blakesterz

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by blakesterz 6d ago
This site has numbers and sources: https://www.tesladeaths.com/
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by blakesterz 26d ago
"There's an ongoing discussion of whether humans are good at recognizing AI-generated text. While most research claims that humans don't really do a good job there, I disagree. " I wonder if humans that spend all
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by blakesterz 27d ago
"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
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by blakesterz 1mo ago
"When I spoke with Cranor, she was floored by just how often I went to McDonald’s: “This guy eats a lot of McDonald's.” My boss, who was also stunned by my processed-food choices, says I now have to stop eating there. Despite
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by blakesterz 1mo ago
"Accessibility failures are near-universal." Why does it seem like Accessibility is always an after thought? It is usually so easy to do while a site is built. We just don't think about it until someone complains?
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by blakesterz 1mo ago
Looks interesting but I would want some public information about how it works and who is doing it, etc... The complete lack of any available details must be stopping many potential users.
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by blakesterz 1mo ago
Toni Schneider was just on Decoder last week too talking about this and more https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-schneid...
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BitTorrent's disastrous, legendary, and controversial story(theverge.com)
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by blakesterz 3mo ago
The css is ".prose-invert" and there's a ".prose" that looks better, I wonder if something threw a switch to make it "invert" when it should be ".prose" because you're right, this is unreada
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by blakesterz 3mo ago
There's a video of the entire session here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14/k14ej1ucqu?kalturaStartTim... (if that link doesn't work, it starts about 12 minutes into the start)
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by blakesterz 3mo ago
I just started using Claude Code for my work as a sysadmin. For my work, it's great. I don't need to wrestle with MySQL joins, claude gets even the most complex ones right WAY faster than I would. Same with new Terraform stuff. Th
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by blakesterz 3mo ago
Are there any defenses I can put in front of my websites that are good for stopping these things? The amount of traffic I see from residential proxies is just killing me. In particular defense against residential proxies.
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by blakesterz 4mo ago
That link it throwing me: "Scan this QR code with your mobile device to verify you are human. reCAPTCHA protects your privacy and does not share your details with this website or app." Is that a new recaptcha thing? I'
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by blakesterz 4mo ago
Planet Money just did an episode on this. The answer is, at least according to this, yes, pretty accurate. At least in the past https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5815308
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by blakesterz 5mo ago
I'm glad they had the "Brands That Still Make Their Own Stuff" list, that was my first thought. What other brands are still decent?
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by blakesterz 6mo ago
John McPhee had a great New Yorker article (which I think was also in the collection Irons in the Fire), where he wrote about how U.S. geologists used sand found in the Japanese "Fu-Go" bombs that made it to the NW US to figure o
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by blakesterz 6mo ago
You're right, those tags are GREAT! Worth clicking through and having a look.
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by blakesterz 6mo ago
"Most of the private credit loans were floating rate and tied to the federal funds rate, which has persisted at a high level over the past three years. Fitch pointed to this as a catalyst for last year's defaults." I
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by blakesterz 6mo ago
Reminds me of when kids were doing the same on MySpace https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20070917/SUB/709170352... https://mixergy.com/interviews/andrew-fashion/
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by blakesterz 7mo ago
Meta aims to introduce facial recognition to its smart glasses while its biggest critics are distracted, according to a report from The New York Times. In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will launch the feature
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by blakesterz 7mo ago
I'll just add another vote for OrbStack. I found it way faster on M1 and M5 and never found any compatibility issues.
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by blakesterz 7mo ago
That's handy! I just started using oh-my-zsh and I feel like I know about 4% of useful things it can do so far.
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by blakesterz 7mo ago
Alex Stamos talked about this a bit on TWiT late last year: "It's getting hard to not be conspiracy minded here. They closed CSRB, destroyed CISA. CISA has no confirmed director. This just adds to kind of a complete surrende
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by blakesterz 8mo ago
It also reminded me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax One of those things that seem POSSIBLE, but then again...
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by blakesterz 8mo ago
Of course, why are the good ones always in mice? A study led by Stanford Medicine researchers has found that an injection blocking a protein linked to aging can reverse the natural loss of knee cartilage in older mice.
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by blakesterz 8mo ago
This closes on a bit of a downer: "As the Internet continues to evolve, it is no longer the technically innovative challenger pitted against venerable incumbents in the forms of the traditional industries of telephony, print newspa
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by blakesterz 8mo ago
"It’s hard to quantify just how widespread the phenomenon is, but certain notably offline hobbies are exploding in popularity." Assuming this is an actual trend that is actually "exploding"... I wonder what this
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by blakesterz 8mo ago
"It is a DDOS attack involving tens of thousands of addresses" It is amazing just how distributed some of these things are. Even on the small sites that I help host we see these types of attacks from very large numbers of
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by blakesterz 8mo ago
I guess the hypothesis makes sense. They say it's probably Drugs, Alcohol, Obesity and Fourth, some of the increase may be due to changes in reporting. As people have become more aware of the danger of falls, falls that used to not be
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by blakesterz 9mo ago
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification... Cory Doctorow's talk is quite strong.

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