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by catoc 2mo ago
Haha, nice. TIL. So all we need is ‘ controlled prompting’ to handle prompt injections :-)
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by catoc 2mo ago
Exactly! Attempting to handle prompt injections by prompting the model (not to leak sensitive data), is like attempting to stop a fire by burning the area around it
33.
by catoc 2mo ago
And then the secretary shared the conversation with 260 ‘partners’ and added everything you said to an LLM training corpus… So, NO, this is not “what secretaries were”
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by catoc 3mo ago
Agreed. And even etymology agrees: Plagiarize comes from plagiarius , latin for ‘kidnapper’. You cannot kidnap yourself
35.
by catoc 3mo ago
Yeah, the headline changed while I wrote my comment
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by catoc 3mo ago
Age Verification is not about “saving kids from spying/social media”. Same as Regulatory Encryption Backdoors are not about “protecting kids from child predators” This is framing. Abusing kids is bad. But that is not what this abou
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by catoc 3mo ago
Which shares your personal data with over 200 “partners”… thanks, but no
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by catoc 3mo ago
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by catoc 4mo ago
So then you need to know distance / roundtrip-length within centimeter precision as well (below 29.98 cm for sub-nanosecond precision… to be precise). Since cm precision is often not possible, is roundtrip-length an estimated average f
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by catoc 4mo ago
Then, since it’s about publishing (emails), they should have picked e-mprimatur (⌐⊙_⊙)
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by catoc 4mo ago
That… is true - thanks for editing your comment to clarify The initial thread read like “.com domains are exclusive to US” which they of course aren’t
42.
by catoc 4mo ago
It is not Source: own multiple, via EU registrar (Edit: Parent was edited after reply - parent statement is now correct)
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by catoc 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/44z6b
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by catoc 5mo ago
“Security through obscurity” has the connotation that it is the obscurity that achieves the security - which is bad. ”Security including obscurity“ is fine.
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by catoc 5mo ago
Would you have any more info? I have both: adobe synctool + issues with smb shares
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by catoc 6mo ago
Fair. And I my point was I really like the site! I promise to become lessvocal about the ads.
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by catoc 6mo ago
Such a great personal project! These kind of things is what the ‘www’ was created for - good vibes! Why riddle it with ads?
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by catoc 6mo ago
I know, always hard to tell on HN. Added the relevant declarative tag
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by catoc 6mo ago
> Are you sure it's a DDoS and not just a DoS? I think these days it’s ‘DAIS’, as in your site just DAIS - from Distributed/Damned AI Scraping
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by catoc 6mo ago
It’s only bad if you’re a closed, for-profit entity </sarcasm>
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by catoc 6mo ago
You’re calling people who critique Palantir “borderline Q-Anon” ? While you yourself think Palantir’s products are “like Excel” ? They are not. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai
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by catoc 6mo ago
I don’t see the downside here. If you don’t believe it, maybe disconnect from network before dropping the file?
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by catoc 6mo ago
A wise doctor once typed…
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by catoc 7mo ago
They’re looking for AI that’s só good it’s unreal
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by catoc 7mo ago
” it’s not a big deal. Just gets you better ads.” I thought this was just ignorance. Then I checked the profile. They ”have lots of experience with digital advertising “
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by catoc 7mo ago
Just disable Liquid Glass (transparency, motion). Better UX and better UI
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by catoc 7mo ago
That was exactly my point. GP mentioned ‘chasing null pointer exceptions’, then parent mentioned that the language ’now does have nonnull annotation’ , prompting me to explain that that does not prevent null pointer exceptions. So, not
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by catoc 7mo ago
It is a really pleasant language, but I think the <nonnull> annotation is for initialization only - compiler checking against initializing an object ptr with a null value - and does not prevent crashing when addressing an already rele
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by catoc 7mo ago
Isn’t your own username also associated with animal parts?
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by catoc 7mo ago
Would renaming to ”Nearby Glassholes” be acceptable as a PR?

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