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catoc

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    Comment #49249562

    Personally I would never trust a coding agent or agent harness from Meta. I agree with their open-source model approach, but actually trusting Meta… to protect my privacy and my da…

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    Comment #48965510

    I think most Amiga’s had 32-bit registers, but a 16-bit bus. (So to everything around the CPU they were 16-bit even though internally they could do 32-bit computations)

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    Comment #48960815

    That makes sense - thanks. Do you use hooks for this?

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    Comment #48960499

    Running Claude code 24/7 on a code base on that “second Mac” so you can always continue after a usage limit reset, from your main device or from your phone?

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    Comment #48960252

    I just cannot come up with a good AI-is-actually-24/7-helping-me-out use case. Please help: I wánt to need this!

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    Comment #48917717

    Scammers I can deal with - it’s the humbled and honoured actual humans that made me finally ditch LinkedIn, for…. nothing, just peace of mind and less vomiting

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    Comment #48917617

    Bloat-bearing - a term used to describe LLM generated texts; has a negative connotation

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    Comment #48833622

    Haha, nice. TIL. So all we need is ‘ controlled prompting’ to handle prompt injections :-)

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    Comment #48833359

    Exactly! Attempting to handle prompt injections by prompting the model (not to leak sensitive data), is like attempting to stop a fire by burning the area around it

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    Comment #48823538

    And then the secretary shared the conversation with 260 ‘partners’ and added everything you said to an LLM training corpus… So, NO, this is not “what secretaries were”

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    Comment #48720605

    Agreed. And even etymology agrees: Plagiarize comes from plagiarius , latin for ‘kidnapper’. You cannot kidnap yourself

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    Comment #48648710

    Yeah, the headline changed while I wrote my comment

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    Comment #48648579

    Age Verification is not about “saving kids from spying/social media”. Same as Regulatory Encryption Backdoors are not about “protecting kids from child predators” This is framing. …

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    Comment #48619221

    Which shares your personal data with over 200 “partners”… thanks, but no

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    Comment #48445223

    https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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    Comment #48263819

    So then you need to know distance / roundtrip-length within centimeter precision as well (below 29.98 cm for sub-nanosecond precision… to be precise). Since cm precision is often n…

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    Comment #48166286

    Then, since it’s about publishing (emails), they should have picked e-mprimatur (⌐⊙_⊙)

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    Comment #48120865

    That… is true - thanks for editing your comment to clarify The initial thread read like “.com domains are exclusive to US” which they of course aren’t

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    Comment #48120793

    It is not Source: own multiple, via EU registrar (Edit: Parent was edited after reply - parent statement is now correct)

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    Comment #48032423

    https://archive.ph/44z6b

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    Comment #47998249

    “Security through obscurity” has the connotation that it is the obscurity that achieves the security - which is bad. ”Security including obscurity“ is fine.

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    Comment #47925694

    Would you have any more info? I have both: adobe synctool + issues with smb shares

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    Comment #47633484

    Fair. And I my point was I really like the site! I promise to become lessvocal about the ads.

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    Comment #47632677

    Such a great personal project! These kind of things is what the ‘www’ was created for - good vibes! Why riddle it with ads?

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    Comment #47571765

    I know, always hard to tell on HN. Added the relevant declarative tag