms employed in the future of course.

The dependence on these servers is the far bigger problem I’d say.
This shortening of lifetimes is a slow change, so I hope there will be solutions before it becomes an issue. Like keeping multiple copies of certificates alive with different providers, so the one in use can silently fall through when one provider stops working. Currently there are too few providers for my taste, that would have to improve for such a system to be viable.

Maybe one day you’ll select a bundle of 5 certificate services with similar policies for creating your certificate the way you currently select a single one in certbot or acme.sh

But it saves the command history to disk.
It makes the exit command redundant, so that is removed from the history, but all other commands in all cases but mistakenly sshing into the wrong machine will still be saved.

An octagon?

It’s nice but a little janky. For me for example I have to hit ctrl+C twice after closing a session where I started a kde program.

I still use X forwarding.
It works just fine using xWayland, and X forwarding has always been so janky there is no chance to notice any difference caused from using xWayland instead of native.

It will surely take many years and well established wayland native remote tunneling before anyone thinks of ditching xWayland.

You’d either need to use microwaves to get the heat in deeper, or go with a lower temperature and longer time while somehow preventing dryout, maybe steaming it somewhat.

Wine can actually beat native in latency, since it’s a pretty thin translation layer and windows is … windows.
I’d give it a shot just in case.

Efi spec states it must be safe to delete all variables. It’s only motherboards not adhering to the spec that are affected, effectively faulty hardware.
If you do this on a mb from that era chances are nothing will happen, and if something does happen chances are it is recoverable. You’d have to have some truly bad luck on your choice of mb to have it be permanently bricked by that.

1:31 & 2:47

I think it says “honesty of these words”

Steadily improving. I set up my webserver with ech which is the next step, hiding even the domain. A solid chunk of the internet uses cloudflare as an intermediary, which also has ech and only leaves “someone connected to some cloudflare page at this time for that amount of data”.

As more places roll out deep package inspection, I’m sure in due time more randomization for package sizes will follow, making even the amount of data uncertain.

Most web metadata is at the http layer anyway and has always been hidden by https.

genkernel is basically deprecated. You can use distkernel and supply your own config or config mods.

Yeah, I would expect it to be hard, similar to asking an llm to substitiute all letters e with an a. Which I’m sure they struggle with but manage to perform it too.

In this context though it’s a bit misleading explaining the observed behavior of op with that though, since it implies it is due to that fundamental nature of llms when in practice all models I have tested fundamentally had the ability.

It does seem that llms simply don’t use double spaces (or I have not noticed them doing it anywhere yet), but if you trained or just systemprompted them differently they could easily start to. So it isn’t a very stable method for non-ai identification.

Edit: And of course you’d have to make sure the interfaces also don’t strip double spaces, as was guessed elsewhere. I have not checked other interfaces but would not be surprised either way whether they did or did not. This too thought can’t be overly hard to fix with a few select character conversions even in the worst cases. And clearly at least my interface already managed to do it just fine.

I’d expect tokenizers to include spaces in tokens. You get words constructed from multiple tokens, so can’t really insert spaces based on them. And too much information doesn’t work well when spaces are stripped.

In my tests plenty of llms are also capable of seeing and using double spaces when accessed with the right interface.

This seems to match up with some quick tests I did just now, on the pseudonyminized chatbot interface of duckduckgo.
chatgpt, llama, and claude all managed to use double spaces themselves, and all but llama managed to tell I was using them too.
It might well depend on the platform, with the “native” applications for them stripping them on both ends.

Yeah, on some fundamental level.
Most linux distros would be very moddable repairable off-the-shelf cars. LFS would be your diy project with various guides. And gentoo would be a parts garage with their own guides and precompiled kits of components, so you can either follow those sets and build a more off-the-shelf car or diverge at any point for any section and run wild. But also you can still use the machine shop of the store and they offer to custom build some consumables for you and keep shipping them.