Featured post what's this? ✨ How Spotify Silently Updates Itself (And How to Stop It) Spotify updated itself without my permission. I blocked it. It updated again. I blocked it again. It found a third way. This is the story of reverse-engineer...
Retrohacking Robotron: Inside 1982's Video Game Classic! After teaching an AI to dominate Tempest, I pointed it at Robotron: 2084… and things got gloriously out of control. Robotron isn’t just another classic arcade game. It’s one of the most chaotic, punishing, brilliantly engineered games of the golden age—a...
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How Kernel Anti-Cheats Work: A Deep Dive into Modern Game Protection Modern kernel anti-cheat systems are, without exaggeration, among the most sophisticated pieces of software running on consumer Windows machines. They operate at the highest privilege level available to software, they intercept kernel callbacks that were ...
The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction bet...
Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all I think I’ve finally pinpointed why it is that I have an allergic reaction when I’m confronted with a text that has me as the intended recipient, but that has been run through an LLM to change or “clean up” the wording - especially if it’s internal commun...
Building my own cloud in 3 months For many years now, I've been managing the backups for my family, phone data, laptop data, camera data, everything. While I kept all my personal data since I was 12 intact, that has not been the case for my family; broken external hard drives, photos stor...
You Can Just Deploy Things | Relax, it's software. How Nix makes it trivially easy to deploy software on your home server.
Living with (Jagged) Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) A form of jagged artificial superintelligence is here. Models learned to think and use tools, crossing a threshold where agents are genuinely useful. But the human brain remains remarkably cost-effective for dynamic, judgment-heavy problems. Stop trying t...
Still choose boring technology Dan McKinley's classic advice on "choosing boring technology" is even more true in the AI era.
Validation is your agent's bottleneck A framework for validating the outputs of coding agents is what's currently missing in the AI coding agent space.
Why I Stopped Using Spotify | Yar Kravtsov's Blog I thought streaming was the ethical upgrade from piracy. Turns out it just made music disposable. Now I buy CDs, pirate FLACs, and actually listen to albums …
Resourceful Computing: What Happens When We Optimize for Old Hardware? Laptop prices are climbing and Windows is pushing users toward new devices. But millions of perfectly capable machines are sitting in homes right now. Here's why optimizing for old hardware is good for users, developers, and the environment.
Overlay Bar Chart · Anantha Kumaran In this post, I will discuss the overlay bar chart. There is plenty of material on stacked and grouped bar charts, but relatively little written about overlay bar charts. This post attempts to address that gap.
Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories Mathematical research traditionally involves a small number of professional mathematicians working closely on difficult problems. However, I have long believed that there is a complementary way to …
