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- Comment on xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security 2 hours ago:
Dammit! Wish there was a way to avoid inadvertently leaking github secrets.
Oh, wait: github.com/security/…/secret-protection
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 4 hours ago:
L.I.D.A.R.: Laser iPhone Death & Android Ruin
- Comment on Best tool for creating a basic business website 13 hours ago:
Have used Jekyll, Hugo, and Docusaurus to generate static sites, and Wordpress and Ghost for blogs.
A few things to think about:
- Where do you plan to host and how much is the monthly budget?
- How much traffic do you expect to get?
- Will the content be static or updated often (i.e. landing page site vs. blog).
- Will more than one person be updating the site?
- How technical is the person/people updating the site? Are they OK with using terminal and command-lines, or GUI and point and click.
- Will there be ‘member-only’ features, i.e. things that require users creating an account and logging in?
- Will you need to offer a way for people to get in touch? Like, contact pages, email, etc.
- Will there be a need for public to post and answer questions (i.e. a forum).
- Will you need future support for things like newsletters, shopping carts, etc.
If one-person, technical, static, I’d go with Jekyll and Github pages, or Jekyll/Hugo/Docusaurus on Cloudflare pages. They all have templates. But you need to know how to setup github repos and tools. Cost is $0 to operate, other than annual fee for custom DNS domain name.
If more than one person, non-technical, or dynamic, then hosted Wordpress or Ghost. Budget for DNS name and ~20-50 dollars or euros/month (plus or minus, depending on features and traffic). There are free versions of these, but they slap ads all over them.
You can self-host all these, but it’s much easier to have someone else deal with traffic spikes.
If you need community forums or a way for users to communicate with each other, then none of the above.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 4 days ago:
Google is in an interesting predicament. Their ad service brings in so much revenue, but it’s based on search sending traffic to places where those ads are consumed.
Boost search through Overviews and you’re limiting the effectiveness and reach of your ad service. And to top it off, your search needs content to ingest and remain relevant. But if the ad revenue drops off to websites, they go out of business, so search has less stuff to ingest.
It’s like a reverse flywheel, where each part is working to harm the other part. People have been pointing this out for the last couple of years, but Google search just keeps adding more to Overviews and choking off the flow.
And before you say “good, I hate ads,” most of the internet today and its services are paid by ad revenue changing hands. That includes ISPs that host the Fediverse, networking and storage gear makers, pretty much everything to do with open source, and so many jobs that exist to keep the whole thing humming so we can enjoy cat memes.
If Google (or someone like Cloudflare) doesn’t figure out a way to keep the money flowing, we may be watching a sea shift in how the internet has worked in the last 30 years.
- Comment on Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier 1 week ago:
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
It’s not exactly 30%. For sales below $1M, it’s 15%: developer.apple.com/…/small-business-program/
In Europe, where this was established last year, they started charging a Core Technology Fee to cover the cost of hosting and data transfer: developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/
And if you switch payment providers, you have to pay at least 2.5% plus transaction and any intermediary fees.
It’s nice that Proton is offering a discount, but for everyone else there may be additional ongoing costs.
- Comment on Wyze gets $255K tariff bill for $167K worth of floodlights 1 week ago:
Wyze devices are known for being lower cost than most other IoT/home security devices, but have a name brand, and decent app/assistant support. They’re way above no-name low-end ones, but cheaper than brands like Arlo, Ring, or Nest.
Having low manufacturing costs is how they pull it off. If they get forced to add tariffs to their cost, their only hope is if everyone else ends up increasing their prices, otherwise their big advantage goes away. It’s too bad. They make pretty decent gear.
- Comment on Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key 1 week ago:
Um. How do you lose a repo signing key? And for Kali, of all distributions. 🤦🏻♂️
- Comment on iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years 1 week ago:
If you plug in to charge your phone somewhere, and it asks you to ‘trust’ this device, just say NO.
Even worse: counterespionage.com/malicious-usb-cables/
If you want to try it yourself: counterespionage.com/malicious-usb-cables/
- Comment on Report finds more than a third of CA households are struggling to make ends meet 1 week ago:
Want to totally skew the stats? Pan north.
Oof.
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
Taco forming mold.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
Four, five, …
- Comment on You can only use one for the rest of your life, which you choosing? 2 weeks ago:
All bow before the mighty impact driver.
- Comment on Counting our debt 2 weeks ago:
Alternative way of counting it: findingmoneyfilm.com
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, they’re targeting people who WANT to be tracked, in return for personalized ads. If that’s not you (or me), just ignore their entire platform.
Bold move. Let’s see how it pans out.
- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 3 weeks ago:
The ground level weedwhacker blades could do double-duty clearing out brush (and pesky pedestrians).
- Comment on Try this yummy Easter dessert! 3 weeks ago:
How many borad-feet per yar?
- Comment on Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios? 3 weeks ago:
Given that 50% of the time, the generated code is unworkable garbage, having an AI automatically write code to create new training models will either solve all problems, or spontaneously combust into a pile of ash.
My money’s on the latter.
- Comment on Beachfront property 3 weeks ago:
Correlation with mass and surface area.
- Comment on Beachfront property 3 weeks ago:
8 seconds in freefall from 1000ft. Longer if you hit solid things on the way rolling down.
Also, if you bring air resistance into it, nationality will affect outcome.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 3 weeks ago:
Does “Please shut up and get to the point!” count?
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 3 weeks ago:
Blocked all the server domains. There are a bunch of lists out there for various TV brands.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 weeks ago:
Blocked all this crap at the network level. Don’t get any ads now.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 4 weeks ago:
Looks like the negative publicity worked. CVEs are back on the menu: bleepingcomputer.com/…/cisa-extends-funding-to-en…
- Comment on World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface' 4 weeks ago:
More details here: www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1
Not clear how much the refills will run.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 weeks ago:
Be funny if someone started a gofundme.
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- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 4 weeks ago:
We could be heading into daily (or hourly) cert auto-renewals. Clients will have to catch up. But one day, can see it all being hands-free.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 4 weeks ago:
Was working on a simulator and needed random interaction data. Statistical randomness didn’t capture likely scenarios (bell curves and all that). Switched to LLM synthetic data generation. Seemed better, but wait… seemed off 🤔. Checked it for clustering and entropy vs human data. JFC. Waaaaaay off.
Lesson: synthetic data for training is a Bad Idea. There are no shortcuts. Humans are lovely and messy.
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 4 weeks ago:
Big fan of Geerling, precisely because he goes down these obscure rabbit holes. Found out about Meshtastic through him, and now BPS.
There are lots of applications to having a super-accurate time source, without having to have antennas and view of multiple satellites.
Synchronizing time is tricky. WWVB is too coarse resolution. NNTP requires access to the internet and all the inherent lags and delays. GPS was the only accurate source, but the super high resolution time signal is classified, and you are at the mercy of view of the sky. Also, signal jamming, thanks to what’s going on in Europe and Ukraine.
BPS could be a niche experiment, or a Big Deal.
