aftbit

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by aftbit 3d ago
Did they switch to Axon?
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by aftbit 5d ago
The big advantage of OpenRouter IMO is that you don't have to manage keys, URLs, and subscriptions with 10+ providers. You definitely should still pick providers and pin them, at least if you care about repeatable results.
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by aftbit 5d ago
-1 for Pedantic, but +1 for cool links to telescopes
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by aftbit 7d ago
Nonsense. 100% nonsense. To the contrary, acting like only one side is bad and thus only one side can be made fun of is a huge reason we're in this situation. The right took the left's cancel culture and weaponized it to the extre
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by aftbit 7d ago
Nah I don't own that crap :laugh:
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by aftbit 7d ago
I'd assume there would be a popup that says in clear terms "Device XYZ was used to view your location" or whatever, and a button you could click that let you see all linked devices and kick them from your account. IMO cars sh
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by aftbit 7d ago
Remotely controlling or even accessing location info from a car should show a little popup on the infotainment system, if not live, at least when you park or next start the car.
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by aftbit 7d ago
Will V4.1 Flash and V4.1 pro be open-weights?
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by aftbit 7d ago
>In keeping with our commitment to user responsibility, following the official launch of V4.1 Flash and prior to the release of V4.1 Pro, all requests to the Pro model will be routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at Flash's price Please
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by aftbit 7d ago
Well, nowadays, Google location history is stored on-device. Google Maps sends your position to their servers, both for geocoding and to power their traffic estimation. Even when location history was in the cloud, you could turn it off. It
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by aftbit 8d ago
1. So what? 2. This sucks but is basically required to protect against phone theft (though phones could be shipped in an unlock-once state, until you set them up) 3. So what? What company has never been shady?
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by aftbit 8d ago
Every single HN post about anything Meta-adjacent starts with a comment like this. Guys, we get it, the hive mind of HN doesn't like Meta/Facebook/Zuck. Fine. But can we actually comment on the technology and tools rather tha
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by aftbit 8d ago
Not sure - I have never used that flag! I like the idea of managing the profile dir myself, because then I know nothing will leak. For example, HSTS state persists across incognito, allowing fingerprinting. I don't know if --guest hand
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by aftbit 9d ago
I have a handy little script called `chrome-new` which I use whenever I want to browse one of those few sites that struggles with Firefox. It just starts a clean Chromium with a throw-away profile, then deletes it when I close the browser.
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by aftbit 9d ago
If you want legal advice, ask a lawyer and pay for it. If you want to publish a cool hack, publish a cool hack.
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by aftbit 10d ago
What about the trend of summarizing or eliding reasoning from the visible model response, ostensibly to make distillation by competitors harder?
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by aftbit 11d ago
Broadly speaking, you will only rarely find police properly prosecuted for their misdeeds. Usually, the worst that happens is dismissal, if even that. Of course there are outliers - cops who wrongly kill people have been prosecuted from tim
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by aftbit 11d ago
The originally submitted link is a transcript of a podcast. I really respect the fact that they write these, as I prefer to read over listening. The URL I posted is linked in the original submission as the original story, which is even bett
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by aftbit 11d ago
This is disgusting, and I continue to argue that we should not excuse Flock Safety for this kind of misbehavior. They created the tech and marketed it to police departments without providing good protections against this kind of thing. Maki
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by aftbit 11d ago
Nixon
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by aftbit 11d ago
What is the value of this? Clearly the US won't sell me gold for $42/oz or the arbitragers would own the country, and nobody will sell the US gold for that amount ... so what does the $42/oz "peg" actually mean?
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by aftbit 11d ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas...
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by aftbit 11d ago
There's subscription cost, then there's other factors, like DRM, usability, single source, etc. If you want to find the latest media, you can either hunt for it on one among several subscription services or you can find it on any
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by aftbit 12d ago
How big is it? How much does it cost?
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by aftbit 13d ago
Claude and Codex were down too. A 3 month old github issue that was the top result for the error that Codex threw (a 404 of all things) briefly became a live chat for bored and annoyed AI users. https://github.com/openai&#x2
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by aftbit 13d ago
It's turtles all the way down my friend.
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by aftbit 13d ago
I've found that's generally true of smaller / weaker models. They're quite capable, but you need to distrust them a lot and give them very detailed instructions. Even the free Gemini in Google Search is like this - it li
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by aftbit 14d ago
Okay but Muse Glimmer 30B is one of the best small open weight models today, and IMO the best from a US lab (only real comparison is Gemma4 dense right now).
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by aftbit 15d ago
Calling people and playing with phones. I have an internal Asterisk server for me and a few friends. The nicest thing is that when the phone rings, it's a person who I know, not a scam. (Unknown external numbers get direct to voicemail
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by aftbit 15d ago
Who mentioned drones? This is for a phone.

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