Super tiny project release - do you have a Tor site? Do you want to make sure it's online? Do you also have any service that includes "Cron monitoring" or "scheduled task monitoring" (ex. OhDear)?
I'm getting ready to move my family away from Chrome because of the Manifest V3 rollout - my grandparents especially need always-on and enhanced-filtering-by-default adblocking for safety reasons. I'm a little worried about moving to Firefox because they're marketing a lot of new unrelated features (VPN? come on) that are likely to confuse my grandparents. Do y'all have suggestions for simple, family-friendly browsers? I'm looking at Vivaldi as a possibility here but open to anything, really.
@tweedge Firefox does have a "suggest features" checkbox you can turn off. You can also set the new-tab page to something that won't have a bunch of crap on it.
One thing I'd be careful of is that Firefox will periodically suggest that I might like to "refresh" it, which apparently means wiping out all customizations for no good reason. Awful, and a problem specifically for your use-case. Might be some way to disable that from popping up, though.
There's a little bit of electromagnetic interference that my sound card picks up from how much power my GPU is drawing. I'm supervising an embed/classify run right now for my Scam Assassin project (trying to tackle some of that last 0.06% FP rate!) and in my headphones I hear a slight click when the embedding stops if it comes across something that needs feedback. It's actually really helpful as a subtle audio cue lolol
Hey! I've been doing a lot of work stuff. Senior engineer slash engineering manager life. But I'm really fucking pumped that the FCC is moving to restore net neutrality in the US. You might be able to tell how pumped I am from the checks notes meme I just found on my NAS, that I made in 2017, when I felt there weren't enough net neutrality memes on the internet :)
This is a small and privately-run instance, so we don't have 24/7 moderation. If there's ever a problem w/ rule-violating content, please report it and I'll investigate when I can. Feel free to ping me anytime if you have questions/concerns!
Now that my class is wrapping up, time to try out some Seagate MACH.2 (read: dual actuator!) HDDs. The performance from these has been crazy - over 500 MB/s sustained sequential reads per drive. Comes with more power consumption, heat, and I assume failure rate... But looking forward to seeing how these perform in the real world.
@lucas If you're careful about how you're partitioning & know your access patterns, you "can" get 2x the IOPS. But I suspect that's easier said than done. I have the SATA version which presents as a single device, and you have to partition it into two halves (one for each actuator), then organize your data on each half. When each acutator is being accessed independently, you're golden! Anything requesting access from the same actuator is going to have the usual contention issues though.
If your company or marketing team or whatever sends me spam emails, I'm "that guy" that jumps through all the spam report/abuse report/etc. hoops to get you booted off whatever email service you're using. Fuck spam and fuck you. 😘
@tweedge Have you had any luck getting government enforcement involved? I'm fairly sure there used to be a way to report CAN-SPAM violations but I can't find it now.
Deleted buckets are showing up in my IDrive E2 account, including the file tree of all objects at the time that the bucket was deleted. When you attempt to download something, it fails. The buckets cannot be deleted and appear to be contributing to my storage quota (?)
No, I have no concerns about their system integrity right now, what would possibly compel you to ask? 🙃
Any folks using them for your object storage, be aware ...
Cursed knowledge thanks to my students: Have you ever thought "This code boring ah hell 💀" at work because if so my good software engineer TikTok-ers someone has made just the extension for you. Finally, we can watch Subway Surfers and Family Guy Funny Moments while we code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jirkavrba.subway-surfers
In case any of yin see the "AI programmer Devyn!!!" hype, here's how I popped that hype balloon ...
The same marketing site that claims "Devyn can not just solve coding problems, but create entire applications on its own from prompts" lists its most impressive performance on SWE bench - the ability to solve code problems from a GitHub issue - at 13%.
And that's super impressive compared to other LLMs.
But if I couldn't solve 87% of documented bugs, I'd be out of a fucking job, y'all.
Does anyone have tips & tricks for "poisoning the well" and making sure data brokers regurgitate a fake phone number when someone tries to buy my info?
I'm running the numbers on my fake phone number and it's not getting called/texted enough for me to continue spending money on it, especially now that I have to pay fees for some additional anti-spam compliance paperwork.
I've had the fake number on my website, LinkedIn, and Twitter for years - and it's caught some spam, but not much :/