monegator

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by monegator 5mo ago
I'm aware it's handy. Lots of handy things have been used to distribute malware. Now we just need someone to intercept ESPHOME's flasher so that it sends a modified payload
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by monegator 5mo ago
what the fuck since when they are allowing webserial / webusb? I've always agreed with the reservations about browsers being able to control peripherals. I'd rather download a python script i can inspect.
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by monegator 5mo ago
Yes i know, mine was a (not so) thongue in cheek remark about karma farming and bots everywhere
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by monegator 5mo ago
Another thing i noticed: every time i am even slightly critical of anything LLM, i get a wave of upvotes followed by a wave of downvotes
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by monegator 5mo ago
> We close the tab, move on with our lives Which is what i usually do, but if in that moment i am particularly fed up with it i will also leave the comment. Then there are more zealous combatant that will pollute all the slop posts
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by monegator 5mo ago
It is exhausting to always have to read word salads with little content. Every single fucking article with 20 lines of introduction before you get a chance for actual content. LLM slop then dilutes the information, and LLM slop always read
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by monegator 5mo ago
i can understand blob for radios: by only using a signed blob you are restricting a malicious user from abusing the radio. However, the problem with binary blobs is that they are binary blobs: no sources, can't make changes, can't
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by monegator 5mo ago
No binary blobs. Not even cellular and wifi?
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by monegator 5mo ago
I get having the opportunity to do research, the problem is for whom. Do you really want to be the person that hands this kind of tech to corporates? Or that does anything to benefit those corporates?
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by monegator 5mo ago
Based is appropriate, some months ago a couple of ex employees were interviewed and they were working on malta offering crypto scams. They had precise instructions on which nationalities they were forbidden to scam.
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by monegator 5mo ago
There was one that went on for like couple of minutes in the later seasons, with courtney portnoy but there's not a video for some reason.
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by monegator 5mo ago
Say what? I open it, i have the list of movies, i select one. What else do you need? You can also install alternate UIs. There is one that makes the whole thing like an android TV, and another that looks like netflix, also offering you stuf
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by monegator 5mo ago
I will never get why anybody wants to work for FAGMAN. It's depressing how many talents put money above integrity. You don't need to live in the bay area, most civilized places on earth let you live a comfortable life with a 10t
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by monegator 5mo ago
LOL i just use kodi for my content. Data is on my router's hard drive, and before that it was some USB spinning rust attached to the ISP's router, and it just works (Well, TV series needs to be stored with the required folder stru
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by monegator 5mo ago
Also the tongue twisters from princess carolyn
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by monegator 5mo ago
Malta is also where a lot of the fraudolent call centers are based
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by monegator 5mo ago
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by monegator 5mo ago
I keep getting PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR
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by monegator 5mo ago
I seriously wish it happened.
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by monegator 5mo ago
I'm in europe and I work with cars, pal. nagware is absolutely not for safety features. Deny the terms and conditions and every time you start the car you have at least three screens you have to scroll and click buttons. It is a very r
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by monegator 5mo ago
I don't know about that... I ended up getting a banana pi r3 (great discounts because they were pushing the r4) I had to make a couple of tweaks for the fan controls (experimenting, i don't even remember if i wrote everything) and
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by monegator 5mo ago
>cars in the UK/EU have no such privacy invading features If you say so. Maybe if you buy the car with cash, but if you finance it you are leasing from a company that has definetly accepted all the terms and conditions to capture
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by monegator 5mo ago
I'd rather have KDE on windows 10. Or, better, the whole lot of tiny UX improvements kde has (all the visual/audio controls, the system settings that make sense and are not buried withing 4-5 menus, things like that)
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by monegator 5mo ago
>lately it's been going on since the fucking cloud-into-everything fad started ~15 years ago
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by monegator 5mo ago
that's the joke! (i've been surfing the net for maybe 30 years, i have a good memory of what the internet used to be)
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by monegator 5mo ago
"The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact" - The whole internet, AD 2026
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by monegator 5mo ago
Fun ideas are always fun. That said, i am really tired of seeing every new website looking exactly like each other
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by monegator 5mo ago
Let's say i give zero fucks about gemini and "AI" in general, or in any case am not using google's offering. i'd rather have a popup asking me if i want to. I don't see firefox nagging me with GBs of data for l
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by monegator 5mo ago
in my case: 3k at most for a replacement gas furnace, and heat pumps would require new wirings as well. Many things would need to break at once to make it worth considering when you have older homes New homes with mandated PV and battery, t
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by monegator 5mo ago
The point is it's doable (and it was doable long before that. See the S5.)

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