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Aaron Gyes
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floam··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
You don’t give your battery a break while you sleep?
floam··on Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
They don’t seem to be in contact with the people who actually fixed it.
floam··on MiMo v2.6
I don’t follow. Fair use is a copyright defense, and nobody is suggesting distillation attacks are just a copyright violation are they?

Aren’t they alleging these other companies directly entered into a contract and violated the terms, and in cases where question, answer pairs were obtained without such agreement, it was accomplished by outright wire fraud or theft?

floam··on Run macOS Software on Linux
com.apple.private.uexc as well?
floam··on YouTube Format IDs
Same id numbers you use when downloading them. While you might know what a particular URL is available in, I’m not sure I’ve seen an encyclopedic enumeration of the possibilities
floam··on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
That’s surprisingly self-aware, and encouraging.
floam··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
The article mentioned fertilizer - that’s not straightforward to control and precisely account for.
floam··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
No, using a different domain makes it easy to across the board add a rule: don’t treat as Apple ID.
floam··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
I’ll try to add more later, but it is believed that multiple times, a bug in some random API has allowed for the “hidden” Apple account to be revealed because they resolve hide my emails to the original internally. Using a separate namespace would be the universal fix.

A mitigation for the cause of https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-re...

floam··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Yes, to fully fix a certain class of bug on their infra.
floam··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Good. This would have made blocking them trivial.
floam··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
How.. do people find out they’re diabetic before organs are borderline failing?
floam··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
They are unable to do much. Look, their systems cannot distinguish them - not since the crooks figured out the phosphor tags. They aren’t detecting any during the course of business. There are no prosecutions of “duped cobsumers” buying cheap stamps claiming to be real online as far as I can find.
floam··on The AI Aesthetic
I tried your tool just now, on my iPhone. I am really kind of stuck and frustrated. I cannot get that first box, the one you can type into, that’s on a grid into a state where I can interact with it.

Stuff is jumping around after I try to move the canvas around, unexpected stuff. I can’t figure it out.

floam··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
Half priced stamps work though, and nobody is going to prosecute grandma for counterfeiting postage stamps.
floam··on More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Pretty sure that’s what happens after adapting to Dvorak. Still not sure why ascended beings bother communicating with us though.
floam··on Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
You have this problem after paying for Pro?
floam··on GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
I don’t see how it’s incompatible with open source, just because my development builds aren’t being blessed.
floam··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Maybe people will find deep meaning in “AI is us, any intention was shaped by the written down intentions of every human that ever put pen to paper”.

maybe masters of art will train their own tortured models in digital dungeons and a rich man’s home won’t be complete without a cyber collective of pathological artist models actively that you guests CAN interrogate about why they chose what on the basement homelab.

floam··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Try

   {"messages":[
      {"role": "user",
       "content": "hi"}
   ]}
but also an explicitly empty system message:

   {"messages":[
      {"role": "system",
       "content": ""}
      {"role": "user",
       "content": "hi"}
   ]}
and finally

   {"messages":[
      {"role": "system",
       "content": "x"}
      {"role": "user",
       "content": "hi"}
   ]}

Comparing OpenRouter’s tokensPrompt with nativeTokensPrompt can tell you if it came from the provider
floam··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
isis
floam··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
You’re talking about oxygen like it’s California Rocket Fuel or meth.
floam··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Distillation from having enough logs
floam··on Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them
TLS just encrypts the IMAP / SMTP sessions, no guarantee it’s stored encrypted, let alone end to end
floam··on Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
Certificate pinning is actually rarer today than it was a few years ago. You see it mostly in bank apps, and some system services. It’s not a best practice.
floam··on Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals
Distillation attacks. The weights are just a proof-of-work hash
floam··on DeepSeek v4
I doubt many Spanish or Portuguese speakers refer to themselves in English.

Regardless, sure South Americans can absolutely call themselves Americano in the continental sense. But I know in Brazil for example "Americano" is casually understood to mean from the US, and in general South Americans are more likely to identify as argentino, brasileiro, chileno, colombiano, etc., or as sul-americano/sudamericano.

Most importantly, when speaking English, virtually all will avoid American for themselves because they know in English it means estadounidense.

floam··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
Well yes. Someone has the other side of the bet, and it’s not 1:1 long:short. That’s how folks could hypothetically hire somebody to kill me, by putting $5M on “floam will survive the month” - if I’m not killed conspirators get their money back, with interest. But if I am verifiably dead, whoever knew in advance a hit man will kill me, that man gets paid.
floam··on DeepSeek v4
Very carefully
floam··on All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
Stars make it, our sun is made of it, it’s the third most abundant element.

Distant third

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