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I have a beanie with your name on it somewhere! It was free swag from the adhesives company.

>The biggest trap is the hallucinated citation The "biggest problem" being the one thing that is trivial to verify against concrete databases is a bit convenient don't you think? I…

https://xkcd.com/2170/

LXD uses dnsmasq to provide DHCP and DNS for containers I think? Viable container escape?

I delete the third party libraries and replace them with my own clean checkouts.

If you ever produce and share a signed link for e.g. S3, this link contains your access key ID in it. Turns out you can just slice and decode your Account ID out of that access key…

Deep in the abyss, the dark lord stirs

I was trying out an IDE plugin for local LLM integration, but it would just make totally insane edits instead of what I asked for. It turned out that the LLM-runner's default setti…

I've run Japanese windows software under Wine, and with no configuration it was a sea of crashy mojibake. With the right locale configured, it worked fine.

At the bottom of each issue is a huge amount of whitespace, then they've stuffed it with a bunch of @'s to notify users. https://i.imgur.com/LRotRlS.png The link goes to a typo-squ…

It's all in aid of some streetsweeper being able to add "contributor to X, Y, Z projects!" to their GitHub résumé. Before LLMs were a thing I also received worthless spelling-incor…

This means you should still have the email from legal@, right? In that case you can solve the mystery of how they managed to pass DMARC by sharing the headers from it.

This was not Google's decision, it was forced on them by the EU under their Digital Services Act: https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/17/developers-address-phone-numb... The same thing was…

We have that already, we call it "Stack Overflow"

Interestingly when I asked GPT-4o (at least that's what it said it was): >According to the instructions, which UnicodeCIDFont fonts should be used when generating PDFs? It replies:…

They've released their report now, 10 further certificates were mis-issued: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961406

The free tier now supports connecting to local AI models running on LM Studio or Ollama, but it still doesn't actually function without an internet connection. If you block access …

1x 3090 (350W power limit) already makes it feel like I'm running a fan heater under my desk, 5x would be nuts.

Japan has a finders' fee of 5-20%: https://www.police.pref.ehime.jp/foreigner/otoshimono/2.pdf

Except 100 yen stores which are actually 110 yen stores.

You can buy crypto on PayPal?? Our New Zealand version doesn't mention it either.