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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

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  • I would have loved to have 32 MB RAM. I was stuck with a 486 with 16 MB RAM and 600ish MB HDD until 2003 or so, because we couldn't afford to upgrade. I think I upgraded to a second-hand Pentium 3 at that point, and upgraded the RAM with mismatched RAM modules (different brands, different capacities) salvaged from systems my school was throwing away.

    A simpler time. I miss it sometimes. Neither me (as a teenager) nor my parents had any money, but I did have enough free time to learn how to code and play shareware games. It gave me something to do that didn't cost much money. Over 20 years later and I'm still coding.

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  • At least this looks like it actually tried to do something.

    There was similar software for Windows, called SoftRAM. Turns out it didn't actually do anything. Their driver was just sample code from Microsoft, and the app reported fake RAM savings.

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  • This is so cursed that I want to try it out.

  • [beta] degoog - search engine aggregator

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  • I used to use Dogpile a lot in the late 1990s. Coincidentally it was a similar idea to this and SearxNG - it was a meta search engine that combined Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, AltaVista and a few others into one interface (no Google since it wasn't in widespread use yet).

  • BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace

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  • The Teslas that are made in China are noticeably higher quality than the ones made in the USA. Fewer panel gaps and better fit and finish.

    The only reason Teslas are decent quality is because the majority of them are made in China. Over 50% of Teslas are made in China, using over 90% local (Chinese) parts.

  • BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace

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  • No one will pay much for it because it's about to need a $15,000 battery,

    That's pretty rare though. Less than 5% of EVs need a battery replacement after 10 years (including those with defective batteries), and modern EV batteries should last at least 20 years, after which they're still estimated to have around 65-70% capacity.

  • U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

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  • What if the drafts were created using AI too?

    Code is often in a source control system of some sort, which tracks changes to the code (who changed it, when it was changed, and a description of what was changed). It's similar to having a lot of drafts.

    I don't think that could prove that a human wrote it, though.

    I think in cases like this, the author could prove they created the code/story/art/whatever by having a deep understanding of the material. That's how Michael Jackson defended against lawsuits saying he copied someone else's song - he described his songwriting process and could hum/beatbox every instrument in the track.

  • WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App

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  • I like scaled sort. It sorts posts by popularity relative to the size of the community, so that the feed is a mixture of both popular communities and small ones. It also seems more likely to include newer posts (eg I saw this post in my scaled feed).

  • Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

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  • Haha good point - maybe "generated by" is a better description?

  • Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

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  • I hate to say it, but there's a lot of "vibe coders" that use AI to write their code, then they (or someone else) use AI to review it. No human brains involved.

  • Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

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  • The article says:

    None of the tools produced exploitable SQL injection or cross-site scripting

    but I've seen exactly this. After years of not seeing any SQL injection vulnerabilities (due to the large increase in ORM usage plus the fact that pretty much every query library supports/uses prepared statements now), I caught one while reviewing vibe-coded code written generated by someone else.

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • It wasn't a dox attempt though. The blog just collected information that was already publicly available on other sites.

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • In this case, their CAPTCHA page intentionally included code to DoS a particular blog, sending a request to search for a random string every 300ms (search is very CPU-intensive). This was regardless of the archived site you were trying to view.

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • This is understandable, but at the same time, none of the anti-paywall lists are as good as archive.today. They actually have paid accounts at a bunch of paywalled sites, and use them when scraping.

  • Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

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  • Discord doesn't get as many clicks compared to the larger companies, since fewer people know about it. For articles like this, news publishers always list the most well-known brands.

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • I don't think 2008 really had a significant effect in Australia. I don't remember hearing much about it.

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • I think people don't realise that if AI fails, it's pretty much guaranteed to collapse the US economy.

  • HelixNotes - a local markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0)

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  • How does this differ from every other distribution method, though? You can just as easily do something malicious with an Appimage or Debian/rpm package.

  • Help Wanted: Accessing a Service With the Same FQDN Inside and Outside Local Network

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  • If you want to share something with just some people, they can create a Tailscale account and you can share it with them that way.

    For public access, accessing it using a domain that uses your public IP should work. Most routers let you do that ("hairpin NAT"). Although to be honest, most of my public facing things are on a VPS rather than on my home server. More reliable and a higher quality internet connection for a fairly cheap price per month.

  • Unifi Protect - Wife Approval Factor? +HA integration

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  • third party cameras won't support detection unless you also add a Unifi AI Port.

    Does Unifi not support ONVIF events? Seems like a pretty major missing feature if so. I guess they really do want to lock you into their ecosystem.