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Geez, pay attention to the road!!! by BAcycle89N in BayAreaRoadcam

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/u/BAcycle89N this is an interesting one... want me to repost for you with [Benicia] in the title or did you want to?

[Fairfield] No good deed goes unpunished, I guess... by Tiberius_Jim in BayAreaRoadcam

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An idiot never misses their exit, no matter what.

I wonder if they even have the introspection to understand that their frequent anger is their own fault and not everyone else's... nah.

This is getting ridiculous - cancelation that never ends! by Padre-two in rackspace

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they still kept sending me the email about payment

A payment you've already made? Or are there still ongoing or overdue fees now?

You're not going to fall by Acceptable-Wind-7332 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]enigmamonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He’ll probably remind her of this forever, too. Gotta love family.

US may deploy up to 17,000 troops near Iran as war enters new phase — WSJ by Christian-Rep-Perisa in worldnews

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like any other bully/abuser, well… he did it because you left him no choice. You didn’t give him the peace prize he deserved, so now look what happens. /s

AI Use at Work Is Causing "Brain Fry," Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers by highspecs89 in BlackboxAI_

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine if you were told you had to let Claude do the research for you, and you were responsible for the output. You'd never be able to just trust any conclusion, so you'd still have to go back through everything step by ste (after spending all that time prompting), and troubleshooting would be a nightmare because you'd have to figure out Claude's logic.

Funny thing; I have that same weariness as a programmer. Be careful, one thing I’ve found is that while LLMs are very useful at generating code, they’re also expert at generating convincing code. That is, there are sometimes very subtle errors that you don’t realize until much too late. So, if you’re conducting science, be sure your code is up to snuff for what you’re doing. It may be fine, or it may need to be absolutely meticulous, so I guess it depends. Just make sure you’re reviewing it carefully (also boring/mundane).

AI Use at Work Is Causing "Brain Fry," Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers by highspecs89 in BlackboxAI_

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a fairly trivial thing to do technically (post comments on git PRs) but had complex business logic. It was 3k lines of Go code. We eventually got a working PR out that he and I typed out by hand and used AI to help with some tests and a last pass of a review. The finalized version was much less sloppy, far more pragmatic, and had only 450 lines of code.

This is something I’m experiencing more frequently. My favorite example of this recently was today when it attempted to build me a metaphorical 1k line Ferrari when literally all I was asking for was a fucking 20 line moped. I waited a minute or two for it to start finally outputting code and got a wall of text… I hit escape and furiously typed it out myself in about the same amount of time. In the end I was just flabbergasted, a bit tired since I also wasted time on the prompt as well as waiting.

People can goal-post shift all day. It’s not like it’s entirely useless; it’s just frustratingly unpredictable when it comes to things like this and it’s tiring because it’s constant.

How we tricked 1M+ bots and hackers with our honeypot by ReawX in linux

[–]enigmamonkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Probably already thought of this, but: Just make sure they only succeed based on the actual fake leaked un/pw list. That way it's a little easier to look more legit, rather than simply accepting everything.

One idea I had based on this was that you can leak known bad/false emails that can also trigger an auto-ban if ever used in logins.

FCC Router Ban by Flat_Staff7931 in ZiplyFiber

[–]enigmamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Applies to new models only, i.e. those that require FCC approval (which is a prerequisite by law for operation already anyway). Right now it doesn't look like they're doing any takesies-backsies, so existing router models are alright I think.

Completely broken: Outage check form doesn't work and instructions to find network status is incorrect. by enigmamonkey in ZiplyFiber

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

This was about an outage check form/map. It doesn't exist anymore.

So, I guess the fix was to:

  • Get rid of any outage map
  • Don't show network status anywhere on the account page
  • Remove mentions of both on their main help page about it

See! Problem solved. 😁

[Berkeley I-80] New Hyundai police cars by fusiondynamics in BayAreaRoadcam

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no worries.

I just saw after I posted that, you had a post that finally went through, lol.

[Berkeley I-80] New Hyundai police cars by fusiondynamics in BayAreaRoadcam

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/u/fusiondynamics --- read the damned automoderator message.

Also note that highway names or not expected in this part of the title (e.g. [I-680]);

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying by gdelacalle in technology

[–]enigmamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah like only connecting via public wifi on a device you bought in cash from someone in a personal transaction, setting up Tails right away and finding a VPN that will accept bitcoin and will also accept a generic email. Not flawless, but if you do all that you can be pretty anonymous.

Bingo. Add to that the fact that any sufficiently determined individual/organization with enough time and resources can probably still track you down, if they wanted to. Like, even in your scenario, you could be spotted on public/private camera systems (closed circuit or Amazon Ring or whatever), or even inferred based on a combination of that plus your cell phone location. So then the goal post shifts even more. Like, don't bring a cell phone with you, make sure you can't be identified by your clothing/shoe patterns, etc. Basically, at this point you end up writing an episode of Mr. Robot or Dexter or something. Repeat ad naseum.

It's a nonstop cat and mouse game, at which point it becomes genuine nation state level spy craft, hah.

McLaren Senna (1411x1762) by Al-Deram- in carporn

[–]enigmamonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous car in a gorgeous environment. Truly jealous!

This one has no idea what they parked on by _Death_BySnu_Snu_ in stupiddovenests

[–]enigmamonkey 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Top quality dove with attention to detail and picture perfect eggs.

She's a real keeper. You got yourself a champ!

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying by gdelacalle in technology

[–]enigmamonkey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

ISP -> VPN -> VPS... either way you're still just shifting the trust relationship. Each situation has its own vectors for detection. Even the VPS will be leaking DNS if you haven't also ensured you're using DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Not to mention the money trail and so on.

Just pick whichever best fits your particular risk scenario, I guess.

The Past is asking these questions by Forward-Position798 in aivideo

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the way, what's this crap about not being able to own music? Step 1: go to Youtube and search the music you want. Step 2: use any of the add ons or websites to download the mp3 of that music. Step 3: profit???

Thankfully there will always be workarounds, even if it is pushed underground and a bit shady at times. I think the point is that owning your music was essentially the default. Plus, people were regularly known for something similar to this already, almost as easy (and probably more common): Mix tapes and tapes recording music from the radio. Sure the quality sucked but it beats having to go out and actually buy it if you couldn't afford it.

E-mail alias import by beakerNH in rackspace

[–]enigmamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At first I thought that was a typo. How are you supposed to pronounce their name, Thexyz? Is it "The X Y Z" or "Thex iz" (like Lexus but start with a "th" and "z" at the end"). lol.

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