future10se

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by future10se 1mo ago
You might've missed this recent story where the FBI was able to identify an alleged teenage member of the Scattered Spider hacking group using the Microsoft GDID, and made an arrest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by future10se 7mo ago
> https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/15805010 Not to bash on x86 or anything, but that's an outlier. Very overclocked with a compressor chiller or similar. Also the single-threaded and multi-threaded sco
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by future10se 7mo ago
Aaackshually, the Sudden Motion Sensor was introduced on 2005 in the PowerBook G4, and continued through the intel MacBooks with hard drives. While officially undocumented, people figured out how to access it back then, with novel uses like
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by future10se 10mo ago
He's actually more well known for the talks he's given and demos he's created since then. Here are a few: • Inventing on Principle ( https://vimeo.com/906418692 ) / ( https://news.ycombinator.com
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by future10se 11mo ago
A similar article was posted earlier this year, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149077
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by future10se 1y ago
Strange, I am running it on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (Z Fold 5), and it's totally fine for me. (If anything, it's a little too good at staying in the background; if you have private tabs open it insists on persisting in memory.) Not s
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AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next-Gen Video Codec AV2(aomedia.org)
79 points by future10se 1y ago|66 comments
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by future10se 1y ago
Interesting project. I've been thinking about a tool like this; I might be following a multi-volume book series, but it's been years since the last book. When I pick up the latest volume, sometimes there are details that I just ca
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by future10se 1y ago
> If LocalSend is running on iOS and Windows does LocalSend have the ability to send photos? Yes, I use it all the time. Both devices need to be on the same network (LAN / WiFi), however. LocalSend does not use Bluetooth.
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by future10se 1y ago
Why would you need to retrain the model or update the SFT? You could just dynamically update the system prompt to include things it should advertise. You could even have something like an MCP to which the LLM could pass "topics",
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by future10se 1y ago
As mentioned on the blog post: > Used as supplied, Google Tag Manager can be blocked by third-party content-blocker extensions. uBlock Origin blocks GTM by default, and some browsers with native content-blocking based on uBO - such as Br
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by future10se 1y ago
That would probably be closer to link rot[1]. Interestingly enough, printed QR codes physically degrading as described in the article is actual bit rot, albeit a form often overlooked. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by future10se 1y ago
The on-device models used for Apple Intelligence (writing tools, notification and email/message summaries, etc.) are around ~3B parameters. I mean, they could be better (to put it nicely), but there is a legitimate use-case for them an
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by future10se 2y ago
There are commercial services that provide residential proxies, i.e. you get to tunnel your scraper or bot traffic through actual residential connections. (see: Bright Data, oxylabs, etc.) They accomplish this by providing home users with s
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by future10se 2y ago
> The fact that they let law enforcement know when someone is stalking someone with an AirTag shows that the data is available to them. Not technically correct. Apple devices (and Android phones with the appropriate app) detect if an unk
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by future10se 2y ago
Are we talking about the same thing? If I reboot manually then I don't get notifications until I enter my pin. But if my phone does the auto-reboot I do get notifs as usual. This screen: https://i.imgur.com/jRS7Ffx.png
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by future10se 2y ago
That might be what's informally called a "respring", where the SpringBoard process is restarted. SpringBoard is the process that shows the home screen, and does part of the lifecycle management for regular user apps. (i.e. if
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by future10se 2y ago
It doesn't do the same thing security-wise, though. It's more of a "performance manager" (i.e. the same reason you'd reboot an old Windows PC). BFU (Before First Unlock, as described in the article) on an Android is
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Mac Mini M4 has socketed flash memory module(old.reddit.com)
2 points by future10se 2y ago|0 comments
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by future10se 2y ago
It's a thread; if you're not logged into Twitter then you only see the one tweet without context. (It wasn't like this before. Thanks, Elon.) You can replace "x.com" in URLs like this with "xcancel.com" or
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by future10se 2y ago
Thanks for this! Some feedback on the images: perhaps you can "bake-in" a white background. Your diagrams are transparent PNGs, which is fine when the webpage is white, but when in dark mode it makes the images hard to read (as no
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How Mihoyo's monetization works(moonbearmusings.com)
103 points by future10se 2y ago|59 comments
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by future10se 2y ago
Zipair, a budget airline subidiary of JAL, offers free Wifi [1] on all their international flights. They operate in the SEA area. [1] - https://www.zipair.net/en/onboard/service
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by future10se 2y ago
I've been looking for something like this, but as a desktop app that runs locally. So far I've only found two: 1. HistoryHound - https://www.stclairsoft.com/HistoryHound/index.html 2. BrowserParrot - https:&
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by future10se 2y ago
https://i.imgur.com/OPbRxhK.png I love (hate) that the figure in the illustration stands up with his arms raised. I wonder what the artist was thinking...
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by future10se 2y ago
Those I recognize (from interface, branding, strings, etc.): * Slack -- https://brr.fyi/media/engineering-for-slow-internet/load-err... * Signal (main screen) -- https://brr.fyi/media/engineer