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Ok are you riding with two huge boxes containing all your work on an electric unicycle and I guess the hi-vis top means you're headed into traffic and the box-cords seem to be balancing at the halfway point of the boxes and this is too much anxiety for me. But hey, glad you optimized for minimalism on the PCB ♡
As soon as the thumbs-up started rotating and the severed wrist was revealed, it became apparent: I had never wondered where the rest of the thumbs-up person was before. But more chillingly: A thumbs-up from a person off-screen is fine, a disembodied hand wishing me apparent good-will? Not so good. It's a corpse-part!
Oh! And if one felt like solving the puzzle, it might lead to that person being mis-identified as being a bot. Which would be a perverse incentive to avoid wrecking the trap.
I'm suggesting that one should not be able to obviously detect that they're being challenged.
Eg I could respond in Pig Latin to you right now because I can see that's what you're asking, but if that particular request were masked or hidden or behind a puzzle, and you received a Pig Latin response well, maybe it's a bot (or a capture the flag sort of a person)
This whole thing was more of a shower-thought. But the trap I left behind was a link hidden in a full-stop in a deliberately acquiescent comment.
The link went to an imgur image. The image consisted of a bunch of numbers. The numbers were a simple off-by-n alphabet cipher (eg a=8, b=9...) which when decrypted, spelled out a message to the AI. Oh, and also the image looks very dark, a human might not even see the numbers.
This is all ridiculous. But I am wondering about other approaches to see if I can get a bot to bite and reveal itself.
ps: the message once decrypted, suggests that the commenter is incorrect about the thread. I am hoping this would give the bot the necessary pushback it craves to continue the conversation aggressively.
A local neighbourhood cake-stall marketplace. Got a great recipe and some time to bake? Put a picture of your sweet treat up, and get strangers knocking on your front door. You get cash-in-hand, delicious reviews and get to share your family recipes with your local community. No need for shopify, websites, and middle-men. Not sure what to call it, maybe something like onlynonnas.com ?
Did you take a look at one of the chat-based queuing platforms, something like https://dibsonstuff.com people seem to use it for taking turns with servers, but it sounds a bit like it might work for your use-case too.
Sounds like you might need to screw your own mounting post in at the 30mm mark.
Perhaps they should phase out the encryption on WhatsApp as well?
I only found cal.com in the first place because I searched for an open source calendly alternative.
Or why not include the source of your claim up front?
From GitHub comments: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247
Greyson:
Hi there, sorry, this issue was fixed in 5.17 (which hit 100% production on 7/21)
They had a difficult to reproduce problem reported in late December 2020, and got the fix rolled out seven months later.
Not sure your criticism "absolutely inexcusable slop code" is well considered.
Source?
Australia as well.
There are probably parallels with rap artists. There are those that improvise and flow.
(the rest of us edit and re-edit)
Jotted down my backup process for home. Spoiler: it's a bunch of SSDs sitting on top of a Raspberry Pi. But there's a few fun things in there too: raid, encryption, cron, make, rsync, ssh, Home Assistant and a tiny loaner dog. Enjoy.
Just on your first suggestion, this also means that if a person or process can drop a file (unknown to you) into your ~/bin/ then they can wreak havoc. Eg they can override `sudo` to capture your password, or override `rm` to send your files somewhere interesting, and so on.
Btw on the second suggestion, I think there's a command named `command` that can help with that sort of thing, avoids recursive pitfalls.
Fwiw termux + rsync for android phone backup (eg rsync /storage/emulated/0/) will grab most things.
I used to self-host email, it was mostly all initial setup and then it just worked for years. Eventually I got a bit wary about the security side of an internet-accessible box and decided to move the whole thing over to AWS SES. Wrote it up here:
Good question. So one change I made last year was to cap the number of queues the free account could utilize. It's sort of hard to know for certain if that was what moved the needle though.
There has been a suggestion that maybe the free plan could just be a time-limited trial instead.
But it feels like there is some risk associated with that - as often a customer will use the free plan for (eg) six months, before hitting the limits and becoming a paid account.
A talk about creating from Ethan Hawke called "Give yourself permission to be creative"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q
But my takeaway was more like "Give yourself permission to be bad"
Felt good to be reminded that if you want to make interesting things, it's ok to flail around. It'll feel foolish and that's completely ok, perhaps necessary.
Might have been this thing:
It seems like the choices are:
a) a cloud-based password service (eg 1password) or
b) a local-storage password database (eg pass, KeePassXC)
My preference is not to store personal account details with an internet accessible third-party (but I can see the value in it for an organization).
And with the local solutions, it doesn't really seem pleasant to manage, use, synchronize and backup password databases across multiple machines. Also it seems like you're just one laptop disk dying away from possibly losing credentials.
To be clear I'm not suggesting anybody should use my hacky script - the article is meant to be more like: "well I don't love this, but here's how I do things".
Got another approach?
For many years I used an EC2 server for my personal email (running Debian and Postfix) but I recently decided it might be better to have one less internet-facing server to worry about.
This article documents the setup for AWS SES to handle incoming/outgoing mail delivery.
Ha, it suddenly sounds like trouble.
Eg: one could piggy-back an entirely new file onto an existing file (it might have to be text encoded?).
It looks like the kernel might impose a limit of 64KiB on a file's metadata, but that's still quite a lot of room for data smuggling...
Yes concerning. The possibility of losing them between filesystems is worrying too.
One rule of thumb is `mv` will keep the attributes by default (given similar filesystem) and everything else needs tweaking/extra args. There's a section on it over here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extended_attributes#Preserv...
My recent journey sorting through years of files and categorizing/tagging them with the built-in Extended File Attribute functionality.
Uhh? I didn't ask anyone for an explanation.
Except my 1-sentence comment was not an AI callout that said: "Hey this is AI slop". I validate the content of the article but express personal disappointment in the AI writing style.
I admit it is perhaps unkind of me to not provide the laundry list of AI-tells in their article, but I see their response to me as being a direct lie ("I haven't used AI to write this post, that's just my style") so what explanation do I owe them?
Yeah not helping you design your next "be more human" prompt.
I liked del.icio.us, it was online bookmark sharing, but with actual people I knew, and it had genuinely useful category tagging. I guess it was basically replaced with https://old.reddit.com and maybe twitter.