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by oasisbob 12d ago
Could this be SOCKS-specific behavior? Haven't dove into RFC1928 yet, but curl documents the `--socks5-hostname` option and mentions that DNS resolution can be the responsibility of the client, or the proxy. Wondering if it's poss
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by oasisbob 12d ago
I'm really confused by this too. It has the smell of a TOCTOU problem where the tool allowing web access is filtering and blocking access based on the hostname, but the request itself is being executed on the same container as the agen
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by oasisbob 12d ago
The human cost the report points at caught my eye too. OpenAI should do the right thing and compensate them for their trouble. > The administrator spent the next 5 days fighting a losing battle against the agents, deleting an average of
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by oasisbob 12d ago
Someone else pointed out this post that OpenAI is apparently running models with high degrees of persistence internally, and that they were involved in previous incidents: https://x.com/peterwildeford/status/209273
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by oasisbob 16d ago
I think this asymmetry is a fantasy. For many sites, your hypothetical penny to create an account is a cost an attacker would gladly pay.
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by oasisbob 17d ago
I think you underestimate the difficulty in effectively gating user registration. If the anti-bot efforts in general don't work for other site pages, they won't work for signup functionality either.
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by oasisbob 17d ago
> Many of these boxes may not even have the spare CPU power ... I don't think that's generally how these networks use residential exit proxies. There are at least a dozen well-developed frameworks out there for decoupling the c
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by oasisbob 18d ago
In my climate, tree establishment is getting more difficult and expensive because of stronger summer droughts. The local city plans for five years of establishment watering now, at an overall establishment cost of ~$4,000 per tree.
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by oasisbob 19d ago
Technology aside, those are some truly gorgeous and informative graphical examples.
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by oasisbob 19d ago
Extreme example, but it's harsh, noisy and they'll sometimes aggressively swoop down at you. https://youtu.be/RuOVY4r9ipg
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by oasisbob 22d ago
Sure they were! They're key safety infrastructure in response to a universal problem to keep needles out of the trash. People being harmed by needle stick injuries don't care if the needles are being improperly disposed of due to
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by oasisbob 22d ago
Kohlberg's theory of moral development comes to mind.
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by oasisbob 22d ago
The Kin was pretty cool. Very usable with cheap hardware and cheap data plans. If the timing was a bit different, Microsoft might not have been tempted to commit infanticide.
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by oasisbob 23d ago
> not all diabetics use injectable insulin and the ones that do are more likely to do so at home. I'd love to hear the citation for this one, as people using injectable insulin generally need to do in conjunction with eating, and I
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by oasisbob 23d ago
> Ask yourself if that's truly what motivated those being installed... What motivates this infrastructure is the danger to workers if syringes are just thrown into the trash. My dad had type one diabetes with a type A personality, a
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by oasisbob 1mo ago
Names and even dates of birth aren't consistent enough in records for this. You're reinventing a natural key with a bunch of identifiers which aren't stable enough.
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by oasisbob 1mo ago
Very similar experience here. Started July 30, sustained through August 6, when it started a significant ramp-up in volume (5x or so). Most of the traffic is originating in GCP. We're seeing ~70k req/min sustained from Google Clou
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by oasisbob 1mo ago
Open TCP connections can also be wildly cheap and efficient - Apple Push Notifications (APNS) and Android's push systems maintain open TCP connections to just about every mobile device on this planet. An open connection is just a bit o
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
Trampolines are great. They're also super cheap! One of my favorite trampoline hacks is to rip the legs off and use them as a giant tree swing, or portaledge when tree climbing. The hoop is immensely lightweight, strong, and doesn&#x27
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
I'm curious how this feature chooses to turn itself on with automatic detection. Somehow managed to fool it the other day by shutting a car trunk, helping someone load up, with me on the outside. It activated the dots for the rest of m
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
Isn't high-ductility associated with creep, especially under static loads? That would seem to be a downside of an adhesive like this.
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
Just in case anyone else is wondering, that article mentions that you get to keep your keys no less than eight times, while being light on all other details. I miss publications with skilled human editors.
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
Setting up the strawman of writing "by hand" only to attack it as being ableist is facile and asinine. Nobody is arguing that Hawking, or anyone else who uses dictation or other assistive technologies to capture writing, aren&#x27
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
The fact that the network concentrator co uses DoD v4 address space to avoid conflicts implies that their clients are bringing v4 addresses, so IPv6 is utterly irrelevant in this situation.
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
As a unicyclist, all the sideways-riding caught my eye for being especially silly. However, I'm very surprised that most of the models make the same sideways mistake with only some of the animals, and they do it consistently. With most
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
Branding was usually based on FCC callsigns. But not always... many people in the US grew up with some Z100 or morning crew brands too. Other countries have similarly arbitrary brands based on either band spectrum or regulatory regimes - eg
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
No. I'm surprised Comcast or some other ISP doesn't step in with a claim of tortious interference. Reselling or granting access to the ISPs services like this is almost always against the ISPs terms of service. The consumer is in
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
Say more about the one exception you know of? While it can overheat and become problematic if taken to extremes, I've become convinced that this kind of tension is healthy in the prioritization process, and that you need a healthy equi
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
Yeah, that's fair. On the history, everything I know is from this excellent article, so might as well cite it here for the curious, and just in case you haven't seen it: https://www.paci.com.au/downloads_public&#x2
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by oasisbob 2mo ago
The number of hitches which come out of the arborist community is pretty mind bending. It's one of my favorite things about climbing. Tons of tree climbers are pretty experienced splicers as well. State of the art there continues to ad

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