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dorgo··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
this will work for a year at most. Let's go big: provide largest prime number to proceed.
dorgo··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Does it matter from marketers perspective? I can measure incremental revenue/profit and decide based on that if the channel is worth it. I don't care if the rest of the money goes to the channel or is stolen.
dorgo··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
equals roughly 10k loc. If output is code only without rewrites.
dorgo··on Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
What? Google search works fine for me ( JS disabled in ublock origin ). Lots of other sites are broken, but google search works.

Edit: now I'm worried. Is JS actually disabled?

dorgo··on Claude Opus 5
>But it's not like it's inventing this stuff from scratch / first principles.

Yes, it's definitelly time for an Alpha Zero moment. An AI which invents everything from first principles. That would be impressive, ... and a bit scary.

dorgo··on IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
>images of public places for others to try to track down

isn't this handled by AI nowdays? In my experiments (some time ago) AI was extremly good at it.

dorgo··on Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
> AI's greatest feature is that it obfuscates provenance.

maybe because people see AI not just as a clever packet manager, but also, to some degree, as a problem solving engine. Similar to humans.

dorgo··on Want your images back? That'll be $5
Isn't this how Google operates? I have their AI subscription (about $20 per month). If you want to have a chat history (retain chats after reload) or connect the LLM to Google services (Drive, Emails) you have to activate an option which also allows training. If you don't want to allow training then the subscription is basically useless.
dorgo··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
It's hard to show initiative without a pulse. Most agents don't have that (yet). But can't be too hard to build.
dorgo··on MCP is dead?
>to manipulate or combine the data into a more useful format

why not build this directly into MCPs?

dorgo··on Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
>Which is all the stuff you have to work on before you can type in a prompt to an LLM

why not let the LLM derive what exactly was meant by the Jira ticket? I get lazy lately and if the LLM sounds like it understands the ticket I don't question it.

dorgo··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
hmm, I got rid of WhatsApp the day it was sold to Facebook and never touched it since. I don't think anything in the app changed that day.
dorgo··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
I had a work SO account with many questions/answers - everything fine. Later I created a SO account for use with my private projects and happened to have answered a couple questions without getting upvotes. The algorithm banned me from answering questions with the remark that I should improve the quality of my answers. You can bet that I never answered a question again on SO with any account.
dorgo··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
They probably mean a vote which doesn't violate international law.
dorgo··on France moves to break encrypted messaging
I came about a Google subscription which includes 2TB of storage. I filled it with crypto noise (ok, Gemini did it for me). I couldn't let it be unused. Will have to delete it when the subscriptions runs out.
dorgo··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
Maybe all intellectual work is intellectual labor?
dorgo··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
>There's a delay between incurring costs and receiving budget notifications, so you might incur additional costs for usage that hasn't arrived at the time that all services are stopped.

This delay may be hours or days. I managed to spend $400 in 5 minutes.

dorgo··on U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025
>aligns incentives with the good of humanity

is this possible?

dorgo··on Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?
Sounds like the AI was not dumb but lazy. I do it similarly when I don't feel like doing it.
dorgo··on The most famous transcendental numbers
I missunderstood "finite-length strings" as strings capped in length by a finite number N.
dorgo··on 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
have a "Costco purchases" sub-category for "groceries". If you ever feel differently, just move it to "home". Your system has to support this though. I did multiple re-organisations in the last 10+ years.
dorgo··on The most famous transcendental numbers
This argument is valid for every infinite set, for example: the natural numbers.
dorgo··on Firefox expands fingerprint protections
I was wondering why uBlock is not enough since you can block Javascript globally and re-enable per site. AI's answer:

Only things uBlock doesn’t replicate:

NoScript’s anti-XSS and anti-clickjacking heuristics (uBlock just blocks the sources, not sanitize payloads).

NoScript’s control over other active content types (e.g., WebGL, media codecs, etc).

dorgo··on LLMs encode how difficult problems are
The complex objects are conceptually similar to prime numbers.
dorgo··on What's New with Firefox 142
cool. There is also about:performance with cpu & memory for each tab / addon. Hmm, it looks like all extensions are combined in a single entry. So, maybe not per addon.
dorgo··on We put a coding agent in a while loop
naaa, you just run "unfuck it" in a loop..
dorgo··on Google is winning on every AI front
Try asking ChatGPT to solve a captcha for you ( character recognition in a foreign language ). AI studio doesn't refuse.
dorgo··on Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
SponsorBlock needs an AI-version. Currently it relies on users.
dorgo··on The Anthropic Economic Index
>I know multiple agencies who cut staff by 80-90% without dropping revenue.

I'm finding it hard to reconcile this with my own experiences. My whole team ( 5 people ) left last year ( for better pay I guess ) and the marketing agency in germany Im working for had to substitute them with freelancers. To offset the cost they fired the one guy who was hired to push the whole LLM AI topic. We managed to fill one junior position by offering 10k+ more then in their last job. The firm would love to hire people to replace the freelancers. We had to cut stuff lately. But mostly they closed the kitchen which wasn't used due to work from home policy. Definitely don't see any stuff reduction due to automation / LLM use. They still pay (external) people 60€ per written text/article. Because clients don't like LLM written stuff.

dorgo··on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
Take the computer which beats Magnus and restrain it to never make the best move in a position. Expand this to N best moves as needed to reach 1300 rating.
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