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by maicro 4y ago
Honestly, me too, to the point where I open the comments in tabs before visiting the articles. It may be biased, but seeing what the HN hivemind has to say about the topic is usually as valuable, and often more valuable, than the linked ar
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Me: Are the rumors of your demise premature? Bard: Yes, the rumors of my demise are premature. I am still under development, but I have learned to perform many kinds of tasks, including: -I will try my best to follow your instructions and c
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Me: How long has Oceania been at war with Eurasia [yes, looks like I missed the question mark] Bard primary draft: Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. In the world of George Orwell's 1984, the three superstates of Oceania, Eur
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Me: I assert that today is Tuesday. Do you agree? Bard: I apologize, but I am not able to determine if today is Tuesday. I can only access information that is publicly available on the internet, and I do not have access to your personal in
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by maicro 4y ago
Noob answer - yeah, that's what I'm talking about, there's certain levels of faking those responses that you can't really do.
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by maicro 4y ago
That's a technique used/required by some software cracking methods - override your general network DNS lookup process (I believe anything you put in the "hosts" file in Linux/Mac, and the similar file in Windows - t
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by maicro 4y ago
Eh, you never know who's one of those lucky 10,000. And just to satisfy you, I won't explain _that one_. X)
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by maicro 4y ago
At the risk of falling victim to it myself, that's often referenced as Poe's Law (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law ): Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture saying that, without a clear
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by maicro 4y ago
While I agree, I still feel like the original example wasn't explicit about the threat being external to the conversation. But again, that's likely me being overly pedantic/overly concrete in my thinking. That being said, th
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by maicro 4y ago
I agree that concern is valid (and a good reason to encrypt everything), I just think the original example doesn't really say that clearly (or at least clearly enough). Then again, maybe I'm just being pedantic. Thanks for the cla
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by maicro 4y ago
While I'm definitely in the "encrypt and take all reasonable precautions" camp, I have to say that your example doesn't make sense to me - unless I'm misunderstanding your example, the recipient of those messages ha
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If I had to guess, the answer to both is some stolen session issue - either personal device or a device that the user was logged into once had saved login information, which the attacker gained access to. However, to reduce the chance of n
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by maicro 4y ago
I don't know how people feel about others referencing themselves, but... I posted this in a reply chain ~9 months ago going over the (then-current) VPS solutions that were being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by maicro 4y ago
Absolutely fair, but that's why I set that on all browsers I configure for family, and recently had to walk my sister through on her phone when she accidentally allowed notifications from some website that started spamming her with var
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As I understand it (I never want notifications so don't have any experience with it), it's only blocking new sites from asking to send notifications. So if you find a site you want notifications from, you can change that back to
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by maicro 4y ago
FYI, you can disable the ability for Chromium-based browsers to even ask the user if they want to allow notifications - on my Android phone in Chrome, it's under Settings, Site settings. There you can set "Notifications" to
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by maicro 4y ago
Eh, it's a field/domain I am definitely ignorant of - at least I'm not out there confident in my wrong beliefs X)
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Wouldn't be shocked at all, I mostly think of it as "Linux but with a bunch of inherent security separations introduced", which is why I thought it might be what the...grandparent at this point? is using.
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by maicro 4y ago
Maybe NixOS? I've barely played with it, but this seems like the level of isolation/paranoia that NixOS seems to offer (as far as a layman like myself understands - could be completely wrong on all counts, as usual).
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by maicro 4y ago
Another anecdotal datapoint, but - I haven't noticed an uptick in actual spam making it to my primary inbox. I can't give solid numbers, but it's not been bad. This includes a marked increase in crypto spam/phishing ema
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by maicro 4y ago
Fair argument. I didn't put too much rigorous thought into my post, and really didn't mean offence, but to roughly explain my thinking: - First, I wasn't trying to dismiss any opinions by bringing up survivorship bias, I bro
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by maicro 4y ago
With respect, in case you or anyone else wasn't aware - this is an example of "survivorship bias": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias .
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by maicro 4y ago
"Show hidden files" and "show extensions for known file types" are two folder options I enable on any Windows system I touch / within a few minutes of installation. I'll take a bit of extra visual clutter if i
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I only saw one blue dot while looking around (briefly on a laggy computer, so there are probably plenty of others): "L6188942", which you can isolate in the view by searching for it. https://www.n2yo.com/database&
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by maicro 4y ago
~19 years ago my first real introduction to software/hardware/firmware hacking and electronics/soldering was turning the digital, one-time use "disposable" cameras that CVS etc. sold, into reusable digital cameras.
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I've not been diagnosed with ADHD, though have some symptoms (though honestly, some of those are just standard "human living in 2022"), but I do know I have what I would consider an "addictive personality". I can&#x
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I'll just throw this out there - GalliumOS works fairly well to convert a Chromebook into a full-fat Linux laptop. I've only installed it on one, but the process wasn't too hard. The end result is kinda hacky, and from what
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by maicro 4y ago
I've installed noVNC on a Pi before, didn't try accessing it through an iPad and I don't recall if I was using desktop or just terminal, BUT, I think something like noVNC could get you close to iPad-as-RPI-screen. Add in som
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I can highly recommend regexr.com for testing and developing regex patterns; paste a representative sample in the "Text" area and it'll show you how things match (and usually, crucially, don't match) as you change the re
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What exactly have you tried to order? I've been ordering from McMaster both to a fairly small business and my personal home address with absolutely no issues for over 8 years. Are you in the US? If you're trying to buy those tub

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