varenc

11 ms·

61.
by varenc 4mo ago
I have a UNAS-Pro, which runs the same Unifi Drive software as this, and it works great for Time Machine backups. Dead simple. I also have tons of other Ubiquiti gear, and honestly there's not a ton of synergy between the NAS and every
62.
by varenc 4mo ago
I suspect the decision to lock the models down to only US Citizens was chosen because that's the maximum the government can do under established law. They invoked ITAR to do it. No equivalent laws exists (yet) to allow the government
63.
by varenc 4mo ago
The goverment used the existing ITAR laws to block the 'export' of the model to anyone not a US citizen. This is quite onerous to enforce, since it applies to non-citizens physically in the US. So Anthropic shutdown access comple
64.
by varenc 4mo ago
Mere possession is also enough for someone to steal your laptop, but that still shouldn't allow them to trivially install a secret persistent backdoor, or break your disk encryption. Agree that a PIN/Password would have usability
65.
by varenc 4mo ago
That was the argument around the original 2021 rent control law! It had zero exemptions to avoid perverse incentivizes like that one. But it didn't last.
66.
by varenc 4mo ago
It's not good that they allow anyone that happens to be in your car briefly root access. It'd be live having an always-on laptop in your office with a open shell on it. They should have provided some mechanism for the real owner t
67.
by varenc 4mo ago
Important context: This paper is from 2023. In 2025, St. Paul massively rolled back rent control restrictions. Their rent control used to have no exemptions, but now it's become very similar to SF rent control. Strict limit on how muc
68.
by varenc 4mo ago
Google has been doing the same thing for longer than Anthropic[0]. To protect their models from distillation attacks, they silently will downgrade the model's performance to essentially poison your training data without your knowledge.
69.
by varenc 4mo ago
partially, but it couldn't replicate all functionally. A lot of uBO rules apply to elements on the DOM. Like hiding a div with ID "#ads". That div often isn't sent as pure HTML, but is instead added to the page via JS c
70.
by varenc 4mo ago
digression: It's interesting this was submitted to HN over 15 times since it was published in February: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... But this is the only submission that&#
71.
by varenc 4mo ago
Probably influenced by Apple's feature with the same name: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 I imagine that enterprise companies will be quite interested in this.
72.
by varenc 4mo ago
On macOS with "Full Keyboard Control" you can navigate the system and most any official app from the keyboard. It's not an efficient experience though.
73.
Using Dropbox the Unix Way(thelig.ht)
3 points by varenc 4mo ago|2 comments
74.
by varenc 4mo ago
(for context, Rian was one of the very first Dropbox client engineers)
75.
by varenc 4mo ago
> The first proper zero auth password reset I've seen in production. In 2011 Dropbox briefly had an even easier "zero auth exploit". For a couple hours if you typed in any email on the login page, password checking was sk
76.
by varenc 5mo ago
The value is that many companies like building MCP servers much more than CLIs. For whatever reason. Here's some companies that offer MCP servers but don't seem to offer an equally featured CLI: - Asana - Square - Linea
77.
by varenc 5mo ago
In the macro physics sense, all energy eventually becomes heat somewhere. My 1500W space heater is perfectly efficient and produces 1500W of heat, and my 1500W crypto mining rig does too. Thermodynamically there's no difference. Where
78.
by varenc 5mo ago
This makes it seem like you think all energy consumption leads to water boiling? At the peak of a sunny day in the american southwest, a random square mile receives over 2000 megawatts of power from the sun. In a 24-hour period that same s
79.
by varenc 5mo ago
> that can also search the web? Slight digression: Claude/ChatGPT/etc all can search the web, but Google's AI already has a local copy of the web. It's much faster because of Google's TPUs, but also because Goo
80.
by varenc 5mo ago
> They told me they don’t use evidence of chargeback abuse from one merchant to create cross-merchant fraud signals, or to take action against the customer’s card, email, or other details for other merchants. I'm surprised they wer
81.
by varenc 5mo ago
end of an era! Dropbox has now fully ship-of-theseus'd itself from my perspective. (which is impressive honestly given the time frame)
82.
by varenc 5mo ago
That is what the memo is trying to say. That no regulations or laws are changing, but it's simply pushing for a certain interpretation of the law that doesn't seem to have been the status quo for awhile. Some stats I found online
83.
by varenc 5mo ago
The internal memo on this is interesting: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/memos/PM-... Essentially they're trying to change the rules by aggressive re-interpretation of the e
84.
by varenc 5mo ago
This has been an unsolved open problem for 80 years. What you're suggesting is that someone connected to Open AI solved this very hard math problem, but then rather than taking credit for it, falsely attributed it to AI? The point of h
85.
by varenc 5mo ago
People saying ChatGPT will kill search, really mean LLMs generally will kill old school web searches that just return links. Google is doing this because they agree with the sentiment and are just becoming ChatGPT.
86.
by varenc 5mo ago
My google search for 'pixel 10 wifi 7' immediately shows the right answer. (10 Pro and 10 Pro XL support it but, but base Pixel 10 only supports Wifi 6E). Though the inconsistency of results between users is definitely another fru
87.
by varenc 5mo ago
I can see this perspective, but FizzBuzz is such a low bar that so many can pass, I'd greatly prefer to hire someone that can ship code that matches a spec do this challenge.
88.
by varenc 5mo ago
If everyone in Manhattan had Bear Grylls-level survival skills, most would still starve in the long term without modern supply chains and industrial agriculture. The damaged ecosystems around large population centers can't support mill
89.
by varenc 5mo ago
I also love PTR record numeration using broadcast mDNS/Bonjour. Instead of relying on a central server, you send out the same sort of DNS query but as a broadcast packet: dig -x 192.168.1.1 @224.0.0.251 -p 5353 This gets yo
90.
by varenc 5mo ago
Found this quote from the game industry interesting and depressing: > Consumers receive a license to access and use a game, not an unrestricted ownership interest in the underlying work Could the game industry just side step this legis

More ›