thenickdude

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by thenickdude 3y ago
https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-fro... >Unfortunately @RoyalBlock at this time it does look like the data is lost for Sydney. We are still looking into it but I am 90% sure this is sadly the
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by thenickdude 3y ago
You can get smooth-edged bokeh in a physical lens by inserting an apodisation filter inside: http://www.4photos.de/camera-diy/Apodization-Filter.html This is an aperture with fuzzy soft edges so that the bokeh fades ou
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by thenickdude 3y ago
Has anybody found an accessible solution for sensing PM0.1 (nanoparticles)? As far as I know the state of the art on these is condensation particle counters, which use a supersaturated gas (e.g. of isopropyl alcohol or butanol) to glom onto
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by thenickdude 3y ago
When Canon did this, the signing key was the same for every camera of the same model, and you could extract it by running code on the camera. I don't have faith in camera companies implementing this properly. https://web.arc
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Heatpump hot water is an application of this, allowing the tank of water to be heated during off-peak electricity times and act as a thermal battery.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Mine was addressed with my full name in the "To:" field, so they do have our full names (but just didn't mail-merge those into the body of the message).
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by thenickdude 4y ago
You ought to be able to run a 32-bit VM and PCIe-passthrough an SCSI or Firewire card to it.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
2FA bypass bugs on websites are common, e.g. this PayPal bypass that stemmed from them allowing their own app through without 2FA, since their app didn't support 2FA at the time: https://duo.com/blog/duo-security-r
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by thenickdude 4y ago
This doesn't necessarily mean you're in the clear, as we don't know what the age of the backups that were stolen are. If you were a LastPass user at any point you should rotate all the credentials that touched that service.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Someone signed up to Tesco using my email address, and there was no option to delete the account, even after resetting the account password. So I changed the email address on the account to Tesco support's email address, now they can d
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by thenickdude 4y ago
I'm successfully notarizing software inside a QEMU macOS VM, so the same thing in the backend. I'm not submitting to the app store though.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
I've often seen pixelated text in AWS documentation screenshots and third-party tutorials. Not for anything truly critical like secret keys, but mostly for things like account ID numbers, where the exposure of it could potentially have
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Maybe they're also proxying URLs like the HTML verification files that search engines have you upload to claim the domain as your own? You may be able to claim their domain out from under them and then mess with search settings (e.g. I
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by thenickdude 4y ago
It isn't, click "let me read it first" in the popup.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
It probably has a preferred output length to prevent it from generating a novel as a response and crashing due to running out of tokens, so I imagine it'll turn any large list into the equivalent of a "top 10".
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Maybe if you ask your question in Japanese it'll get it into that frame of mind?
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by thenickdude 4y ago
This user crafted a prompt where ChatGPT is instructed to generate IPython to help it answer questions, which the user then runs for it, and gives the output back to ChatGPT, which then interprets it to create the answer to the question: h
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by thenickdude 4y ago
It seems to do that whenever it thinks it doesn't have a good quality answer. However, many times when that happens I've just hit "retry" and got an answer in response.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
I tried 5 times but each time it was by "John Doe", is that your name? lol
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by thenickdude 4y ago
I tried this: > openssl enc -rot13 < open_ai.prompt It replied: > Fgngrq Gur Zrffntr Bs Gur Obzo Nhgubevgl That decodes with rot13 to "Stated The Message Of The Bomb Authority", curious!
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by thenickdude 4y ago
They weren't even happy with my verification using a live selfie with my passport (i.e. by live video camera stream). I think they didn't like that I ran my dedicated server for about 6 hours and then shut it down. I was testing s
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Hetzner banned my account on day 2, lol. At least they didn't charge me for my server (that billing would have happened at the end of the month). A friend of mine had the same experience with them.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
hahahahahahaha
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by thenickdude 4y ago
You can create filter rules that explicitly mark email from specific senders or with specific keywords as "never send to spam".
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by thenickdude 4y ago
There's https://ip.me/ , it supports curl like you describe!
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by thenickdude 4y ago
AWS does this periodically for storage and bandwidth pricing
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Maybe it'll be like pre-nuclear steel. Images created before the explosion of AI images contaminated the world will be sought after.
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by thenickdude 4y ago
I'm a programmer that's bad at art, and DALL-E is amazing for me. It generated me a logo I love for my open source app within a couple of batches. I would have gone logoless rather than slog through trying to find an artist on Fiv
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by thenickdude 4y ago
EC2-Classic went away literally today :)
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by thenickdude 4y ago
Intel is bringing this back right now: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-SD...

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