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New comment by dorgo in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

dorgo — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:22:18 +0000

>images of public places for others to try to track down

isn't this handled by AI nowdays? In my experiments (some time ago) AI was extremly good at it.

New comment by dorgo in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

dorgo — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:19:22 +0000

> AI's greatest feature is that it obfuscates provenance.

maybe because people see AI not just as a clever packet manager, but also, to some degree, as a problem solving engine. Similar to humans.

New comment by dorgo in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

dorgo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:02:18 +0000

Isn't this how Google operates? I have their AI subscription (about $20 per month). If you want to have a chat history (retain chats after reload) or connect the LLM to Google services (Drive, Emails) you have to activate an option which also allows training. If you don't want to allow training then the subscription is basically useless.

New comment by dorgo in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

dorgo — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:13:07 +0000

It's hard to show initiative without a pulse. Most agents don't have that (yet). But can't be too hard to build.

New comment by dorgo in "MCP is dead?"

dorgo — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:09:28 +0000

>to manipulate or combine the data into a more useful format

why not build this directly into MCPs?

New comment by dorgo in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

dorgo — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:16:28 +0000

>Which is all the stuff you have to work on before you can type in a prompt to an LLM

why not let the LLM derive what exactly was meant by the Jira ticket? I get lazy lately and if the LLM sounds like it understands the ticket I don't question it.

New comment by dorgo in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

dorgo — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:36:31 +0000

hmm, I got rid of WhatsApp the day it was sold to Facebook and never touched it since. I don't think anything in the app changed that day.

New comment by dorgo in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

dorgo — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:24:46 +0000

I had a work SO account with many questions/answers - everything fine. Later I created a SO account for use with my private projects and happened to have answered a couple questions without getting upvotes. The algorithm banned me from answering questions with the remark that I should improve the quality of my answers. You can bet that I never answered a question again on SO with any account.

New comment by dorgo in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

dorgo — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:08:11 +0000

They probably mean a vote which doesn't violate international law.

New comment by dorgo in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

dorgo — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:53:07 +0000

I came about a Google subscription which includes 2TB of storage. I filled it with crypto noise (ok, Gemini did it for me). I couldn't let it be unused. Will have to delete it when the subscriptions runs out.

New comment by dorgo in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

dorgo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:16:25 +0000

Maybe all intellectual work is intellectual labor?

New comment by dorgo in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

dorgo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:20:05 +0000

>There's a delay between incurring costs and receiving budget notifications, so you might incur additional costs for usage that hasn't arrived at the time that all services are stopped.

This delay may be hours or days. I managed to spend $400 in 5 minutes.

New comment by dorgo in "U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025"

dorgo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:35:43 +0000

>aligns incentives with the good of humanity

is this possible?

New comment by dorgo in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

dorgo — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:25:30 +0000

Sounds like the AI was not dumb but lazy. I do it similarly when I don't feel like doing it.

New comment by dorgo in "The most famous transcendental numbers"

dorgo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:30:38 +0000

I missunderstood "finite-length strings" as strings capped in length by a finite number N.

New comment by dorgo in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

dorgo — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:25:40 +0000

have a "Costco purchases" sub-category for "groceries". If you ever feel differently, just move it to "home". Your system has to support this though. I did multiple re-organisations in the last 10+ years.

New comment by dorgo in "The most famous transcendental numbers"

dorgo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:40:53 +0000

This argument is valid for every infinite set, for example: the natural numbers.

New comment by dorgo in "Firefox expands fingerprint protections"

dorgo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:04:28 +0000

I was wondering why uBlock is not enough since you can block Javascript globally and re-enable per site. AI's answer:

Only things uBlock doesn’t replicate:

NoScript’s anti-XSS and anti-clickjacking heuristics (uBlock just blocks the sources, not sanitize payloads).

NoScript’s control over other active content types (e.g., WebGL, media codecs, etc).

New comment by dorgo in "LLMs encode how difficult problems are"

dorgo — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:24:31 +0000

The complex objects are conceptually similar to prime numbers.

New comment by dorgo in "What's New with Firefox 142"

dorgo — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:20:35 +0000

cool. There is also about:performance with cpu & memory for each tab / addon. Hmm, it looks like all extensions are combined in a single entry. So, maybe not per addon.