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Ephera

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  • AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach

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  • Oh man, what the fuck. What I really don't like about this is that you assume some sort of motivation when someone submits a PR. When they provide a feature implementation, a bug fix or a configuration change, you assume that the way things were before did not work for the contributor. That it was so problematic, that they invested quite a bit of time to scratch their own itch.

    You simply can't look at a PR in complete isolation and just evaluate whether its changes are positive or not. On some level, you'll decide that, sure, if this user is better off with this change and it doesn't break anything, then might as well merge it.But there is no user here. It's going to include pointless changes that just need to look plausible enough, so that this bot can bolster its credibility.

  • Should pogs make a comeback?

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  • I can't imagine the kids of today finding pogs particularly interesting, when they've got smartphones in their pockets. Maybe if you equip the pogs with an NFC chip that ties into some online game to give you monsters or items or such. But yeah, even that's going to be a hard sell, unless the game happens to be Roblox or Fortnite.

  • Why you're probably stroking your cat completely wrong (and how to do it right)

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  • The face being preferrable kind of makes sense to me, since cats will often socialize by rubbing their heads against each other...

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • I mean, we're not talking about a clean or fresh or citrussy taste of perfumed soap. We're talking someone did the dishes with dish soap and didn't properly rinse afterwards. That's genuinely what I thought had happened when I learned of cilantro.

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • I mean, there can be multiple different gene variations. I have the soap thing and I can't remember tasting anything other than soap, although admittedly I haven't tried cilantro in isolation or in enough dishes to be able to tell for sure.

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • That would be a great scam. Just offer unparfumed soap and some of your customers will never know.

    I mean, those customers would also be entirely unlikely to want anything with cilantro in it, but you know, I'm sure there's someone you could fool.

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • Hmm, is that olive thing not a universal experience? I always figure the cooks are just too lazy to cut up the olives, which would help a lot.

    Well, and what also helps is to combine the olives with lots of different veggies. Don't just serve an olive-tomato salad, but rather throw in cucumber, bell pepper and garlic as well, along with maybe some beans, a bit of rosemary and thyme.

    I guess, the cooks have a hearty salad like that in mind, but then start bargaining whether they could leave out one or two veggies.And then they never figure out that, no, they cannot. You need a rich base flavour to compete with the olives, but then you want it to be light to balance out how heavy the olives are. Well, and a surefire way to get rich+light is just lots of different veggies.

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • I have a really weird one where shandy (beer mixed with lemonade) smells like rubber to me. Like when you rub a balloon really hard.

    You guys can smell balloons being rubbed, right? 😅

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • I think, people are largely not aware that genetic differences can affect the taste so much, so they just assume that everyone experiences the same taste, just with different preferences for different tastes.

    But yeah, when I learned that cumin is another candidate for genetic differences in taste perception, I also had to ask a friend to describe the taste, because I've never seen the taste described anywhere. For me, it just tastes extremely hollow, while it's apparently a rather rich taste for other folks...

  • My cat is trying to understand the future. Me too buddy. Me too.

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  • Damn, that's a thicc case then. Probably a good idea, though, when you give it to a kid, especially a kid trapped in VR...

  • Ultimate toaster design tier list

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  • Imagine having space for a toaster or an oven.– a pan lover

  • My cat is trying to understand the future. Me too buddy. Me too.

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  • Is that a VR Etch A Sketch? I'm not sure, I understand the future either...

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    Some People

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  • You can buy artificial diamonds for fairly cheap. Like, we're talking so cheap that they're put onto angle grinder discs.

    It's just propaganda/stupidity that folks continue to pay insane prices for mined diamonds. Well, in part it is the point, to spend a lot of money. If we didn't treat diamonds as expensive, we'd find something else to waste money on. It's not like diamonds were so beautiful or useful, that they were worth the price to begin with.

  • Lemmynsfw is down, possibly forever. The server is still serving images and videos though - if anyone wants to archive do it now!

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  • Yeah, I'm all for a place like that existing, but it really doesn't need to exist in my timeline, which I might scroll while I'm on the bus or such...

  • Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers

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  • They cause a huge amount of load, deteriorating the service for everyone else. I'm also guessing the time ranges in the graph, where there's no data, is when OP's server crashed from the load and had to restart.

    That kind of shit can easily trigger alerting and will look like a DDoS attack. I would be pissed, too, if I dropped everything to see why my server is going down and it's not even proper criminals, but rather just some silicon valley cunts.

  • Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers

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  • My best guess is that they don't just index things, but rather download straight from the internet when they need fresh training data. They can't really cache the whole internet after all...

  • Error handling in bash

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  • What I always find frustrating about that, is that even a colleague with much more Bash experience than me, will ask me what those options are, if I slap a set -euo pipefail or similar into there.

    I guess, I could prepare a snippet like in the article with proper comments instead:

     sh
        
set -e # exit on error
set -u # exit on unset variable
set -o pipefail # exit on errors in pipes

    Maybe with the whole trapping thing, too.

    But yeah, will have to remember to use that. Most Bash scripts start out as just quickly trying something out, so it's easy to forget setting the proper options...

  • Error handling in bash

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  • I don't have the Bash experience to argue against that, but from a general programming experience, I want things to crash as loudly as possible when anything unexpected happens. Otherwise, you might never spot it failing.

    Well, and nevermind that it could genuinely break things, if an intermediate step fails, but it continues running.

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    XXX

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  • You replied to the wrong guy, but I think they rather meant it as "unless you're using a password manager (...because password managers are generally capable of storing extra data)". 😅

    I mean, even if it can't store extra data in one entry, you could still create multiple entries for a single account and just name the entries similarly.

    And to give an example of a password manager intentionally kept so simple that, well, there is a solution, but it is somewhat choose-your-own-adventure: https://www.passwordstore.org/#organization(You can get GUIs for it, which may have a premade solution after all, for example: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.passwordstore.agrahn )