morpheuskafka

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by morpheuskafka 3d ago
It could plausibly reduce theft, for one. Before they started using SSNs as quasi-passwords, people used to be encourage to engrave their SSN on their TV and other stuff.
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by morpheuskafka 3d ago
Surely the only consumer protection law that would not apply is the "right to cancel" thing in the EU where you must accept returns. And that doesn't exist in the US, where they allow returns anyway. In fact, they are virtual
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by morpheuskafka 2mo ago
I have used Telnyx for, on the opposite end of cool-ness, their fax API. Curious if their AI pricing and quality are actually competitive or if this is just a rapid pivot to try to ride the AI wave.
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by morpheuskafka 2mo ago
This may have been part of this issue I found a few months back, as no other explanation for how UUID URLs got indexed was found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769796
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by morpheuskafka 2mo ago
My ex used to work in their sales department lol. But I'd seen them anyway, in the context of cheap unmanaged switches on Amazon. They are not a state owned company or anything so I doubt this is anything too nefarious, likely just abs
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
It's not out of some anti-AI ideology. I use LLMs daily. I just don't understand why we need to pay $8,000 for a robot that does exactly two tasks, takes up space in the house, uses power, and needs updates and repairs. At $15&#x2
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
> For home use, you don't care if it takes 3 hours to make your bed or just stops for a while when waiting for a teleoperator to become available. But why would you pay thousands and store a clunky machine in your home for that? Eit
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
Well, the first filter catches anyone whose timezone is set to mainland China. That includes presumably all individual devs just using a VPN, who have no desire to or knowledge of distilling. (Again, could be trivially bypassed either by re
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
The timezone checks for Shanghai and Urumqi, but not Hong Kong. All of these are the same actual time (China does not use time zones internally), not sure how these three were picked (why not Beijing or Macau etc). And all of them are prohi
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
I'm sure there is something I don't know here, but how is working with integers "brittle"? The only issue I see is rounding down by default, not sure if that is even an issue or not. At any rate, it seems a lot less brit
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
A Plaid balance check is NOT a guarantee that the ACH debit you're about to submit will go through. I don't care if the balance is one million, before that ACH can process, every single dollar can be (a) wired out, (b) cleared out
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
> For example the default output file name. It doesn't ask for an output file name when you save output. I'm not really sure what output file even means for an interpreted language, but GCC doesn't ask either, it will spit
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
> getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories. The wording is very ambiguous, but to me it suggests the opposite. If legal was question why the logo was on the
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
YC's application asks for test scores if under 25, although it doesn't specify which ones.
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
> even contractually according to their terms of service This is backwards: the ToS says that users cannot use the service for certain things, it does not guarantee that the service could not be used for those things if one tried. Th
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
> No, it can not. Bash lets you open TCP sockets. I thought you had to use a program called netcat for that--if not then what is the point of that binary? And for that matter, can't you also use telnet to manually send HTTP?
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
It's not really needed at all for macOS, but remains mandatory for even free apps on iPhone/iPad, so yes virtually all users have one. Same goes for free macOS App Store apps but that's not the only or even most common way to
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
Apple is very strict about keyboard extensions so I am surprised it is allowed. They require it to be functional even if you don't allow any data sharing back to the app, let alone a cloud account, but I guess banners make it past?
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
Whether or not you think it's a good thing, controlling LLMs is arguably a lot more effective than cryptography. For crypto as long as you have at least one currently unbreakable algo out there (which fits on a single page of code&#x2F
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
Downtown hotels often don’t have a choice, even if it’s just a Courtyard Inn etc. I har to park my 23 Civic LX at a hotel in DC before for work trip. It was like $80 a day plus tips but I could reimburse it all. Funny thing is the hotel its
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
Providing information (website, CT log, CRL) is fine, but creating a certificate on request is clearly a service. How is that different than providing a computation or LLM output in response to a prompt? Moreover, it is clearly not just the
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
I only noticed the star net one (not sure if it’s even in use) when writing this. I noticed the Pyongyang Zoo (which shares an IP with the Architects Society—one on 443 and one on 80 lmao) first, just from flipping through their very small
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
Typically not. Because they don't have local phone numbers nor IP addresses, so they cannot be used for scams or fake identities domestically. In China, roaming SIMs also bypass all internet filtering, it's basically a built in VP
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
Notably, it says they will notify you if they downgrade your responses due to suspected distillation (trying to reverse engineer their model). But if you merely ask it questions about the process of developing a new model ("for exa
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
The question is, will that be enough? If OFAC can demonstrate that even with such restrictions, sanctioned entities are frequently obtaining certificates, they may be forced to require account creation or something else as a means of limiti
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
You issued a certificate for North Korea's email infrastructure as recently as six days ago : https://crt.sh/?id=26878583197 (06/04/2026 smtp.star-co.net.kp) https://crt.sh/?id=20256841119 (
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by morpheuskafka 3mo ago
I had been meaning to post somewhere that they issued a certificate to kza.org.kp a few months ago but didn't really seem worthy of its own thread. I am no lawyer, but while there do appear to be some exemptions for communication relat
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by morpheuskafka 4mo ago
> MOSS [2] (authored by CS professor Alex Aiken) is a very effective tool at detecting plagiarism He apparently also makes (I would assume a satisfying amount of) money selling the same technology to law firms for copyright/patent a
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by morpheuskafka 4mo ago
Every CEO, board, and middle manager in the world is AI buzzword-obsessed now. Surely asking to sign a contract with the frontier labs directly would not get held up?
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by morpheuskafka 4mo ago
I'm getting this error on Safari 26.3.1 even without an adblocker extension, and advanced tracking prevention is set to private tabs online.

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