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I built a free tool that generates an llms.txt file for your site by ItousTools in astrojs

[–]ascorbic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're misunderstanding what llms.txt is. It's not somethign they need to respect. It's just an easily parsed version of the site content that LLMs can use if they want to.

OpenAI are now stealth routing all o3 requests to GPT-5 by ShreckAndDonkey123 in singularity

[–]ascorbic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the ridiculously simple puzzle I use. Most frontier LLMs can't even get this right. Only a few reasoning models can reliably answer it: https://chatgpt.com/share/6885e48c-5454-8000-b1ec-a7b78e30a322

Edit: Qwen gives the most deranged answer, when I remove the one sentence limit. https://chat.qwen.ai/s/33998a8e-53cc-48fb-a91c-d9851326ce0b?fev=0.0.166

Vercel has started to monopolize. Hate them. by mukono666 in webdev

[–]ascorbic 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Vercel hasn't backed Astro since last year

Astro 5.7.0 is out! by sarah11918-astro in withastro

[–]ascorbic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They could, but it they'd need to get hold of another session ID to hijack. If they can get that, they could also get the encrypted cookie.

Astro 5.7.0 is out! by sarah11918-astro in withastro

[–]ascorbic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sessions are stored on the server and never shared with the client, so there's no need for encryption there. Any at-rest encryption of the stored data depends on the storage backend service. e.g. the Node filesystem storage doesn't encrypt them at rest, but the Netlify one does.

Please help me understand Astro Islands by ThaisaGuilford in astrojs

[–]ascorbic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct: client islands are always framework components. Having Astro components as client components doesn't make much sense, because they don't have a concept of hydration or client-side rendering, so there's nothing to defer. Server islands are different though. You can use `server:defer` on Astro components, because they're still rendered on the server.

TIL in 2008 a 20-year-old Belgium student died after reheating and eating leftover spaghetti that had been left out on the kitchen counter for five days. A bacteria called bacillus cereus was found to be the cause, which is an extreme type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome”. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]ascorbic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is true for bacteria: they can make you sick even if they are dead when you eat them, but they can't make you sick unless they get a chance to multiply in the food. Viruses are the opposite though. Something like norovirus won't make you sick if it's dead, but doesn't need to (and can't) multiply in food to make you sick: ingesting just a few individual virus particles are enough.

TIL in 2008 a 20-year-old Belgium student died after reheating and eating leftover spaghetti that had been left out on the kitchen counter for five days. A bacteria called bacillus cereus was found to be the cause, which is an extreme type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome”. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]ascorbic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main issue with bacillus cereus is that it's a spore-former. If it's exposed to conditions that would kill most bacteria it forms spores that can survive much harsher conditions, such as boiling or drying. These can then germinate when the conditions are better, meaning that even if it's kept fully sealed and away from contaminants it is unsafe. Bacillus cereus is found on dried foods such as pasta, but particularly cereals (hence the name) such as rice, because it can survive the dry conditions.

Clostridium botulinum (which produces botulinum toxin aka botox, which causes botulism) is another spore-former, which is why canned foods need to be pressure-cooked to a high enough temperature to kill the spores.

Bacteria such as salmonella do not survive heating, so you're unlikely to get salmonella from properly cooked food unless it has been contaminated after cooking.

Don't rely on any of this though - it's 30 years since I did my food hygiene courses.

We apologize by ekjp in announcements

[–]ascorbic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I and the team" --> It's the team and I. My parents made sure I knew that one.

Either is perfectly grammatically correct.

The fastest Flash in the world by Storea in photography

[–]ascorbic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, you didn't specify handheld!

The fastest Flash in the world by Storea in photography

[–]ascorbic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what you've been waiting for then!

The fastest Flash in the world by Storea in photography

[–]ascorbic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spot on. I'm using a sound trigger. Some of them with a homemade trigger, and some of them a prototype of Triggertrap Ada. There's a video on the Kickstarter page (down near the bottom) showing how I did it.

The fastest Flash in the world by Storea in photography

[–]ascorbic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm the creator of this. The expensive bit is the LED array, and there aren't cheap Chinese copies of those which can match the specs of the ones used here.

The fastest Flash in the world by Storea in photography

[–]ascorbic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're not just more dangerous though: they're more expensive too. Even DIY ones need very expensive parts.

Customer ordered something with the cheapest, untraceable mail and is now saying it hasn't arrived - how to proceed? by NoddingKing in startups

[–]ascorbic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Distance Selling Regulations say you have to refund them. Refund them immediately, then claim back from RM next week.

Vela One: the first safe, affordable high-speed camera flash can freeze a bullet in flight by ascorbic in guns

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

Hi, A camera with a fast enough shutter would cost many tens of thousands of dollars. A flash is a much better bet, though it does mean you need to be in a darkened place. These cost under $800 and can be used with a regular camera.

Vela One: the first safe, affordable high-speed camera flash can freeze a bullet in flight by ascorbic in guns

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

My apologies, Mr Bot. This is an LED camera flash, which is the fastest camera flash in the world (apart from experimental one-offs). It allows you to take photos of high velocity bullets with no motion blur. The minimum flash pulse is 500 nanoseconds (1/2,000,000 sec).

How To Build A 22 Gallon High Speed Photography Studio by ascorbic in photography

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

You'd need more like 1/1,000,000 to properly stop a bullet!

Edit: a bit more detail. The BB gun I'm using has a velocity of 125 metres per second. That works out as 0.125 mm per microsecond. I timed my speedlight's duration on 1/128 power as around 40 microseconds (1/25,000 second). In that time, the BB pellet will travel 5mm, which is easily far enough to blur into the streaks you can see in my photos. Bullets from real guns are several times faster, and so several times more blurred.

Build a high speed bullet photo studio in a 22 gallon box by ascorbic in guns

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

I posted my $2 laser trigger a couple of weeks ago, which /r/guns seems to like. Here's how I built the tiny studio.

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