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progbits

5,907 karma · joined June 4, 2021

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progbits··on 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
It's actually hilariously bad.

If you go to the last (2356th!) page, you will see eight posts from 2023 and 2024, mostly few months apart. (But even none of those are good)

Then in 2025 @nawazdhandala starts going wild with 22 articles on January 6th. And from that point on it's basically just all him and it keeps accelerating.

progbits··on 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
I think that account should be banned. Going further, the whole oneuptime.com domain should probably be blacklisted.
progbits··on 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
I'm guessing there is a bit of a feedback loop now since people try this, search for the slopsite and click it, boosting it higher. For me it was top result (in incognito, not personalized).

Two things you can do:

- Navigate back and open another link. This signal is used to downrank for given query (google assumes the site did no provide satisfying answer)

- Explicitly provide result feedback. Unfortunately there isn't a category for "this is slop" but "inaccurate" works.

progbits··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
It's always been one.

Every single technical auditor I've dealt with has been majorly incompetent and wanted to do things that would decrease security. And these were not some cheap bottom of the barrel companies but the big "industry leaders".

progbits··on Proton meet isn't what they told you it was
To be fair, I'm running a selfhosted livekit deployment at work and it's a major pain in the ass.

Obviously proton should selfhost everything but I can understand why they didn't want to.

progbits··on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was
How will they push it?
progbits··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
In some places the purchasing decisions are not made by technical people. The infrastructure team gets azure budget and that's what they have to work with.

At my work the sales people regularly come to us with some azure discount they got offered on linkedin or some event. Luckily I have the power to tell them to fuck off.

progbits··on I quit. The clankers won
I've heard it phrased as: Would you rather LLM trained on your comments, or one trained on facebook comments.

Obviously that's a false dichotomy and a pretty defeatist attitude. But it does have a point.

progbits··on Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops
Beautiful thing about percentages...
progbits··on Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)
FreeCAD is perfectly good user interface for opencascade. The problem is that as your geometry gets more complicated you start running into the kernel limitations.
progbits··on Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)
Indeed. I would love for it to be true, but aside from opencascade^1 all the professional kernels are proprietary and not in the training set, so LLMs can't just regurgitate them.

^1: Which I really appreciate, but let's be real, it is far behind eg. parasolid.

progbits··on Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
This is both good and bad. Good ASR can often understand low quality / garbled speech that I could not figure out, but it also "over corrects" sometimes and replaces correct but low prior words with incorrect but much more common ones.

With OCR the risk is you get another xerox[1] incident where all your data looks plausible but is incorrect. Hope you kept the originals!

(This is why for my personal doc scans, I use OCR only for full text search, but retain the original raw scans forever)

[1] https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

progbits··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Stock barely moved after this news. Would be surprised if it isn't below 100 by H2.
progbits··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
If you are not yet in Oracle's clutches you have to be extremely naive or shortsighted to be using Oracle cloud. Obviously the low prices are because they have a shit product and shit reputation, and the moment they think they captured large enough audience they are going to hike them
progbits··on Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins
So much "thorough investigation" done but the author did not consider turning off claude for 10 minutes to see if the problems stops? lol

Flagged the submission as it's inaccurate. Will unflag if title gets changed to something like "dev builds script that resets their git repo every 10 minutes, forgets about it, blames claude code with no evidence"

progbits··on Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]
> 864000 seconds (1 day)

Could use some proofreading.

progbits··on Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago
When you can't decide between TLS and SSL.
progbits··on Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
Couldn't agree more.

Yet many of these tools have setup like: create a service account, give it about thousand permissions (if not outright full ownership) and send us the JSON private key.

At least they make the red flag nice and obvious.

progbits··on Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
Friendly reminder that just because someone is building security software it doesn't mean they are competent and won't cause more harm than good.

Every month the security team wants me to give full code or cloud access to some new scanner they want to trial. They love the fancy dashboards and lengthy reports but if I allowed just 10% of what they wanted we would be pwned on the regular...

progbits··on Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning
TPU pods
progbits··on Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)
On private trackers where people care about that stuff it's easier. The NFO usually has a pretty comprehensive description of the contents and all the tracks etc so you can decide which version you want before downloading.
progbits··on Regex Blaster
But that's a different style from the these colorful border rounded boxes that I think Claude in particular loves to produce.
progbits··on Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot
Those claims were never confirmed, no? Some of it might be true or trueish but I'm not talking Bloomberg's anonymous sources word for it, and with so much supermicro gear out there you would think some other evidence would show up.
progbits··on Regex Blaster
They all have this rounded box design as well. I wonder where that came from, I don't think it was a predominant style before.
progbits··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Love the morons wearing desert/forest camo to an urban job. GI Joe cosplayers.
progbits··on A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine
You had me in the first half, the last paragraph is going way too far.
progbits··on Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy
Not sure cost saving is the priority.

I got solar installed by the local power company and while it's well done and was a great deal regarding the price, the inverter stats are locked behind a really terrible app. At least there isn't a subscription cost but I wouldn't be surprised if they add one someday.

Would gladly pay more for fully open and serviceable replacement.

progbits··on RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
The whole idea behind ECH is one IP hosts tons of sites (eg. CDN) so you have no idea which one it is.

Also reverse lookup has nothing to do with hosting own DNS resolver.

progbits··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Ah, true. Well then, what makes GCP/AWS more money? DoD contracts or Claude resell fees? They could drop DoD though I guess I see how this will go...
progbits··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
(edit: I'm most likely wrong)

You got it backwards, can't use claude if you ARE doing business with DoD.

Presumably AWS/GCP don't care, its up to the end customer to comply. Not like GCP KYC asks if you work with DoD.

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