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after discovering most of my content has been scraped thousands of times, I don't have any willingness to continue posting my blog. Well, yes, I was expecting that (you know.. by publishing content on the net, everyone could read it -- and profit off!). I've some content for some months, including some analysis.

I wish somebody could motivate me to publish them anyway.

Is it possible to achieve such level of precision of building something so complex without being worried around safety?

It's flabbergasting how this story is close to the reality. Bookmarked, I would love to see it printed.

I'm playing with it and it is impressive that is starting to have less and less problems than few years ago

I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX

if anyone ever reads about this comment, please start to think about how to fuzz your software in a fast way. You don't need to correct or patch every bug, you just need to find where the algorithm A, B, C doesn't perform well, or where you have an allocation of 2 MBs for a linked list that should have been half of it.

I'm not a daily user of jetbrains product, but please. If there's any engineering/developers, start to use afl/cargo fuzz or whatever your fuzzer is, and spot bottlenecks, issues. I started to write software because I was looking at the quality of the very first softwares that were being fuzzed and it opened me some doors.

cool idea

nope, I was meaning the TeX source for the paper

https://info.arxiv.org/help/faq/whytex.html

off topic question: why is there no source attached to this paper?

I dream of a world of stagit + issue creation written in Rust. End

I'm very sad to see some bugs catch by my fuzzer that was coded in three minutes of cargo-fuzz, disrupting UX. I filled some apple feedbacks that were fortunately fixed by some engineers, but I wonder what's happening under Q&A testing.

awesome, good to see some real content from pre-AI moment

interesting video I was seeing the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4UZsA5U

   choice = random() % 5

   switch choice:

      case 0: blog_post

      case 1: tell_to_plant_corn
 
      case 2: register_website
  
      case 3: pause
  
      case 4: move_money

https://serhack.me

Love it. As a blogger myself, I can't think of the amount of time wasted to check every page of my blog during hugo upgrades. :)

Not an aviation expert, nor I want to be one, but the images look pretty intense.

Not for any job:

Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application.

For anyone wondering what this "new" tax is: https://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/portale/dichiarazione-impo...

The digital services tax (Digital Service Tax) is applied at a rate of 3% on revenues deriving from the provision of services on a digital interface for targeted advertising to users of that interface, for the provision of a multilateral digital interface that allows users to connect and interact with each other, also for the purpose of facilitating the direct supply of goods or services for the transmission of data collected from users and generated by the use of a digital interface.

In practice, taxation applies to digital advertising on websites and social networks, access to digital platforms, fees received by the operators of such platforms, and also the transmission of data “collected” from users. Revenue is taxable if the user of the digital service is located within the territory of the State. For online advertising services, the user is considered to be located in the territory of the State if the advertisement appears on their device when it is used in the territory of the State. The location of the device in Italian territory is determined on the basis of its IP address.

Businesses that generate revenue in Italy from the above-mentioned digital services and that, during the calendar year preceding the one in which the tax liability arises, generate a total revenue of not less than €750 million anywhere in the world, either individually or as a group, are subject to the digital tax.

It seems for me a fair tax for corporations that take advantages of data collected to provide a service that someone pays (advertisements).

I would love to see some examples outside of the WIMP-based UI

The real secret of an effective captcha-like system is to identify/collect lots of data, identify suspicious patterns, validate them (checking what kind of data exposes a bot-like system) and then use this for serving dynamic challenges based on a couple of information.

Example: if the system identifies the user as a bot, it tries to give a less performant solution in terms of PoW.

Ah now I understand what you meant with "You are purchasing hardware", I missed completely that point. "You are purchasing hardware from us" :) yeah, then it's what I originally understood. Good :) so I guess one time payment, I get the hardware, I set up with your software into your hardware that I purchased and then I should be good.

Ah nice, I thought for a second it was more vertical with its own hardware (which has its pro and cons, maybe it's in your plans..). Would that work as a SAAS? Or price per hardware device/machines I can create?

OT: how does anyone buy their cloud? Is it only available as a public alpha/beta with remote control? I might have a client interested into this, but needs to have some guarantees that their data remains on-premise.

I was wondering: does anybody know if there are any good resources for writing a good text adventure? Any nice tips and tricks? Mainly related to the content. I guess it overlaps with "writing a good novel", but I bet there're some specific advices that can be applied to the text adventure.

I wanted to write my text adventure, but I'd offer reader to have multiple options, especially for those who are not really practical with english (includes myself ^-^).

https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html

Indeed: https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html try not to block LLM bot traffic and start injecting spurious content for ""improving"" their data. Markov chain at its finest!

Love it. I'm going to use it for every website I have.

I would remind all the people to recompile the build themself, before downloading a random binary and allowing it to access the Slack workspace. But, very interesting project!

I'm not the author, but I'll try to let them know :- )