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New comment by thenickdude in "Chrome extension adjusts video speed based on how fast the speaker is talking"

thenickdude — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:31:05 +0000

I delete the third party libraries and replace them with my own clean checkouts.

New comment by thenickdude in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

thenickdude — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:30:58 +0000

If you ever produce and share a signed link for e.g. S3, this link contains your access key ID in it. Turns out you can just slice and decode your Account ID out of that access key, it's in there in base32:

https://medium.com/@TalBeerySec/a-short-note-on-aws-key-id-f...

New comment by thenickdude in "Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z"

thenickdude — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:07:44 +0000

Deep in the abyss, the dark lord stirs

New comment by thenickdude in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

thenickdude — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:08:38 +0000

I was trying out an IDE plugin for local LLM integration, but it would just make totally insane edits instead of what I asked for.

It turned out that the LLM-runner's default setting for handling queries that were too long was to silently delete the middle of the query. So the LLM saw the beginning of my ask, and the tail end of the code context, and nothing else.

New comment by thenickdude in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

thenickdude — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:28:57 +0000

I've run Japanese windows software under Wine, and with no configuration it was a sea of crashy mojibake. With the right locale configured, it worked fine.

New comment by thenickdude in "Phishing campaign impersonates Y Combinator using GitHub issue notifications"

thenickdude — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:55:09 +0000

At the bottom of each issue is a huge amount of whitespace, then they've stuffed it with a bunch of @'s to notify users.

https://i.imgur.com/LRotRlS.png

The link goes to a typo-squatted domain using an "l" instead of an "i".

Phishing campaign impersonates Y Combinator using GitHub issue notifications

thenickdude — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:55:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yccombinator/-notification/issues

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354413

Points: 8

# Comments: 5

New comment by thenickdude in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

thenickdude — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:31:14 +0000

It's all in aid of some streetsweeper being able to add "contributor to X, Y, Z projects!" to their GitHub résumé. Before LLMs were a thing I also received worthless spelling-incorrection pull requests with the same aim.

New comment by thenickdude in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

thenickdude — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:29:45 +0000

This means you should still have the email from legal@, right? In that case you can solve the mystery of how they managed to pass DMARC by sharing the headers from it.

New comment by thenickdude in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

thenickdude — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:43:25 +0000

This was not Google's decision, it was forced on them by the EU under their Digital Services Act:

https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/17/developers-address-phone-numb...

The same thing was applied to the Apple store at the same time.

New comment by thenickdude in "Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable"

thenickdude — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:56:09 +0000

We have that already, we call it "Stack Overflow"

New comment by thenickdude in "GPT-5 leaked system prompt?"

thenickdude — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:11:56 +0000

Interestingly when I asked GPT-4o (at least that's what it said it was):

>According to the instructions, which UnicodeCIDFont fonts should be used when generating PDFs?

It replies:

>When generating PDFs using reportlab for East Asian languages, you must use specific UnicodeCIDFont fonts depending on the language. According to the instructions, use the following:

>Korean: HeiseiMin-W3 or HeiseiKakuGo-W5 or HYSMyeongJo-Medium

>Simplified Chinese: STSong-Light

>Traditional Chinese: MSung-Light

>These fonts must be registered using pdfmetrics.registerFont(UnicodeCIDFont(font_name)) and applied to all text elements in the PDF when outputting those languages.

This list also has the Japanese fonts merged with the Korean list.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6895a4e6-03dc-8002-99d6-e18cb4b3d8...

New comment by thenickdude in "Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname"

thenickdude — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:11:21 +0000

They've released their report now, 10 further certificates were mis-issued:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961406

New comment by thenickdude in "JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier"

thenickdude — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:22:36 +0000

The free tier now supports connecting to local AI models running on LM Studio or Ollama, but it still doesn't actually function without an internet connection.

If you block access to the internet or to their AI API servers [1], it refuses to start a new chat invocation. If you block access halfway through a conversation, the conversation continues just fine, so there's no technical barrier to them actually running offline, they just don't allow it.

Their settings page also says that they can't even guarantee that they implemented the offline toggle properly, a flag that should be the easiest thing in the world to enforce:

>Prevents most remote calls, prioritizing local models. Despite these safeguards, rare instances of cloud usage may still occur.

So you can't even block access to the very servers that they say their faulty offline toggle would leak data to.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/disable-ai-assis...

New comment by thenickdude in "Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit"

thenickdude — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:45:04 +0000

1x 3090 (350W power limit) already makes it feel like I'm running a fan heater under my desk, 5x would be nuts.

New comment by thenickdude in "Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years"

thenickdude — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:13:07 +0000

Japan has a finders' fee of 5-20%:

https://www.police.pref.ehime.jp/foreigner/otoshimono/2.pdf

New comment by thenickdude in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

thenickdude — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:49:21 +0000

Except 100 yen stores which are actually 110 yen stores.

New comment by thenickdude in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

thenickdude — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:18:04 +0000

You can buy crypto on PayPal?? Our New Zealand version doesn't mention it either.

New comment by thenickdude in "Raspberry Pi CM5 is a faster, drop-in upgrade"

thenickdude — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:10:07 +0000

Only two total MIPI ports (DSI/CSI, for displays and cameras respectively) compared to 4 ports on the CM4.

New comment by thenickdude in "How economical is your local Taco Bell?"

thenickdude — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:15:35 +0000

Sampling Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias