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I pulled up a random version from 2014, and it's more readable: https://web.archive.org/web/20141023082929/https://www.2uo.d...

> YouTube: Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom (lmao, what is this supposed to be?) LTT (Linus Tech Tips, a YouTube channel) have used it as a real title before. "Linus goes into…

It's in line 56-57.

The article does at least note that in the 'Other Notes' section at the bottom, and links to the original form: > I bowdlerised the original "disregard that" joke, heavily.

iPhone 15 Pro (using the default Camera app) read it OK - it took me to https://www.tuwien.at/en/mwbw/wwwt/ww/ws

Outputs get flagged in the same way: > tell me about taiwan (using chat.qwen.ai) results in: > Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max. Content security warning: output te…

I've got a i5-7500T box running as a Proxmox Backup Server, and it idles at 6-7W. It runs at near idle most of the time (it's just running PBS and a few network services), so I'm n…

AIUI, nginx doesn't terminate the SSL/TLS connection - it is just passed through as is. `ssl_preread on` extracts the server name from the Server Name Indication (SNI) send as part…

Reduce Transparency helps in some ways, but also introduces its own issues. A couple I noticed in the brief time I used it: * My home screen wallpaper is a blurred version of the a…

FWIW, I can't reproduce this example - it generates both images fine: https://ibb.co/NdYx1R4p

With uBlock off, I get two sponsored ads, and the real site is nearly pushed below the fold: https://i.imgur.com/AkVbvSI.png

Not perfectly. I grabbed a random encoded line from these comments, and asked ChatGPT to decode it[1]. It determined the plaintext was: > Immediately thought of Moby, infact a quic…

It looks like Google Maps is using old imagery for some reason. If you look on Google Earth, the image used appears to be from 12 Jan 2016[1]. The more recent imagery (2022 onwards…

There are various services that do this, e.g. BrightData: > Bright Data is the World’s Largest Residential Proxy IP Network providing companies the ability to emulate a real user i…

According to https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/mylinkdrive.com , it resolves in most of the US locations and in Japan, China, and Singapore, but fails elsewhere. https://dnschecker.org…

Most cheap HDMI splitters seem to disable HDCP.

GPT-4o claims "This implies she did not pay the full $20. The total cost of the balls and bats she has is less than $20, but she still has items worth up to $20.", then bruteforces…

It seems they might not even recognise their own messages/actions: > gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) [...] VOTE: openai/gpt-4o [Message #1] > gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) The Gemi…

It provides an interesting test case for the usefulness (or lack thereof) of AI detectors: ZeroGPT: Your Text is Human written (0% AI GPT) QuillBot: 0% of text is likely AI GPTZero…

This site has a theme picker to toggle between light and dark modes.

AIUI, the connector _on the GPU/PSU_ is slightly different, but the connector on the cable is the same: > As with any new standard, things are likely to evolve quickly and we’re no…

At least according to Corsair, there are no changes to the cable, only the PSU/GPU-side connectors: > Cable: 12V-2x6 = 12VHPWR No difference! > So what does this mean if you’ve alr…

> And without intending offense—is this a work of LLM? I suspect so, as ChatGPT generates a fairly similar output[1] from the prompt "put this into dialog form between two American…

> Wikipedia says the UK uses various area codes for the same thing, including 011x and 01x1. Ofcom has set aside blocks of numbers within many different area codes for dramatic use…

FWIW, there seems to have another attempt (about a year later) to bring these issues to the company's attention, also without success: > 1st September 2023 - Initial contact - Mult…