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vdfs··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
What makes their browser special really? Just chasing profits and google handout and not caring about their user base
vdfs··on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Before AI, people would search for a free or open source alternatives before using a saas
vdfs··on Keep Android Open
For bank apps, you can just use their website
vdfs··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
OpenAI: I DECLARE AGI

MS: I just wanted you to know that you can't just say the word AGI and expect anything to happen.

OpenAI: I didn't say it. I declared it.

vdfs··on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
"Although a few people have confused my reporting of the vulnerability with causing the vulnerability itself, I can take comfort in a story that Richard Feynman famously told about his days on the Manhattan project. Some simple vulnerabilities (and user interface problems) made it easy to open most of the safes in use at Los Alamos. He eventually demonstrated the problem to the Army officials in charge. Horrified, they promised to do something about it. The response? A memo ordering the staff to keep Feynman away from their safes."
vdfs··on Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales
> you have 5 virtual desktops on Mac

The easiest workaround that come to mind is to not use 5 virtual desktops

vdfs··on Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales
Many motherboards have builtin software TPM
vdfs··on Claude Skills
IMO, these are just marketing or new ways of using functions calling, under the hood they all get re-written as tools the model can call
vdfs··on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
https://killedbygoogle.com
vdfs··on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
With ESP you can do that without even coding, using ESPHome it can be done using YAML config, it can also be paired with Home Assitante, MQTT or many other thing without any coding
vdfs··on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
But 20 years of regular purchases to the same address(es) is easy for them to verify
vdfs··on Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
Samsung Browser do support few ad blocking extensions like ADB+ and AdGuard
vdfs··on Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
Neither will those projects use Safe C++
vdfs··on Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font
Ironically it's the latest version of Plasma KDE using Qt 6, took a lot of time to port it from 5
vdfs··on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
> Claude assists me in my math research.

> Claude then suggests these same ideas to someone else, who legitimately believes this is now their work.

Won't this mean that claude assisted you with someone else work? Sure it's not from a "chat" but claude doesn't really know anything other than it's training data

vdfs··on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
That is extremely hard, It require the model to have "knowledge" so it can decide if it know the answer or not which is not how current llm/gpt works
vdfs··on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
Why would doing this to 125K accounts give them access to one account per day? The chances of guessing 6-digtis pin code for each account is the same (10^6) regdless of how many accounts your are attacking
vdfs··on Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
NVR is to distinguish it from DVR, Digtal Video Recorder (ironically it's not really digital, more like analog) It's much cheaper than NVR, because the camras are simple and diffrere the encoding to the DVR unit. And there XVR with can combine both Network and Digital cameras
vdfs··on Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
NVR is to distinguish it from DVR, Digtal Video Recorder (ironically it's not really digital, more like analog) It's much cheaper than NVR, because the camras are simple and diffrere the encoding to the DVR unit. And there XVR wich can combine both Network and Digital cameras
vdfs··on Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
You don't need HACS, just download frigate integration to config/custom_components in your HA folder
vdfs··on Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
To be fair the app itself wasn't compromised, heck even the server wasn't breached, it was just a database open for everyone!
vdfs··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
New lesson is learned about tiktok and live streams
vdfs··on .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean
It's not a problem with PRs if you use Squash merge, the developer can make any number of changes to that PR but in the end, only the final version (in this case it doesn't include .DS_Store) will be commited. even the .DS_Store file will not be in the git index
vdfs··on Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation
"Google F1 Preview Experimental beat the record of the fastest man on earth Usain Bolt"
vdfs··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
It wouldn’t be a surprise if that were covered by an NDA, but it also wouldn’t be surprising if it weren’t
vdfs··on DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
anonymous app submissions will make the app store more dangerous. You can go the extra mile and create a company or legal entity if you want to hide your name, but it's straightforward for gov. to get your identity no matter what, they can just ask Apple or Google
vdfs··on ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry
Probably the same one responsible for Office -> 365 naming
vdfs··on Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs
Coding is just a part of engineering, I'm currently in a mental block, I would be very happy if an AI wrote the code for me, but from the look of it only change the way i would write code, instead of thinking+writing loop, it would be prompting+reading loop which is kinda worst IMO
vdfs··on How I Program with Agents
> prompting the LLM to build and run tests after code edits

Isn't that done by passing function definitions or "tools" to the llm?

vdfs··on Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?
We had the same issue because Marketing was using a stupid landing page SaaS tool to generate sales, it was connected directly to Stripe and we didn't have any control over it. We discovered the problem through Intercom, which notified us about a high volume of bounced emails (automatically sent after purchase). It was clear what was going on after discovering the same pattern.

To fix it, I had to proxy that unreliable SaaS software to implement CAPTCHAs and stronger bot detection. It was essentially a MITM-style proxy but for protection. It was fun to implement

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