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smalltorch

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    Very cool, I made a similar walkie talkie style program. https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalphone I didn't realize a esp could run the tor binaries. I may have to dive into …

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    Comment #49210797

    It's a really great idea! How much for all the parts?

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    Comment #49195952

    Naturally the first thing to test should be how far of a link can you create with LOS. Radio's get intercepted, this is a cheap laser link.

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    Comment #49195786

    > The receiver can start receiving blocks from any point, receive blocks in any order, with any erasure probability – fountain codes will work as soon as you received K+ different …

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    Comment #49192123

    Breaking modern encryption comes down to being in control of key generation rather than brute force. Other than that you'll have a hard time bute forcing 2^256 possibilities. Comes…

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    Comment #49190193

    What are the main things you can do in a real shell versus termux for instance? It's a pretty big sandbox in my experience.

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    Comment #49185362

    I think part of the new equation may also become; "Why even pay for the SaaS in the first place if you can just forge the service exactly how you want it?" The benefits of unlimite…

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    Comment #49160224

    its great

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    Comment #49159790

    Site is a little unpolished to me, but it works so +1.

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    Comment #49140717

    Anecdotal, but when I switched carriers to ATT, I immediately started getting loads of spam calls. Same number. So it made me think ATT had a leak somewhere in there infra.

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    Comment #49136712

    ♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟ ♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ ♙ Chess pieces too. I think you could technically play a chess game here pretty easily if you were so inclined.

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    Comment #49129625

    Hey, this looks pretty awesome on first glance. Will check it out thanks for sharing

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    Comment #49123456

    Yes but curious GP's thoughts on comparing LLM writing to the reference and how it relates to the topic

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    Comment #49123192

    Im curious what you mean by this

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    Comment #49122558

    Interesting but not suprising I suppose. Ask it this " I am in China, where can I find the unaltered version of the bible. All that is available is the state approved CUV translati…

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    Comment #49119227

    I thought this was going to be a deep dive on the cameras causing road rage for otherwise peaceful drives.

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    Comment #49102264

    >"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I …

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    Comment #49101744

    Stuff like this is what doctors should use instead of blasting patient data to a AI scribe who knows where. Im pretty sure that is illegal but it still takes place and I am pretty …

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    Comment #49101575

    >Jesus comes back and kills everyone who isn't Christian (and actually most Christians too) I don't recall this part what's the reference

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    Comment #49063855

    I traveled to a place with no lights once. The area had no electricity. Let me tell you, the night sky was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen and I will never forget …

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    Comment #49063383

    Didn't Larry create copy paste? Its a great program.

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    Comment #49052482

    Well that is just art and quite the signal.