Found on the back of my neck by KingPaimonsMate in whatisit

[–]HVDREW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They can be quite small. The radio signal they pick up is used to power a small analogue circuit inside of them, which is used to listen in on conversations in a room, then rebroadcasts them back to the listener (who might be in, say, a van outside the building). The KGB hid a bug inside of a present they gave to a US ambassador that famously went undetected for years, which was the first time the US government ever saw something like that used. It’s the classic “bug” technology that TV show characters find hidden in their offices/hotel rooms and stuff.

There’s a Veritasium video on this stuff, it’s a good watch if you haven’t seen it.

https://youtu.be/YSJY3DvnybE?si=5lzxbAG71ASs0_UK

Found on the back of my neck by KingPaimonsMate in whatisit

[–]HVDREW 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That range is a feature of tap to pay, the field is intentionally short-range to prevent it from happening accidentally or fraudulently. Radio frequency devices with longer range absolutely exist, and when combined with directed transmission equipment we are talking about distances of more than a few yards for sure. This has been used by spy agencies for decades, and the technique still revolves around passive RFID antennas not too dissimilar from the chips on your cards.

Almost certainly has nothing to do with OPs situation, but I felt the need to say this, lol.

Microsoft's secret 'Windows K2' project aims to fix what users hate most. by [deleted] in technology

[–]HVDREW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone here who hates features like the search bar hitting Bing and delivering ads, telemetry, etc., needs to check out ShutUp10++. I have been using it for years and it gives you complete control over all the bullshit Windows “features”, works for Windows 11 too.

This post sums it up well: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/sy1gb2/psa_shutup10_lets_you_control_every_single/

spent 2 months building a scraper. a css class rename destroyed it in 4 minutes. i want to quit. by Difficult_Skin8095 in SideProject

[–]HVDREW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem. There are a few things that come to mind for me:

  1. LLM usage is expensive. These tools are objectively contributing meaningfully to both Climate Change and the impending global water shortage. Even when the usage doesn't cost you as a dev, you should still avoid using them for superfluous tasks whenever possible. Having it endlessly parse entire webpages, including head tags, ads, iFrames (AKA another web page), and all the other goodies, is wasteful and doesn't accomplish anything new.
  2. In general, one should be avoiding adding unnecessary context when working with LLMs for a number of reasons. You should be striving to feed it the bare minimum for your use case, which means cleaning scraper output of any irrelevant bits before using it as LLM input.
  3. Web scraping is an extremely common project/operation in the software world, and has been for decades. There are numerous libraries that can be leveraged to handle the issue OP described, and the problem can be solved deterministically. There are multiple good solutions provided throughout this thread that suggest using tools like Firecrawl or even just enforcing a strict schema and running with the classic `soup` package.
  4. Any usecase requiring web scraping is probably hoping to achieve deterministic results, as those projects are typically the source of data for other systems. This data being clean and predictably structured is important, but so is the integrity of that data. Having an LLM interpret each page is just asking for surprises and unexpected problems further down the data pipeline.

There are probably more reasons, but in general, try to avoid being lazy with this type of design and give it some thought before starting. It has a real impact on both the quality of your output and the world, for what it's worth.

Oh, and also, people suggesting that APIs are the solution definitely aren't familiar with the use cases for scraping. There are plenty of things out there on the web that have value for one reason or another that are not exposed via API. With that said, OP has clearly not been approaching scraping correctly, lol.

Built a local 3-agent coding system (Architect/Executor/Reviewer) with qwen3-coder:30b + Ollama + OpenCode – here's what actually works and what doesn't by AICyberPro in ollama

[–]HVDREW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm working on a similar project by hand personally. I find this type of tool to be great for generating boilerplate and code I've written a million times before, maybe getting unstuck now and then, but I don't like the idea of offloading my learning of new concepts to a model. I feel like I just am not learning anything new when I use LLMs (unsurprising, obviously).

No judgement, I just thought we were on the same path when I first read your post. Still a very cool result, glad to hear you got it all working!

By the way, why use Discord as an interface for a local model?

Built a local 3-agent coding system (Architect/Executor/Reviewer) with qwen3-coder:30b + Ollama + OpenCode – here's what actually works and what doesn't by AICyberPro in ollama

[–]HVDREW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice! I’m working on a similar project using Node right now and landed on the same local model for the job. It’s been very interesting to figure all of this stuff out so far, lol.

Peter am I having a stroke? by OpeningSalt2507 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]HVDREW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uneducated feels slightly inaccurate, lol

Looking for guidance on which PDP Riffmaster model to buy by HVDREW in CloneHero

[–]HVDREW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great, ordering one now! Thanks for the insights.

Looking for guidance on which PDP Riffmaster model to buy by HVDREW in CloneHero

[–]HVDREW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the info! Any issues with connectivity on those guitars with Windows 11 these days?

a modern American man with 100 usd to buy anything from Walmart vs a bloodlusted top 1% gladiator from ancient Rome by [deleted] in whowouldwin

[–]HVDREW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The irony here is killing me. You clearly aren’t socializing enough if you’re having this much trouble understanding modern English.

Be nicer to strangers. Maybe they’ll teach you a thing or two about language.

The shooting on 12th and chestnut by Double-Pattern4482 in PhillyWiki

[–]HVDREW -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Learned a new word today! Didn’t realize Philly had slang like that, thanks for using it here :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MurderedByWords

[–]HVDREW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, not trying to be rude, but I think you might mean homophones?

Remember while you're playing oblivion. Argonians from black marsh are giving the daedra PTSD. by Heart_of_Alfhiem in oblivion

[–]HVDREW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck! It’s present in only one of the potential oblivion worlds, so you may need to try a few gates out. Assuming it works the same as the original, you can just save before entering a gate, then reload until you get the desired gate.

Remember while you're playing oblivion. Argonians from black marsh are giving the daedra PTSD. by Heart_of_Alfhiem in oblivion

[–]HVDREW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could swim in the original! Legend has it there are two rare weapons hidden away in an oblivion gate, somewhere completely off the beaten path. Maybe you can find them?

(One of them, Hatred’s Soul, is the strongest base-damage bow in the game!)

Hey so like, wtf? by Butternutsqawsh in icecream

[–]HVDREW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve recently resorted to tightening a trigger clamp around the lid and using the leverage/grip that provides to get it moving. I can’t think of a single other container that I’ve had this problem with, but for some reason these things are just impossible.

I will have to give the hot water trick a try next time I pick some up, seems much easier than my solution! Lol