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- muppetmanEnable connection tracking (if it's not already) and keep looking at the conntrack entires. That's a good way to spot random things doing naughty stuff.
- Exactly this. It's like reading the news! It seems perfectly fine until a news article in a domain you have intimate knowledge of, and then you realise how bad/hacked together the news is. AI feels just like that. But AI can improve, so I'm in the middle with my optimism.
- All good points. I already have a server that runs a whole bunch of other stuff (my router is a VM, my Unifi controller is a VM etc, all on the one box) so a tiny little AdGuardHome process and a port-forward in the router isn't using anymore power/effort.
- Sure is in NZ at least. RTT to NextDNS is ~30ms for me, RTT to my AdGuardHome is 1ms. I don't setup a VPN, I setup a public SSL certificate (this requires you to own a domain) on it, listening on port 853. Then doesn't matter if I'm at home or on Mobile/4G/Someone Else's Wifi. I don't need the hassle of an always-on VPN, I just have an always-on AdGuardHome.
The biggest hassle was making sure the world can't hit it (though it's not UDP 53 so it's not an amplification vector anyway) but only local NZ IPs, which I did with GeoFilterig on my router.
- They're heating the garbage slightly before serving it? Oh no.
- McDonalds has been shown multiple times to use their app to figure out how much someone is really willing to play for their slop: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350476761/mcdonald-s-under-fir...
To you and me, the consumer, the value of an app is "the same" as the old loyalty cards. But the value to the company is huge! How often you open the app (how often are you thinking about their food), how often you accept an offer, what the price of the offer is, what card you used to pay, where were you when you opened the app etc etc.
Going to be fun times when in 10 years time they sell all that information to your health insurance provider for them to go "Holy hell" and jack your insurances prices up 5 times over.
But sure, we got 20c off a burger.
- Oh sweet this is good to know, I want to set this on my daughter's iPhone (if/when we get her one)
- Yea I understand maybe 10-20% of these AI clowns don't know what they're doing, but to suggest they're all making a mistake this silly doesn't stack up IMHO.
- Yea I just posted a similar comment. I'm sure some websites just skin OpenAI/Claude etc, but ALL of them? It makes no sense.
- This makes no sense to me? I don't understand why a company, even if it is using GPT or Claude as their true backend, is going to leave API calls in Javascript that anyone can find. Sure maybe a couple would, but 73% of those tested? Surely your browser is going to talk to their webserver, and yup sure it'll then go off and use Claude etc then return the answer to you, but surely they're not all going to just skin an easily-discoverable website over the big models?
I don't believe any of this. Why aren't we questioning the source of how the author is apparently able to figure out some sites are using REDIS etc etc?
- Home Adguard Home works regardless of if I'm at home or not, without a VPN. I'm on Android though and I just set the Private DNS setting - I have a domain and point it at that. I dunno if you can do Private DNS on iOS though?
- No one I've spoken to is happy with the AI shove. It's great to see people finally really speaking up and saying no. The bubble is getting close to popping.
- 100% this. I fully disagree with the post - screenshots show context/colour/formatting etc that often doesn't even translate properly if you DO try to paste it into some IM or other "text swapping" application.
Sure, if you want someone to reproduce the text of course you'd send them actual text. But to show a problem, a picture is, as they say, worth 1000 words.
- Another reason I compile my own kernels and disable features like this. I also disable loadable kernel modules. Of course this makes standard support channels... Difficult.
- Some random guy on the Internet's blog post about how he thinks talking animals are nearly a thing, with zero references/evidence or anything, doesn't really seems like HN content?
- As does Flexoptixs (much better quality than fs.com in my experience)
https://www.flexoptix.net/en/fo-fb-5.html?option875=1
If you're buying at scale you can get a Flexoptixs box for free, long as you promise to write a review. At least, you used to be able to.
- Suggesting people don't shoot themselves with a loaded gun is not being a hater, it's being a good person.
- Ok and I thought having our inground pool installed crooked was bad. Where you able to get any legal/financial clawbacks because of all the hassle?
- Probably AWS stock...
- Allegedly. The article while extremely heavy on the drama provides no real details at all apart from one log message. And they're totally extrapolating out what the start of the log message might mean.