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1,603 karma · joined July 24, 2015

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/esnard; my proof: https://keybase.io/esnard/sigs/0E5vBuRx9Upe6svfSCYGsOtVz029bQNaogdbCfnuK-M ]
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esnard··on Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
Nice article! Thanks for experimenting and writing it.

I'm curious if some of the animals / vehicules might force the models to use more tokens than others, and I could not find the token counts in the shared data, is it possible to publish it please? :)

esnard··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Could this be the correct link?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06056

esnard··on EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307237
esnard··on A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption
Nice find! Have you contacted the vendor to check if they're planning a fix?
esnard··on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
I missed that, thanks!
esnard··on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
Wow, is it related to the "make me a sandwich" XKCD?

https://xkcd.com/149/

esnard··on Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
No more vulnerabilities then I guess!
esnard··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
I spoke to a few people living in Iran, and they definitively confirmed that 100+ people died. They obviously don't have the exact number, so that 36,500 figure might be exaggerated, but there are more than enough videos online to verify the 100+ claim if you really want to.
esnard··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
If you're using the same domain for each of your email address, HIBP has a domain-wide search feature which is free (but you need to register to validate your domain)
esnard··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
5894 means that the password appeared 5894 times in the dataset.

5894 is not the password associated with the hash.

esnard··on HTTP3 Explained
Link for anyone willing to contribute: https://github.com/bagder/http3-explained

Looks unmaintained, though.

esnard··on Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]
I know nothing about the Ruby ecosystem, but I really do appreciate that someone cares that much to mediate this mess. Thank you.
esnard··on What's New with Firefox 142
> This feature is available in English for users in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, and is being introduced gradually to ensure great performance and quality.

Not available in Italy yet.

esnard··on The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]
Weird. The file was cracked in May 2024, while the password had appeared in a database leak which was added in HIBP (and thus pretty much public) back in October 2017.

Unsure why it took the community so long to crack the file.

esnard··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
Note: one of the founders of the World app is Sam Altman.
esnard··on Project Zero – Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition
Related links:

- Vulnerability Disclosure FAQ ( https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/vulnerability-discl... )

- Reporting Transparency ( https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/reporting-transpare... )

esnard··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Cloudflare publishes a "crawl-to-refer" ratio, which can be used to estimate the traffic from LLMs:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#crawl-to-refer-rati...

esnard··on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
Do you have a link talking about those Facebook's recent tricks? I think I missed that story, and would love to read an analysis about it
esnard··on Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
It's actually 100 microyears!
esnard··on Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
If anyone else is confused, a microcentury is apparently around 52.6 minutes long.
esnard··on Firefox tab groups are here
I've updated (Firefox 138.0) and the feature doesn't seem to exist in my browser, even when carefully reproducing the steps in the video / tutorial.

From the support page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups

> This feature is experimental and is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout. It may not yet be available to all users.

I'll wait a few more days then I guess?

esnard··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
This sounds like good news, thanks!

Do we already have an ETA for the ENISA vulnerability database?

esnard··on Cloudflare launched read replicas for D1 databases
Announcement post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-read-replication-beta/
esnard··on CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
Is this the VPN you're talking about?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1jovk03/weve_he...

esnard··on Powers of 2 with all even digits
Yes. I didn't escape the asterisks before posting, and HN replaced ** with \* without me noticing.
esnard··on Powers of 2 with all even digits
Just tested up to 2 * 1000000, and it indeed looks like that's all of them.
esnard··on DeepSeek proves the future of LLMs is open-source
To be fair, the article doesn't even contain the word "prove".
esnard··on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
Back in 2018, I was wondering how that paper was still relevant, considering all the new security features added to web browsers.

The consensus seemed to be that it wasn't that impactful anymore (if it ever was).

https://security.stackexchange.com/q/185435/76718

esnard··on What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
Just scripted something to find them all:

    U+01C5: Dž (lower dž, upper DŽ)
    U+01C8: Lj (lower lj, upper LJ)
    U+01CB: Nj (lower nj, upper NJ)
    U+01F2: Dz (lower dz, upper DZ)
    U+1F88: ᾈ (lower ᾀ, upper ἈΙ)
    U+1F89: ᾉ (lower ᾁ, upper ἉΙ)
    U+1F8A: ᾊ (lower ᾂ, upper ἊΙ)
    U+1F8B: ᾋ (lower ᾃ, upper ἋΙ)
    U+1F8C: ᾌ (lower ᾄ, upper ἌΙ)
    U+1F8D: ᾍ (lower ᾅ, upper ἍΙ)
    U+1F8E: ᾎ (lower ᾆ, upper ἎΙ)
    U+1F8F: ᾏ (lower ᾇ, upper ἏΙ)
    U+1F98: ᾘ (lower ᾐ, upper ἨΙ)
    U+1F99: ᾙ (lower ᾑ, upper ἩΙ)
    U+1F9A: ᾚ (lower ᾒ, upper ἪΙ)
    U+1F9B: ᾛ (lower ᾓ, upper ἫΙ)
    U+1F9C: ᾜ (lower ᾔ, upper ἬΙ)
    U+1F9D: ᾝ (lower ᾕ, upper ἭΙ)
    U+1F9E: ᾞ (lower ᾖ, upper ἮΙ)
    U+1F9F: ᾟ (lower ᾗ, upper ἯΙ)
    U+1FA8: ᾨ (lower ᾠ, upper ὨΙ)
    U+1FA9: ᾩ (lower ᾡ, upper ὩΙ)
    U+1FAA: ᾪ (lower ᾢ, upper ὪΙ)
    U+1FAB: ᾫ (lower ᾣ, upper ὫΙ)
    U+1FAC: ᾬ (lower ᾤ, upper ὬΙ)
    U+1FAD: ᾭ (lower ᾥ, upper ὭΙ)
    U+1FAE: ᾮ (lower ᾦ, upper ὮΙ)
    U+1FAF: ᾯ (lower ᾧ, upper ὯΙ)
    U+1FBC: ᾼ (lower ᾳ, upper ΑΙ)
    U+1FCC: ῌ (lower ῃ, upper ΗΙ)
    U+1FFC: ῼ (lower ῳ, upper ΩΙ)
esnard··on Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
I just discovered that they discontinued their VPN back on June 20th.

Somehow, I am not surprised.

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