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purplemonkeymad

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  • Backing up Spotify

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  • If I ran mb, I would be cautious importing the data directly. I'm sure Spotify would consider it trade information and go after anyone directly using it. However if a few million people added the tracks with individual edits then it probably won't take too long.

  • Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs... With an Absolutely Hilarious Error

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  • Wait, why would you use the ai to make that part? Just pull an existing December layout and put the ai image in it.

  • me_irl

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  • I think piefed already has.

  • Replace toner

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  • Came across a printer that had the hp instant ink cartridge installed. It will only print with the subscription. They had it, but it was not enrolled. So do the enrollment, which requires you to print and scan a page for some reason. Guess what, can't print out the enrollment as it has an instant ink cartridge in.

  • "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

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  • Always a great start sign when some one says that. I'm sure they even rolled their own database structure and user account storage. I mean how hard can securely storing user passwords be?

    I bet if you can find the API key, then it will allow access to everything.

    (Actually after reading it, it's worse, it literally sends people's app PINs in responses.)

  • It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs

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  • Well yea, they want a list of sites to scrape for content.

  • Actual theft

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  • Yea, have they changed the shape of her face?

  • Save animals, push to prod

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  • When no one is QA, everyone becomes QA.

  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • Worth running them through musicbrainz Picard scanner. I think most from that era will have a signature added to he db. (Assuming you've not tried this.)

  • When you get carried away with the corn

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  • So is now the future in that meme?

  • Microsoft's Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster

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  • I noticed that power automate was lumped into the agents section. So mainly went with the disable 3rd party settings. Since you know, that's enabled by default like a bunch of other settings.

  • It's the Lord's problem now.

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  • I'm just hoping the front doesn't fall off.

  • Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box

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  • I find a cafetiere even less work for basically the same. Just don't use boiling water, either cool it off or use one set to 80c.

  • People in the UK watching the world use the internet

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  • I'm not convinced this is the reason for the Imgur block. They were asked by the UK about how they processed the data for minors at the start of the year. They refused to provide it, and were then fined. When the age check was implemented I think they used that as an excuse to block the UK, so they "weren't operating in it" and didn't need to answer the questions.

    The UK gov disagrees with that and is planning more legal action iirc.

    If they had done the block without that law, people would be asking why they were not revealing how they process data of minors.

  • Fuck Microsoft

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  • I used ublockorigin to block the container for shorts and news. Much better, also set up a redirector that changes shorts URLs into the normal yt format, so that you don't pulled into that feed.

  • Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage

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  • I think this tells me that EGS is going to be pushing lots of ai developed games without any disclosure.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • Ok so this one is someone trying to move to "the cloud."

    They had a database they used. It was on a server in the office. We were tasked to clone the db server to a hosted VM. Due to order of creation this got put on a new host without anything yet on it.

    They needed a site to site VPN to keep privacy, that was all fine. However after the clone and during testing, their guy there said that this one part was really slow. We take a look and everything is good with performance of the server and of the VPN. I have to pop on to take a look.

    It was in an office app and written in VB. (I forgot which one.) It was indeed slower on the hosted server. So I took a look at the function (he got it up for me) and I could instantly tell the issue.

    This part was a lookup page that searched for you input. The function retrieved the entire table, then filtered the results in the client. I explained that transferring the whole table over the internet would be slower than on the local lan.

    This guy said he originally wrote this, but "forgot VB."

    In the end they decided not to update the app or keep the server in the office, but instead they rented some VDIs in the same data centre as the db.

  • Why That $300 Black Friday Laptop Deal Probably Isn’t Worth It

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  • What I find strange is in cases where I can say: "sorry that is not that good of a deal, you should spend twice that and get this instead as it is a good deal." They always just ignore your advice.

    I sometimes find people already bought it. They only wanted my opinion if it agreed with them.

  • Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass

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  • I know a couple of people who think they are clever for these kinds of substitutions, I can probably use this fact on them. Not sure they will change their ways after, they kinda oppose any change.