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  1. Comment on These snakes can cartwheel away from danger. Scientists just uncovered how the slithering creatures perform their acrobatic rolls. in ~science

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    Watch the video, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Super cool how their head stays exactly oriented in the same direction while they are flying through the air. Very much like how chicken...

    Watch the video, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Super cool how their head stays exactly oriented in the same direction while they are flying through the air. Very much like how chicken heads lock into place while you move their bodies around.

    13 votes

  3. Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes

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    Not a great example since at least in the west, Muslims are a minority and it feels like “punching down”. However, I expect #YesAllWhitePeople hits about the same mark. Not that I agree with using...

    Not a great example since at least in the west, Muslims are a minority and it feels like “punching down”. However, I expect #YesAllWhitePeople hits about the same mark. Not that I agree with using any of these broad-brush labels. They are divisive and reductive in an entirely negative way.

    9 votes

  4. Comment on PHP warns it plans to release two emergency patches imminently in ~comp

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    This was in my logs, "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 38463 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 php2shell-sidfix" and they dropped a backdoor script at the same time. Not even bothering to even vaguely hide what they're doing.

    This was in my logs,

    "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 38463 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 php2shell-sidfix"

    and they dropped a backdoor script at the same time. Not even bothering to even vaguely hide what they're doing.

    8 votes

  5. Comment on PHP warns it plans to release two emergency patches imminently in ~comp

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    Welp can confirm, exploited in the wild because some PHP sites I host got hit. Fortunately super low impact, already cleaned up, but the speed of spread is crazy.

    Welp can confirm, exploited in the wild because some PHP sites I host got hit. Fortunately super low impact, already cleaned up, but the speed of spread is crazy.

    6 votes

  6. Comment on I survived the certificate expiration of October 19th 2026 and all I got was to make a silly shitpost in ~tildes

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    I’m ashamed to admit that on seeing tildes down I went and checked my own sites and found I had let a letsencrypt expire on the 16th.

    I’m ashamed to admit that on seeing tildes down I went and checked my own sites and found I had let a letsencrypt expire on the 16th.

    10 votes

  7. Comment on Three children and a teacher were killed in Bend, Oregon, elementary school shooting, police say in ~news

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    Well, his two kids go to school there. I would feel a strong obligation to go and protect my child.

    Well, his two kids go to school there. I would feel a strong obligation to go and protect my child.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model in ~tech

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    Huge free roam worlds are irritating if they are repetitive. I can see well curated LLM generated encounters being pretty cool though.

    Huge free roam worlds are irritating if they are repetitive. I can see well curated LLM generated encounters being pretty cool though.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why in ~science

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    We certainly don’t need negative leap seconds, it’s just that under the current standard we do. If we allow more drift, then we can simply wait for it to swing back to zero, and then eventually a...

    We certainly don’t need negative leap seconds, it’s just that under the current standard we do. If we allow more drift, then we can simply wait for it to swing back to zero, and then eventually a positive leap seconds, since that’s the inevitable long term outcome.

    That said, do we need positive leap seconds either? I find it viscerally unpleasant that there are two different times that have the same label. We can all just live on GPS or TAI time forever and it simply won’t matter.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Someone ‘torturing’ LLMs in a robot prison has triggered the dumbest debate in AI yet in ~tech

  11. Comment on Sean Strickland suggests he’s ready to leave UFC to fight Jake Paul amid pay dispute in ~sports.combat

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    The name still means something, but they truly awful. It’s becoming even more apparent that they are just trying to put on spectacles rather than seeing who the best fighter is, removing MVP just...

    The name still means something, but they truly awful. It’s becoming even more apparent that they are just trying to put on spectacles rather than seeing who the best fighter is, removing MVP just because some fans think he’s boring while on 4 fight win streak and that stupid power slap thing. Meanwhile they are trying to destroy the profitability for boxers too.

    I hope One or MVP can somehow find a way to turn a profit and become a credible competitor.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why in ~science

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    Sounds like sextant users will start noticing the effects in 1-2 decades. I can only applaud though. I hate it when time doesn’t move linearly. This is like getting rid of daylight savings, which...

    Sounds like sextant users will start noticing the effects in 1-2 decades. I can only applaud though. I hate it when time doesn’t move linearly. This is like getting rid of daylight savings, which obviously I also approve of.

    8 votes

  14. Comment on Given everything we know about AI so far, what do you think it can or cannot be good for? in ~tech

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    This sounds increasingly unlikely the more I see it develop. There are some pretty good playbooks out there for fixing AI-speak. Human provenance is very interesting to me, especially in the wake...

    It will be obvious if you used AI to help or just had the AI shit something out for you.

    This sounds increasingly unlikely the more I see it develop. There are some pretty good playbooks out there for fixing AI-speak.

    we have to insist that authors submit their git commit histories of their books.

    Human provenance is very interesting to me, especially in the wake of the latest math controversy. Are we going to want math proofs that consist only of artisanal grass fed farmers market lemmas? But back to fiction: I don’t know if I actually care if I read a human’s writing or not. For instance, I don’t care if my games are composed of an amalgam of 10,000 separate human writers that are mashed together and curated by Sony or Nintendo, and that’s getting pretty close to an LLM in my opinion. If a writer is using an LLM to flesh out their idea, and they have quality checked and curated it… or even if they haven’t, and it has simply risen to the top of the book sales based on the judgement of the crowd, what does that matter to me as long as it’s a good product?

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents in ~science

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    Terry Tao is perhaps the world's most prominent mathematician at the moment. Notably, Terry is not a member. I don't think he's fully aligned -- he's a big proponent of AI in math. I think he just...

    Terry Tao is perhaps the world's most prominent mathematician at the moment. Notably, Terry is not a member. I don't think he's fully aligned -- he's a big proponent of AI in math. I think he just doesn't like the latest thing OpenAI has done.

    11 votes

  16. Comment on Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents in ~science

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    So this is a post copied from https://www.ahmath.org/statements but I think it's notable that it's Terry Tao posting this.

    So this is a post copied from https://www.ahmath.org/statements but I think it's notable that it's Terry Tao posting this.

    7 votes

  18. Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health

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    With the acrimony I have seen in some divorces, can you imagine if someone’s ex-spouse also ended up taking their liver voucher after taking (house/pet/kids)? Yikes.

    With the acrimony I have seen in some divorces, can you imagine if someone’s ex-spouse also ended up taking their liver voucher after taking (house/pet/kids)? Yikes.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health

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    I guess that’s an American thing, we don’t have vouchers in Canada. Even still, I’d feel a bit silly if I picked the wrong five people. I would be tempted if it were a completely unlimited...

    I guess that’s an American thing, we don’t have vouchers in Canada. Even still, I’d feel a bit silly if I picked the wrong five people. I would be tempted if it were a completely unlimited transferable voucher. I can see how that would lead to coercion and black market sales though.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health

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    I would donate to a close friend or close family member. Every human is not equal to me.

    I would donate to a close friend or close family member. Every human is not equal to me.

    9 votes