Posts by anonymous cat herder

Re: Scene

What's next, OpenClippy in the spirit of OpenClaw?

Re: What about username?

I've been doing this for years. It is also amusing to discover links between company brands when they share the email address internally.

To finesse the scheme I also use a prefix to determine which mailbox should receive it, so a.<company>@<domain> and b.<company>@<domain> are different mailboxes.

Re: Chatgpt was useful to me

I see that too. "Try looking in the settings for <whatever> and change it there". It's a good place to look, I've looked there already myself, and if the software had implemented it that's where it would logically be. It seems its memory of settings pages is as bad as mine. If you ask an ai with an agent like comet to then show you the page, it gets all confused and accuses me of having heard a rumour.

Re: Wrong usage

I find it quite good for asking about a subject where I don't know the right words to express the problem. The ability to refine the query with follow-on questions is invaluable when you['re not quite sure what you should be searching for. The other way I use it is to tidy up a messy piece of text I've written, where it is checking for accuracy, consistency and redundancy, not providing original input.

Re: Slack should ..

You could always run vaultwarden over a free cloudflare http tunnel reverse proxy. It's easier if you let cloudflare host the domain name too, but perfectly possible without.

I'm planning to do it if I ever leave plusnet too.

My guess is as soon as the exploit was leaked, the clock started ticking and they knew they had 2 weeks to successfuly weaponise, deploy and launch attacks containing the exploit. They only just made it in time; I probably would have missed the deadline.

Re: garbage in…

I am waiting for LLMs that can look at their own output, judge it against the original criteria, and iterate until it can give you a not-obviously-incorrect answer. I asked perplexity when this might happen and it said "they're working on it". To me it seems like an obvious next step; it's what I do all the time after all.

Apply this to coding and you get an agent that can write much better code - either by running it on a real environment or by performing (the lost art of) a dry run, then fixing any errors found. Hopefully it can then learn from the corrections it had to make, and become a better "works first time" coder, the ultimate stage of englightenment for a programmer.

Re: Just stop using the internet for most things.

and splodgeness?

Re: Minimal Impact

yes, but do you remember how much car theft was reduced when decent loocks and immobilisers became standard? Making it harder cools the whole ecosystem, even if it isn't a magic bullet that stops it entirely.

According to perplexity, "The standardisation of electronic immobilisers and improved locking systems has led to a dramatic reduction in car theft—by about 40–50% in the years following their widespread adoption, and by over 80% in the UK over two decades."

Re: "the new Command would protect all military networks from attacks"

But I very much doubt if the Army would let you work from home, they will want you on-site in the bunker. Shame really, there are a lot of keyboard warriors that could contribute otherwise.

Re: Just one thing

I like trucking, I like trucking

I like trucking and I like to truck

- Not The Nine O’Clock News

(err - was this your hedgehog?)

Re: Where is it?

I thought that was because Intel had stopped issuing updated drivers for the integrated GPU in the older ones, so MS couldn't approve them for new builds

Re: Wait .... What?!

Anyone else remember soldering up a DB25 parallel laplink cable?

He's got form - remember when he changed the predicted track of Hurricane Dorian?

Re: Not sure how superficial is the browser check

I wonder if that is why Firefox on Android has started regularly locking up when opening a page over the last month or two. Only solution I've found is to close it and start again.

Octopus lets you set the monthly payment on their web portal. Their "recommended" level ends up with them holding lots of your money, of course, but it let me select a more reasonable value and so far nothing bad has happened.

Re: Buried in the lede

Anyone can start a cult, but only the ones with a money angle seem to last. What we're seeing here is survival of the fittest at work.

I remember when we used to say that the other way round. Ahh, happy days, things were always better in the past.

Re: Jeez who cares??

If only there was some way the formatting style could be saved along with the files themselves, then every editor would be able to convert whatever keystrokes you use into the preferred representation for saving. Some sort of platform-independent editor config file perhaps?

Every (decent) code editor in existence can support .editorconfig and it makes the code look consistent whoever edits it. I find myself writing custom editorconfig files for all sorts of imported projects, just to preserve their historical, sometimes arcane, tab/space conventions.

Re: Can you not just fuck off?

If they priced it at $100 (online distribution only, no media costs) they would sell millions and make the same money back.

Those heatsink clips that need a quarter turn to release have caused me problems too. One time the tool I was using slipped and cut several tracks on the surface of the motherboard; caused a fun afternoon repairing them with a soldering iron that was far too large.

Re: "Block extract text"

I'd heard that was because doing a ring 0 transition for every GDI call was too slow. I never noticed it myself, but maybe they were looking to solve performance problems running games on nt/win95 when the platforms were merged.

Re: they may offer a worse experience on Google sites

I think there's something even more fundamental going on. Every field of human endeavour puts up barriers to keep out the uninitiated, you also see it in doctors, solicitors, biochemists, all the way back to witch doctors and religion.

According to BBC scam interceptors program, establishing a remote connection to the phone with e.g. anydesk is a fairly standard part of the script. OTP authenticators on a phone can be set to require a fingerprint before they generate the code; this is much harder to obtain without the local user's interaction and unlikely to be enforceable on a pc. The scammers then presumably use social engineering to bully the user into providing it anyway, but it gives the bank a plausible excuse to claim the user is culpable.

Re: "won the right to sue Meta"

they should compare notes with "Led By Donkeys" - satire in the same vein :-)

Re: Skimming the paper didn't help, it still sucks

HR's sole purpose is to protect the company from its employees, and legal liability arising as a consequence. Providing that data could give the employees ammunition against the company so HR will never willingly provide it.

Re: Not the sound issue.

I only caught parts of the semi final, but to my ear several of them sounded gemini-class flat, too. Is it a common problem in big events?

I use comskip on recordings, which detects adverts and generates a cut list so the player automatically jumps them. It's getting a bit long in the tooth though, and some broadcasters have learnt how to game the clues it uses to decide. Sounds like a perfect problem for deep learning; has anyone done one that can be used?

That's a fairly standard "security torx" pattern. The usual trick is to then put them at the bottom of a long narrow hole so a hex drive screwdriver with a torx security bit cannot be used, but you can get long reach security torx bits which solve the problem nicely.

Re: Rename it to "CrapPlot"

Could that be because github copilot which does that is charged separately? Why make them pay for one product when they will pay for two?