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breakingcups··on Hello My Perverted Friend
I sincerely doubt both the existence of these "hidden messages" and the ulterior motives ascribed to the later spam extortion email. The author is trying to be too clever, to the point of delusion.

There are plenty of places where scam cultures exist, where spam email formats (they used to be called modalities) are passed around between participants, many of which are newbies trying to score big, often still minors. They may have seen or heard of one or two people around them hitting big with a scam and that's all the motivation they need to send out a hundred more messages. Spammers are not always some super-smart entity, they can be clueless teens cargo-culting their way into your inbox too.

breakingcups··on Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
Stop it, please. Em-dashes are perfectly fine. On a throwaway Reddit-post, no. I understand the signal. But on a corporate publication or some other piece of professional writing, absolutely. Humans do use em-dashes on those.
breakingcups··on xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
I'm much more interested in what the private model "tweet-rejector" could be used for...
breakingcups··on Sycophancy in GPT-4o
My wife is a professional fiction writer and it's disheartening to see sudden accusations of the use of AI based solely on the usage of em-dashes.
breakingcups··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
Is it? I feel like that depends on whether you take a prescriptive or descriptive point of view.
breakingcups··on Tailscale has raised $160M
Oh no. That's really too bad. Fingers crossed they'll beat the VC curse because it is so close to perfect as it is right now.
breakingcups··on European Cloud, Global Reach
You say that, but their login page / dashboard is hosted on the same IP, also through Cloudflare.
breakingcups··on Small Archives
Perkeep is very interesting on a fundamental level, as a concept and as a building block, but sadly hasn't received enough love to fully fulfill its vision.

I wish there were more people organizing around Perkeep and breathing life into it.

breakingcups··on NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption"
What hypocrisy were you pointing out?
breakingcups··on OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
OneDrive is sooo broken underneath. It should be a no-brainer to pick it, a sensible default, like Edge, but Microsoft always manages to fuck it up worse somehow.

It either just manages to work for you (count your blessings) or you'll have some cursed bit set in some forgotten Microsoft table somewhere that means you'll be doomed to a horrible experience forever without a clear cause. Infinitely (not) syncing folders, disappearing files, cryptic or vague error messages. Even on brand-new machines.

breakingcups··on OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
What progress meter? Infinite spinner is where it's at.
breakingcups··on Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
Correlation does not necessarily equal causation, though.
breakingcups··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
I'm very confused about what you are asking, exactly. In your first post, you ask for "a supported version of LibreOffice that I can pay for", when it's pointed out to you that you can, it's not actually LibreOffice that you want to pay for, because you insinuate it's not maintained and supported?

Even though the paid offer includes technical support and a simple git log shows 50 commits in the past 24 hours in the core repository?

breakingcups··on OpenAI O3-Mini
In addition to that, it has a section dedicated all to Model Naming and Branding Confusion, but then it puts the following comment in the Performancce and Benchmarking section, even though the value of the comment is ostensibly more to do with the naming being a hindrance rather than make a valuable remark on the benchmarking, which is more of a casualty to the naming confusion:

"The model naming all around is so confusing. Very difficult to tell what breakthrough innovations occurred." – patrickhogan1"

breakingcups··on OpenAI O3-Mini
It's definitely making some errors
breakingcups··on Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine
No additional compute. I don't think we had a major discount before.
breakingcups··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
Wonder if you could either sue them for delivering an insufficient product (it does not function as a slipper under the definition for longer than a day after walking) or keep returning them under warranty.
breakingcups··on Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Red Hat just hit us with 300% price increases for OpenShift across the board right after we went live in production after a little over a year of implementation. The entire org is very, very unhappy about it.
breakingcups··on Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
Such as OpenAI, who will ignore robots.txt and change their user agent to evade blocks, apparently[1]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1i154h7/openai_...

breakingcups··on Ask HN: Share your "LLM screwed us over" stories?
What kind of quantization are you running locally? I've noticed that for some areas it can affect the output quality a lot.
breakingcups··on How to monitor your local weather with Grafana
Yeah, it also has high "draw the rest of the owl" levels. It just tells you how to import someone else's dashboard as opposed to telling you how one might configure that from scratch.

All the steps that promise slightly more details just mention "Coming Soon" [0]

[0]: https://github.com/scarolan/grafana-cloud-tutorial/blob/main...

breakingcups··on Orbit by Mozilla
So, I'm reading there's a free, anonymous Mistral endpoint somewhere with the bill being footed by Mozilla.
breakingcups··on Fun facts about SQLite
Well, they did say "latest". 2024 has also been going for 364 days now.
breakingcups··on Fun facts about SQLite
I've never heard anyone not say "sequel server" for Microsoft's SQL Server
breakingcups··on Guide to mechanical keyboards
I see soooo many recommendations online in every discussions about mechanical keyboards. However, what I would really need is a physical place, a store, a showroom, to be able to try them out myself. A wide range of brands and options, preferably.

I'm a keyboard pleb, after originally using a Model M I just moved on to other regular office keyboards. I like the idea of mechanical keyboards but I don't know if I would actually enjoy them, and there's so many variations that for every complaint you might have about a keyboard a friend might have that you can try, you'll get three people saying that I should really try keyboard X from brand Y instead because it will change my life.

breakingcups··on Celebrating Flutter's "Production Era"
I'm so scared of building something with Flutter and relying on Google to keep it around.
breakingcups··on Tailscale Prometheus Metrics
That's pretty cool!
breakingcups··on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
Filing false reports like this should count as fraud.
breakingcups··on Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program
Good news! There are alternative, unofficial launchers! Check out Prism or POLYMC for example.
breakingcups··on Google's iOS app now injects links on third-party websites that go to Search
"[...]opting out can take up to 30 days, while the feature is live now."

Typical.

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