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@davidgerard I know people really like earning points/miles/cash on their primary credit card(s), but temporal #s locked to a set limit, almost entirely prevent sketchy and double charges.
I'll take financial protection from scuzzy merchants (and their security breaches) over points & miles, any day.
Ending DNS 🔥 Week with a silly game!
This is a proof-of-concept game utilizing DNS TXT records to dynamically generate Mad Libs running locally in JavaScript.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
definitely.do.that. 3600 IN TXT "BIND it like it's hot"
@jrdepriest Time to get their domain categorized appropriately by PAN, Talos, Forti, Zscaler, Google and Netskope.
Knostic sponsored a "Prompt Pit" this morning - a gaggle of infosec folks got together to share quick GenAI-related findings, tips, or use cases.
Dragos Ruiu introduced a term I haven't heard before that could've come straight from @bruces:
"context rot."
When working with an LLM you get to a point where the past text becomes too large for the LLM to consider, moving outside the model's "context window" and degrading generation with respect to the whole conversation.
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/context-windows
I’m cheering you on from beyond your northern border! I’m so sorry any of you have to deal with these atrocities, but I’m proud of all of you for refusing to accept what’s happening. 💕
Hugs back to you! 🫂
We know there are millions of Americans who don’t support this authoritarian mess. (Can’t think of it as a government anymore, because they’re not behaving like a democratic government.) I feel awful for any rational human who has to “negotiate” with them, because I know from experience you can’t have a rational discussion with an irrational person. So, we are doing our best to resist — on both sides of our long shared border.
I am deeply sorry to hear that about your neighborhood 🫂
Across the street is a conservative Christian family that had their Downs child taken away. They started a Christian school in their house that got shut down quickly. Across the side street, their kids visit with Trump in big gold letters across the back window. Behind me, a young couple hung a Don't Tread on Me flag . My town consistently votes blue, but my corner....🥺
I'm generally a hopeful person and am hoping for a change in signs next election. Farther down the side street, it was all Harris signs. The town i grew up in is solid MAGA land. In the 60s and 70s the population ballooned because of "white flight" from Philly, so it's unsurprising.
The county I live in is thoroughly red. I moved here to help care for my aging mother (now deceased). Mom's family has been here since ~1815 (~1650 from Connecticut), and we spent every summer of my childhood here. My parents moved here after retiring. My oldest sister and her family live here.
All that said, I'm ready to go back to where I grew up: liberal, educated, enlightened Chicago (Evanston).
You are a very good ally. Just in case you were wondering what effect your social media presence has. 🙂
Yes. I'm here for mostly the same reasons. And I'm very grateful for the reactions with real people here... like you and Summer.
@merileedkarr @NorcalGma2 @kateiacy
I did not (ETHS: 1974-1979), but where I live now was also on the Underground Railway... though you wouldn't suspect that now, from the current redness.
@GeraintLlanfrancheta @NorcalGma2 @kateiacy
I want to live where I am comfortable, physically, intellectually, and culturally. I don't want to age curbing my beliefs and values to "conform". I want daily discussion (and action) with like minded people, because that's what I prize over all.
Thank you for being there, I am glad your daughter and grandsons joined you...I was thinking about the concerns you voiced yesterday, that you are your husband's caregiver, and that he needs you to be there, and you need to express your outrage. That is a difficult situation, and I am glad you are working it out. May you continue to be safe!
@NorcalGma2 today was a bad brain day for J so I couldn't get out, but I was able to put up my flag.
You're not alone.
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