aftbit

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by aftbit 6mo ago
It's _not_ that it's necessary for users. It's that Anthropic got Opus 4.6 ripped off so hard by MiniMax that they no longer want to expose true thinking tokens to random developers. If you're one of the blessed class, y
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by aftbit 6mo ago
What's the CVE for the 27-yr-old 0-day in OpenBSD?
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Room 641A was leaked in 2006. To some extent, this all started in the 1940s with the Enigma and JN-25 code breaks. After that, everyone knew that intelligence was the future of power.
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Cool, can I get a "proper" yellow diode laser from this? What's the efficiency look like?
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by aftbit 6mo ago
IMO Subversion was never as much of a standard as git. I saw a lot of software that still used CVS back then, and even more that didn't do version control beyond versioned source tarballs. I'd be happy to be proven wrong. You won&
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Nope, git is good enough, and is the global standard. We don't need more new VCS.
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Huh I've noticed that! Opus hallucinates answers and provides contradictory reasoning to me much more regularly during the past couple of weeks than it did in February. For example, after a question about a script that used taskset and
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by aftbit 6mo ago
What's the current state of the art for VPN'ing through deep packet inspection firewalls? I have imagined building something around TLS and Websockets that connects to a popular cloud provider which is "too big to block"
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Ah the irony, I'm blocked from viewing that page by Cloudflare Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Wait... why does Signal need to send notification content to Firebase to trigger a push notification on device? I would instead expect that Signal would send a push to my Android saying nothing more than "wake up, you've got a mes
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Markets do not model that especially well. When it comes down to these situations, it's not about the rising price of food motivating producers to enter the market - it's about the people starving. During a war, no amount of money
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by aftbit 6mo ago
What level do you play at? One level higher than you.
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by aftbit 6mo ago
We have a hard division between "Core" repos (those which are deployed to production / customer sites) and everything else. The expectation in Core repos is that everything goes through a PR process where the pull request mes
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Show your work or it didn't happen.
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Are people without authorization to work counted in these stats, one way or another?
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Cell phones are kinda nice because they're hard to ITAR. Anyone can buy them. Old and crappy ones are generally still good enough for this kind of micro model. They come with their own batteries to hold-over between power loss or overn
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Yeah it's a bit odd to use a Haskell server to serve a static file which nginx then needs to buffer. You'd do much much better just serving the file out of nginx. You could authenticate requests using the very simple auth_request
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by aftbit 6mo ago
I've been interested in deploying something like this around my property to localize sounds that I hear just for fun. IMO having the on-device model to pre-filter to the signals of suspected drones is potentially a good idea in a warti
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by aftbit 6mo ago
>If this somehow does end up being a reproducible performance issue (I still suspect something more complicated is going on), I don't see how userspace could be expected to mitigate a substantial perf regression in 7.0 that can only
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by aftbit 6mo ago
Ukraine has a sound-based version of this, supposedly using cell phones as the primary hardware element. The idea is to scatter hundreds of sensors along the front in some depth, then use simple on-device models to classify sounds and send
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by aftbit 6mo ago
That's a fun cobra effect. Age verification ("intended" to make children safer online, if you take the most charitable view) forces more and more people to use VPNs, which overall degrades the value of IP reputation as a sign
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by aftbit 6mo ago
We had this happen on one of our sign up forms. I added a crappy open source image captcha and it went away. I guess whichever attacker was using us wasn't that motivated!
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by aftbit 7mo ago
Yep, this is the one I have! I pretty much carry it everywhere. It mostly alerts (silently) when I pass by someone who has had nuclear medicine treatments. Otherwise, I just enjoy the being able to detect the small differences in background
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by aftbit 7mo ago
Yes sir, I do!
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by aftbit 7mo ago
I usually read a book on my e-reader and listen to music on my wireless earbuds. Half the time I'm on an airplane without an entertainment system, which is perfect as I have my own already!
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by aftbit 7mo ago
I bring a single high-quality large power bank whenever I travel. It's hard to reliably find power for my phone, laptop, e-reader, earbuds, gamma spectrometer, flashlight, etc while in the airport or in flight. Not every plane I end up
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by aftbit 7mo ago
No
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by aftbit 7mo ago
If we wanna do cool space stuff, the answer is definitely yes! Just maybe not here on Earth.
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by aftbit 7mo ago
All true, and of course the $900B plus defense budget of the USA is not dedicated to interceptors to the same degree that Iran's $8B is dedicated to missiles. Shot exchange is fundamentally an economic problem though. The USA is not go
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by aftbit 7mo ago
How could we make enough antimatter to do something useful? Would we need to go hang out near the sun or deorbit Jupiter's moons with superconducting coils to get enough energy?

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