thenickdude

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by thenickdude 3mo ago
I have a beanie with your name on it somewhere! It was free swag from the adhesives company.
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by thenickdude 4mo ago
>The biggest trap is the hallucinated citation The "biggest problem" being the one thing that is trivial to verify against concrete databases is a bit convenient don't you think? I think it's more likely that it makes
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by thenickdude 4mo ago
https://xkcd.com/2170/
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by thenickdude 4mo ago
LXD uses dnsmasq to provide DHCP and DNS for containers I think? Viable container escape?
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by thenickdude 6mo ago
I delete the third party libraries and replace them with my own clean checkouts.
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by thenickdude 6mo ago
If you ever produce and share a signed link for e.g. S3, this link contains your access key ID in it. Turns out you can just slice and decode your Account ID out of that access key, it's in there in base32: https://medium.co
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by thenickdude 10mo ago
Deep in the abyss, the dark lord stirs
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by thenickdude 10mo ago
I was trying out an IDE plugin for local LLM integration, but it would just make totally insane edits instead of what I asked for. It turned out that the LLM-runner's default setting for handling queries that were too long was to silen
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by thenickdude 11mo ago
I've run Japanese windows software under Wine, and with no configuration it was a sea of crashy mojibake. With the right locale configured, it worked fine.
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Phishing campaign impersonates Y Combinator using GitHub issue notifications(github.com)
8 points by thenickdude 1y ago|5 comments
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by thenickdude 1y ago
At the bottom of each issue is a huge amount of whitespace, then they've stuffed it with a bunch of @'s to notify users. https://i.imgur.com/LRotRlS.png The link goes to a typo-squatted domain using an "l&quo
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by thenickdude 1y ago
It's all in aid of some streetsweeper being able to add "contributor to X, Y, Z projects!" to their GitHub résumé. Before LLMs were a thing I also received worthless spelling-incorrection pull requests with the same aim.
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by thenickdude 1y ago
This means you should still have the email from legal@, right? In that case you can solve the mystery of how they managed to pass DMARC by sharing the headers from it.
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by thenickdude 1y ago
This was not Google's decision, it was forced on them by the EU under their Digital Services Act: https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/17/developers-address-phone-numb... The same thing was applied to the Apple s
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by thenickdude 1y ago
We have that already, we call it "Stack Overflow"
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by thenickdude 1y ago
Interestingly when I asked GPT-4o (at least that's what it said it was): >According to the instructions, which UnicodeCIDFont fonts should be used when generating PDFs? It replies: >When generating PDFs using reportlab for East A
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by thenickdude 1y ago
They've released their report now, 10 further certificates were mis-issued: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961406
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by thenickdude 1y ago
The free tier now supports connecting to local AI models running on LM Studio or Ollama, but it still doesn't actually function without an internet connection. If you block access to the internet or to their AI API servers [1], it refu
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by thenickdude 2y ago
1x 3090 (350W power limit) already makes it feel like I'm running a fan heater under my desk, 5x would be nuts.
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by thenickdude 2y ago
Japan has a finders' fee of 5-20%: https://www.police.pref.ehime.jp/foreigner/otoshimono/2.pdf
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by thenickdude 2y ago
Except 100 yen stores which are actually 110 yen stores.
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by thenickdude 2y ago
You can buy crypto on PayPal?? Our New Zealand version doesn't mention it either.
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by thenickdude 2y ago
Only two total MIPI ports (DSI/CSI, for displays and cameras respectively) compared to 4 ports on the CM4.
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by thenickdude 2y ago
Sampling Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
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by thenickdude 2y ago
A sandbox service identifies it as Lumma Stealer, so it'll at least steal all your passwords, cookies and cryptocurrency, and then anything else after that is fair game too: https://socradar.io/malware-analysis-lummac2-
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by thenickdude 2y ago
You can also use the Apple AAC encoder using ffmpeg (on a Mac only), with the argument "-c:a aac_at". Handy as it allows you to use it for encoding the audio track of videos, in addition to its support for pure audio container for
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by thenickdude 2y ago
Same here on my issue tracker, seems to be GitHub wide. https://i.imgur.com/jJljJp8.png They reply with the message to new issues, which makes their notification email look like a direct solution to the submitter's iss
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by thenickdude 2y ago
Surely they would at least be protected by Database Rights in the EU (not the US): >The TRIPS Agreement requires that copyright protection extends to databases and other compilations if they constitute intellectual creation by virtue of
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by thenickdude 2y ago
New Zealand
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by thenickdude 2y ago
Here "www" is read "dub dub dub", which is at least only one syllable per character instead of "double-u double-u double-u"

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