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by Deathmax 1y ago
Can we avoid weekend changes to the API? I know it's all non-GA, but having `includeThoughts` suddenly work at ~10AM UTC on a Sunday and the raw thoughts being returned after they were removed is nice, but disruptive.
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by Deathmax 1y ago
> You can’t just attach an image to your request. You can? Google limits HTTP requests to 20MB, but both the Gemini API and Vertex AI API support embedded base64-encoded files and public URLs. The Gemini API supports attaching files that
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by Deathmax 1y ago
It is gated behind the GOOGLE_INTERNAL visibility flag, which only internal Google projects and Cursor have at the moment as far as I know.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
That limitation should go away when Trusted Signing graduates from preview to GA. The current limitation is because the CA rules say you must perform identity validation of the requester for orgs younger than 3 years old, which Microsoft is
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by Deathmax 2y ago
Their primary business model nowadays is as an advertising agency, not book selling: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/business-marketing-solu...
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by Deathmax 2y ago
The cables between 12V-2x6 and 12VHPWR are identical, it's the port that has different pin lengths (shorter sensing pin, longer conductor pins) to allow for better detection of poorly seated cables and better conductivity while loose.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
It's helpful for evading detection, because if you've compromised a machine, you can drop in the server binary and it'll have been added to the allowlist for devs to run.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
It's simple enough to test the tokenizer to determine the base model in use (DeepSeek V3, or a Llama 3/Qwen 2.5 distill). Using the text "സ്മാർട്ട്", Qwen 2.5 tokenizes as 10 tokens, Llama 3 as 13, and DeepSeek V3 as 8.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
The most recent one of the top of my head is their horrendous aliasing of DeepSeek R1 on their model hub, misleading users into thinking they are running the full model but really anything but the 671b alias is one of the distilled models.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
According to ThinkBroadband's tracking [1], the headline figures are 85.20% of premises are gigabit capable (FTTP/FTTH/Cable [DOCSIS]) with 71.86% being full fibre. [1]: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news&#x2
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by Deathmax 2y ago
As far as I know, there's no available tooling for the public to detect SynthID watermarks on generated text, image, or audio, outside of Google Search's About this Image feature.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
The free tier API isn't US-only, Google has removed the free tier restriction for UK/EEA countries for a while now, with the added bonus of not training on your data if making a request from the UK/CH/EEA.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
They do: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/partne...
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by Deathmax 2y ago
They do mention how characters are counted in the Vertex AI pricing docs: "Characters are counted by UTF-8 code points and white space is excluded from the count"
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by Deathmax 2y ago
There's some possible confusion because of the Copilot problem where everything in the product stack is called Gemini. The Gemini API (or Generative Language API) as documented on https://ai.google.dev uses https:/&#x
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by Deathmax 2y ago
They've posted their own run of the Aider benchmark [1] if you want to compare, it achieved 57.1%. [1]: https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen2.5/Qwen...
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by Deathmax 2y ago
That hasn't been true for their largest model since the 2407 release of Mistral Large 2 ( https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-2407/ ), it is however under a non-commercial license.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
That would be compromising the domain owner, rather than the threat model of Certificate Transparency which is compromised Certificate Authorities, especially given the number of government owned, publicly trusted (sub-)CAs.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
Emulating a PS3 is significantly harder than emulating a PS4, since on the PS3 you need to convert from the Cell architecture, whereas the PS4 is already x86.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
> As long as debit cards have a magnetic stripe and have their full number printed on them, and that information is useful, this problem remains. Which the EEA/UK has also (partially) solved by enforcing Strong Customer Authenticati
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by Deathmax 2y ago
As I understand it, UK banks (where this article is written) will soon be required[1] to reimburse victims of Authorised Push Payment fraud (some banks are signed up for a voluntary code at the moment) outside of "gross negligence&quot
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by Deathmax 2y ago
For throughput data, well, you need to actually run prompts to gather the data which racks up costs fast and performance can vary based on input prompt lengths. The two sources I use are OpenRouter's provider breakdown [1] and Unify&#x
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by Deathmax 2y ago
Showing how often an authenticity code has been checked is something manufacturers like Xiaomi do, where there's rampant counterfeiting.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
The operative word being most registrars. If you look at the list of registrars commonly used by bad actors, you can find a list of registrars that are either non-responsive to abuse complaints, or only take action after n days.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
You don't want to push secrets in their raw form on GitHub, secret scanning would disable keys from supported providers.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
Gemini models on Vertex AI can be called via a preview OpenAI-compatible endpoint [1], but shoving it into existing tooling where you don't have programmatic control over the API key and is long lived is non-trivial because GCP uses sh
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by Deathmax 2y ago
On Apple’s side, Apple Intelligence will only be enabled on A17 Pro and M-series chips, so only the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will be supported in terms of phones.
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by Deathmax 2y ago
I would check what's encoded on the machine readable zone on your passport, as I understand it, the only valid characters are A-Z, 0-9, and < as a field separator.
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by Deathmax 3y ago
https://support.google.com/gemini?p=activity_off_retention "Who has access to my Gemini Apps conversations? How you can control what’s shared with reviewers If you turn off Gemini Apps Activity, future conversations wo
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by Deathmax 3y ago
The Google One AI plan does provide access to Gemini Advanced (backed by Gemini Ultra 1.0) at a significant premium to the current highest Google One plan: https://one.google.com/explore-plan/gemini-advanced The free t

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