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milofeynman··on Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
Just not very well. It's a hard problem. And they're not incentivized to slow down.
milofeynman··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
What about the typescript rust port https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port ?
milofeynman··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
leveraged options gambling
milofeynman··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
I use https://github.com/johnste/finicky
milofeynman··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
There is an open source web browser proxy thing called finicky [0]. I use at work that lets me redirect urls clicked in other apps like slack to specific browers (firefox / chrome) or even specific chrome profiles. It'll also allow you to rewrite the urls.

[0] https://github.com/johnste/finicky

milofeynman··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
It's likely against the ToS rather than illegal. But if they're deleting IDs correctly after verifying I guess you just have to get past 30 days
milofeynman··on Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home
We have this also. https://coppellchronicle.substack.com/

Article about it: https://simonowens.substack.com/p/this-local-newsletter-cove...

40%+ conversion rate on substack.

milofeynman··on Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025
It's load shedding, but it's weighted towards people abusing their quota usually over some rolling weighted average. The benefit is that they are dropped immediately at the edge rather than holding sockets open or using compute/resources. It usually takes 30s-1m to kick in.
milofeynman··on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Leaning towards yes now!
milofeynman··on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety
You can just order brand new ones from China for even cheaper I imagine. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703472647/saying-i-do-to-lab-...
milofeynman··on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event
Is it a kid friendly event for a 8 year old who doesn't know any YouTubers? Like we he have fun seeing all the maker stuff?
milofeynman··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
The problem here is the infrastructure required to demo the changes to the user. Like yeah you made a code-change, but now I have to pull it, maybe setup data to get it in the right state, check if it's functioning how I want it to. Looking at the code it produced in a diff can waste a lot of your time if it doesn't even work as expected.
milofeynman··on Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival
I've found the same. I actually enjoy Instagram ads. I despise almost every other ad I can think of.
milofeynman··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
Using cline for a bit made me realize cursor was doomed. Everything is just a gpt/anthropic wrapper of fancy prompts.

I can do most of what I want with cline, and I've gone back from large changes to just small changes and been moving much quicker. Large refactors/changes start to deviate from what you actually want to accomplish unless you have written a dissertation, and even then they fail.

milofeynman··on The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
I think a reasonable thing folks want is to not have their art or design used to train these models without permission.
milofeynman··on ElevenReader
This raises an interesting question around the rights of the author/publisher and who they sold their ebook rights to. If in 3 years we have a perfect AI voice that can read any book as good or better than mid-level narrators, why would you ever buy an audiobook when you could just buy the ebook and pick your voice(s). What a time to be alive
milofeynman··on Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 4
Kind of answered in part 1 intro: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/15/optimizing-rub...
milofeynman··on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
That reminds me of https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1156804295/shopify-delete-mee...
milofeynman··on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
Lets not kid ourselves. This wasn't a random reviewer giving you a hard time, your extension is definitely being "reviewed" way up the chain in order to find any menial reason to not allow you.
milofeynman··on Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024
I started a small service recently in rails. I'm forcing sorbet with typechecking (you can still set things to false like tests which sometimes are a pain to get to pass). It feels almost like a typed language with LSP jump to etc. It's getting there.
milofeynman··on Meta 3D Gen
Autodesk has been building practical 3d models for years with generative design. I have to imagine it's only getting better with these recent advances, but I'm not immersed in the space.
milofeynman··on FedEx launches new e-commerce platform
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/shopify-offloads-logistics-b...
milofeynman··on Generalized K-Means Clustering
I applied to a certain scraping fintech in the Bay Area around 5 years ago and was asked to open the Wikipedia page to k-means squared clustering and implement the algorithm with tests from scratch. I was applying for an android position. I still laugh thinking about how they paid to fly me out and ask such a stupid interview question.
milofeynman··on Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work
I think a lot of people watched this Vox video about sudafed 2 months ago and became armchair experts tbh: https://youtu.be/ZlFF7A8nk0w
milofeynman··on Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
I looked at is as if it were a good aspirational target for 5 years from now. It was obvious the whole video was edited together not real time.
milofeynman··on Google Drive files suddenly disappeared
Do you run a daily cron or something? I've been trying to figure out how to backup my photos from google.
milofeynman··on Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection
Mine are all high up in second floor so it does make a difference.
milofeynman··on Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection
I use blueiris which barely works because I'm overloading it with 9 reolinks at 4k. I'd like to figure out my bottleneck but it works enough barely that it's not worth mucking with it.
milofeynman··on I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes
Yet.

The wider context window and better tooling are all being worked on.

milofeynman··on Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
What proxy do you use?
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