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by snailmailman 8mo ago
This does unfortunately actually work pretty well as a security measure. The new domains that are cheap and good for fun side projects, are also cheap for scammers. For a while I noticed all the scam links my grandmother was getting were
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
The revocation mechanism is basically just a list of revoked certificates. Without expiration dates, those lists will grow infinitely.
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
I’m pretty sure YouTube’s built-in AI summary is also biased towards not “spoiling” the video. Like if the title is a clickbait “this one simple trick to..” the ai summary right below will summarize all the things accomplished with the “tri
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
I don’t mean P2P in the same sense that BitTorrent or something is P2P. (Splitting one connection into many distributed ones) But more like how a game that does P2P multiplayer has the clients connect directly instead of through a centraliz
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
They specifically avoid sending traffic through tailscale servers whenever possible. That’s how the free tier stays free. Most connections are direct, P2P. The traffic that does go through their servers is encrypted, and bandwidth limit
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
This is something I saw all the time. I’d look something up, knowing that there was probably an easy way to do <basic programming task> in modern c++ with one function call. Find the stack overflow thread, answer from 10+ years ago. N
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
It is not super easy to get around that tech. It used to be easier a long time ago. Apple patches the methods every time they can, and have made hardware adjustments in attempt to make it as hard as possible. A lot of these methods involve
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
I used to run YouTube with “ad targeting” turned off. The ads were 100% scams. Lots of AI slop. Deepfakes of celebrities pitching all sorts of scams. Lots of nsfw products and even occasionally illegal things like drugs or guns. Also lots o
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
Ah yes. “Non-existent security” is only a pesky detail that will surely be ironed out. It’s not a critical flaw in the entirety of the LLM ecosystem that now the computers themselves can be tricked into doing things by asking in just the ri
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
I just scrolled through my Libby history to check. I checked out 25 books in 2025. Several of them I didn't finish, so the number is closer to 15 completed books, but that's only though Libby. I also finished an entire fiction ser
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
One big part of this is that gcode isnt really a 3d model its a set of instructions on how to move the printhead around. You don't download the gcode directly, because that varies by printer. You download a model, and then a slicing
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
Interestingly, theres an account in that thread claiming to be from Gyrovague, but its not the same one thats in this thread , which has been confirmed to be legit as it is mentioned by name in this latest Gyrovague article. I wonder, is
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by snailmailman 8mo ago
I didnt flag the article, but anecdotally, I was initially unable to load the article at all. It mentions how it ended up in an adblock list. The article makes it sound like this is a good thing, as it stops the DDOS, but it isn't prev
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
Same. I know and see several of the codes all the time. But occasionally I encounter a weird one and I always go to http.cat to find out what it is.
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
It does work reliably enough though. A huge portion of games on Linux do so via pretending to be windows via wine/proton. It’s what allows the Steam deck to exist as a product at all. And Linux on those handheld devices out-performs
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
The removal of several features from windows 10 is infuriating. Why can’t the taskbar be moved to the side? Why can’t the taskbar be made smaller? Why can I pick the smaller icons, but the taskbar remains the same size, with massive margin
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
The KDE plasma UI feels like all the best parts of windows 10 to me. The default taskbar+clock+system tray+start menu UI feels exactly like windows 10 to me. But you can also customize it very easily. The settings menu feels a bit more like
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
That whole subreddit has unfortunately become inundated with AI slop. It used to be a decent resource to learn about what services people were self hosting. But now, many posts are variations of, “I’ve made this huge complicated app in an a
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
Yeah. Its going to be easy to skip the first result in an app store search, not because its highlighted, but additionally because it isn't ever what i was searching for. The app store search has been broken like this for years and an
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
Ive been trying to learn a new language and this feature is awful . It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
I don’t think it is an improvement. At the level of League of Legends me and my friend group play, we never noticed cheaters. We play casual ARAM games. Never noticed any hackers or anything. But we definitely notice when at the start o
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
It’s also very frequently easier to just open a new tab, compared to finding the already existing one. I never really need more than one YouTube tab. I can’t watch more than one video at once, and if I want to watch something later, I use
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
Those issues are a surprising read. I would expect issues with TPM on old or niche devices, but not Dell XPS laptops, or a variety of VMs. But I guess I'm not entirely sure how my vms handle TPM state, or if they even can. I'm r
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
Not sure if its a "significant" u-turn, when its a relatively new feature. Its only been out for a few months, and seems to be getting rolled back because it was breaking things. Its annoying that a security benefit is being turne
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
They may not say "turn off bitlocker", but people definitely recommend backing up the recovery keys, and windows allows you to back up the key to microsoft because they know people won't actually back them up. Not sure if
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering. The lights are the issue not the camera. Rooms with these lights give me migraines. I can always tell when lights in a room are like that, and I use the 240hz slow motion on
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by snailmailman 9mo ago
I get all those same ads on YouTube. It’s easily >90% complete scam products, and most of the non-scam products are at least breaking YouTube’s own “rules” regarding what content is allowed. Like if one of the reportable reasons is “ad
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by snailmailman 10mo ago
This was changed, and it is pretty easy to think the feature got removed. When it was pressure-sensitive, you could push harder anywhere on the keyboard . But now that it’s tap-and-hold, it only works on the space bar. Most other pressure-
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by snailmailman 10mo ago
Nope. When a new iOS update comes out, all supported devices may immediately install the update if they seek it out. Or it will usually auto update on its own, or at least nag the user to update. It’s gotten slightly more confusing with the
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by snailmailman 10mo ago
I’m curious where you got any of those numbers. Many laptops use <20W. But most local-ai inferencing requires high end, power hungry nvidia GPUs that use multiple hundreds of watts. There’s a reason those GPUs are in high demand, with pr

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