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splittydev··on The security paradox of local LLMs
All of these are incredibly obvious. If you have even the slightest idea of what you're doing and review the code before deploying it to prod, this will never succeed.

If you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, well, then it doesn't really matter in the end, does it? You're never gonna recognize any security vulnerabilities (as has happened many times with LLM-assisted "no-code" platforms and without any actual malicious intent), and you're going to deploy unsafe code either way.

splittydev··on Gem.coop
Is there any context on why? Is there some controversy regarding RubyGems.org I'm not aware of?
splittydev··on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
I have contributed to a lot of open source projects for many years. They sure don't need my contribution, but if it were more accessible, I might actually contribute one day.

Given that ffmpeg was apparently using mailing lists before (which I didn't know at the time of writing), this is obviously an improvement. But it's still a lot of friction, and it seems that it's friction for no particular reason.

Hosting your code on something as obscure as Forgejo actively makes it hard for people to contribute. Most developers use GitHub, and only have experience with GitHub.

If I have an issue with something, I'll make a PR and move on with my day. But if making that PR involves creating an account on some obscure website and learning a new user interface just to contribute code to a single project, I'll simply pass. It's not worth the hassle.

GitHub is the most popular service by far for a good reason. People build their whole professional portfolio on GitHub, and it's well-known and globally recognized.

If you're afraid GitHub is gonna go down one day or kick you out, just mirror your repo to your own git instance. It's been done for decades, and it works very well, without introducing friction.

splittydev··on Ollama Turbo
OpenRouter is great. Less privacy I guess, but you pay for usage and you have access to hundreds of models. They have free models too, albeit rate-limited.
splittydev··on Positron – A next-generation data science IDE
Great, another VS Code fork that could realistically just be an extension.
splittydev··on Autodesk Email System Hacked
Yeah, I checked the mail source too. Passed DKIM, SPF, DMARC etc, so the mail server is definitely compromised.

They seem to be using SendGrid. I pinged the CEO and CTO of Autodesk, the official Autodesk account and the SendGrid account on X about this, but now, more than 24h later, the attack is still ongoing and nobody seems to be giving a flying fuck about it.

splittydev··on Autodesk Email System Hacked
It's ridiculous that they're not reacting to this at all.
splittydev··on Autodesk Email System Hacked
I contacted Autodesk on X, as well as the CEO and CTO, but nobody seems to care so far.
splittydev··on No More Basic Cursive Fonts – Built Realistic Handwritten Signature Generator
Doesn't work for me. Pressing the button does nothing.
splittydev··on How Bad Is Link Rot at Brain Baking?
Holy shit for a second I misread that title as containing the word "Brainrot"
splittydev··on Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
Haha same https://imgur.com/a/DHDSzPW
splittydev··on Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
Fun game, but I soft-locked myself https://imgur.com/a/DHDSzPW Took a few tries to get there, but I don't think there's a way out
splittydev··on Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind
Of course, a well-crafted prompt and RAG or other means of retrieving relevant information can work very well.

The reason why I was asking is that as a potential customer, I kinda feel cheated reading about a langcss.fast model that doesn't actually exist. I don't think there's any need for putting this misleading (well, actually not even misleading; just plain wrong) information on the website, to make potential customers think you've trained a custom model on tailwind etc.

Honesty is a very attractive selling point, at least to me, and I'd bet it is to others too.

splittydev··on Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind
Yeah, that's basically what I was thinking. I didn't wanna use the word "lying" as to not appear super confrontational, but when someone claims it's using a model called "langcss.fast", it should be safe to assume that they're actually using a custom model. It's disingenuous at best.

I'm not even saying there is any need for a custom model. Obviously, RAG etc. can work just as well, or even just a well-crafted prompt on a foundation model. But selling it as a custom model is misleading on purpose, and deters me from using the product.

splittydev··on Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind
The website states it's using the "langcss.fast" model, which made me think it's a custom-trained model. But if you can just easily switch between Groq and OpenAI, that makes it seem like there's no fine-tuning happening. Could you shed some light on this?

I like the website and my first prompt to create a modern table worked reasonably well, but if it's just a re-skinned ChatGPT, I probably wouldn't wanna spend extra money on it.

splittydev··on Wise.com sends email asking to give personal info to third-party
It seemed fishy to me too at first, but the email contains my communication code, and as far as we know, Wise hasn't had any recent data breaches.

I then called Wise support, and they confirmed it's a legitimate email. The support guy seemed a bit bamboozled by my question, but he looked it up and said it's a legitimate email from them.

splittydev··on Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing
The fact that the carousel doesn't stop on hover makes for a super frustrating reading/viewing experience.
splittydev··on Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
There seems to be no way to delete my account..
splittydev··on Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML – No JavaScript or CSS
Works fine on Safari 17.1, great work!
splittydev··on British Court: Patient Can Be Denied Life-Sustaining Treatment Against Her Will
Well, this is absolutely crazy... I hope she and her family manage to fight this decision somehow. I get that she's seriously ill, but denying her the option to live for even a day longer is absolutely insane and should be illegal.
splittydev··on The Password Game
I made it up to Foo997!JanuaryVIIVStarbucksxbcbxTRAcTcambodia and it was a lot of fun, but I don't have the patience of somehow working a leap year into it
splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
A short update for everyone who might see this in the future:

The launch week has been great! We served an insane number (well over 50k) badges with a 0% error rate, and have since added support for NPM, GitHub and crates.io!

And for those of you who've been waiting for icon support: We now have 900+ beautiful icons built-in!

Thanks a lot for all your positive comments and support!

splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
Update: Rounded corners are in now!

You can add a cornerRadius query parameter, which can take four possible values: s, m, l, or a number in pixels.

A few examples:

https://badgers.space/badge/look/I'm%20slightly%20rounded?co...

https://badgers.space/badge/look/I'm%20rounded?cornerRadius=...

https://badgers.space/badge/look/I'm%20even%20more%20rounded...

In general, I'd recommend going with s or m. Anything larger than l will look weird, and anything less than s will be barely noticeable.

The actual values are: s: 2px, m: 4px, l: 6px.

splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
I appreciate the feedback, and no offense taken! I mostly look at projects through the "developer lens", so it didn't occur to me that my target group could want additional information. I was under the impression that most people who would want to use badgers.space would already be familiar with shields.io or badgen.net, making this service easy to understand. Your comment makes it clear that there are people interested in the projects without former knowledge of similar projects, so that's definitely an important piece of information for me to consider! I'll work on improving these things over the next few days/weeks :)
splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
Thanks for the ideas!

My current plan is to just release the cli on crates.io, in addition to the library. Then you could just do `cargo install spacebadgers-cli` and be done with it, no need to fork the repo.

The cli has a pretty good help section, so it should be pretty self-explanatory. If you just run it without arguments, it'll tell you all there is to it.

I'm still figuring out a few things about argument handling and additional options, so for now I haven't been releasing the cli yet (it's still too unstable in terms of consistency between updates).

splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
We actually support the full RGB spectrum.

You can include hex-colors in the URL: https://badgers.space/badge/foo/bar/842a78?label_color=2a847...

We also support embedding icons like so: https://badgers.space/badge/foo/Quintschaf/cyan?icon=https:/...

We don't have a fetch-based endpoint for now where it fetches a result, but we might add that later on.

splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
Sorry, what was just for a minute or two. Fixed it pretty much immediately, Vercel decided to terminate my Pro trial account without warning, but it's all sorted out now
splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
Thank you for the positive feedback!
splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
Sure, but I don't see how competing services are harmful in any way. As I said in other comments, if you're happy with shields.io, go ahead and use it. I'm not trying to deter anyone from using service A or service B, especially because I'm not making any money from this. Spacebadgers is just another choice, one that might be better or worse for your specific use-case.
splittydev··on Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges
Good one :P I really tried not to over-emphasize the usage of Rust in the project. It is indeed quite fast, but mostly because of the focus on minified SVG, edge-computing and WebAssembly.
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