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- Comment on Louis Vuitton 3 minutes ago:
It was just sitting there.
- Comment on Louis Vuitton 4 hours ago:
Louis Button
- Comment on Works for me 15 hours ago:
That looks like it took some effort to set up.
Could have just taken an empty cardboard box and drawn a dresser on it.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 2 days ago:
Not buying it, unless there’s smoke involved at the end.
- Comment on The End of the Internet As We Know It 6 days ago:
There was a core flaw in the whole CPM model. This means the web has to find a different way to fund itself.
Sadly, it will cause a lot of pain, and it’s not clear what will be next.
- Comment on Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. 6 days ago:
Totally understandable.
If scanning to help send traffic to your website, that’s cool. If scanning to generate summaries that won’t send any traffic your way. No bueno.
Ultimately, it should be whatever most benefits users.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat 1 week ago:
Briar is Android-only and BitChat is iOS-only.
A quick search shows a few other cross-platform candidates: geckoandfly.com/…/chat-without-internet-connectio…
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 week ago:
- Comment on I wanted to do this for few years... 1 week ago:
A friend of the family from Hungary used to bring out home-made palinka in small 7Up bottles to sneak them past customs. He said they would drink a few shots before and after every meal. Said that was how Hungarians became the highest per-capita meat-eating country in Europe.
I just remember it burning all the way down. The recipe I mentioned was more of a sweet liqueur and with lower risk of near-fatal distillation mishaps.
Will have to look into maceration. Thanks for the tip!
- Comment on I wanted to do this for few years... 1 week ago:
My late-father once told me about a recipe he used when he was young, passed down to him by his old uncle.
Got a bunch of black plums (but he said any fruit could be used). Washed them, then put them whole in a big, glass jar with a screw top lid. The fruit was layered with sugar. Lots of sugar. Closed the lid and left it all out in the sun for a month. It fermented and turned into mush.
Brought it in and sifted out the solids. Left a lot of pulp. Mixed it with plain vodka and decanted it into smaller dark bottles with clip tops. Aged it for six months in the dark. After that, kept it in the freezer. 10+ years later, it still tasted amazing.
This post is inspiring me to try again. Thinking peach this time.
- Comment on How to combat large amounts of Ai scrapers 1 week ago:
If nginx, here’s an open-source blocker/honeypot: github.com/raminf/RoboNope-nginx
If you have it set up to be proxied or hosted by Cloudflare, they have their own solution: blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Absolute horseshit. Bulbs don’t have microphones. If they did, any junior security hacker could sniff out the traffic and post about it for cred.
The article quickly pivots to TP-Link and other devices exposing certificates. That has nothing to do with surveillance and everything to do with incompetent programming. Then it swings over to Matter and makes a bunch of incorrect assertion I don’t even care to correct. Also, all the links are to articles on the same site, every single one of which is easily refutable crap.
Yes, there are privacy tradeoffs with connected devices, but this article is nothing but hot clickbait garbage.
- Comment on Cloudflare’s New Tool Lets Sites Charge AI Crawlers 2 weeks ago:
I have friends working on related tech.
We shouldn’t go all knee-jerk on this one. It’s a solid first pass at allowing copyright owners to assert control over their own creations and getting paid for their work.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 2 weeks ago:
They’ve already got it mapped out.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
ILL is the older system, where you make the request to the library and they go try to find it.
There’s a newer “Link+” service where you can do the search yourself and request delivery to specific branches. Supported by a lot of member libraries, for example: sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/103121
In our library system, they don’t put Link+ holds with normal holds. You have to go ask someone to look. We get an email that it’s arrived and we have 3 days to pick it up.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 2 weeks ago:
He already has a nickname. Behold “Young Cardamom:” youtu.be/DZ1OblYm5YY
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 2 weeks ago:
My car needed some repair work. Insurance set me up for a rental with Hertz who told me not to pay for bridge tolls with my own car’s transponder. When I take the car back, they tell me I’ll be invoiced later for the tolls. Had 4 toll crossings which ordinarily would come to less than $30 (even less if I had used the transponder).
A month later, the Hertz charges show up: $77 (including ‘processing fee’). Called and complained. They said they’d look into it. Never heard back.
Not using them again.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 weeks ago:
Half of California:
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- Comment on Microsoft’s new genAI model to power agents in Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
On-device AI is the way to go. No privacy leak. Doesn’t have server and networking costs.
This specific use case (looking things up in Start menu and settings) is a good one, since finding out which setting to tweak is a major PITA.
Apple just announced at WWDC embedding Foundation Models on phones. Except they will allow apps to access them and give them custom prompts. This doesn’t go quite as far.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 3 weeks ago:
Similar to other apps, CoverDrop only provides limited protection on smartphones that are fully compromised by malware, e.g., Pegasus, which can record the screen content and user actions.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s fun to bash on Gates, but it’s also bullshit. Dave Cutler worked on at least two major operating systems. He’s way up there in the Hall of Fame.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s fun to bash on Gates, but it’s also bullshit. Dave Cutler worked on at least two major operating systems. He’s way up there in the Hall of Fame.
- Comment on How to get rid of swollen batteries? 3 weeks ago:
Look up local “Hazardous Waste” and “E-waste” disposal. Some electronics repair shops will take them too.
- Comment on How to get rid of swollen batteries? 3 weeks ago:
Batteries shouldn’t go into garbage because they can and will leak or explode. We have a regular recycling service around here, but they don’t take many kinds of batteries (including lithium ones).
There’s a county “hazardous waste” service that takes things like paint and old fuel for generators. They take some things but not others. There’s also a separate “e-waste” service. Last time I had a few things to drop off, I had to call to find which ones would take a specific type of battery.
I’ve got the same Anker recall. Will be calling around next week to find which place will take them.
- Comment on How LLMs could be insider threats 3 weeks ago:
Alarming, yet like an episode of a sitcom.
- Comment on BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of range 3 weeks ago:
Charging to 80% in 12 minutes with regular chargers or special ones? If it requires upgrading chargers, adoption may be slow.
- Comment on libxml2 Maintainer Ends Embargoed Vulnerability Reports, Citing Unsustainable Burden 3 weeks ago:
They could replace the whole article with:
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 3 weeks ago:
Spider.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting 3 weeks ago:
They were doing this a decade ago, to help track app marketing campaigns.
IIRC, it turned out you could get pretty close to uniquely identifying a device with permutations on only 7 attributes. The problem is if you install a plugin to return false data, it could break non-malicious websites, like running games or data visualizations.
