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Comment on Have you altered the way you write to avoid being perceived as AI? in ~tech
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Comment on Phishing tests, the bane of work life, are getting meaner in ~tech
danke Ah, I specifically avoided doing that after "failing" the previous phishing test (apparently even right-clicking in Outlook to copy-link made a request). I think their traffic analysis was just...I wonder if you accidentally opened a preview of the link somehow.
Ah, I specifically avoided doing that after "failing" the previous phishing test (apparently even right-clicking in Outlook to copy-link made a request). I think their traffic analysis was just extremely aggressive and included the plaintext TCP 43 traffic. But yeah, after that second strike, I did exactly what the parent comment did and started auto-dumpstering all emails that had non-Proofpoint links, because those phishing test URLs are the only ones that didn't get proxied by URL defense for some reason…
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Comment on Phishing tests, the bane of work life, are getting meaner in ~tech
danke At one of my companies, I received an obvious phishing email and was similarly curious, so I ran a whois on the domain – that was somehow enough to fail me on the test and required me to retake...At one of my companies, I received an obvious phishing email and was similarly curious, so I ran a
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Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (February 2025) — Version 1.3 uses edge-to-edge UI on Android in ~tildes
danke Yeah I just looked it up and apparently it requires root to disable (which I have). A few minutes and a magisk module later, and presto!Yeah I just looked it up and apparently it requires root to disable (which I have). A few minutes and a magisk module later, and presto!
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Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (February 2025) — Version 1.3 uses edge-to-edge UI on Android in ~tildes
danke I didn't know edge-to-edge was a thing; this is nice. I'm using a Pixel 8 Pro and there's still that "swipe bar" at the bottom [1], is visibility for that component under the app's control? [1]...I didn't know edge-to-edge was a thing; this is nice. I'm using a Pixel 8 Pro and there's still that "swipe bar" at the bottom [1], is visibility for that component under the app's control?
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Comment on PlayStation Network is still down after fourteen hours and no one knows why in ~games
danke Currently looks sporadically available depending on the region, service and game.Currently looks sporadically available depending on the region, service and game.
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Comment on Entire HR Team Fired After Manager Proves their System Auto-Rejected All Candidates in ~life
danke Not to mention how he regularly posts about how female engineers are inferior and wrote a "DEl mandates backfired disastrously" fanfic so cartoonishly stupid that even the /r/MensRights mods...Not to mention how he regularly posts about how female engineers are inferior and wrote a "DEl mandates backfired disastrously" fanfic so cartoonishly stupid that even the /r/MensRights mods wouldn't leave it up. Doesn't really scream "reliable narrator" to me.
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Comment on Stack Exchange to begin AI-generated Answers experiment on opted-in Stack Exchange sites in ~comp
danke It seems that we now have an answer to "What will happen to Stack Overflow now that it has been sold to Prosus for $1.8 Billion?", and it's that they plan to turn it into a Quora-style graveyard...It seems that we now have an answer to "What will happen to Stack Overflow now that it has been sold to Prosus for $1.8 Billion?", and it's that they plan to turn it into a Quora-style graveyard of automatically posted AI slop while asking humans to volunteer their time evaluating and editing said slop.
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Stack Exchange to begin AI-generated Answers experiment on opted-in Stack Exchange sites
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
danke Finished watching earlier today; thank you for recommending that wonderful fan work.Finished watching earlier today; thank you for recommending that wonderful fan work.
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Comment on My AI article hit 1.25M views in one week: what do I do now? in ~tech
danke I don't know how you can replicate your one viral post, but continuing your spammer behavior is a solid way to tank your reputation. You've submitted 5 separate meta posts to HN about that single...I don't know how you can replicate your one viral post, but continuing your spammer behavior is a solid way to tank your reputation. You've submitted 5 separate meta posts to HN about that single popular post from over a month ago, haven't engaged at all in your two previous submissions here, and didn't engage in your previous submission on HN either despite the 117+ replies. You even directly copy-pasted this post from HN.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
danke (edited )LinkI've been rediscovering my love of fruit smoothies. What I've learned is that pineapple, much like banana, apparently dominates all other fruits even at a 1:6 ratio. e: And I just learned that the...I've been rediscovering my love of fruit smoothies. What I've learned is that pineapple, much like banana, apparently dominates all other fruits even at a 1:6 ratio.
e: And I just learned that the "mold" I've always been cutting out of potatoes that lies under otherwise normal-looking skin is actually just hollow heart / white knots and is safe to eat, maybe just being a little hard. So much wasted time and potatoes.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
danke In case you haven't already, I highly recommend trying the MSU-1 ROM hack with Blake Robinson's Chrono Trigger Symphony as a soundtrack replacement. I used it for my first-ever complete...In case you haven't already, I highly recommend trying the MSU-1 ROM hack with Blake Robinson's Chrono Trigger Symphony as a soundtrack replacement. I used it for my first-ever complete playthrough last year and found it to be an incredible enhancement as someone with no nostalgia for the SPC originals.
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Comment on The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer in ~comp
danke This seems to be overly charitable and confusing cause with effect. Their other post here wherein they didn't engage at all wasn't a one-off, it's in line with their activity on HN. After...Why would they want to interact here when this is the kind of comment they get?
This seems to be overly charitable and confusing cause with effect. Their other post here wherein they didn't engage at all wasn't a one-off, it's in line with their activity on HN. After achieving moderate success with a single blog post on HN, OP proceeded to spam a followup metastory 3 times [1] [2] [3] in four days, another blog post 3 times [4] [5] [6] in six days, two more meta posts about their one successful post [7] [8], and didn't engage with a single comment in their 117+ comment post 10 days ago [9]. I don't think @creesch's hostility is unwarranted, this just looks like a spammer chasing that fleeting high of internet virality.
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
danke I'd say the main cast is pretty consistent and the patients are hit-or-miss throughout just due to their sheer quantity. Any in particular that negatively stood out to you?I'd say the main cast is pretty consistent and the patients are hit-or-miss throughout just due to their sheer quantity. Any in particular that negatively stood out to you?
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
danke I am not at all a fan of the hospital fiction genre, but The Pitt is incredibly gripping and well grounded, lacking the soap opera feel typical of ER-style shows. The dialogue flows naturally and...I am not at all a fan of the hospital fiction genre, but The Pitt is incredibly gripping and well grounded, lacking the soap opera feel typical of ER-style shows. The dialogue flows naturally and none of the staff are dei ex machina of pinpoint-relevant archaic medical trivia.
I'd recommend it, but only after it finishes on 10 April; the tension never drops and every episode is somewhat of a cliffhanger, so it's a little unsatisfying to watch week-to-week. The series will be 15 ~50m episodes covering a single 7am-9pm shift.
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Comment on OpenAI funded the FrontierMath benchmark in ~tech
danke It's worse than just funding. Per co-founder Tamay Besiroglu in the comments: o1-Preview's Putnam benchmark scores were also the result of contamination and accuracy dropped 30% with slight...It's worse than just funding. Per co-founder Tamay Besiroglu in the comments:
We acknowledge that OpenAI does have access to a large fraction of FrontierMath problems and solutions, with the exception of a [sic] unseen-by-OpenAI hold-out set that enables us to independently verify model capabilities. However, we have a verbal agreement that these materials will not be used in model training. […]
Our contract specifically prevented us from disclosing information about the funding source and the fact that OpenAI has data access to much but not all of the dataset.
o1-Preview's Putnam benchmark scores were also the result of contamination and accuracy dropped 30% with slight variations in the problems, so this dishonesty and metric gaming is par for the course for OAI. Many will consider their pre-release benchmark results worthless going forward.
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Comment on Does a picture prove anything anymore? in ~arts
danke Isaac Reynolds, the Pixel Camera PM mentioned, said this regarding the Pixel's "magic eraser" and other ML photo manipulations: And that phrase stayed with me because of how viscerally it...Isaac Reynolds, the Pixel Camera PM mentioned, said this regarding the Pixel's "magic eraser" and other ML photo manipulations:
When you define a memory as that there is a fallibility to it: You could have a true and perfect representation of a moment that felt completely fake and completely wrong. What some of these edits do is help you create the moment that is the way you remember it, that's authentic to your memory and to the greater context, but maybe isn't authentic to a particular millisecond.
And that phrase stayed with me because of how viscerally it disgusted me that one of the most powerful companies on the planet was explicitly endorsing these fabrications of "memories", as if the purpose of a photograph is not to ground and remind our fallible minds but instead to reinforce distortions and delusions. On my Pixel, I can't capture the "actual" RAW from my camera even on a custom ROM/app because the image is oversharpened before being sent to the OS.
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Comment on Is there any escape from the Spotify syndrome? in ~music
danke re: better recommendations, psst is a Spotify client reimplementation that allows you to tweak your own recommendation list for a song according to "danceability", "energy", "valence" and other...- Exemplary
re: better recommendations, psst is a Spotify client reimplementation that allows you to tweak your own recommendation list for a song according to "danceability", "energy", "valence" and other metrics. It's far better than Spotify's default/proprietary algorithm.
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Comment on Nvidia announces four next-gen RTX 5000 GPUs in ~tech
danke Ah, I completely forgot about the DP2.1b UHBR20 support. Yeah, that's a complete game changer that'll have me seriously considering a 4K 240Hz OLED monitor.Ah, I completely forgot about the DP2.1b UHBR20 support. Yeah, that's a complete game changer that'll have me seriously considering a 4K 240Hz OLED monitor.
I've seen enough people make nonsensical allegations of GenAI based on incorrect syntax or grammar (the two things LLMs generally don't mess up) that I think it's a fool's errand trying to avoid such accusations. If someone's lobbing that claim, they already either consider the substance of your posts to be indistinguishable from slop or they're incapable of discerning substance from slop, so trying to appease their broken radar seems pointless.