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by snailmailman 3mo ago
I’ve always been under the impression that Signal is for secure, private chats and group chats amongst friends and small groups. While telegram is often used more like discord or irc, with “secure” and “private” group chats that are extreme
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
I asked “Alexa+” (the new AI/LLM Alexa), what time one of the upcoming World Cup games is. It was off by two hours due to time zones. This was a big enough mistake that I caught it, and followed up with “I’m pretty sure that’s wrong” a
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
I think it’s been functionally login-only for a while, unfortunately. Any time I try to use the site while logged out I immediately hit all sorts of rate limits and spam prevention measures. Issues and pull requests stop loading almost imme
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
Its a fun challenge. I used https://squoosh.app to make a pretty good one. Mostly just a resize and then OxiPNG for compression. Managed a 124x62 black/white image. OP has a resolution of 195x53, so I had very similar, but
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
I think the comment can be left on any video on the channel?
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
Assuming this is what you are referring to, it was resolved within a few days. The incident being resolved just didn't make headlines. https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/threa...
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
With fast boot, it is a partial-hibernate (as you said, it is basically logging out then hibernating). But also, you are shutting the device down. You can hibernate a laptop and take the battery out. The device is off. Thats the differe
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
Yeah, i just simply don't trust the sleep functionality to not be buggy. I walk away with processes running a decent amount of the time and its unclear to me what things can prevent sleep from triggering and what cant. If i do need t
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
I'm confident this will mostly fix my problem but its such a minor thing its not worth disassembling my PC for. But I will likely swap it out next time I disassemble it for any other reason. It seems to me like this problem can be enti
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
I shut down my desktop every night. No reason to keep it on. I can save my work, all my tabs persist, it’s fine. My main complaint is that my PC seems to have crazy clock drift? And windows just doesn’t seem to care? It doesn’t actually cau
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by snailmailman 3mo ago
I definitely had some cheap PC speakers in the mid 2000s that worked as a shitty microphone if you plugged the cable into the microphone port instead of the speaker port. You basically had to yell into them, and the sound quality was atroci
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
I run an instance of smokeping locally for this purpose. It pings a variety of DNS servers (including my ISPs DNS) and several of the top websites. I periodically update my local DNS server’s upstream accordingly. All the big DNS servers ar
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
This is the real strength of ActivityPub compared to ATProto. I follow a lot of accounts on mastodon, and only a handful of them are on mastodon.social. Globally though looks like 1/4 of the accounts are there. If the instance goes dow
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
They have an “all in one” container that supposedly works out of the box. I didn’t want to give it access to the docker socket, with the ability to spawn its own containers. So instead I just use the nextcloud container directly. (With seve
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
I use nextcloud all the time, my private instance works great and does everything I need it to. But I keep it behind a VPN. It’s got a lot of parts, and thus a lot of surface area. It may be secure but I just assume it isn’t. I rely on th
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
How is the second LLM not also vulnerable from prompt injection? In order to supervise the first, it must receive data (presumably output from the first LLM?). All generated output after the user input is in the context should be considered
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
I’ve seen it directly contradict the citation so many times that i disregard the text and just click the citation or scroll past every single time. Just today i caught it making up the date for an event, and the citation had accurate info
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
I thought most modern Bluetooth devices essentially randomize the Bluetooth MAC address periodically, specifically to prevent this sort of tracking? And random MAC addresses too on WiFi.
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
I had a problem recently where I ran a script with the wrong set of permissions, and accidentally screwed up the ownership of a random mix of files spread across my entire drive. This broke several pieces of software and made the system unu
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
On my rokus, I am able to use my phone as a remote via the roku app. This includes typing on mobile via my phone's keyboard. Makes logging into things much easier.
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
While Texas is quite red. Renewables are surprisingly popular. Why should a farmer in the middle of nowhere have to rely on Texas’ power grid, when they can install a few solar panels and a battery. Especially when storms can take out power
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
While fossil fuels are huge in Texas, solar and wind are too. Especially out in west Texas where there’s a lot of wide open space, wind turbines are surprisingly frequent. Texas produces the most wind power out of any state. And solar work
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
I eventually managed to get far enough into the article that I thought I saw the main stat - the stat that 26% of the citations were hallucinated. Then the scroll threw me back to the top again and I gave up entirely on reading from my phon
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by snailmailman 4mo ago
On mobile, It’s hijacking my scroll in such a way that I literally cannot move further down the page. And “reader mode” is only showing me the first paragraph or so. I’ll have to try again later on desktop. The content looks interesting but
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
LLMs are so frequently inaccurate its crazy to think of it fully replacing search. I've been trying to use LLMs for things and it makes mistakes all the time . Just this week i had multiple instances of various LLMs basically sayi
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
This case is wild and seems to perfectly encapsulate all the problems people complain about with vibecoded projects. The "rewrite it in rust" commit is +1M lines of code. Humans haven't looked at that in depth. In about a wee
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
The mobile app is quite nice. Print error and print finish notifications. Webcam view when I’m not near my printer. The ability to pause it remotely if something looks off. I use LAN mode, plus a home assistant plugin to restore the lost fu
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
I’ve been meaning to look into what the network plugin does more. I see in my dns logs lots of repeated blocked requests to a Bambu labs domain whenever I have orcaslicer open. I assume it’s so many because it’s getting blocked and retryi
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
richard stallman
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by snailmailman 5mo ago
It is relatively easy to configure. Just install Linux after windows, and Linux will generally automatically setup a boot-selection screen for you. The installer should detect windows and even shrink the partitions for you. You can instal

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