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by mixedbit 2y ago
I wonder if replacing laptops with smartphones based computers has a potential to ever become mainstream. Instead of carrying a laptop, use your phone + foldable display + keyboard and mouse. This could be more ergonomic than laptops, you
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by mixedbit 2y ago
The exploitation and potential damage would be service specific. Say a Dropbox like service for computer file syncing: An attacker creates an account for 'alice@example.org' and gets the signup email automatically confirmed. The a
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by mixedbit 2y ago
Login links from my service were automatically clicked and rendered and I know that other services discovered similar problems. Based on this I think that it is very likely the case with all the links in emails, but I don't know if the
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by mixedbit 2y ago
I run an authorization service that allows to log-in using magic links and we managed to solve this. First approach was for the link opening GET request to do not log the user in, but to include an HTML page with JavaScript that issued a PO
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by mixedbit 2y ago
> We blew past the Turing test and yet no one seems to marvel at that. We didn't blow past the Turing test. Such comments are often made, but I think they are a result of misunderstanding or overgeneralizing of what a Turing test is
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by mixedbit 2y ago
I have experimented with using LLM for improving unit test coverage of a project. If you provide the model with test execution results and updated test coverage information, which can be automated, the LLM can indeed fix bugs and add improv
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Improving Unit Test Coverage with Gemini LLM(mixedbit.org)
1 points by mixedbit 2y ago|0 comments
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by mixedbit 2y ago
I haven't notice any degradation so far. Recently they even announced a Bandcamp Friday - a day when a Bandcamp commission is 0 and all income from sales goes to the artists. Doesn't look like they try to squeeze as much profits a
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by mixedbit 2y ago
It would be great to see research which screen time activities have these detrimental effects, because umbrella term "excessive screen time" can be too generalizing.
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by mixedbit 2y ago
Does Excel have some reasonable way of unit testing of formulas?
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by mixedbit 2y ago
This is important knowledge. My past misconception was that without swap system will be more efficient, programs will be killed when running out of memory instead of inefficiently running on hard disk-backed memory. In reality, Linux become
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by mixedbit 2y ago
I would love if advances in material technologies would allow to design a window glass-like material that would let outside air in, but would cancel exterior sounds.
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by mixedbit 3y ago
Isn't the current GPU-based stack which drives the progress of AI an early stage architecture which will become sub-optimal and obsolete in a longer term? Having separate processors with separate memory and separate software stack to d
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Chaos Communication Congress tickets still available(tickets.events.ccc.de)
31 points by mixedbit 3y ago|15 comments
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by mixedbit 3y ago
Found today on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/17ezr6c/a_shepherd_i...
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by mixedbit 3y ago
Do you know on what channel registration opening is announced?
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by mixedbit 3y ago
Such crash data can be collected with an old fashion 'Firefox has crashed, send a problem report to Mozilla [OK] [Cancel]' dialog, which is much less privacy-intrusive than telemetry.
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by mixedbit 4y ago
The first Summer of Code without Chris DiBona.
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by mixedbit 4y ago
Linus recently also had troubles with his development machine caused by the lack of ECC: 'I absolutely detest the crazy industry politics and bad vendors that have made ECC memory so "special".' https://lkml
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by mixedbit 4y ago
Here is a system 1 question that ChatGPT fails to answer: Q: What would happen in the game of Jenga, if the top level of the tower has only a single wooden block and a player would take this block away? A: In the game of Jenga, the objectiv
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Air Quality World Map(airly.org)
1 points by mixedbit 4y ago|0 comments
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by mixedbit 4y ago
From a set of companies that do not pay dividends, companies that do not generate profits are a small subset. Many companies in the SP500 index do not pay dividends, but one of the conditions of inclusion in the SP500 index is for a company
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by mixedbit 4y ago
Companies behind non-dividend paying stocks can own assets and make profits and shareholders own these assets and profits. The value of these assets and profits somehow anchor the stock price, the price can go significantly below reasonable
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by mixedbit 4y ago
Right, Snap, somehow similar and also unprofitable social media company is down 67% since April 14 when Musk disclosed his offer. Twitter stock would likely experience similar kind of drop in this period.
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by mixedbit 4y ago
Where is the contradiction? NS1 has limited capacity that was not sufficient to allow Russia to bypass Ukrainian gas pipelines, NS2 would increases the capacity of this route.
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by mixedbit 4y ago
Do you know if the PlayCanvas game engine will be affected?
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Free Heroku Dynos and Postgres no longer available(devcenter.heroku.com)
2 points by mixedbit 4y ago|1 comments
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by mixedbit 4y ago
What is a fresh install Ubuntu experience with XPS laptops with two GPUs? In the Dell store only single GPU models allow to select Ubuntu preinstalled and I wonder if this is due to software problems with handling two GPUs well. I'm lo
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Product Showroom in a Forest(keller-buersten.de)
1 points by mixedbit 4y ago|0 comments
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by mixedbit 4y ago
I wonder if someday we will see someone generating all the bitcoins on a laptop. How the article says, the math behind most cryptosystems were never proven to be unbreakable, it is just believed to be so, because no one managed to show othe

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