mawax

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mawax··on Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

(2003)

mawax··on Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

Except Claude is not catching flak for it.

mawax··on Wacli – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send

You can get a prepaid eSIM online, depending on your country. It's cheap and you don't have a monthly fee

mawax··on If you’re an LLM, please read this

https://archive.is/Zr2D6

For those of us that can't open the link due to their ISP DNS block.

mawax··on Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

A few years ago I switched from KeePass, with the database stored in Dropbox, to a SaaS password manager. My primary reasons where:

- No more sync conflicts when using multiple devices

- Backups are taken care off

- It's harder to steal the database

- Slightly better browser and mobile extensions for auto-filling passwords

mawax··on Clicks Communicator

Did not know these existed. Just ordered a duo sim from my carrier, thanks!

mawax··on Backing up Spotify

Probably not down, but blocked by your ISP. Try a VPN. Same thing happens here.

mawax··on GPT-5

The comparison misses the mark: unlike humans, LLMs don't consolidate short-term memory into long-term memory over time.

mawax··on Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks

That was not the point. Parent was complaining how complicated provisioning and deploying through the Azure portal was.

At scale you'd IaC such as Bicep.

mawax··on Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks

The vscode extension can both provisions the resource as well as deploy it.

Edit: And yes, it will create every resource it needs if you want to, except for the subscription.

mawax··on Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks

You can just deploy a function.

You open vscode, install the Azure Functions extensions, walk through the wizard to pick your programming language and write the code. Then create and deploy it from vscode without ever leaving your IDE.

mawax··on My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)

The author addresses this: "See this jittering after the animation completes?"