The report there for AWS also skyrocketed, but I guess it's probably false positives?
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https://webabusedefense.com/presse/Communiquer_presse_Aff-Ad... [pdf]
BTW, does his CF WARP scripts still work? I know he no longer updated it, but never really knew if it still works after all these months (years?).
As for the "amount of water and energy spent" to produce them, yes, that is tiny compared to something like a tote bag (and for most commodities, production cost usually tracks closely with resource use). But in a sense, that is actually part of the problem: they are so cheap and resource-light to make that they get treated as disposable, and their environmental cost shows up later in waste and pollution rather than up front in production.
Generally speaking, when I was younger (say, 20 years ago), discussions about environmental impact were almost entirely framed around pollution (what ends up in the soil, air, or water), not around the energy footprint of making things. It's interesting how it changes nowadays.
From what I can tell (I speak Chinese), it's just an IV used in some AES implementation tutorials.
Using a hardcoded key/IV is obviously bad, but I don’t see what this screenshot shows beyond that.
But for apps... good luck finding a solution.
At least Twitter, which I use the most, lets you select text.
The one I hate the most is Spotify. Copying the name of a song or an artist is something I do regularly, yet there’s no way to do it in the app.
I do not have the same technical depth to dig this far as the author, but this kind of problem seems pretty common on laptops, especially those with "switchable" iGPU/dGPU setups.
I had an Acer laptop about 7-8 years ago with almost the exact same latency symptoms. In the end I just disabled the dGPU in the BIOS (since I only used it for office work), and that instantly solved the issue.
This kind of thing is very infuriating because not only is it hard to track down the root cause (which I am very grateful the author did), but it is also even harder to get the vendor to actually acknowledge or fix it.
We all know the questionable nature of AI/LLM models, but people in the field usually at least try to avoid directly using other people's copyrighted material in documentation.
I'm not even talking about legality here. It just feels morally wrong to so blatantly use someone else's artwork like this.
Most people care about the length of a string in terms of the number of characters.
Treating it as a proxy for the number of bytes has been incorrect ever since UTF-8 became the norm (basically forever), and if you're dealing with anything beyond ASCII (which you really should, since East Asian users alone number in the billions).
Same goes to the "string width".
Yes, Unicode scalar values can combine into a single glyph and cause discrepancies, as the article mentions, but that is a much rarer edge case than simply handling non-ASCII text.
The issue is that for any serious use of this concept, some manual adjustment is almost always needed. This service says, "Refine your scraper at any time by chatting with the AI agent," but from what I can tell, you can't actually see the code it generates.
Relying solely on the results and asking the AI to tweak them can work, but often the output is too tailored to a specific page and fails to generalize (essentially "overfitting.") And surprisingly, this back-and-forth can be more tedious and time-consuming than just editing a few lines of code yourself. Also if you can't directly edit the code behind the scenes, there are situations where you'll never be able to get the exact result you want, no matter how much you try to explain it to the AI in natural language.
And for some reason, Apple/iOS doesn't allow you to set this for some system apps. For example, Music (Apple Music) app on iOS doesn't offer this option, which I desperately need because I don't want the music metadata I listened got translated.
I got confused about the name of the company and even Wikipedia seems to be very inconsistent about it [1].
What exactly was it called in 1960s and 70s, "Multiscreen Corporation" or "IMAX Corporation"?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX_Corporation:
It says:
> IMAX is a Canadian corporation that is based in Mississauga, Ontario. The company was founded in 1967 when three filmmakers—Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr—incorporated IMAX Corporation
No mention of "Multiscreen Corporation" other than in the infobox.
By that, I don't mean to dismiss the importance of backward compatibility, but this case is particularly funny because:
1. It had already been changed multiple times, each a breaking change, so it’s not like this form of compatibility was ever seriously respected;
2. Having it behave differently from other "legacy forms," like the slash-separated version, is itself arguably a break in backward compatibility;
3. As noted in the article, it never worked the same between Chrome and Firefox (at this point) anyway, so it’s doubtful how impactful this "breaking change" really was, considering you already had to write shim code either way.
I had never seen Y/D/M. I almost never see American use Day/Month order to begin with, let alone Y/D/M.
(Now I read it, it does sound like so. My bad.)
You can tell it's a rushed edit as "Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does contain tags or highlights." reads very unnatural.
Via Wayback Machine, it can be easily verified that the old versions of it, both the one edited very recently or the old ones in 2024, said "does not contain tags or highlights".
https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002842/https://support.m...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250522175656/https://support.m...