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The problem is not the models. The problem is the circus that comes bundled with them. Scratching the itch(es) # In my MeTube fork , I have a gh action (oof) that periodically checks upstream releases, generates a diff and sends it to an LLM for analysis. The model then creates an issue explaining whether I should care about the changes. This is not AGI. It is artificial “please read this diff…
The Itch # MeTube is a neat self-hosted YouTube downloader with a clean web UI. Paste a link, pick your format, hit download. Simple. Except YouTube decided that simple things shouldn’t stay simple. At some point, downloads started failing with the lovely “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message. Classic. YouTube’s bot detection had gotten stricter, the web is…
🗣️ Join the Discussion 🗣️ Hacker News 🦞 Lobste.rs Infected Container Image # Registry: ghcr.io/hotio/qbittorrent Tag: release Digest: sha256:3779f89712dbaa8b25fc22897d0b471ee 29049b2b0f8d3c192df83b098c84fc5 Recently, while migrating to a new server, I discovered a suspicious process running inside a hotio/qbittorrent Docker container. I mainly use this to download Linux ISOs, as anybody else,…
This is the tweet ( waybackmachine ) that has gone viral in the last 24 hours. Basically WB pulled the plug on the show Final Space by treating it as a tax write-off. The Good Old Times and $NFLX # I remember that I never really had any issues torrenting stuff when I was a little boy already diving into the net for movies/tv-series/games legal Linux distros 👀. At some point, Netflix became…
It seems that, for us Software peeps, hosting a blog is like the sports car midlife crisis phase. It’s bound to happen, sooner or later, for almost all of us 😁 This is no different, I guess, I will use this blog to sometime express my thoughts on world events 1 , software-related stuff and some personal projects that I would be working on. The software situation # I have recently stumbled…