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They were doing it for the videos too, but only for "personal use"... https://www.wired.com/story/meta-claims-downloaded-porn-at-c...
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> static analysis tools that produce flowcharts and diagrams like this have existed since antiquity Today I am apparently on of xkcd's "Lucky 10,000". Does anyone have any recommendations for such tools? Ideally open sourc
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Also, I'm sure I read something here in the last few weeks documenting that while every specific model shows falling price-per-token, "frontier models" which are the ones everybody wants to use - maintain steady prices (and a
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That can be offset by not requiring the same sort of range that's typically assumed to be required. While I'll be likely be riding my ICE bikes for decades because one of the things I do on them is trips with 1000 or 1500km days,
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We must immediately start constructing all critical safety systems out of Gruyere. If there are no holes, then it's impossible for the holes to line up.
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It's from Low Tech Magazine. A low tech solution is not surprising. Chasing 20 or 30% solar generation efficiency gains isn't really something all that relevant when you're building an oven that you're going to leave swi
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I'm feeling deeply cynical here. I wonder if the people at Google overseeing this experiment are from or also oversee the ads engine team?
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> Adobe is alive and well. I wonder. They're doing well with their existing customer base of digital creatives and related industries/professions. Who may all be the buggy whip makers of the late 2020's. Way too many of th
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Suspicious-me is wondering how Google are going to treat AI generated marketing slop created using Pomelli differently to slop created with other tools (or even human created marketing content) in search ranking? If I were an EvilGoogle man
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Until it isn't.
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> robots.txt is a polite request to please not scrape these pages At the same time, an http GET request is a polite request to respond with the expects content. There is no binding agreement that my webserver sends you the webpage you as
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I don't think these images have this, but there are people working on that problem. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity https://c2pa.org/ "The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, o
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There's a bunch of broken images there (at least I see them in Safari). Sadly, the wayback machine has snapshots of the article going back to 2020, but doesn't seem to have archived those broken image links.
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Photos of your sawed open door will probably help in your insurance claim too. Telling your assessor "the cops say they might have picked the lock" isn't something I'd want to rely on to get my claim approved.
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Best and cheapest option is a dog, decent insurance, and off site backups that regularly get restores tested. And maybe a little bit of not getting too attached to "stuff" - there's very little stuff that's truly irrepla
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Picking filing cabinet locks is part of the genesis of modern hacker ethos. Feynman would be proud.
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Same memories here. In the late 90s I chose MySQL over Postgres, at the time for its speed and replication. And at least partly because I got to talk with Monty Widenius at an Open Source Conference (or perhaps even a Perl Conference) in t
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> To be fair, in some applications the short-term peak rating is an important metric in its own right. Cars are a good example of this. There are very few public roads in the world where a car can use 1000hp for more than a few or perhap
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Interestingly, the reason I originally looked for and started using it was an unapproved "shadow IT" response to an in-house Nagios setup that was configured and managed so badly it had _way_ more downtime than any of the services
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"needs"...
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I spent enough time ~15 years back to find an external monitoring service that did not run on AWS and looked like a sustainable business instead of a VC fueled acquisition target - for our belts-n-braces secondary monitoring tool since it&#
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I now want to submit a PR that accepts negative thrust values, and runs time backwards as a result.
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> I think 1 write to 10 reads is still write-heavy. Pretty easy to tune the suppled SQL query to suit your opinion. Pretty sure you just need to tweak the 2nd line ratio_target AS (SELECT 5 AS ratio),
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> Will things end up better? Maybe, and based on history you could even make a case for "probably", but will it be better for _us_, the ones alive _right now_? Again, based on history, almost certainly not. I find myself in thi
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If you follow his blog (which you absolutely should, stick in in your RSS feed reader, it's also one of the dwindlingly few places where the "never read the comments" advice is wrong) he's been struggling with eyesight p
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You might enjoy John Scalzi's latest - The Shattering Peace. It's part of his Old Man's War series, and probably benefits from familiarity with his other books in that series, but is self contained enough to stand alone I thi
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So I wonder how to fingerprint and block this? While I cans see _some_ good uses for it, there are clearly abusive uses for it, including in their examples. I mean jesus fuck, who wants cheap/free automation out there to "Skyvern
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The current administration's "scientific integrity" is a red herring. I good argument can be made for stronger wording than "red herring" too. I would suggest both "politically motivated lie", and "in
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I know of someone who sold their _place in the queue_ to get a new RAV4 Hybrid and made 8K on the deal, while actualy delivery of the car was still tow months out.
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I wonder if COVID distorted the market enough to show up here? I have anecdotes of friends/family/coworkers who bought cars (or second cars for the household) to avoid public transport. And 2nd hand prices for cars gere (Australia

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