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Comment · 2 months ago
If you want AI to be useful it will eventually encounter untrusted content, such as via web search. I think things like web search should probably be run on a different sandboxed AI whose task is to write a summary that is then ingested by the main agent, similar to how existing sandboxing already works, but this would diminish the usefulness quite a bit.
Comment · 4 months ago
You don't have to buy from them, you can get third party hard drives. Although those are expensive too
Comment · 5 months ago
Most modern equipment bans inbound traffic that doesn't match an existing outbound traffic flow
Comment · 6 months ago
You can get around this by grabbing a wildcard certificate and then using a hard-to-guess subdomain.
Comment · 6 months ago
MacOS has a good CLI if you need to use it. There are CLI equivalents for a lot of the system setting/administration stuff.
Comment · 7 months ago
I think the dumb part is that it's not like decoding or encoding video becomes harder when there's more users. The effort to write code for encoding for a small service of 1000 users and a large service of 10 million users is the exact same. We really don't need middlemen extracting everything they can, which will drive up costs.
Comment · 7 months ago
I'm shocked there isn't more government regulation about this. You can't ban Bitcoin, but if you make it a massive pain to invest in it and make it difficult to convert between physical currency that would drive down a lot of demand.
Comment · 10 months ago
GitHub already has a program to scan for keys, since publishing Discord tokens by mistake used to get the token immediately revoked and a DM from the system account saying why
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been able to trigger a segfault in zsh with certain plugins, a directory with a lot of files/folders, and globs with a bunch of * characters.
Comment · 1 year ago
It was obvious Apple was going to bend the knee with that gold plaque.
Comment · 1 year ago
They mention it's compiled to WASM.
Comment · 1 year ago
If I had to describe it, Notion is if somehow managed to combine OneNote and Excel. Of interest is the fact that the "database" system stores each row as a page with the column values other than title stored in a special way. Of course, this also means that it doesn't scale at all, but I have seen some crazy use cases (an example is replacing Jira).
Comment · 1 year ago
You probably want to check before you clear cache
Comment · 1 year ago
GitHub was folded into Microsoft's "CoreAI" team. Not very confidence-inspiring.
Comment · 1 year ago
NPM is owned by GitHub and therefore Microsoft, who is too busy putting in Copilot into apps that have 0 reason to have any form of generative AI in them

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