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deadaluson Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

Porkbun. Yes, Cloudflare Domains exists but let's support the small guys.

Grok 4.5 is somewhere between between Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5.

Source : https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/capabilities/coding

deadaluson TSMC is reportedly sold out until 2028

Terafab, Tenstorrent, SMIC and Cerebras Systems are a few more TSMC competitors.

deadaluson How the FBI might have gotten inaccessible camera footage from house

This incident will, hopefully, encourage people to use cctv that store footage exclusively locally (on a microSD card, built-in storage, or a local NVR/hard drive you control) and avoid any cloud connectivity or optional cloud features.

Local alternative to Google Nest : Reolink, Amcrest POE, Eufy with Home Base, TP-Link Tapo, Frigate + POE cams.

deadaluson Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

Youtube Alternatives :

https://odysee.com

Bitchute

Rumble

deadaluson Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

I wish AMD did well in the Stable Diffusion front because AMD is never greedy on VRAM. The 4060Ti 16GB(minimum required for Stable Diffusion in 2024) starts at $450.

AMD with ROCm is decent on Linux but pretty bad on Windows.

deadaluson Russian cosmonaut sets record for most time in space – more than 878 days

Astronauts age slower and grow taller in space.

deadaluson Google Drive files suddenly disappeared

I will always remember the automatic removal of the Christchurch shooting video from users' personal Google Drive and Dropbox accounts, with no prior warnings or explanations provided.

deadaluson Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes

I use Bing for porn. For reverse image search, I use Yandex. And for researching psychedelics and conspiracy(censored) topics - I use Brave Search.

I use Google only for vanilla search that shows I am a good citizen(navigation, online shopping, general research on movies and sports...etc). I don't want my search Identity to be fully profiled by Google. Police(and other bad actors like a hostile government) are more likely to access my data on Google than on other lesser know search engine.

deadaluson Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave

I have never seen a more cute deer.

I wish all ancient drawings had such a version so we can easily interpret what they are talking about in the article. Early cave drawings are very hard to decipher.

deadaluson Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)

Cloudflare banned 8chan without a legal requirement to do so. They banned it based on moral reasons.

deadaluson Strong Solar Flare Erupts from Sun on Jun 20, 2023

Wow, so the sun can spin! I never knew that.

https://www.space.com/does-the-sun-rotate

deadaluson The War on Dogs

In the 15-year period of 2005 through 2019, canines killed 521 Americans. Pit bulls contributed to 66% (346) of these deaths. Combined, pit bulls and rottweilers contributed to 76% of the total recorded deaths [1]

[1] https://www.dogsbite.org/

deadaluson What Wikipedia Did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia

deadaluson India Shut Down Cell Service for 27M During a Manhunt

India Remains Internet Shutdown Capital of the World for Fifth Year Running : https://thewire.in/tech/india-remains-internet-shutdown-capi...

deadaluson Replika users fell in love with their AI chatbot companions. Then they lost them

The best alternative to Replika that I have found : Pygmalion AI - https://redd.it/10h37u4

Use the following character for NSFW chatting : https://booru.plus/+pygmalion

deadaluson ChatGPT Plus

Try http://chat.petals.ml

deadaluson Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

This tool is very fast! I used it to find my crush's social profiles and it worked well.

deadaluson Wickr Me is shutting down December 31, 2023

Wickr was one of the biggest sourcing platforms in the psychedelic world. It will be a huge loss for Psychonauts.

deadaluson Blocking Kiwifarms

KiwiFarms is back and is fully opoerational : https://kiwifarms.ru/

They are now using DD0S-guard : https://ddos-guard.net/

deadaluson Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

https://boun.cr/ has been active for years and I use it regularly on shady sites.

deadaluson Cloudflare had a partial outage

Had a hard time trusting Cloudflare since they blocked 8chan due to political activism.

deadaluson Ask HN: Why are people in real life so different?

It is not easy to see the humanity of someone over the internet. In real life, we realize that 'others' are just like us and that the differences are minuscule.

deadaluson Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office

Came across this article about Whitehat Jr, its hilarious : https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/who-wolf-gupta-story-b...

They created a fictional character 'WOLF GUPTA' to promote their brand.

deadaluson Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security

First thing to do after installing Windows : disable telemetry

https://wpd.app/

deadaluson Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents

In the case of Bellingcat, it appears to have been used as a public front for the CIA to release information that they wanted out there publically using parallel construction[1]

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what...