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EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.

NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

i know i can run nmap from this device.

A new home for python-build-standalone Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.

Big news: Gregory Szorc's python-build-standalone project will be transitioning to Astral.

If you've installed Python with uv, then you've used python-build-standalone.

It powers installs for uv, Rye, mise, Bazel, pipx, Hatch, and more, with over 70,000,000 downloads.

astral.sh/blog/python-...

one of the best feelings ever

screenshot of the PDSls website, showing the info of an account on "oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network", with links to several different kinds of records like app.bsky.actor.profile, app.bsky.feed.post, app.bsky.graph.follow and chat.bsky.actor.declaration. below is information about my AT profile record, showing info like my handle as "alsoKnownAs", the service endpoint my account is on and my DID and public key.

if you ever want to stare into the internals of how Bluesky (or the underlying protocol, the "AT Protocol") works, pdsls.dev is a very cool website that can show you anything on the network

try finding yourself, "at://[your handle]" (e.g. at://invoxiplaygames.uk)

Programming languages:

C is low-level
C++ is powerful
Python is intuitive
Rust is safe
Lua is easy
Java
C# is legible

Me: 'I’ll just fix this one bug.'

5 hours later: 'What if I rewrote the entire app in Rust?'

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

hot chocolate in coffee>>>>>>

Brave on iOS adds new "Shred" button to wipe site-specific data Brave Browser 1.71 for iOS introduces a new privacy-focused feature called "Shred," which allows users to easily delete site-specific mobile browsing data.

This looks like an interesting feature 👀

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, showing @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io as the handle

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱

I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

oakland having a normal one

Sign giving options all the answers are coffee

The answer is Coffee
#datasatparma

Do I need 150 HDMI cables? No, of course not.

Do I HAVE 150 HDMI cables? Yes, of course I do. Who throws away a perfectly good HDMI cable?

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Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app

When they allow gifs this will be animated :) my current desktop wallpaper.

#pixelart #art #space #landscape #stars #blue #purple

This is your reminder that DMs here are _not encrypted_. They're not even really part of ATProto.

It's on the roadmap, but that's not the case now. DMs are centralized and unencrypted. Behave accordingly.

Screenshot of abstract for "Does ChatGPT Have a Poetic Style?" paper abstract. Generating poetry has become a popular application of LLMs, perhaps especially of OpenAI’s widelyused chatbot ChatGPT. What kind of poet is ChatGPT? Does ChatGPT have its own poetic style? Can it successfully produce poems in different styles? To answer these questions, we prompt the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models to generate English-language poems in 24 different poetic forms and styles, about 40 different subjects, and in response to 3 different writing prompt templates. We then analyze the resulting 5.7k poems, comparing them to a sample of 3.7k poems from the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. We find that the GPT models, especially GPT-4, can successfully produce poemsinarangeofbothcommonanduncommonEnglish-languageformsinsuperficialyetnoteworthy ways, suchasbyproducingpoemsofappropriatelengthsforsonnets (14 lines), villanelles (19 lines), and sestinas (39 lines). But the GPT models also exhibit their own distinct stylistic tendencies, both within and outside of these specific forms. Our results show that GPT poetry is much more constrained and uniform than human poetry, showing a strong penchant for rhyme, quatrains (4-line stanzas), iambic meter, first-person plural perspectives (we, us, our), and specific vocabulary like “heart,” “embrace,” “echo,” and “whisper.”

So there's been a LOT of chatter about whether AI-generated poetry is distinguishable from human poetry😯😵‍💫🤨🫠

Yes, it definitely is!

For CHR 2024, we compared thousands of poems by GPT-4, 3.5, and humans, and we quantified the differences.

2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper...

Restricting Website Access Based on IP Subnets with Lambda@Edge — Without Using WAF Problem: As more services move to the cloud, securing website access based on the user’s IP address becomes a crucial security measure…

medium.com/@shebin/rest...

Using Amazon Cloudfront to host your website can help with user experience but it also offers the ability to use Lambda @ Edge functions to run custom behaviour. With Lambda @ Edge you can customize requests before they are handled by your backend. (1/3)

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Searchcode SDK by @rly0nheart.bsky.social

Simple #python library for search 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects in searchcode.com.
github.com/rly0nheart/s...

# Supports most protocols, including HTTPS, SFTP, MQTT, SCP, and WSS. # Get the HTTP headers only curl -I http://example.com # Download the contents of a URL to a file: curl http://example.com --output path/to/file # Send form-encoded data (POST request of type `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`). Use `--data @file_name` or `--data @'-'` to read from STDIN: curl --data 'name=bob' http://example.com/form # Send a request with an extra header, using a custom HTTP method: curl --header 'X-My-Header: 123' --request PUT http://example.com # Send data in JSON format, specifying the appropriate content-type header: curl --data '{"name":"bob"}' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' http://example.com # Pass a username and password for server authentication: curl --user username:password http://example.com # Retry a request with a retry delay curl --retry 20 --retry-delay 15 --no-buffer --head https://example.com # Open a WSS connection curl --include --no-buffer --header "Connection: Upgrade" --header "Upgrade: websocket" --header "Host: example.com" --header "Origin: http://example.com" "wss://example.com/socket" # Download a file from SFTP curl -u username:password -O sftp://example.com/path/to/file

A tribute to cURL–the backbone of the Internet

Why is cURL worth learning?

With an estimated 20 billion installations worldwide, cURL is a universal tool. Mastering it can improve your ability to interact with web services and automate various online tasks.

The cURL handbook
→ everything.curl.dev

Signal, the secure messenger, finally joins the Arm64 club for Windows 11 The popular and secure messaging Windows 11 app just received an update that brings support for Snapdragon X processors based on ARM.

Nice. Thanks to today's update, the popular app Signal now also supports ARM, following Google Drive for Desktop yesterday.

DETAILS: www.windowscentral.com/software-app...

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

just to name a few:

- @decryptlol.bsky.social
- @intelinightowl.teamosint.social
- @cybdetective.bsky.social

i would also recommend checking out blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs and searching for keywords there

Nvidia earnings: AI chip leader shows no signs of stopping mammoth growth World’s most valuable company delights investors as it reports $35bn of revenue in quarterly results The AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company and the engine of the artificial-intelligence boom, rolled out another set of quarterly…

Nvidia earnings: AI chip leader shows no signs of stopping mammoth growth

gen-z grand vizier whispering "they will cook you for this, my king" in the sultan's ear

honestly, same here! the moment i joined bluesky I learned about ocaml because it was everywhere on my feed