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Criminals don’t own datacenters running the models that actually pose a threat.

I understand it, but as a citizen from “The Netherlands” it has always felt a bit weird.

https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/23/dutch-cybersecurity-center-investigating-first-signs-hackers-abused-php-issues

Official source this is based on is https://www.ncsc.nl/en/alerts/update-php-vulnerabilities-remain-a-reason-for-immediate-patching, which mentions they’re investigating signs of exploits and that they have at least one confirmed exploit that happened abroad.

It’s still a complex exploit, mind, but not an unusable one.

I mean, the national cybersecurity council here saw exploits happening in the wild. So it’s definitely possible and practical enough for it to happen.

At the architectural level, there’s definitely a difference yes. But at the smaller scoped implementation level the latest models are pretty good compared to humans. Not perfect by any means, sure, but it’s not all drivel anymore. It was 2 years ago, but today’s definitely different.

Race conditions are generally harder to catch, even for human devs. And you’re saying it as if Linus wouldn’t have introduced it had he coded everything by hand, which I don’t think is remotely guaranteed (like he never makes mistakes). And the review system clearly works just fine still.

Good developers can accelerate their work with agents, and you’re right that you can generate tons of LLM-powered slop with it too. But that’s why dismissing anything an agent wrote immediately is also wrong. The review determines if it’s good enough, whether a human or an agent wrote it.

Sure, that’s why I said “not necessarily”. LLMs can be misused and made to do dumb shit too. But I have seen plenty of bullshit come from human developers too.

Verifying LLM code isn’t necessarily harder than verifying a human PR. I hope that this also boosts automated test tooling so that it also gets easier to test these PRs, since the focus will shift to review rather than writing.

It sounds like you’re doing quite a bit of stuff already! You can only do so much you know. Don’t beat yourself up over what you aren’t doing, cheer because you managed to do so much already. Four languages, successful diet, studying tons of subjects, that’s well above average compared to what most people are doing (sitting on the couch eating crisps and watching tv after a boring work day).

Sports has always been boring to me too. I get my exercise in by incorporating it into my daily life, e.g. by cycling to work or the supermarket. If you get an electric bike it suddenly becomes much easier to just hop on and go somewhere, since it’s not as exhausting, yet you do actually still get most of the benefits from moving. Put on some music or a good podcast and it’s not as boring anymore as it used to be. Might I recommend Lateral? It’s a quiz show hosted by Tom Scott with rotating guests, lots of YouTubers but also more famous people like Adam Savage have been on.

Excessive YouTube can also be a bit dulling, you could consider switching to podcasts or something to get away from the constant dopamine-machine that social media provides. It’ll help your attention span too.

Still, it doesn’t sound like you’re a loser. Any changes you make should be made because you want to, not because you feel like you’d be a loser otherwise.

They’re required to make a copy to safeguard the data and prevent it from being wiped, but that doesn’t actually mean the request will be honoured and data will be shared. Thus far, police have said no data has actually been transferred pending the review of the request.

They haven’t actually shared anything yet, afaik. When the request comes in the authorities have basically no wiggle room regarding safeguarding the data, but it is only shared once the request is approved as legal.

“May have existed”?

Molotov himself inadvertently implied their existence numerous times in his conversations with Chuev (Molotov Remembers; Molotov-Chuev interviews between 1970-1986, published 1993).

Khrushchev acknowledged their existence in his memoirs, which nobody disputes the provenance of, and which were published in the West in the 1970s.

The CPSU itself acknowledged their existence at the end of 1989, and published their copy of the text in their official journal.

The literal Soviet documents, held by the General Department of the CPSU Central Committee, were located after the archives were declassified in 1992, and have since been published widely.

No party seems to dispute the existence of the secret protocols. If you have a single credible source that does, feel free to cite them.