icedchai

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by icedchai 3d ago
There were "PC compatibles" that used it, like the Tandy 2000. You are correct in that they may not have been entirely compatible, but they did exist.
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by icedchai 5d ago
Many forget that IE was basically the only decent browser for most of the early 2000's. It was the defacto standard. Netscape 4.x was ancient and crashed every half hour. Mozilla/Firefox wasn't stable yet. Chrome wasn't
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by icedchai 5d ago
Prompt injection is often not the issue: it's prompt quality. If given a vague spec (prompt), the human is more likely to understand the problem domain, see what's missing, ask clarifying questions. AI is more likely to assume and
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by icedchai 5d ago
2016 was an acceleration point into madness. We were going down hill anyway, and the hill suddenly steepened. Covid didn't help. Now we have half the world with AI psychosis. I can only hope things even out a bit in the next 10 years.
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by icedchai 5d ago
I'm sure many use their parents' credit card. In which case, the parent would do the "verification" and the minor uses the account anyway.
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by icedchai 6d ago
You certainly can. My parents don't use online banking or even ATMs.
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by icedchai 7d ago
I don't think the tide has turned, it's just being assumed that you use them now.
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by icedchai 7d ago
I'm pretending to drink the koolaid, faking interest in agentic coding while I figure out something else to do. It's okay for personal projects but professionally, I honestly hate reviewing slop, being sent 10+ page documents full
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by icedchai 8d ago
It may be more common than you think. The latest version of pfSense CE is on 16.0-CURRENT.
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by icedchai 8d ago
I've been using FreeBSD since 1996, both commercially and as a hobbyist. Early on, back in the CVS days, I would do a you describe, building STABLE out of /usr/src. These days, I always use RELEASE and apply patches with fre
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by icedchai 12d ago
Even with DNSSEC, it still is. Example: https://blog.cloudflare.com/de-tld-outage-dnssec/
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by icedchai 12d ago
Yep, SMTP itself doesn't have any security. Anyone else remember the open SMTP relays of the 90's?
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by icedchai 12d ago
This. It's concise and I don't have to think about "which Auth" we're talking about.
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by icedchai 13d ago
I'm curious, what would be the point of having a zero-sized array if you can't access it?
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by icedchai 13d ago
Yes, I figured that's what you meant... I wasn't sure about the other guy.
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by icedchai 13d ago
It depends what is meant by "compatible." Is the memory layout the same? Yes. Can I memcpy between them? Yes...
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by icedchai 14d ago
Agreed, a ton of white-collar job activity is useless: writing reports nobody wants to write for people who don't actually want to read them anyway. Mass AI-induced unemployment is a real possibility within 5 to 10 years, maybe sooner.
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by icedchai 14d ago
I miss the early days. I made my first "telnet" connection in either 1990 or 1991. I remember exploring gopher, FTP, early web sites, the transition from BBSes to early ISPs. It was all so exciting and new. The Internet of today i
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by icedchai 14d ago
Hah. "Depression" fits well for a few reasons.
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by icedchai 14d ago
It's happening everywhere. We have people using AI to generate documents, then using the same AI to read/summarize them. What is the point? The writing itself, especially with recent Claude models, is often incredibly awkward.
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by icedchai 14d ago
It would fail the Turing test because of its writing style!
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by icedchai 14d ago
This may work for your use case, but sounds abysmally slow for any complex coding task.
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by icedchai 14d ago
Time to completion also must be considered. If I have to wait around for hours for a prompt to complete locally and I’ll need to iterate quickly, I’m better off hosted than local. If it’s “free” and slow it may just not be worth it.
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by icedchai 15d ago
Yes. One of the better startups I worked for did it that way. There was a single, mono-repo style code base with multiple services. Some were more micro than others. They shared common code like model definitions. Everything was built/
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by icedchai 15d ago
Yes, I remember the PIX! After my time at a few early ISPs, I briefly had a corporate networking job and a PIX was one of the first hardware firewalls I deployed.
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by icedchai 16d ago
Generally, firewalls aren't going to save you from an internal compromise either. Are you giving each device its own VLAN, subnet, etc?
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by icedchai 16d ago
There are really two things here: 1) The typical "NAT" is a "PAT", which requires state for mapping traffic flow. An implementation is going to look very similar to a stateful firewall, by necessity, not accident. 2) The
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by icedchai 16d ago
Windows wasn't secure enough. I ran Linux, *BSD, and Solaris systems for years without any firewalls, host or otherwise.
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by icedchai 16d ago
The typical NAT implementation ("PAT", single public IP, RFC-1918 network) gives you an implicit stateful firewall denying unsoliticed inbound traffic. Most people don't need anything else.
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by icedchai 16d ago
Perhaps a play on words? pubic cloud... public cloud...

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