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The article provides zero evidence for this claim except "our low-volume (by their own measure) marketing campaign gets marked as spam by gmail".
Google has a v2 of the postmaster tools that are actually useful now? Awesome news! I totally missed that.
All v1 ever showed me as a small-time mail server admin was equivalent to "nothing to see here".
But v2 now actually shows me things like compliance status and user reported spam rate for my domains.
I made a patch that made it a multiplayer networked game where each player controlled the space of one airport. When I was doing that I remember being surprised how the entire game was written as a parser in lex (or maybe yacc? not sure anymore) not straight C.
I think it tells a lot about AI-generated art. People prompting the AI find it fascinating because they look at it with in the context of their internal thoughts and moods that led them to it. But the generated artwork itself doesn't communicate that context at all. A complete stranger will find it derivative and boring.
I'm guessing that looking at AI art prompted by your friend and family may be a middle road somewhere. So maybe the fact that you have such a positive opinion on AI art is because it's the people you know closely that are doing it.
They said "thanks, we'll look into it" and kept sending broken mail for years.
My guess is if you're a big enough player Google learns to ignore your broken DMARC config or somebody knows somebody on the inside who can add an exception. And then your mail gets delivered to @gmail.com just fine and that means it's working and wtf is this guy complaining about.
I hope "LLM thinks your name is gibberish" won't become the new "your name can't include invalid characters".
> While the victim is drowning [...] the attacker is doing something else.
In the past months some personal mail accounts on a mail server I administer were victim of something that looked similar to what's described here.
Hundreds of mails apparently originating from various (legit-looking) random public web services, support requests, issue trackers, web contact forms etc. For example, a good part of them was from Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (as in something like "thank you for filing a document #123 with us").
To make things even weirder, they were not sent directly to the address, but according to message headers were bounced through Google Groups (each time I checked the relevant group was already deleted). So as far as I can tell it was not the mail address hosted on my server that was being entered into those websites.
No phishing links, no attached malware, no short advertisements snuck into a text field etc. Just a huge amount of automated replies from "noreply@" legit entities.
I've seen several of these attacks and spent some time investigating them. To my knowledge these were not associated with any other malicious activity, like the author of the article mentions. If anything they were just a denial-of-service attack on a mail box (as in, making the human user trawl through garbage, the mail volume was far from saturating the server itself). What exactly would be a motivation for that I can't tell, except making the life of a small mail server admin even harder than it already is.
I'm pretty sure my old Dell XPS laptop with Windows 10 had pop-ups just like this.
"This device can run faster" or something.
They also seem to be spilling into HN [1].
Runaway AI agents? A meme I'm to old to understand?
I personally have on occasion added software rendered fonts into hand-drawn images. Sometimes instead of directly adding it with a text tool I would add it on a temporary layer and then trace it over by hand. This results in similar looking text with clean shapes and rough lines that fit better with the other parts of the drawing.
To me the only thing that stands out in the image is the view through the laundry shop windows. The line of laundry machines doesn't look aligned at a right angle to the window - given that the tiles in front of the window clearly establish perspective lines it's a mistake that seems hard to make and would be pretty apparent in early stages when drawing this.
In fact looking closely, the perspective of the building itself doesn't match the perspective of the fields behind it, but I can see myself doing something like this if it's not that noticeable and gives me better composition.
I thought they were AI because I suspected nobody would pay an illustrator/actually spend time making those illustrations for a story like this.
The fact that the whole text was AI came as a surprise. I did notice that weird inconsistency about feed pricing mentioned in another comment but just thought the author made an error or I misunderstood something.
I find it baffling that this would be cost effective. Maybe by dropping in a CPU core and software you save some design cost vs. a more specialized IC. But it must be more expensive per unit to manufacture in a process where you can fit in all those transistors. And these things are manufactured in such quantities that design costs must be a pretty minimal part of the final part price.
This used to be implemented as a purely analog control loop, i.e. opamps and such. After all TCXOs predate the age of ubiquitous CPUs by decades. Even if there is a need for a factory-programmed temperature calibration curve, there are techniques where it can be implemented in a pure analog way, or in a dedicated digital circuit where the transistor count will be much lower vs. a general purpose CPU core.
It's a shelf and in the past few years it has not yet failed at holding my books.
I regretted that decision because soon that phone developed a bunch of warts that were a pretty obviously Motorola's idea to monetize their users. It was a constant source of problems. The peak was MotoApps that was constantly popping up with questions and installing random shit on the phone.
That pretty much put Motorola on my dont-buy list.
On several separate occasions in my life drawing group I tried to take pictures of the drawings and they always came out tinted - not full color, but enough to look pretty weird if you know the original is in black-and-white. I also do remember that the viewfinder has shown a square around the face on the paper on those occasions, as if I was photographing a live person.
I mean, sure maybe I'm doing something wrong. But the app has pretty much zero settings. I checked I was in normal photo, not the portrait mode and that Ultra HDR was turned off.
And it's definitely some kind of a image post-processing step. Because the live viewfinder shows what I would expect. Then I press the shutter and the save photo is obviously different.
I'm not making this up. First time I've seen this I searched the web and found many threads on reddit and such discussing similar issues on Pixel phones.
One from the top of my browser history:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/otsvv2/how_to_...
I own a Pixel 9a. It's the first phone I used that made me question how many of the pixels going out of the camera app are actually coming the sensor and how many from some AI model.
Don't get me wrong. It will take front-cover magazine quality pics of that favorite turist hot spot, even in terrible light.
But as soon as there's something in the frame that your average insta influencer won't typically shoot the results are weird.
A green PCB on my workbench I want to document? Colors all wrong, can hardly pick out the traces. My 20 year Canon does a better job.
A black-and-white hand drawn charcoal portrait? The face on the jpeg will have tan skin and pinkish cheeks.
And there's no setting to turn this sort of processing off, unless you want to deal with the hassle of raw files.
I remember setting up a few of these back in the day.
[1] https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Firefox-L...
No comment on Anker quality, but the "feels well made" feeling is something that has been known and gamed (for example, by including dummy weights in devices) in the hardware industry since forever. It is relatively unrelated to things you as a consumer may actually care about (like adherence to safety standards or amount of engineering effort put into the longevity of a product).
The way things are today I'm thankful the coffee machine still works without AWS.
If that's the point, just chuck the thing into a boiling vat of acid and declare with a condescending voice "whoops, looks like they still haven't quite managed that boiling vat of acid problem despite knowing I test this on every new model". I'm sure that will get those likes and subscribes.
Or are people actually putting a lighter to the phone's screen during day-to-day use so that it matters how many seconds it survives?
Apparently there has been an sharp rise in people coming in with retinal damage from staring at the sun. They didn't go into details why someone would do that, but reading this on HN I can start to guess.