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by stordoff 1mo ago
FWIW, I tried to read the AI version first, and found myself bouncing back to the prompt multiple times. The AI version just reads as flat, impersonal, and as if it has had all the corners sanded off (both in style and content). The prompt
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by stordoff 4mo ago
I pulled up a random version from 2014, and it's more readable: https://web.archive.org/web/20141023082929/https://www.2uo.d...
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by stordoff 4mo ago
> YouTube: Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom (lmao, what is this supposed to be?) LTT (Linus Tech Tips, a YouTube channel) have used it as a real title before. "Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom - Intel Extreme Tec
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by stordoff 6mo ago
It's in line 56-57.
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by stordoff 6mo ago
The article does at least note that in the 'Other Notes' section at the bottom, and links to the original form: > I bowdlerised the original "disregard that" joke, heavily.
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by stordoff 7mo ago
iPhone 15 Pro (using the default Camera app) read it OK - it took me to https://www.tuwien.at/en/mwbw/wwwt/ww/ws
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by stordoff 8mo ago
Outputs get flagged in the same way: > tell me about taiwan (using chat.qwen.ai) results in: > Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max. Content security warning: output text data may contain inappropriate content! mid-generat
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by stordoff 8mo ago
I've got a i5-7500T box running as a Proxmox Backup Server, and it idles at 6-7W. It runs at near idle most of the time (it's just running PBS and a few network services), so I'm not expecting it to cause much difference to m
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by stordoff 10mo ago
AIUI, nginx doesn't terminate the SSL/TLS connection - it is just passed through as is. `ssl_preread on` extracts the server name from the Server Name Indication (SNI) send as part of the TLS handshake, which is unencrypted. I jus
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by stordoff 11mo ago
Reduce Transparency helps in some ways, but also introduces its own issues. A couple I noticed in the brief time I used it: * My home screen wallpaper is a blurred version of the astronomy lock screen. After enabling Reduce Transparency, it
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by stordoff 1y ago
FWIW, I can't reproduce this example - it generates both images fine: https://ibb.co/NdYx1R4p
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by stordoff 1y ago
With uBlock off, I get two sponsored ads, and the real site is nearly pushed below the fold: https://i.imgur.com/AkVbvSI.png
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by stordoff 1y ago
Not perfectly. I grabbed a random encoded line from these comments, and asked ChatGPT to decode it[1]. It determined the plaintext was: > Immediately thought of Moby, infact a quick search for this title... coincidental, but I would ment
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by stordoff 1y ago
It looks like Google Maps is using old imagery for some reason. If you look on Google Earth, the image used appears to be from 12 Jan 2016[1]. The more recent imagery (2022 onwards) shows the new build, and you can see glimpses of it in Str
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by stordoff 1y ago
There are various services that do this, e.g. BrightData: > Bright Data is the World’s Largest Residential Proxy IP Network providing companies the ability to emulate a real user in any country, city or carrier (ASN) in the world. [...]
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by stordoff 1y ago
According to https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/mylinkdrive.com , it resolves in most of the US locations and in Japan, China, and Singapore, but fails elsewhere. https://dnschecker.org/#A/mylinkdrive.co
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by stordoff 1y ago
Most cheap HDMI splitters seem to disable HDCP.
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by stordoff 1y ago
GPT-4o claims "This implies she did not pay the full $20. The total cost of the balls and bats she has is less than $20, but she still has items worth up to $20.", then bruteforces an 'answer' of "Balls = 25 Bats =
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by stordoff 2y ago
It seems they might not even recognise their own messages/actions: > gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) [...] VOTE: openai/gpt-4o [Message #1] > gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) The Gemini models' rapid and identical votes ar
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by stordoff 2y ago
It provides an interesting test case for the usefulness (or lack thereof) of AI detectors: ZeroGPT: Your Text is Human written (0% AI GPT) QuillBot: 0% of text is likely AI GPTZero: We are highly confident this text was ai generated. 100% P
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by stordoff 2y ago
This site has a theme picker to toggle between light and dark modes.
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by stordoff 2y ago
AIUI, the connector _on the GPU/PSU_ is slightly different, but the connector on the cable is the same: > As with any new standard, things are likely to evolve quickly and we’re now seeing the introduction of a new connector on the
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by stordoff 2y ago
At least according to Corsair, there are no changes to the cable, only the PSU/GPU-side connectors: > Cable: 12V-2x6 = 12VHPWR No difference! > So what does this mean if you’ve already got hardware for 12VHPWR? Fortunately, exist
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by stordoff 2y ago
> And without intending offense—is this a work of LLM? I suspect so, as ChatGPT generates a fairly similar output[1] from the prompt "put this into dialog form between two American 20 year olds: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by stordoff 2y ago
> Wikipedia says the UK uses various area codes for the same thing, including 011x and 01x1. Ofcom has set aside blocks of numbers within many different area codes for dramatic use[1]. The note on Wikipedia about 011x and 01x1 is that th
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by stordoff 2y ago
FWIW, there seems to have another attempt (about a year later) to bring these issues to the company's attention, also without success: > 1st September 2023 - Initial contact - Multiple points of contact within eLinkSmart e-mailed wi
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by stordoff 2y ago
There are a few videos on YouTube showing CPUs running without a heatsink. I haven't watched them to see how long they can run for, or if any BIOS changes were needed (I noticed the first mentions a lower voltage needs to be set to boo
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by stordoff 2y ago
> If you want more proof, then you can take the essay, give it to chatGPT and say, "Please give me a report showing how this essay is written to en by AI." And ChatGPT will happily argue whichever side you want to take. I just
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by stordoff 2y ago
> Uplink communications is via S-band (16-bits/sec command rate) while an X-band transmitter provides downlink telemetry at 160 bits/sec normally and 1.4 kbps for playback of high-rate plasma wave data. https://scien
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by stordoff 2y ago
It does the same on Windows, and scrolling feels weird/slow. I blocked www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/themes/Divi/js/smoothscroll.js with uBlock as a workaround.

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