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PenguinRevolver··on No AI Fridays
Some people are gonna take this as a three-day weekend. Pity.
PenguinRevolver··on Nordstjernen 1.0
At that point, I could get Claude to re-create this project if I wanted to. I wouldn't have to wait ten years[1] until 2036 (which is really stupid in its own right) for 1.0.0 — mainly some AI vibed code — to be reforked into a new project.

I get it's a fun little AI toy project, but that license is just silly for one.

[1] https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/blob/main/L...

PenguinRevolver··on Legacy Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems
Beats me: https://support.microsoft.com/en/kb/3132080
PenguinRevolver··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
I tried using Gource and... well, the commits were not sorted by date, so the time goes all over the place.
PenguinRevolver··on The Xkcd thing, now interactive
I love that clicking the empty space and just doing nothing at all still causes the blocks to fall apart after some time.
PenguinRevolver··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Wow. Umm, the "free generations" limit is running on a client-based honour system...
PenguinRevolver··on Scream cipher
Oh god, now we're gonna have two different standards for a scream cypher https://xkcd.com/927/
PenguinRevolver··on Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine
Holy crap, I didn't know that they used that engine for that game. I thought they stopped using it after Octodad: DC.
PenguinRevolver··on Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
Try reading "HiGh sky buys The lies" in the font. Pretty difficult to make out what it says...
PenguinRevolver··on I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe)
For future reference, look at what the same hacker posted a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44997145
PenguinRevolver··on Melonking Website
A website that closes on Mondays? Stupid, stupid concept. As stupid as Steam's Tuesday Maintenance...

Fortunately, you can skip it very easily: https://melonking.net/melon

PenguinRevolver··on Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
https://api.github.com/repositories/999999999

Which leads to https://github.com/sameepabadhuge/fork1

PenguinRevolver··on Hyperspace
Your source points out that:

< You can also create [APFS (copy on write) clones] in Terminal using the command `cp -c oldfilename newfilename` where the c option requires cloning rather than a regular copy.

`fclones dedupe` uses the same command[1]:

  if cfg!(target_os = "macos") {
      result.push(format!("cp -c {target} {link}"));
[1] https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones/blob/555cde08fde4e700b25...
PenguinRevolver··on Hyperspace

  brew install fclones
Thanks for the recommendation! Just installed it via homebrew.
PenguinRevolver··on Kubernetes Comic
https://web.archive.org/web/20250118142525/https://cloud.goo...
PenguinRevolver··on Gource: Software Version Control Visualization
I can't access it; the video is set to private.
PenguinRevolver··on Internet Archive: Security breach alert
Probably not the best time to say this, but it's surprisingly easy to go through a collection with items and grab every email along with the usernames.

https://archive.org/metadata/naturally_a_girl/metadata

One way or another, there was going to be someone who would take loads of emails with a username attached to it. A bit intrigued by how the hacker compromised the database and got the passwords.

PenguinRevolver··on The Santander UK iOS app is 613 MB and 35% of it does nothing
Breakdown of the app is available here: https://www.emergetools.com/app/example/ios/examp_fCeiq7Z6xe...
PenguinRevolver··on PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts
Every item is linked to the uploader's email address. If someone changes the email of that account, all of the items disappear. This is because, as far as the system knows, the item's email address is not the same as the new email address.

What I find strange is that the uploader's email address is made public on every item they upload. This is not good, especially if someone uses an alias as their account name but has their full name as their email address. It would be surprisingly easy to scrape every email address from every uploader and cause a moderate leak of information.

PenguinRevolver··on Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
It's nice, the only problem I got with omg.lol is that Wayback Machine archives are unavailable for all domains. I'm concerned that this part of the internet won't be saved for others to see in the future.
PenguinRevolver··on The .ing top-level domain
This is https://fuck.ing awesome!
PenguinRevolver··on Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B
Understandable; the reason I said "thousands for RAM" was because when I made that sentence, I put the theoretical RAM and GPU prices together. Oh well.
PenguinRevolver··on Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B
I feel as if the cheapest way of running these kinds of models would be to have the whole cache/memory take space on the hard drive rather than the RAM. Then, you could just use CPU power instead of splurging out thousands for RAM & a GPU with enough VRAM.

It might or might not be reasonable speeds, but I would reason that it could avoid "sunk cost irony"; if you decide, that any point, Chat-GPT would have sufficed in your task. It's rare, but it can happen.

If you want to take this silly logic further, you can theoretically run any sized model on any computer. You could even attempt this dumb idea on a computer running Windows 95. I don't care how long it would take; if it takes seven and a half million years for 42 tokens, I would still call it a success!

PenguinRevolver··on The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
If you live in the UK, then please go to the UK Government and Parliament website and sign your name on this petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

It's currently at 6,327 signatures; it needs 3,673 more for the government to respond and 90,000 more after that for a debate to be considered.

PenguinRevolver··on PullPush Reddit API Documentation
> PullPush is a service for the indexing and retrieval of content that Reddit users have submitted to Reddit. As per past and current (as of July 2023) Reddit User Agreement, Reddit users are the copyright owners of their content (see Section 5). This service does not hold, store, or transmit any information copyrighted by Reddit.

This uses archived Reddit data. r/jokes is currently the only available subreddit that can be queried.

PenguinRevolver··on SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised
Can this happen to 1TB models? Currently using one in the back of my computer 24/7.
PenguinRevolver··on Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
And it only took them 12 years to do it. Authy had already implemented syncing to different devices for a long while.
PenguinRevolver··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
Great pull request here which improves the algorithm: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/17
PenguinRevolver··on Acropalypse: a vulnerability in Google's screenshot editing tool
A demo is available here: https://acropalypse.app/
PenguinRevolver··on Twitter was down
Most recent snapshot of the URL in the message gave you a recursive error: https://web.archive.org/web/20230306165738/https://developer...
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