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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots

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  • You can run your own AI locally if you have powerful enough equipment, so that you're not dependent on paying a monthly fee to a provider. Smaller quantized models work fine on consumer-grade GPUs with 16GB RAM.

    The major issue with AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI at the moment is that they're all subsidizing the price. Once they start charging what it actually costs, I think some of the hype will die off.

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  • It's not perfect, and I don't like the OS-level age verification, but in terms of privacy it's still far better than most other jurisdictions.

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  • I definitely agree with you!

    I'm using AI a little bit myself, but I'm an experienced developer and fully understand the code it's writing (and review all of it manually). I use it for tedious things, where I could do it myself but it'd take much longer. I don't let AI write commit messages or PR descriptions for me.

    At work, I reject AI slop PRs, but it's becoming harder since AI can submit so much more code than humans can, and there's people that are less stringent about code quality than I am. A lot of the issues affecting open-source projects are affecting proprietary code too. Amazon recently had to slow down with AI and get senior devs to review AI-written code because it was causing stability issues.

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  • Wow, that's a lot more complicated than I would have expected!

    This happens a lot in the USA, because of how much autonomy the states have. A lot of decisions are left up to individual states, and some states end up doing strange things and add all sorts of exceptions to their laws. Even basic things like sick leave aren't federally mandated (and only 19 or so out of the 50 states have mandated paid sick leave).

    Sometimes it can be a good thing though... For example, California has the strictest privacy laws in the country (CCPA and CPRA, similar to GDPR in Europe), and Illinois has very strict laws on usage of biometrics (like fingerprints and facial recognition). Those would have been extremely hard to approve nationwide. Things that go well in one state often end up rolling out to other states too.

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  • ... did you read the same article as everyone else? I can't tell if you're joking or not.

  • I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots

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  • I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots

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  • If your AI is making PRs without you, that's even worse.

    This is happening a lot more these days, with OpenClaw and its copycats. I'm seeing it at work too - bots submitting merge requests overnight based on items in their owners' todo lists.

  • (Github scam do not click links) Solana grant by GhoulStatesman

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  • I get maybe 5 or 10 emails about this Solana thing per week (to my spam folder of course), saying I've been granted some crypto that I need to claim. I'm not sure what they're actually trying to do - gain access to crypto wallets maybe?

  • He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative

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  • Wow, this is an unusually long, high quality article from NBC news. I didn't realise they have a great investigative unit.

  • noob questions seeking non-noob answers

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  • for example maybe AV1 takes even more off,

    I know this was just an example, but Intel 11th gen and newer has hardware acceleration for AV1.

    GPUs have their place, but they significantly increase power consumption, which is an issue in areas with high power prices.

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  • If you want to self-host email or websites, I'd use a VPS for those use cases. For websites, a $30/year VPS would be more than sufficient. You can try host at home, but hosting those things from a residential IP doesn't always work well.

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  • QuickSync is more than sufficient for most users. It can handle several concurrent 4K transcode. It's also not that common to have to transcode, unless you stream your media content when away from home a lot, and have poor upload speed.

    If going Intel, there's different models of Intel iGPU, so I'd go for the lowest-end GPU that has the higher end iGPU. My home server is a few years old and has an Intel Core i5 13500. The difference between the 13400 and 13500 looks small on paper, but the 13400 only has UHD Graphics 730 while the 13500 had UHD Graphics 770 which can handle double the number of concurrent transcodes.

    Intel iGPUs also support SR-IOV which lets you share one iGPU across multiple VMs. For example, if you have a Plex server on the host Linux system, and Blue Iris in a Windows Server VM, and both need to use hardware transcoding.

    I've heard AMD's onboard graphics are pretty good these days, but I haven't tried AMD CPUs on a server.

  • Tailscale serve and sharing devices

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  • You can share the node with them, and use an ACL to control which ports they have access to.

  • ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots

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  • This is a reason why you should actually read the Terms of Service and don't use the product if you don't agree with them. Niantic's ability to use your images like this would have been in the ToS.

    AI has made this a bit easier since you can copy and paste the ToS into an LLM and ask it summarize the terms and point out the most important clauses (and clauses that aren't typical)

  • Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used

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  • It's the default on Messenger so I'm not sure why it wasn't made the default on Instagram.

  • Would you?

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  • The computers they were throwing away were broken, and they didn't have a use for PC-133 RAM any more.

  • Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

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  • I'll be sure to subscribe while connected to my NordVPN account.

  • Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

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  • lol I still have a screenshot of Digg from when every article on the home page had this key in it.

  • Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

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  • They sold Google Domains to Squarespace.