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Comment · 3 months ago
One of my websites was hacked with this, luckily not one with any users at all.

They did this:

- Two admin accounts in the database.

- plugin dir: wp-content/plugins/wp-core with remote command-execution web shell wp-core-[12 random chars].php

- firewall.php backdoor in mu-plugins dir with admin on GET ?sergei

- cache-seo-helper.php backdoor

- fixer.php which renames the wordpress version number to one which is patched.

I have decided to give up on Wordpress.

Comment · 3 months ago
I really like LM Studio, but this direction of cloud and trust. I think you've totally blown it with a lot of people, because now they'll be forced to remember another million times they've heard a company say the same kind of thing; 'Zero Data Retention' and 'never training on your data'.

I had a quick browse through your site, but I could not see where you are based, but I get whiffs of more American 'trust me, bro' exports which I've been eye rolling at for two decades now.

Comment · 3 months ago
I think it's the high-heat manufacturing process which kills all microbes. Spores would be unaffected by aluminium foil, so it's defo something else like heat is my thoughts - basically being sterilised during manufacturing.
Comment · 3 months ago
Costco sell two different types of foil, one is shorter and has blue packaging and the other is longer and has red packaging... It's the red one which is much thicker.
Comment · 3 months ago
Another thing not mentioned on there about aluminium foil is how clean it is. We work with a laminar flow hood and pull a fresh layer of foil anytime we are working to create a clean base to work on. I can guarantee you that if you run a swab over a fresh sheet of foil and smear it onto sterile nutrient agar that it won't grow anything - that said, we use costco foil which is thicker gauge and not the budget thinner stuff which is definitely inferior.
Comment · 3 months ago
That's the one. I used a bit of creative freedom when describing a mouse with an EV sports car; it was a rat and an EV taxi.
Comment · 3 months ago
I even seen a mouse on youtube with it's own tiny EV sports car driving about!
Comment · 4 months ago
I've been using HN for around 10 years, but in 2024 I really started to dislike it... Not for the people on it, but the people running it. Now to me it's like Google, plenty of people feel like they are stuck in it even though they utterly despise it.
Comment · 4 months ago
Utterly brazen they are. You'd think they'd be keeping a low profile after the pulled all of those movies, but no - they are doubling down on the asshattery.
Comment · 4 months ago
Very first thing I asked it got flagged too... Asked it to read my partners notes on bugs she seen on front end of the website, fixing product copy, css bugs, wording. And yep, flagged. Useless.
Comment · 4 months ago
True, but Trump & Co. did give them permission to let Americans continue using it, but Anthropic turned that down (for now at least...).

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