baby_souffle

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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
Do you know how hard it was to get RealID rolled out? And now you're going to tell every state to do it again, but this time it's got a chip in it so "just trust the government, man". This will go well.
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> Why pay a monthly fee when you can pay for exactly the # of tokens you actually consume? Because my 500m tokens so far this month would cost me about $500. My subscription is 100$/month.
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> but isn't what most people do. Most people run dual stack and as $favoriteHost gets AAAA, their traffic moves over. My broader point was that your use of overstatement and a false dichotomy isn't _helping_ us get to a world w
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> NAT / CGNAT has been doing the heavy lifting extending the life of the Internet; ipv6 has done jack shit. If v6 was useful and actually averted v4 exhausted we'd all be accessing v6 sites/addresses at this point. This is
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> There was a time when a person could walk through a few department stores every week (or even every day) just to take note of some prices along the way, and ultimately tabulate them to try to identify and snatch up the best deal once i
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> Did you ask them for an RSS feed? Lots of people are pretty reasonable for such requests if you write a nice email. Yep! They're busy people or just don't feel the need to do anything beyond hit the "publish" button
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
This is my entire point! And it’s why scrapers will always win; absolutely worst case, I get a screenshot of the content and have to process it further.
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
I don't know who 'they' is here but that's not the point? I would bet that a decent chunk of scraping happens because there is no API (or other machine-focused interface, like RSS). "pay to crawl" sounds like t
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> Who uses service providers like this? I use change detection to monitor all sorts of websites for changes. Some of my favorite authors don't have RSS. I always set up price monitoring for any big ticket item I'm considering
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> Regular people don't know this stuff... Regular people also are not buying DACs. If you are in the line of work where you need to know what SFP is and the difference between DAC and Optical, a quick "what's OM3 vs OM5 an
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
Why would you put a LoRa radio in consumer-grade household electronics? LoRa is also sub-optimal for payloads more than a few K in size and most ePub files are at least a meg...
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
Yes, but it'll still be using their kernel so not all functionality from lineage might work.
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> Confidence in AI output is inversely proportional to one's ability to verify it I like this / generally agree. The only wrinkle is that - for some tasks - the verification _is_ "run the script, see if it worked, don&#x27
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
Sure, but none of the hardware peripherals routed out to those pins are exclusive to that pin header. If you need a few i2c or SPI or uart buses or even just general purpose IO then AliExpress has a gazillion little USB based modules that w
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
Countless little things to clean up data or improve tools I wrote long ago. If you count HomeAssistant things (via MCP) then many many more little qol things, too. Most recently, though, is a basic python CLI/Flask app that makes it po
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
Did iOS ever get OCR based copy/paste? Pixels have had it for years but I think it's in every android phone now; from the app switcher you can press and hold and the system will OCR the text and allow you to copy it. Because so ma
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by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> Which market? The stock market? Or the tech stocks? Both. Across the entire stock market, not a ton of bright spots _except_ for Tech. Take a look here: https://finviz.com/map?t=sec_all&st=w52
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
And you can do some agriculture near and under the panels. That's not the case with an oil well.
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
I promise you that a hacker news does not have all known public VPN egress IPS blocked. Even the big commercial providers that are advertising all over YouTube are constantly changing IP space so they can keep their customers able to pop in
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
30 whole minutes?! How generous.
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
> I was thinking more of needing to notify/get sign-off from management... Yeah, that's usually part of it. Precise language matters a TON when you might have some expensive breach-of-SLA terms. Sometimes the people first respo
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
> it true that official service status pages are updated automatically? Depends. Typically no because there’s an art to crafting the actual message around impact… but sometimes yes it is automated
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
> I suspect that getting hold of STLs from US defence manufacturers would be extremely valuable It would be, yes. There’s a reason why Prussia has optional connectivity and the camera can be physically removed and unplugged.
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
Spoofing GPS timing signals isn't as hard as it used to be. If you know what you're looking for on AliExpress you can get all the equipment you need
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
You can't realistically ban cameras and character recognition software.
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by baby_souffle 5mo ago
Exactly. It has never been easier to misinform/mislead people at scale. It has also never been less profitable to do so. Likewise, there have never been more people alive and plugged in to their favorite flavor of misinformation than
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by baby_souffle 6mo ago
> We’re kinda stuck with GitHub Enterprise but we may need to move from cloud to on-premises if this keeps up. Make sure you cache all the actions you need locally if you go this route otherwise it's not much of an improvement.
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by baby_souffle 6mo ago
Is there some argument to aid here that this constitutes or facilitates systemic harassment? Or is that just going to be nigh on impossible to use as grounds for a lawsuit?
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by baby_souffle 6mo ago
> I should have said most home users. My point is that more bandwidth at this point probably won’t affect 99.999% of home users. 640k should be enough for everybody... DSL should be enough for everybody... If you build it, they will come
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by baby_souffle 6mo ago
Slow, but working well. Really needs a way to refine search results to "within X miles of $someGeoPointOrZipCode". I am seeing a lot of neat stuff in California ... but i'm not going to drive 7 hours to go pick it up :)

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