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> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user. I wanted the information a…

Article is from May, there were a few posts about this topic (though not linking this exact article) back then but none seem to have generated any discussion. We have what, gen5 in…

> Around that time, Starlink’s satellite internet service was becoming widely available. Many of WJBTN’s potential clients asked why they shouldn’t just purchase that instead of a …

> I think we would be better off if people worked harder to prevent vulnerabilities before releasing the software. Pawn Stars meme: "Best I can do is people using glorified chatbot…

You are correct, most people who were trying to get from California to Maine or the reverse for the purpose of getting there would probably prefer to fly. Unless a ticket were sign…

> The management Ethernet port of a server, on which it listens for the IPMI protocol, is supposed to be connected only to a dedicated internal management network, which must be se…

> Shouldn't OSS be the first to benefit? OSS projects have in many cases been the first to be hurt by LLMs. As you note, LLMs are heavily trained on OSS code. This makes them very …

> and their software is horrible As a long-time GoPro owner who recently added an Insta360 X5 to his collection, I can't really see any meaningful difference in software horriblene…

Those power supplies often shipped with both a full cord input which was grounded but also a folding two-prong component that made it in to a wall wart and of course was not ground…

> The issue with a generic cord is that it won't connect the earth pin on those chargers. Nor does the two-prong "wall wart mode" tip many of them shipped with. The ground was only…

Those Apple chargers in fact use the C7/C8 connector to interface the plug adapter, so you can skip their official parts and use any compatible cord. I for years used a power cable…

> Hey, implementation, you're a computer! Strip them out automatically on the backend if you don't like them! This is one of my most hated categories of pet peeves, software that d…

> And if you're cycling them every day like this, they're not going to last more than 15~20 years. You can't make a blanket statement like that because it depends on a lot of varia…

> If you believe that adding lanes doesn't reduce congestion, then you must also believe that adding transit doesn't reduce congestion. The problem with road congestion is the numb…

> We don't care to coherently reflect the light; we just want to block it. The energy has to go somewhere. If you're not reflecting it you're absorbing it and you eventually have t…

> Sony actually allowed "OtherOS" until Geohot screwed it up for everybody and they locked it down. I recall exploits allowing some level of access to the RSX and other components …

> I'd almost rather have no AI whatsoever and have storage 1/10 the price of pre-AI times. Almost? ALMOST!?!?! If you handed me a button that would make it like LLMs had never exis…

> Hyperia is a fork of Hyper Terminal. I couldn't click fast enough, then discovered that "Hyper Terminal" has nothing to do with "HyperTerminal" and couldn't click "close tab" fas…

Because if I download a binary package I can then fully inspect it before installation and be sure it's actually what I intended to install. If it's actually a package for my chose…

I am currently at a customer site installing a brand new mainstream budget computer purchased off the shelf from a brick and mortar retailer (Microcenter PowerSpec B687) which has …

> But all that only makes sense if you own a domain name. I have a hard time believing the venn diagram of "has a need for an auth provider" and "has at least one domain name" isn'…

I'd be surprised if Cloud Key gets another revision, it's a dead product line as I see it. The main purpose was to provide an appliance alternative to running the controller on you…

Two reasons come to mind for me: 1. It's very common, especially in certain ecosystems like Python, for the system to depend on old versions of things in such a way that updating t…

That's why the article says "verify, not validate". Send an email, have a process for them to confirm they received it. If the user gets the email and completes the validation, the…

> in the end the Find My beacons have to resolve down to some common identifier otherwise the "an unknown device has been following you for 2 hours" warning would not work. Not rea…