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srcoder

10 karma · joined August 9, 2017

Interests: Climate Tech, Hacking, Mentorship, Music, Open Source, Privacy, Programming, Remote Work, Social Impact, Technology, Web Development

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srcoder··on Our position on open-weights models
Just open all Models and competition is gone and we don't need to worry about all this secrecy anymore. Then implementation, tools and availability become selling points. The whole discussion on who has the largest ** will come to an end. All models are mostly trained on the same datasets anyways with just some other tools or system prompt in front of it
srcoder··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
Just run your llm in a container with the tools it needs. It makes your pc more secure by removing the risk of doing something destructive to your computer and the llm can do llm. Also, llms ssh'ing to the outside world? Asking for trouble later on
srcoder··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
One is still fresh, the other ones trashed
srcoder··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
"Shit in, shit out!" Everything makes sense now
srcoder··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
I don't have node running on my pc, I either put it in a container or i don't use it.

Software that is mostly an electron app. I start using my browser for a web edition, or run it in a container/sandbox!

srcoder··on Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
Already use imagepipe [0] since forever, sometimes it takes soms extra time, still worth the effort. Most of the time I take a picture share with imagepipe, share with external and don't share anything else

I will never share my location via images with anybody then myself. I do use location for my local Photoprism on my own server

0 https://codeberg.org/Starfish/Imagepipe#how-to-get-the-app

srcoder··on Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
Nice tool, def gonna try it. I was looking for the source and it took a while before I found the github(0) link. Like a lot software, I like to take a look at source. Maybe you can make it more prominent on the website

0: https://github.com/stanford-scs/jai

srcoder··on Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
You can turn it off! Best feature I've seen in years!
srcoder··on Bad Apple but it's played inside Super Mario Bros
Awesome!!!

Could it run doom?

srcoder··on Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
I think they should have used an malicious looking URL instead to get to the website

https://pc-helper.xyz/root-exploit/virus_loader_tool.exe?id=...

srcoder··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Works as expected https://anycrap.shop/product/atomic-bomb-developer-manual
srcoder··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Awesome, let's see what the answer will be

https://anycrap.shop/product/deep-taught-supercomputer-to-ca...

And I can finally buy my own Babel fish translator

https://anycrap.shop/product/in-ear-babel-fish-translator

Edit: added babelfish

srcoder··on If you're remote, ramble
We do the same, just topic specificaties channels like kids, random or pets... Works very well and you only need to join if you want to...
srcoder··on Webflow Incident Report
I am a little angry with these kind of write-ups where they point a lot at others (bad actors, malicious traffic) instead of admitting a problem in the software. I cannot imagine that you piss of somebody that much that this actor will only focus on one piece of your platform (again and again)

I've done many large database migrations which involved adding or removing indexes which included full table locking and they often lead to (accounted) downtime.

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My honest take on this...

Most probably their regular user signup just wasn't protected well enough with captcha or CSRF and created some background processes that piled up on tables lacking some indexes which finally became a visible bottleneck.

They assumed bad traffic, so took the wrong turn. (WAF)

After they "implemented a fix" which should add an index to a large table that took down the database server because of table locking. This also doesn't recover after an abort.

Next up, UPGRADE OUR DB SERVER, and db table cache is gone, hence disabling user logging to allow to get a warm start. Didn't work, DOWNGRADE OUR DB SERVER, same thing repeats.

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No bad actors involved.

srcoder··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
The car was at least be locked and have windows closed. In this case, it was an unlocked car with doors and windows open.
srcoder··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
I use Zen everyday and a love it! I am glad they chose Firefox as a base, otherwise I would have skipped it. Firefox is stable, I open it when I boot my PC which runs for weeks and never think anything about it. On topic of ad blocking, I think that there are more ways to anoy users using ad blockers today despite of which browser someone uses, with ad block detection and blocking access. If your browser is build by a ad company, expect these changes. For this reason I won't use these browsers
srcoder··on How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present
> I wonder why the school shootings went up so much under Biden, and why we heard so little about it.

I think it's shootings in general [1] went up last couple of years. Could it be that there is just more awareness last couple of years so the recorded listings will up?

I would say, any shooting is one too many. I don't life in the US but I think it has nothing todo with politics.

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