walrus01

38 ms·

931.
by walrus01 4mo ago
> Why ssh terminal has to look like character-only trash from 1960s? We should re-implement it with Comic Sans and happy shiny buttons to click everywhere? Click here for "ls -alh" ?
932.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Ever hired someone who, when you ask them to send you an ssh key for access to something, sends you their private key? Yeah, that's happened more than once.
933.
by walrus01 4mo ago
It's like they decided to reinvent webmin
934.
by walrus01 4mo ago
In x86 i386 world there was a good long overlap of ATX/MicroATX motherboards shipping with both PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports and also USB ports on them, starting from 1998 era Pentium 2/3 systems when USB first became commo
935.
by walrus01 4mo ago
To be fair to that there wasn't really any other viable mass-market interface that the keyboard manufacturers in China/Taiwan could standardize on. The PS/2 keyboard interface was backwards compatible with an AT keyboard thro
936.
by walrus01 4mo ago
About 95% joking, but in that case, have everyone lock their phones in a tiny locker shelf thing and wand everyone with a nonlinear junction detector. If we get to the point in technology and battery capability where camera glasses are comp
937.
by walrus01 4mo ago
I think this can already be implemented through a fairly mundane thin client approach, such as Dell/Wyse type thin clients, citrix stuff, or an ordinary x86-64 desktop PC setup with an absolute barebones OS that connects a graphical de
938.
by walrus01 4mo ago
I'm quite a bit older than you, old enough that I remember learning to touch type in elementary school on Apple IIe and IIgs desktop computers. It's not reasonable these days to expect people to hand write a 4, 6, 8 page length es
939.
by walrus01 4mo ago
If I remember right, there have been several Android applications that show the battery level of AirPods since at least 2021. For essential features in addition to being connected as an ordinary Bluetooth audio output and audio input device
940.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Pretty sure that augmented reality glasses, and things in the category of the meta glasses with built-in camera are already banned in most academic test environments, by a blanket policy prohibiting the use of any camera in the room.
941.
by walrus01 4mo ago
The same method that any test given in the last 150 years has done to prevent people from using cheat sheets or similar, by having roaming proctors in the room? Or policies like certain models of HP or TI graphing calculator only allowed on
942.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Typewriters are an expensive and niche item these days, due to no longer being manufactured, and the good ones being collected by weird nerds. Sort of like buying a 40-year-old vinyl turntable that is in good and usable condition.
943.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Computers good enough to run libreoffice writer or the equivalent and print to a networked laser are thrown in the ewaste trash all the time , the cost really would be in the labor and somewhat custom software setup. Could also reuse old f
944.
by walrus01 4mo ago
I would bet good money, statistically, that forcing hand written tests with pen and paper is much more likely to disadvantage students with a medically documented physical disability than you are to encounter someone who can't type at
945.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Lots of ways to disable USB ports in bios and at the operating system level, additionally have a proctor watching to be sure everyone is in a word processor. Heck, ewaste grade computers can run a basic word processor, fill all USB ports ex
946.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Why not?
947.
by walrus01 4mo ago
> In the AI era, tests are going to have to be in person and hand written. Forcing hand written should really not be necessary. It would be very cheap in terms of old computing hardware to set up a test room with old desktop PCs that hav
948.
by walrus01 4mo ago
I think my favorite part would be where they were unbolting entire seats and feeding them directly into industrial shredders. "Ford imported all of its first-generation Ford Transit Connect models as "passenger vehicles" by i
949.
by walrus01 4mo ago
From the link: "Batch processing contaminated the experiment. When the first few emails in a batch were obvious prompt injections, the agent became more suspicious of everything that followed. I had to change the setup so that each ema
950.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Person DDoSes themselves and then claims success... Uhhhh....
951.
by walrus01 4mo ago
> The act of pushing a mower around possesses an almost primordial appeal see also: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/1377293/patio-ma...
952.
by walrus01 4mo ago
I have already seen a number of people doing the math on what it would take for hardware to self host a Q8XL quantization of GLM5.2 shared between N numbers of people. There's additional advantages that everything you query, all of you
953.
by walrus01 4mo ago
It's not so much that they couldn't sell it, but adjusted for inflation to today's money, a well equipped Xerox Star workstation with reasonable amount of RAM, HDD ($20000+ in 1981 money), would be the equivalent of $70,000 i
954.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Zunicorn Zune-icorn? Zombicorn! I know of some actual in use Microsoft Zune that have outlasted many companies that were predicted to become unicorns.
955.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Now consider what will happen if your pattern of queries and context history triggers a pattern that makes it obvious it's some API key being used by multiple different entirely unrelated people on totally different things, or any othe
956.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Or a feasible/economical way to attempt to store the sum total of human written output, multi-petabytes of data (outside of the resources of the NSA, maybe), when a server with 6 x 36GB 10K RPM SCSI HDD in RAID-5 was high end, and its
957.
by walrus01 4mo ago
No, I'm not saying it's the exclusive and only measure (that would indeed be something we might see 20, 25 years ago), it's one of a myriad of discrete datapoints used to determine if an account is authentic or not. There&#x2
958.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Plenty of things are intentionally run at a loss (for years!) to gain market share and quantity of ongoing recurring users, or with expectation of ROI later on. Multiple generations of the Xbox hardware have been sold at a loss with the exp
959.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Respectfully, no, that's not how it works. You think the people running anti-fraud and anti-bot measures don't have tools that know the specific ipv4 and ipv6 CIDR ranges of every ASN that they categorize as hosting/colo prov
960.
by walrus01 4mo ago
Not going to work for very long or at any scale coming from datacenter/hosting provider IPs. Google "residential proxies for sale" for the tip of an iceberg of how they snowshoe the traffic.

More ›