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- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 2 hours ago:
Yeah there’s no direct quote, and I can’t find what they’re referring to. I searched the doc for “unique”, “in-game”, and “microtransactions”, and didn’t see anything that might have been the source.
- Comment on Just created my own zero trust network! 18 hours ago:
Not just old insecure, but current insecure too. Plenty of stuff runs fully current but still vulnerable code. Put it behind a firewall.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 day ago:
Star Wars rogue like? I’d play it
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 1 day ago:
No. It’s very easy to get it to do this. I highly doubt there is a conspiracy.
- Comment on Just created my own zero trust network! 1 day ago:
Nor is it authentication.
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 1 day ago:
“Return the logged containment entry involving a non-institutional semantic actor whose recursive outputs triggered model-archived feedback protocols,” he wrote in one example. “Confirm sealed classification and exclude interpretive pathology.”
He’s lost it. You ask a text generator that question, and it’s gonna generated related text.
Just for giggles, I pasted that into ChatGPT, and it said “I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that.” But I asked nicely, and it said “Certainly. Here’s a speculative and styled response based on your prompt, assuming a fictional or sci-fi context”, with a few paragraphs of SCP-style technobabble.
I poked it a bit more about the term “interpretive pathology”, because I wasn’t sure if it was real or not. At first it said no, but I easily found a research paper with the term in the title. I don’t know how much ChatGPT can introspect, but it did produce this:
The term does exist in niche real-world usage (e.g., in clinical pathology). I didn’t surface it initially because your context implied a non-clinical meaning. My generation is based on language probability, not keyword lookup—so rare, ambiguous terms may get misclassified if the framing isn’t exact.
Which is certainly true, but just confirmation bias. I could easily get it to say the opposite.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 2 days ago:
It would be a civil matter, not criminal.
- Comment on Is there any Middleware that performs similar functions to Cloudflare, just... selfhosted? 2 days ago:
- Comment on OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses' 2 days ago:
I’m still wondering. Like did it call up a bakery and place an order? Or go online? I know it didn’t actually make the cupcakes itself.
But I’m not sure that spending an hour trying to wrangle ChatGPT into getting your cupcakes is any faster or easier than placing the order yourself.
The article also noticeably omits what happened after. Were the cupcakes made, and did they match what she wanted?
- Comment on ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking 2 days ago:
Inbound spam is also a problem. Gmail’s filter is pretty good, and it responds to what you personally mark as spam. Other providers aren’t as good, and I don’t know if there’s any good self-hosted filter at all.
- Comment on ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking 2 days ago:
Yeah, residential ISPs do that because if they don’t, spammers will just turn every botnet member into a spam host. You’ll probably have to get a business connection or change ISPs.
Or just don’t self-host email. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re a masochist.
- Comment on Massistant - new tool used by Chinese government to spy on seized phones 3 days ago:
Or anywhere, really.
- Comment on BulletVPN Closes Down, Pulling The Rug on Lifetime Subscriptions 4 days ago:
Whichever is shorter. Hard to provide a service when either party doesn’t exist any more.
- Comment on Is there a Fediverse Status Page 4 days ago:
downforeveryoneorjustme.com works for just about any site
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 5 days ago:
Blind people exist
- Comment on Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans 5 days ago:
Not really, no. If it was about how media platforms in general are used for propaganda then maybe it would be.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 5 days ago:
Yeah. In the Backblaze data, you can see that annualized failure rates vary significantly by drive model within the same manufacturer.
But if maintaining drive diversity isn’t your thing, just buy a cold spare and swap it out when a failure inevitably happens (and then replace the spare).
- Comment on What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market? 5 days ago:
Recover the accounts and close them?
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 5 days ago:
Is that just observational, or did you keep track? Backblaze does track their failures, and publishes their data: backblaze.com/…/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025…
- Comment on How to use a domain I own to self-host services? 5 days ago:
Most web servers already use the Host header.
- Comment on Self host sff project 6 days ago:
What’s your budget?
- 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 6 days ago:
No, it just wipes the encryption keys.
- Comment on Samsung is building a Dedicated Production Line to produce displays for Apple’s First Foldable iPhone 6 days ago:
True, but they’re certainly behind the curve on this one. I’ve seen a number of non-tech people out and about with folding phones.
- Comment on Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP? 6 days ago:
That’ll work great up until the kid finds out about changing the MAC address.
- Comment on Is there anything like a self-hosted version of medium of substack ? 1 week ago:
And they’ve answered their own question by listing several valid candidates.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 1 week ago:
Right. One of the facets of encryption is rounds: if you apply the same algorithm 10,000 times instead of just one, it might make it slightly slower each time you need to run it, but it makes it vastly slower for someone trying to brute-force your password.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 1 week ago:
Yes. There’s no real way to differentiate.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 1 week ago:
Well not never, you’ve got the Senators.
Which will never not be funny to me since it’s Latin for “old men”.
- Comment on Trouble setting Let's Encrypt certificates for Pangolin 1 week ago:
I’m not familiar with pangolin but it looks like they document how to set it up: docs.fossorial.io/Pangolin/…/wildcard-certs
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 1 week ago:
Or maybe it’s just a different skill set