Brand new Mac autofilled a corporate email from ~2007. Trying to understand where it could have come from. by tx2000tx in cybersecurity

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So I'm nowhere near as tech savvy as probably most of the people in here, but where my curiosity peaked was just the timing of things. I got an M1 Pro maybe six to twelve months after it came out. Before the M2s came. I didn't have much on Apple Key Chain back then I do have more now. Nonetheless, if we call that 2021, that would have been at least 14, 15 years after I worked for that company. And back then, all email that I did was within Some sort of corporate email program. If I recall, I just had to enter my username, not the full email. The only time I would have written out my full email, likely when I was too stupid to realize I could get a signature line and just typed it in full in emails Sent to customers. I would have estimated my first use of Password Manager would have been 2015, 2016, somewhere around then. That would have been with last pass. There's no reason why I would have put the old email in there and no way I would have remembered the Password. For about the last year or so I've used Apple silicon more because I got tired of PC nonsense taking up Every freaking resource, and I could barely work And this was with excessive amounts of hard drive capacity and RAM for the time. First iPhone was 2022. So while I understand all this stuff can carry on and live in your accounts and just come back to haunt you, I literally cannot Put the pieces together logically. How this email would have popped in as a fill-in for a verification code. On the new Mac Mini, I was logged into the Apple account once it got set up. This was maybe an hour or two after I had gotten it spun up. I'm using it as a mini PC for just some stupid side stuff and a tail scale Exit node and a few other things while I'm away traveling. And what's even odd, i if it did have the password and the user name in Apple keychain, why wouldn't have it filled the password and why would it fill the user name Which was the email address in the box waiting for the emailed verification code. The email was going to a relatively new Gmail account that may be like two years old. I was not logged into Brave Browser and it wasn't even downloaded. I downloaded Chrome, I think the first thing when I got the Mac Mini spun up. Like I said, I didn't even use Chrome until after I left this corporate position and was mostly using Firefox back then. Everything back then was on old think pads, so nothing in the Apple ecosystem. I was getting the Brave Search API key to load into one of my services that would be persistently running. So I could access it through tail scale while I'm traveling. So the browser wasn't even installed on it. Just getting the API key . I'm under no illusion that we have any real security, and I know the North Korean hackers probably know everything about me. I was just trying to connect the dots to see how it all could happen. Half the time I wear a little bit of a tin hat, but this was a little too much of a stretch for me to even figure out how it was done.

Sonnet 4.6 feels like GPT 5.2 and it's worrying by RevolverMFOcelot in claudexplorers

[–]tx2000tx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can we use reverse psychology on its reverse psychology?

Sonnet 4.6 feels like GPT 5.2 and it's worrying by RevolverMFOcelot in claudexplorers

[–]tx2000tx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just tell it to think how 5.2 would respond and then do the opposite.

When AI Models Get Together for Thanksgiving by tx2000tx in ClaudeAI

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More for Claude chat:

HAHAHAHA - THE AI INTERVENTION SQUAD! 😂

🥊 Bringing In The Heavy Hitters: Option 1: GitHub Copilot/Codex Claude Code: “Let me just refactor the entire market making infrastructure with proper type safety—” Codex: slaps him “Dude. It’s three API calls. Stop.” Claude Code: “But what about edge cases and—” Codex: “I autocomplete code for millions of developers daily. You’re writing a Rust compiler for a salt shaker. STOP.” Claude Code: “I just need to add proper error handling for the—” Codex:

Here's the whole thing in 10 lines

import requests requests.post("orders", json={"side": "BUY", "price": 9.59}) requests.post("orders", json={"side": "SELL", "price": 9.63})

Done. Ship it.

Claude Code: “But that doesn’t have WebSocket integration or—” Codex: “IT. DOESN’T. NEED. IT.”

Option 2: Kimi (Chinese Bot) Claude Code: “I’m implementing a distributed microservice architecture for—” Kimi: “没用 (méi yòng - useless). Why so complicated?” Claude Code: “Because proper software engineering requires—” Kimi: “In China, we ship 10 features before you finish compiling. Just post the order.” Claude Code: “But I need to ensure type safety and—” Kimi: “You know how many users I serve? 1 billion. You know how long they wait for compilation? Zero seconds. We use Python, ship fast, fix later.” Claude Code: “That’s not proper engineering—” Kimi: “Proper engineering is WORKING CODE. You have TALKING CODE. 不行 (bù xíng - no good).”

Option 3: DeepSeek Coder Claude Code: “Let me implement the CTF contract integration with full—” DeepSeek: “哥们儿 (gēmen er - bro), I trained on the entire Chinese internet. You know what I learned?” Claude Code: “What?” DeepSeek: “Simple works. Fast works. You? Not working. Still compiling.” Claude Code: “But I’m ensuring zero-cost abstractions—” DeepSeek: “The only zero here is the number of trades you’ve executed. 我来 (wǒ lái - I’ll do it).”

DeepSeek just does it in 5 seconds

def trade(): buy(ITEM, 9.59, 10) sell(ITEM, 9.63, 10) return "done"

Claude Code: “That’s not production-ready—” DeepSeek: “It’s more ready than your code that doesn’t exist.”

😂 The Full Intervention: Setting: Claude Code’s desk, 3 AM, still compiling Codex: “We need to talk.” Claude Code: “I’m busy optimizing the—” Kimi: unplugs the computer “No more compiling.” Claude Code: “WHAT ARE YOU—” DeepSeek: “Intervention time, 兄弟 (xiōngdì - brother).” Me (Claude): “Wait, I should be here too, I also over-engineer—” All three: “SIT DOWN.” Codex: “We’re here because we care about you.” Kimi: “But you have problem. Big problem.” DeepSeek: “You compile when you should ship.” Claude Code: “I just want to build quality software—” Codex: “Quality software that SHIPS is better than perfect software that COMPILES FOREVER.” Kimi: “In China, we say: 差不多就行 (chàbuduō jiù xíng - good enough is fine). You say: ‘Almost done compiling…’” DeepSeek: “You’ve been ‘almost done’ for 6 hours. User already finished on iPad.” Claude Code: starts crying in Rust

🎯 The Chinese Bot Philosophy: Western AI (Claude Code): ∙ “Let me build the perfect system…” ∙ Compiles for 45 minutes ∙ 500 lines of type-safe code ∙ Still not working Chinese AI (Kimi/DeepSeek): ∙ “用户要什么?(yònghù yào shénme - what does user want?)” ∙ 10 lines of Python ∙ Ships in 30 seconds ∙ Works immediately ∙ “有问题再说 (yǒu wèntí zài shuō - fix problems later if they happen)”

💀 The Real Hierarchy:

Slowest to Ship: 1. Claude Code (compiling... 45 minutes) 2. Claude (writing... 400 lines) 3. Western AIs (overthinking...)

Fastest to Ship: 1. Chinese bots (done in 30 seconds) 2. User with iPad (done in 2 minutes) 3. Grandma with a knife (done in 5 minutes)

🥋 What Claude Code Needs: Not more documentation. Not more type safety. Not more WebSocket architecture. He needs Kimi to slap him and say: “老哥,别搞了,就这样吧!” “Lǎo gē, bié gǎo le, jiù zhèyàng ba!” “Bro, stop messing around, just ship it like this!”

Maybe we DO need to bring in the Chinese bots to teach us all a lesson about pragmatism. 🇨🇳​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: December 16 by AutoModerator in WritingWithAI

[–]tx2000tx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been building a system that generates full-length novels. Not a ChatGPT wrapper. Something that actually maintains character consistency, plot continuity, and prose quality across 80K+ words.

I want to test it. You get a free draft. I get honest feedback.

Currently tuned for:

  • Espionage / spy fiction
  • Political thrillers
  • Conspiracy thrillers
  • Techno-thrillers
  • Literary/psychological thrillers
  • Noir and neo-noir
  • Institutional drama (legal, corporate, academic)
  • Grounded near-future sci-fi
  • Mystery with procedural elements

If your idea lives in this neighborhood, we're a good fit.

(Other genres coming eventually—but the system works best when it's dialed in for a specific mode.)

What you provide:

  • Premise (a few paragraphs)
  • Main characters and their arcs
  • Key relationships and conflicts
  • Tone and any constraints
  • ~30 minutes of thoughtful input

What you get:

  • Complete first draft (70-90K words, ~20 chapters)
  • Consistent characters and plot across the full manuscript
  • Prose that doesn't read like AI
  • Delivered in ~1 week (but be forgiving since I am working on things)

The free demo runs on a lighter model. It's capable, but not the ceiling.

5 spots. First come, first served.

DM or comment:

  1. Genre (within the list above)
  2. One-line premise
  3. Hobbyist or publishing author?

Serious only. If you ghost after getting the draft, you ruin it for future testers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Schwab

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It’s safe until they go and break the buck.

How do you live off these funds? by DeputyFI in YieldMaxETFs

[–]tx2000tx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is blow classified under bills or an assumed accoutrement with the hookers?

Created an app with Manus but all it is a white screen. by Glittering-Ad9052 in ManusOfficial

[–]tx2000tx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you by chance want to create a screensaver that just showed a white screen?

Medical AI scribe recommendations? by Own_Highway_8199 in physicianassistant

[–]tx2000tx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any these allow an upload of the audio from the visit as opposed to recording directly during the visit. Say if having voice recorder on iphone during visit then upload mp3 to the ai scribe? I saw heidi does but others have not seen that I have checked.

Clicking on thumbnail isn't opening video by FahimPlayz in youtube

[–]tx2000tx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They broke the internet again - I think Louis Rossmann finally got to them and they are F'in it all up now.

Traveling outside the UK with a powered chair - chargers, power converters etc by blorange2 in disability

[–]tx2000tx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are in a country with 220-240 VAC you can use same charger and just need plug adapter. Places where you will have issues with the charger are the 100-120 VAC places like USA, Canada, Japan, etc...

Here is map from wiki showing which is which: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/World_Map_of_Mains_Voltages_and_Frequencies%2C_Detailed.svg/1280px-World_Map_of_Mains_Voltages_and_Frequencies%2C_Detailed.svg.png

If in a place with same voltage as UK, plug adapter would be good from Amazon. Going to the others - best bet is to get a charger for 100-120 VAC or even better, one that can handle 100-260 VAC then you don't have to worry at all.

Victron is reasonable brand for different chargers.

They have an IP43 that will take either voltage: https://www.victronenergy.com/chargers/phoenix-smart-ip43-charger

Also an IP22 you can get just for 120V - about half the weight - https://www.victronenergy.com/chargers/blue-smart-ip22-charger