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halifaxbeard

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About halifaxbeard

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48739132

    https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investig... Non consensual adult content, at that. Truly makes me wonder if xAI/Cursor will honour the spirit of enterprise agre…

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    Comment #48281936

    Do children that are the product of sexual assault count?

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    Comment #48136915

    This is really poor form given that Anthropic is going around getting all kinds of public goodwill for finding CVEs in other people’s products.

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    Comment #48136803

    > Fixed: HTTP request smuggling attack vector > Fixed: missing bounds check in maliciously-crafted Blob deserialization > Fixed: integer overflow in IPC advanced serialization mode…

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    Comment #48135477

    Any plans to issue a CVE for this HTTP request smuggling attack vector fixed in the latest bun release? https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/29732

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    Comment #47362914

    Wow, I was spoiled building firmware for my ARM boards then (building, not developing). Marvell has a source available DDR driver that actually takes care of training on a few of t…

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    Comment #46651086

    > 8 lets me refresh weekly and have a fixed day of the week to check whether there was some API 429 timeout There’s your answer. 6 days means on a long enough enough timeframe the …

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    Comment #45983954

    At this point I’m not convinced that Gemini 3 Pro was post-trained on data Google had permission to use, going by the myriad of issues on the Gemini CLI tracker around Google AI/Go…

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    Comment #45933573

    I think OP is wrong in their hypothesis based on the logs they share and the root cause AWS support provided them. I think the promotion fails to happen and then an external watchd…

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    Comment #45905803

    How would you propose we address the therapist shortage then?

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    Comment #45623439

    If the universe is closed and knowable, free will can't exist. Fortunately, Heisenberg left the door open.

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    Comment #45189995

    unironically, this is such an elegant way to express ray marching https://github.com/cedardb/DOOMQL/blob/f14b5ef9ef0b23045376b...

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    Comment #45042536

    The hygroscopic nature of hydraulic fluid is there for the same reason it is in car brake fluid- it's better to evenly distribute water throughout the fluid, than to have it accumu…

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    Comment #45004475

    the log stays on kafka for replay until your per log retention settings delete it

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    Comment #44744779

    This makes me really wonder about the relationship between Open WebUI & Ollama

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    Open WebUI's Gamble: "Your BSD code is ours unless you say no"

    tl;dr - story old as time- OSS project experiences white-boxing, then moves away from an OSI license. * pre v0.6.6 the project was BSD-3 licensed * v0.6.6 was released under BSD-3 …

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    Comment #43726938

    OFS was a drop in replacement for EFS and tbh it's insanely good value for the problem space.

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    Comment #43601155

    I think it's disingenuous to suggest they're putting themselves at a disadvantage with an RTX 3090, especially in a comparison to an inferior product that isn't even shipping yet. …

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    Comment #43348003

    At the beginning of my career, I merely found it funny. Now I find it relatable. (don't install a signal handler in Python for SIGSEGV, especially if it's being triggered by C you'…

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    Comment #43043591

    more surprising is there's no way for them to delete it from the flatpak registry https://pagure.io/releng/issue/12586#comment-955583

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    Comment #42999702

    "first gen" Model 3s didn't have an emergency rear door release for when the electrical one failed. they've since added that to more recent generations. but- a car company that doe…

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    Comment #41696841

    I recently explained my personal beliefs around how you square free-will and determinism (and subsequently consciousness) to GPT-4 and it told me this was the more formal name for …

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    Comment #41696601

    I had to solve a similar problem in Go once, partially to scratch an itch and partially to speed things up. The S3 AWS SDK has support for doing chunked/parallel downloads if you c…

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    Comment #40751770

    Reminds me of a bug I fixed in yamux, simply because of how long I've had to deal with it. Bug existed for as long as yamux did. (yamux is used by hashicorp for stream muxing every…