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matheusmoreira
28,283karma·11,399submissions·October 4, 2016
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Brazilian hobbyist programmer. I mostly do my own thing but I've contributed to some free and open source projects.
I created the lone programming language, a lisp for Linux:
https://github.com/lone-lang/lone
The projects I've published are on GitHub:
https://github.com/matheusmoreira/
I can be reached via email:
hn@matheusmoreira.com
I also have my own website:
https://www.matheusmoreira.com/
If you like my work, consider sponsoring me:
https://github.com/sponsors/matheusmoreira
No pressure though. I do this because I enjoy it.
recent activity (11,399 total)
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Not sure what's so confusing here. I don't like the stigma towards AIs and the people who use them, which is what a post titled "TEMU-Fication of software" is ultimately all about.…
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Sad indeed. What trully pisses me off though is the fact Mozilla has like hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, possibly a billion dollars, and yet they continue to neglect Firefox.
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QEMU virtual machines. Sandboxes like firejail and bubblewrap share a kernel: attacker is one exploit away from root. Hypervisors present an infinitely smaller attack surface, and if they're ever…
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Agreed, and I do think it's unfortunate that our browsers are funded by ad tech. I want that to change.
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Yeah, by opting out of them altogether. I'd very much enjoy having useful extensions that are not dangerous instead.
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"Random" is what I call pretty much every extension that is not uBlock Origin. I absolutely want them limited to the fullest extent. Maybe if they were, I would actually install some of them…
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Javascript is not a declarative language.
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They don't specifically block uBlock Origin though. I have no doubt they intended it to, and that's literally my only objection to Manifest V3: it's good but it hurts uBlock Origin ther…
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I'm supposed to be the master, actually. It's my computer, any foreign code is essentially a subject in my digital domain. It should be literally impossible for them to do something I don&…
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> Why would someone install "random extensions" that they dont trust. Same reason why people download random stuff and run it with administrator permissions on Windows.
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> Do you believe the same should be true of your operating system? Yes, and I have actually started virtualizing everything inside my computer because of that belief. I don't want random softw…
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The purpose of browser extensions is to build up an install base then sell out to some corporation that then promptly leverages that user base to exfiltrate data and monetize it. No thanks. They shoul…
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That was my first thought as well... But remember, they've got unlimited Mythos while we barely have Fable.
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I'm not. The only extension I trust enough to install is uBlock Origin.
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Imagine the massive amount of data they must have harvested through it.
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> Then they had to make up some reasons to justify that Hate to be the one to defend Google here, but the reasons weren't that unreasonable. I want my browser to prevent random extensions fr…
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It's certainly better than stock Chrome but Firefox becoming relevant again is still the ideal option.
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Unfortunately, new generations seem to be completely fine with this. People in general, they're just so completely captured by the dark patterns that I get the impression they cannot even imagine…
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Dunno about that. I have some "vibecoded" projects. I wouldn't exactly call them stellar examples of craftsmanship, but they sure as hell didn't become insane thousand flag contrap…
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Why?
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> we had a 10k line lua function that grew through ten thousand point modifications > It's bad and humans caused it. LLMs do the same thing. I review the code and interrogate the model abou…
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> can't change a single line of code in the product without breaking 1000s of existing tests > all held together with thousands of flags > ridden with mysterious macros that one cannot d…
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"Human made" is not automatically better and we need to stop pretending that it is. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 …
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Only if you're some big corporation with deep pockets. They actually accepted me into their cyber program but Fable's still locked down.
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How much usage do you get out of it per week? How many millions of tokens? Anthropic was stingy as hell with its Fable and cybersecurity nonsense, switched to OpenAI which is much better but still not…
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Recently converted to OpenAI too. Similar experience. Sol writes really well.
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> I just don't see how you justify a trillion valuation for US AI labs Market is irrational.
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Meanwhile, my OpenAI TAC application lingers in a total limbo. I suppose I'll switch to this at some point.
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So what's inside Intel ME, AMD PSP and associaded firmwares? Don't leave us hanging here...