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luijk

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luijk··on Mistral Large 4
What! It may look pretty but the bike is rather funky!

The illusion of AGI is here!

luijk··on Pi 1.0
Not anecdotal at all. Context bloat in Opencode pushes models into the dumb zone sooner.
luijk··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
By default they don't ask questions. You can craft that behaviour with the system message or account settings. Though they will tend to ask 20 questions at once so you have to request it to limit to one question at a time to get a more natural experience.
luijk··on Ledger introducing recover seed feature
Ledger is now introducing a seed recovery feature that splits the key using Shamir's secret sharing and sending parts to third parties. They are currently answering questions on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/13j5cna/intro...
luijk··on A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn
Mother nature has a way of healing itself
luijk··on Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number
"and every so often, I would get authorization code texts for the Gmail account that was tied to my Instagram handle"

As far as I know these authorization texts are only sent when your Gmail username and password have been entered correctly. This would indicate that the attacker knew your long random password. Keylogger? From there they only need your 2fa to access your account.

luijk··on Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number
I have a similar method. When I setup 2FA on an account, I print out the QR code and scan this with the phone to verify it works. I then store the paper QR code in a safe place.