aftbit

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by aftbit 1mo ago
The originally submitted link is a transcript of a podcast. I really respect the fact that they write these, as I prefer to read over listening. The URL I posted is linked in the original submission as the original story, which is even bett
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by aftbit 1mo ago
This is disgusting, and I continue to argue that we should not excuse Flock Safety for this kind of misbehavior. They created the tech and marketed it to police departments without providing good protections against this kind of thing. Maki
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by aftbit 1mo ago
Nixon
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by aftbit 1mo ago
What is the value of this? Clearly the US won't sell me gold for $42/oz or the arbitragers would own the country, and nobody will sell the US gold for that amount ... so what does the $42/oz "peg" actually mean?
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by aftbit 1mo ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas...
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by aftbit 1mo ago
There's subscription cost, then there's other factors, like DRM, usability, single source, etc. If you want to find the latest media, you can either hunt for it on one among several subscription services or you can find it on any
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by aftbit 1mo ago
How big is it? How much does it cost?
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by aftbit 1mo ago
Claude and Codex were down too. A 3 month old github issue that was the top result for the error that Codex threw (a 404 of all things) briefly became a live chat for bored and annoyed AI users. https://github.com/openai&#x2
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by aftbit 1mo ago
It's turtles all the way down my friend.
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by aftbit 1mo ago
I've found that's generally true of smaller / weaker models. They're quite capable, but you need to distrust them a lot and give them very detailed instructions. Even the free Gemini in Google Search is like this - it li
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by aftbit 1mo ago
Okay but Muse Glimmer 30B is one of the best small open weight models today, and IMO the best from a US lab (only real comparison is Gemma4 dense right now).
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by aftbit 1mo ago
Calling people and playing with phones. I have an internal Asterisk server for me and a few friends. The nicest thing is that when the phone rings, it's a person who I know, not a scam. (Unknown external numbers get direct to voicemail
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by aftbit 1mo ago
Who mentioned drones? This is for a phone.
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by aftbit 1mo ago
I've got them, powered by an Adit 600 in my basement.
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by aftbit 1mo ago
Wow that's incredibly cool! I've been doing ADS-B with a tracker in my window using a pair of RTL-SDRs for more than a decade at this point. This seems like it could make a nice improvement to the Stratux project (ADS-B in /
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by aftbit 1mo ago
IMO violence is a spectrum. Peaceful protesting with signs is 0 violence. Attacking self-driving cars or department stores without hurting any people is a bit higher up the scale. Attacking food supplies or critical infrastructure is higher
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by aftbit 1mo ago
>[The US State Dept's] examples include alleged railway and pipeline sabotage in Europe, attacks on energy infrastructure, Rose City Antifa, resistance to Atlanta’s proposed police-training center, Jane’s Revenge and publications ca
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by aftbit 1mo ago
I can't decide if ATProto is actually amazing or if its proponents are just dazzled by their own tech. Is it truly decentralized? What makes it better than Mastodon or Matrix or Scuttlebutt? Of course, at the end of the day, it's
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by aftbit 1mo ago
That's on the commission that Amazon took, not on the human.
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by aftbit 1mo ago
I believe you're underestimating the lag inherent in the economy. Even if we grant the idea that the political party controlling the US House/Senate has a significant impact on the economy, and that the current party is BAD and th
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by aftbit 1mo ago
I've seen more and more instances of this. Sometimes it's a feature in disguise - humans are easier to spoof than software - but mostly it's laziness or cost cutting. For example, I went to the bank down the road and tried to
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by aftbit 1mo ago
Disagree. JSON logging is fine, but make it line based and just log to a syslog server. Then I can route it wherever I want (or to multiple places) including to a simple file on a disk that I can actually inspect, rather than having to use
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by aftbit 1mo ago
I tried to query a lot of resources (NFT images, many of which are/were hosted on IPFS) from IPFS myself using the official Go server, running on some pretty fast/wide hardware, for a good part of 2021 and 2022. It was a dumpster
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by aftbit 2mo ago
Why do none of these hijacks embed runtime attacks? It seems like worming the build machines is the goal, rather than compromising downstream users. It seems like we should be building and testing everything in bubblewrap or some other sand
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by aftbit 2mo ago
https://noaislop.net/
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by aftbit 2mo ago
Usually I'm with you but it let me in this time without any XHRs or frames off-domain (my standard µMatrix settings).
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by aftbit 2mo ago
Classic beat 'em vs teach 'em dilemma.
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by aftbit 2mo ago
The police unions own SF and Oakland politically. It's really quite embarrassing.
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by aftbit 2mo ago
Fabble lol
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by aftbit 2mo ago
>One can easily say with as much certainty that it was from fascist infighting I'd be willing to take this bet if you want. The prosecution just released some text messages purportedly including a confession from the mainstream susp

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