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sprremix··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
The article also mentions a physical movement:

"A total of more than 27 tonnes of gold was physically transferred from the locations in North America to DNB Cash Centre in Zeist, Utrecht, between March and August. Another 59 tonnes of gold kept in New York was also sold off during this time, while the equivalent amount of gold was purchased in London."

They do not explain _how_ it was moved, though.

sprremix··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
https://archive.is/aBu0T
sprremix··on Don't use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
So, your project still uses AI. I'm curious, what did you do while developing this site in order to fight against the bias?
sprremix··on [dead]
https://archive.is/F6H3v
sprremix··on Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app
I'd like to know the train of thought behind your idea of "Let's add an FPS counter to my Markdown editor".

Incredibly sorry to sound so negative, but nothing about this seems legitimate to me and I would never trust any of my files to this application.

sprremix··on The use of LLM assistants for kernel development
Either go the QEMU route or just add a new tag `Generated-by` and let reviewers flag oddities. At least for now that gives plenty clarity for such important changes.
sprremix··on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
> All the functionality attached to Firefox's "Browser tools" sub-menu should be unceremoniously ripped out, banished to the developer's edition.

I hope this is some kind of sarcastic take I am not getting. What a weird thing to stand for.

sprremix··on MinIO Guts Management Dashboard
Well, one is enterprise and the other is community version. Is it still the same if you compare same editions? How does it look now on the enterprise edition? Did they move functionality from the community edition to the enterprise edition?
sprremix··on Someone at YouTube needs glasses
This makes me appreciate my newly discovered "Remove YouTube Suggestions"[0]-extension a lot more. My homepage looks like this[1] and I absolutely do not get the feeling I'm "missing out" on any content. I just go to my subscriptions page, look at some videos and then close YT :)

[0] https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zst96wo.png

sprremix··on Anubis Works
Why must everything involve $'s?
sprremix··on China spied on Dutch Cyber Intelligence through FortiGate backdoors
Strange, it's not available anymore. Thankfully it's archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240206154347/https://www.ncsc....
sprremix··on There are too many damn honeypots
What do you mean by "catching attackers". What do you gain by having that information? And, again, 240k individual instances all "catching attackers"?

So many questions

sprremix··on CyberChef from GCHQ: Cyber Swiss Army Knife
I also discovered Ciphey. Neat little tool indeed, but I just found out it's being deprecated. It's mentioned in this issue[1] and being replaced with Ares[2]. Neither could decipher this strange encryption[3] I used it on unfortunately.

[1] https://github.com/Ciphey/Ciphey/issues/764

[2] https://github.com/bee-san/Ares

[3] "dEFLWWFKQWxRQW16RnkvbTZML0lsdz09" original text is "hacker". But it is unknown how it's being encrypted.

sprremix··on iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles
It blocks sponsored content using SponsorBlock[0], which uses crowdsourced data to detect segments in video's and skips them (basically fast forwards over the content).

[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/

sprremix··on Show HN: Answer Overflow – Indexing Discord content into the web
I imagine this will only work (and only index) threads. So the context can be gathered from the thread title/body and underlying messages reflect the discussion.

Some communities I'm in have #support channels which only support threads. So you create a thread, add a title and a body message and people can reply to your thread by clicking on it. There's no way to post individual messages; only comments in threads.

Thread overview: https://i.imgur.com/jfvrRtG.png

Opening a thread: https://i.imgur.com/pqGrARI.png

This solves your context problem. Still not sure if this is the right direction we want to go in. This just proves to me that Discord is not right tool for the problem at hand.

sprremix··on Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access
reveddit is precisely an example of one of those sites which uses Pushshift to display removed content
sprremix··on The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
This link provides direct access to ChatGPT for me: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bing+AI&showconv=1&FORM=hpcodx
sprremix··on Bypassing Gmail's spam filters with ChatGPT
which detects the text from the article as 99% real...
sprremix··on Ask HN: What is your minimal WFH exercise routine?
Such a coincidence, but that's exactly the type of equipment I see at every thrift store. Only thing that's missing is a hometrainer.
sprremix··on We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people)
It's a zsh thing.

14.7.3 ‘=’ expansion

If a word begins with an unquoted ‘=’ and the EQUALS option is set, the remainder of the word is taken as the name of a command. If a command exists by that name, the word is replaced by the full pathname of the command.

From: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#g_t_00...

sprremix··on John Carmack on avoiding distractions
https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
sprremix··on Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
I can't attest for its speed, but this seems like the polar opposite of lightweight.
sprremix··on Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
If he meant that, a "knock off OS" would have sufficed. It looked like to me he was referencing the mass surveillance in China. In either case, unnecessary racist in my opinion.
sprremix··on Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
These links have already been shared in this thread, but I'd still like to share what I did recently.

For the vast majority of debloating I use Sophia[1] and just use the defaults so it's basically fire-and-forget, which I very much like. For any additional de-bloating, like removing OneDrive integration, I use individual scripts from [2].

I've recently switched my development laptop to a Macbook Pro and it's hilarious to note the difference in installation process between the two. The MacOS experience is embracing the "it just works"-concept, no configuration required and everything is taken care off. Whereas the Windows experience is basically you get a thin shell and you need to install these 20(!) updates in order to start configuring your drivers, installing packages and "debloating".

In the end I've accepted that Windows and MacOS both have a place in this world and neither have the perfect approach to an operating system. OS's are such a personal experience.

[1] https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows

[2] https://privacy.sexy/

sprremix··on Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data?
> This is known as clipboard delay-rendering

Aha, so that's why Word[1] just explicitly asked me if I want to save the current copied image before quitting. It's probably asking before loading something big into memory?.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/sNfE3Be.png

sprremix··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
There are some alternative frontends for Spotify available. None of the ones I found works on M1 mac, but Windows and Linux users have some options available.

https://github.com/jpochyla/psst

https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue

https://github.com/xou816/spot

sprremix··on A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world
From the original article [0], last line: "In a future post (currently being finished), we'll take a look at exactly how they escape the IMTranscoderAgent sandbox."

[0]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

sprremix··on Sony is buying Bungie for $3.6B
248 comments about this topic in a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30151580
sprremix··on Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
How would you debug something inside of a loop (1000s of values) with a line breakpoint in your IDE? Your debugger will trigger the breakpoint every single time it walks through the loop, even when everything is going fine. Now if you conditionally trigger the breakpoint inside the loop using code, it will trigger once and only if it encounters whatever error you want to catch.

Obviously you remove that debug statement from your code after you're finished debugging.

sprremix··on Free VPN in 1 minute with Docker
Interested to know which ways you can integrate adblocking tools in this to block tracking when using the vpn.

Obviously you would have to set up a whole lot more to maximize privacy which isn't covered in this tutorial.

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