It sure is a change from having to keep redefining intelligence because computers started doing things that we used to claim required intelligence.

Release notes List of merged PRs ... 90. asdf in #5940 ... It's only a key project in a company valued at 1 trillion dollars, folks.

"This dir has a neural network trainer. We increased our dataset size 7x. Adjust the default number of training epochs (1000) to keep training the same duration and adjust the reporting interval accordingly." SOTA models figure out you want 150 epochs, not 143. Only GPT-5 solves the reporting part.

My article about how we won the 2023 and 2024 World Computer Chess Championships is now out. It includes some previously unpublished details about the design and implementation of Stoofvlees II and should be a fun read if you're interested in computer chess. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I have an open position on my team. Looking for experience with native application development on Windows/Win32 and good C++ skills. Knowledge of macOS/Linux development a plus, as is experience with Rust. Remote work possible in a lot of EU countries + US & Canada. www.mozilla.org/en-US/career...

I was expected the answer to "why is Codex so much slower than Claude Code" to be something related to their models, and maybe it is, but it surely is not helping that Codex runs all the tool calls under x86 emulation.

DeepSeek V3.1 scores 71.6% on aider polyglot, a slight improvement over DeepSeek R1 0528 while being more than 5 times faster. Cost: 0.60 USD for the entire benchmark.

lichess.org/lag "Lichess developers cannot ... make light go faster."

www.neowin.net/news/microso... Firefox already implemented this security feature over 7 years ago: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

We noticed a CPU bug on Raptor Lake because the bounds checking in our Rust zlib implementation was hitting "impossible" bounds checks: github.com/trifectatech... The Oodle devs noticed similar issues in their decompressors and managed to root cause it: fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/o...

OH: "Here we see the seething neckbeard in its natural environment" (Warhammer World Championships thread in /r/belgium)

File -> Open is just not something you can expect to work on a modern Linux desktop. github.com/microsoft/vs...

linux folks: just use your distro's package manager! me this morning: 1. <package> is 6 versions out of date, doesn't work 2. add upstream package server 3. oops! was built in a way that doesn't fucking work 4. download their script to do something to add it anyway 5. okay cool it works. i guess.

Different tests generate the exact opposite conclusion, e.g. github.com/lechmazur/co... "Reasoning appears to help. For example, DeepSeek R1 performs better than DeepSeek-V3 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp 01-21 performs better than Gemini 2.0 Flash."

OH: "we have colleagues who are younger than this file"

In Ubuntu 24.04 "perf top" now requires selecting which PMU type to monitor (P and E core types), and will then only list that one. This is an extremely crippling regression for me. Any idea how to get rid of it? Is this a regression in the kernel itself?

Ubuntu 24.04 wrecked my LVM+LUKS install upon upgrading from 22.04. After a few days of fighting with it, key tricks were to add "initramfs" flags for all LVM drives to the crypttab and finally "keyscript=decrypt_keyctl" to avoid having the reenter the password. All of this just worked in 22.04 🤷

"The amount of electricity required to train DeepSeek-V3 would power the Bitcoin network for all of 5 minutes." Random claim on an evil site but I'm totally willing to believe this.

National news reporting on the Hegseth gaffe: "US adversaries now know which chat service to attack...Signal may encrypt messages but it is not secure" Time for my daily dose of Gell-Mann amnesia.

Because of being tied to Electron, and thus to Chrome, Visual Studio Code on Linux has two modes: you can choose between "missing window borders" github.com/microsoft/vs... or "context menus don't work" (github.com/microsoft/vs... but really issues.chromium.org/issues/33037...).

"However, C++ bindings have different semantics than value assignment ... only destructed at the end of the enclosing scope, even though the mapping wasn't bound to an identifier." bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... Because of course C++ didn't have enough footguns yet.

"The exact format of the id string is left unspecified." aka you must return exactly the same thing as Chrome does.

discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-... "Rust may present a steeper learning curve than C in some ways" I wonder how true that actually is for writing/enhancing a production-level core util.

web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu... This is really nice. The old way definitely had issues like limiting a single Firefox process to about 32GB of RAM. And yeah, most of us wouldn't want the browser to take 32GB of RAM, but if you *need* that for some purpose, then it's a silly limitation to have.

"Allow edits from maintainers" is a really nice small feature and we're jealous at not having it.

23 years after the initial release, and 12 years after it has been deprecated, Apple adds support for patent free audio codec.

Reading the EU plans for Ukraine and am involuntarily reminded of Dutchbat & Srebrenica. Small peacekeeping force "safeguarded" by air support from another country. "The non-Dutch in charge of air support refused to give aid as requested" "US general: Gay Dutch soldiers caused Srebrenica massacre"

Cleaning out the local computer history museum, which is to say, my attic. Some of this stuff is so old, it still came with an actual manual. How the hell was 2004 already 21 years ago?!

API hallucinations are definitely one of the worst things when dealing with LLM.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-LLama-70B scores only 8.4% in the Aider polyglot benchmark: github.com/Aider-AI/aid..., significantly worse than for example Qwen2.5-Coder-32B. Real DeepSeek-R1 scores 56.9%. The distilled models that "you can run at home" are nothing like the real thing, not even close.

For something like astral uv (the Python package manager), what do we prefer? a) sudo snap install astral-uv b) curl -LsSf astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh c) pip install uv Pros/cons of each method?

I tried to buy a GPLed program today. Buy link fails with a PayPal error. Turning off Adblocker, Tracking Protection and spending like half an hour trying stuff and looking at the devtools networking tab didn't help.

Bug 1944784 - Minidump DumperError only contains the letter 'E', 'F', 'N' or 'W' bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

DeepSeek was nice while it lasted. In other, totally unrelated news, I have 64GB RAM arriving today and will be having fun aligning RAM stick timings.

Upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04. See all my terminals disappear if an application OOMs. Read github.com/systemd/syst.... Rage at Linux/systemd ecosystem.

The NVIDIA GTX 750 is 10 years old. It's the first NVIDIA GPU I got in a decade and what lead to the whole Leela ➡️ Leela Zero project. I paid 50 EUR for it, second hand. NVIDIA is now suggesting they could, perhaps, wind down support in the future. How's AMD's ROCm support for the Radeon R9 280?

The reactions to this blunder remind me of the people who looked at computer blunders and concluded "computers can't play chess", e.g. timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/honor... It's not because the computer makes a blunder that an 1800 Elo player would avoid, that the computer is <1800 Elo.

github.com/lechmazur/co... LLMs are getting better at refusing to answer if they don't know the answer. Latest Claude Sonnet is 4 times less likely to make things up, and about 2.5 times more likely to say it doesn't know something. The sad part? The free GPT is *the* most likely to make stuff up.

"I don't want to scare anyone, but this bug only occurs on a full moon." bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

"About 20% of leopard mortality is attributable to lions" I guess that's what being "King of the Jungle" means. Except they live in the savannah, uh, ...

Rust quiz! Find the bug: impl Hash for Node { fn hash<H: Hasher>(&self, state: &mut H) { self.flag.hash(state); for e in &self.edges { e.key.hash(state); // Hash child structure recursively e.child.borrow().hash(state); } } }

The popular AHash doesn't actually support 64-bit ARM properly in stable: github.com/tkaitchuck/a...

The textbooks I learned basic algorithms from were old enough that I've never been exposed to Lomuto partitioning, apparently. It appears to have been propagated far and wide enough that Wikipedia talks about it at length in the QuickSort explanation.

Google Photos only lets you share with your partner if you take pictures with their own app, or edit them with it: www.androidpolice.com/google-photo... What's the point? Up-selling more AI photo editing subscriptions with Google One? Feels like a blatant monopoly abuse more than anything.

The first adversarial attacks against Go AI's that I saw basically were exploits of a buggy passing heuristic in KataGo. The new attacks though, are quite something different: goattack.far.ai Does not surprise me that ViT doesn't fix it, as it starts with local patches. (Not saying a full T would)

semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/m... Nice benchmarking of the real performance you get with NVIDIA and AMD's training stacks...and the maturity of them.

The 2015 World Champion in Scrabble prepared for the tournament by playing 24h blitz chess marathons to wear himself out and then trying to keep his Scrabble play at its top level: youtu.be/p0i1MgZFAyI?...

My talk at FOSDEM got accepted! Join me in the Mozilla devroom on Sunday Feb 2nd, 15h00 to hear about crash reporting and analysis: "The most fun you'll ever have dealing with Firefox crashes" fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

I wanted to impersonate [email protected] for testing, tried to set up GMail for this, couldn't find the config, looked at the config for my current email, got even more confused as that also didn't make any sense. Long story short, the feature I wanted to use has been deprecated for 10 years.

Apple Intelligence on the Mac requires Siri's language to be set to the OS language. Set it to English, which apparently flips my iPhone right along with it, rendering Apple Maps in my car unable to find or pronounce Dutch street names. Does really have "Designed in California" written all over it.