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Comment · 15 days ago

As I understand it. There is research published which suggests HIBP type password checking schemes DO give meaningful signal to potential attackers. EG https://d0nut.medium.com/attacks-on-applications-of-k-anonym... and http://cablej.io/blog/k-anonymity/

It is absolutely not OK to participate in this scheme on a users behalf without their affirmative consent. You simply cant know the context of people's situations.

Even the information that there likely ARE some hits from my IP is a huge signal leak, to me.

Iv been using HA for a very long time and it feels like a betrayal of trust to me.

Comment · 25 days ago

Including the wide kind like (Franklin Sensors ProSensor M210)?

Comment · 1 month ago

Apply stabilization to these would be a big improvement. Crazy what we tolerated back then.

Comment · 2 months ago

https://imgur.com/a/DXZI1SJ since xcancel seems to have been killed by x, and the creator for some reason posted it only on X and linkedin.

Comment · 2 months ago

Reminds me of The Man Who Planted Trees: https://vimeo.com/829168309

Comment · 2 months ago

There is a Novel about this: Manna, by Marchall Brian. Their website that used to host it is down but here is the wayback version from 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190312023349/http://marshallbr...

In it, employees wore headsets run by the AI which instruct them task by task:

"Jane, when you are through with this customer, please close your register. Then we will clean the women's restroom."

Manna: "Place the 'wet floor' warning cone outside the door please."

When Jane completed the task, she would speak the word "OK" into her headset and Manna moved to the next step in the restroom cleaning procedure.

Manna: "Please block the door open with the door stop."

Jane: "OK."

Manna: "Please retrieve the bucket and mop from the supply closet."

Jane: "OK."

Comment · 3 months ago

Reminds me a little of contact (https://www.ludozofi.com/home/games/contact/)

Comment · 3 months ago

I drove an i3 (Tiny sporty electric BMW) for a while, and it really changed how I see this kind of thing. The noise your car makes .. is wasted energy. You are blaring and bragging about your inefficiencies. That tiny i3 will out-accelerate you at every light, and you will be making a ton of noise, while it is nearly silent.

Car people seem to have got 'louder' and 'stronger' correlated in their heads, but they are NOT.

Comment · 4 months ago

I work with claude every day, and instantly recognized its voice; but at the same time, as a web dev from the late 90s who traveled kicking and screaming through all of these ages, I really enjoyed the article anyway. I don't have a visceral disgust with claude's tone as some others here seem to. I'm glad you wrote it and I plan to share it with a friend.

Comment · 4 months ago

There is a procedure common in mail sending where you ALMOST do this. You connect to their mail server, tell it you have a message for them, and wait to see if it rejects you or accepts the message. Then you disconnect without actually sending the message. I wonder if this is some kind of confusion among the devs behind this, or some benefit to really sending the message that I can't think of. Does it contain a tracking pixel or anything?

Comment · 5 months ago

I know someone personally that received a fake $100 bill from a USBank ATM.

Comment · 6 months ago

  | I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

  ● Drive. The car needs to be at the car wash.

Wonder if this is just randomness because its an LLM, or if you have different settings than me?

Comment · 6 months ago

I encountered this as well. If you only send a few email verification emails, the bounce rate is high. The only way to fix is to email the verified accounts regularly to push the stat on that side of the equation.

Comment · 8 months ago

The use of init.defaultBranch here is really problematic, because different repositories may use a different name for their default, and this is a global (your home directory scope) setting you have to pre-set.

I have an alias I use called git default which works like this:

  default = !git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@'

then it becomes

  ..."$(git default)"...

This figures out the actual default from the origin.

Comment · 8 months ago

Wonder if the author is aware that in the 1970's during the gas shortages, GE developed an electric lawn tractor called Elec-Trak. See https://myelec-traks.com/E20.html It used DC attachments for everything, lawn mower blades (they sounded like an electric razor), chain saws, snow throwers, tillers, AC inverters etc etc. All powered by 6 golf cart batteries.

This build in the article reminds me of the one I owned for a while, was a lot of fun. Hope the kid has as much fun with theirs as I had with mine.