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by jzb 50 days ago
This is amazing. Page says it works on RHEL 14.3, which doesn’t exist. Current RHEL is 10.x, this must’ve been done in a TARDIS.
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14.3 seems to come from some Red Hat-specific GCC version, which can be reported as "gcc (GCC) 14.3.1 20250617 (Red Hat 14.3.1-2)". See these random examples I found by googling:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40741 (gcc version "Red Hat 14.3" included in system version at the bottom)

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/tuxedo/22/otxig/s...

On the same line it says kernel version 6.12.0-124.45.1.el10_1. Which is RHEL 10. This is the kind of typo that humans make -- the hard to type numbers are accurate because they're cut and pasted, but the "easy" numbers have errors because they're not cut and pasted.
ugh sorry should be fixed. There was some scrambling to get more info together to explain the issue (and yes, obviously marketing), so there are some minor mistakes. Thanks for pointing it out!
Hope the 'marketing' had the desired effect. This entire article of pure AI noise was an absolute slog to get through to get to useful information. I have no idea how you view that as positive advertising.
> obviously marketing

Why marketing though?

because we're a company and we want to make money to continue to fund cool research, and help our customers secure their software :)
I don't quibble with your wanting to make money, but you also need to invest some resources on fact-checking, proofreading, and editing your work. You can hire technical writers and marketing copy editors on an hourly basis as needed. LLMs aren't good enough yet to produce high-quality output on their own; and the results tend to read similarly, loaded with clichés and identical turns of phrase.

(You're not alone in this, BTW; I don't mean to single you out.)

Resume-driven development
I would rather people who find this kind of stuff pad their resumes and get coolness points on HN than sell this exploit on the black market. But your priorities may be different and you might prefer they do the latter.
This is just a false dichotomy. Sure researches want money, credit but not at the cost of harming users or doing illegal things.
yeah, I assumed the whole thing was AI slop when I saw EL14...
https://x.com/i/status/2049687923814281351

> and yes, RHEL 14.3 doesn't exist We meant to say RHEL 10.1. Sorry for the confusion!