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by varenc 11mo ago
There's a fuzzy line between an agent analyzing the content of a single page I requested, and one making many page fetches on my behalf. I think it's fair to treat an agent that clicks an invisible link as a robot/crawler sin
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by varenc 11mo ago
I was responding to someone earlier saying a user agent should respect robots.txt. An LLM powered user-agent wouldn't follow links, invisible or not, because it's not crawling.
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by varenc 11mo ago
should cURL follow robots.txt? What makes browser software not a robot? Should `curl <URL>` ignore robots.txt but `curl <URL> | llm` respect it? The line gets blurrier with things like OAI's Atlas browser. It's just re
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by varenc 11mo ago
An agent acting on my behalf, following my specific and narrowly scoped instructions, should not obey robots.txt because it's not a robot/crawler. Just like how a single cURL request shouldn't follow robots.txt. (It also sho
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by varenc 11mo ago
Check out AirBuddy for something that provides similar control in macOS. Closed source and costs money though. It doesn't need to rely on the reverse engineered protocol, and instead just calls out to macOS APIs to manipulate the Airpo
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by varenc 11mo ago
Door locks are a deterrent that increase the difficulty and cost of a crime. If your neighbor's house is locked and yours isn't, then you're going to be more of a target. In that sense they do provide security, but of course
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by varenc 11mo ago
Super odd to pressure an ad-blocking DNS provider to use their service to 'block' archive.today. Adguard just provides block lists that allow users to easily block ad services. If adguard starts blocking certain domains users ac
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by varenc 11mo ago
That's a good example. In that case though I'd say that every month the voip line is providing a service. Something like a Netflix subscription that you haven't logged into for 6 months is more unequivocally providing no valu
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by varenc 1y ago
Agreed! I'm a long time privacy.com customer. It completely flips the script on subscriptions. I'll create a new card with only a budget for 1 month of the subscription. If I actually care about it I'll see the 2nd month&#x2
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by varenc 1y ago
It's why everything is a subscription these days: you make more money. Consumers undercount the true total cost. And because X% of people will forget they're subscribed and keep paying forever. If every month you had to either con
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by varenc 1y ago
The ruling never said summaries are infringing. It just said the authors’ claims about some AI outputs were "plausible" enough to get past a motion to dismiss, which is basically the lowest hurdle. The judge isn’t deciding what ac
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by varenc 1y ago
I struggled to find a good video of the landing. This is a clip from their live stream: https://youtu.be/xHlPwTE-FOo It seems like multiple video feeds glitch out right as it's about to land. There's even a black
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by varenc 1y ago
It'd certainly make less sense to stop them being legal tender if you're still minting them. Also in Australia, while no store would accept the old pennies, I had thought they were still legal tender in the sense that banks would
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by varenc 1y ago
Yea but I guess my thinking is that all totals would just be rounded to the nearest 5 cents, like how they're currently rounded to the nearest 1 cent. So would be the same price whether debit or cash. We already round percentage based
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by varenc 1y ago
Anything measured by weight is already rounding prices to the nearest cent. If something is $1/lb and I have 0.995 lbs of it, I get charged $1.00 not 99.5 cents. Presumably just rounding to the nearest 5 cents isn't that differen
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by varenc 1y ago
Interesting that they're releasing separate gpt-5.1-instant and gpt-5.1-thinking models. The previous gpt-5 release made of point of simplifying things by letting the model choose if it was going to use thinking tokens or not. Seems li
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by varenc 1y ago
that would fall under " I'm sure they're doing other sketchy things ".
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by varenc 1y ago
There'd be no way to hide this. If 3rd party cookies are disabled it's trivial to observe if an embedded google.com iframe is sending my full google.com 1st party cookies in violation of the 3rd party cookie settings. There'
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by varenc 1y ago
I thought this was about the other Z-Machine at first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility (used at Sandia for inertial confinement fusion)
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by varenc 1y ago
Isn't Chrome shifting to blocking 3rd party cookies by default? If that's the new default than the default behavior would be that being logged into Google isn't used as a signal for recaptcha
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by varenc 1y ago
I would think that when you're viewing recaptcha on a site, if you have 3rd party cookies disabled the embedded recaptcha script won't have anyway of connecting you with your Google account, even if you're logged in. At least
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by varenc 1y ago
I ended up playing with it more and found the recommended useful! I just removed a bunch of books of a certain theme, then got a bunch of good recs for the theme that remains.
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by varenc 1y ago
This is Palo Alto and his neighbors for the most part aren't "regular people". They all own $5M+ homes.
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by varenc 1y ago
I love this site, and the approach! Great seeing someone making good use of Goodreads data. Sadly my experience with the book recommender isn't too great because of the 64 book limit. If I import either the most recent or least recent
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by varenc 1y ago
I use MDM on my own systems because it gives me a bit more control. It's also a superior form of device oversight for kids.
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by varenc 1y ago
Besides the founders being ex-Palantir (left in 2018), is there much evidence for this? Their platform doesn't feel particularly data hungry to me at all.
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by varenc 1y ago
In my social circles Partiful feels like it's becoming a good replacement for the golden era of Facebook Events. At first you had to invite people manually by sending them a Partiful link, but now they have their own internal invite s
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by varenc 1y ago
Agree you want TX power as low as you can, but in practice, I've always found there's at least once device in my house that'll benefit from an increased TX power. Also I generally just the FCC in setting reasonable power limi
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by varenc 1y ago
It might be including the cost of the entire cybersecurity business sector? Salaries of security engineers, security vendors, etc. Not just fallout from hacks. edit: cybersecurity ventures seems to be the real source for the 10.5T number:
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by varenc 1y ago
Let me know how it goes! other thoughts: - For a Unifi Protect console (basically an NVR), there's lots of other options too. The one I linked I also use as my Network controller and wifi gateway. I assume it's possible to just us

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