donmcronald

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by donmcronald 6mo ago
Devcontainers always disappointed me. The sales pitch is that everyone uses the same container, but that's not accurate. Everyone builds a container from the same config and it'll be similar, but it takes a ton of effort to make
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
Given the very limited experience I have where I've been trying out a few different models, the quality of the context I can build seems to be much more of an issue than the model itself. If I build a super high quality context for som
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
I have an Mini M4 Pro with 64GB of 273GB/s memory bandwidth and it's borderline with 3.5-27B. I assume this one is the same. I don't know a ton, but I think it's the memory bandwidth that limits it. It's similar
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
> And if I ever do have one, my real backup solution has me covered. What do you use and how do you test / reconcile to make sure it’s not missing files? I find OneDrive extremely hard to deal with because the backup systems don’t
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
I would guess they realized they missed a notification or warning and feel a bit bad about the whole thing blowing up. Hopefully not though. The fact there were several high profile projects that got caught off guard puts the blame mostly
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
> "We worked hard to make sure partners understood this was coming, from emails, banners, reminders," said Davuluri. Emails are useless given the volume of trivial crap that MS emails about. Banners don't help for systems
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
I hope you're right. I played around with a bunch of AI stuff recently and that's kind of the conclusion I came to. Use local AI for mission critical stuff, if you're confident in that, and use the SOTA models for reviewing
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
> Whats next? I think Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. are happy with the collateral damage caused by false positives and bad product decisions. And the way they implemented this was a bad product decision. Think about it. If they "
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
It could be dead simple. Lock the account, but let the owner temporarily unlock it for X days so they have enough time to undergo verification.
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
If they manage to build good memory systems, people will stop keeping personal docs and rely on the “AI” for everything. Imagine 20 years from now when people don’t even have copies of the recipe to bake bread and then you’ll see what the g
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
Software distribution is largely controlled by 3 companies; Microsoft, Google, and Apple. We used to have the web and web apps as an escape hatch, but, surprise, all 3 of those companies use a shared “safe” browsing blacklist that can be u
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
> I think the number of people opposing the construction would increase when they release its half the county. What's the math on that? It's interesting to see the US mandate ethanol production the way they do, which could be a
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
“Action Required” followed by the shittiest, least detailed, most ambiguous instructions on the planet is a Microslop staple. It’s exhilarating to get a couple of them in the same week. The ones that tell you there’s a problem with your MS
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
$300 / year for a code signing cert that won’t pass Smartscreen Filter is wild.
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by donmcronald 6mo ago
> Why don't you want every device to have a public IP? Big companies would abuse that beyond belief. Back around the late 90s ISPs wanted to have everyone pay per device on their local networks. NAT was part of what saved us from
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
I just want to be able to use a verified domain; @example.com everywhere.
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
Where are all the think of the children people now?
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
Does the US have any laws that require human control of autonomous weapons? Isn’t that a contradiction?
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
The warning says something along the lines of "Dangerous Site Ahead. Attackers on [site] may trick you into doing something dangerous..." If I'm the only one with access to the site, they're calling me an attacker and s
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
The good outweighs the harm until it happens to you. The problem is that even if the failure rate is low, the failure can be catastrophic for the people suffering from it. I use Ubiquiti as an example for an update they pushed to their Uni
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
> But my point is that any knock on effects like domain suspension, email deliver-ability, etc. stem from 3rd parties misusing the safe browsing list outside the scope of safe browsing. That's fair and I agree. My opinion is that b
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
Yeah. Everyone uses their list and being blocked by all web browsers is like having someone cover the doorway with a massive DANGER sign. It's insane that people are roaming around here arguing that it's ok because the damage ca
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
> Needing concrete evidence in every case means that an enormously higher amount of malicious resources will not be flagged. Giving everyone a fair trial just doesn't scale. It costs too much.
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by donmcronald 7mo ago
Google is making false statements about the safety of a domain and it has significant collateral damage. Google is the cause. They should be liable for losses. I had my main family domain put on Google's safe browsing block list and
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
The solution is education. The most well adjusted kids I've seen are told flat out about the risks they'll face and, in general, helped to understand there are break points where things get too serious for them to try to deal wit
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
> And because the app needs to send data over an encrypted channel, it would be difficult at best for a sophisticated person to determine whether their info is being sent over the wire. Devices are built from the ground up to prevent eve
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
> They just have to check any login attempts against that ledger - easy enough. So like CT logs, but several orders of magnitude bigger? I thought centralized TLS revocation lists failed due to scale. How will this differ?
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
> We are literally sending a request to our government's server to sign, with their private key, message "this john smith born on 1970-01-01 is aged over 18" + jwt iat. There are 3 claims in there. They are hashed with dif
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
> It derives an age attribute such as "over 18" from a passport or ID, without disclosing any other information such as the date of birth. How? If it’s analyzes my ID 100% client side I can fake any info I want. If my ID goes
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
> What am I missing? Big tech are going to be the ones selling the verified ID solutions and the laws are going to effectively make it mandatory. There’s a potential future where we’ll all be paying for a subscription to a verified ID s

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