Benjamin Schmid

@bentolor
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730 Posts

Being a discreet human, not a jerk.

searchable musings on #Java, #Kotlin, Web, #Container & #Cloud, Code Quality, #InnerSource, #Security, #asciidoc #asciidoctor

Identity Proofhttps://bentolor.de/
GitHubhttps://github.com/bentolor/
Show threadBenjamin SchmidOct 29

Just for everybody's amusement here the slide I anticipate is just … too "hot" for the company and their very prudish LLM.

Yes – my "offensive" content survived more than 14 years till today.

Benjamin SchmidOct 25, 2023

I'm for sure in awe after learning, that even #Bitwarden #Password **leaks information from inside of vaults**!

This is by design and acknowledged by _"you need to trust us"_ in the official documentation: https://bitwarden.com/help/website-icons/

I only found out about this due to the awesome #Vaultwarden backend and community, which helped me to spot and understand this https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/3987

Surprised by the amount _not_ protected is sth. I'm _not_ looking for in an #encryption solution.

#security

Privacy when using Website Icons | Bitwarden Help Center

This article explains how you can disable website icons to enhance your privacy when using Bitwarden.

Bitwarden
Benjamin SchmidOct 12, 2023

Wow! This #Unicode article lost me, when it started to tell me that THE RENDERING OF UNICODE IS LOCALE SPECIFIC!

WAT? #lastpost

Benjamin SchmidJul 24, 2023

I assumed it would be a joke. But only one second into visiting twitter.com:

Well, no! Satire is dead.

Benjamin SchmidJun 20, 2023
OpenLLM: An open platform for operating large language models (#LLM) in production. Fine-tune, serve, deploy, and monitor any LLMs with ease. #ChatGPT https://github.com/bentoml/OpenLLM
GitHub - bentoml/OpenLLM: Run any open-source LLMs, such as DeepSeek and Llama, as OpenAI compatible API endpoint in the cloud.

Run any open-source LLMs, such as DeepSeek and Llama, as OpenAI compatible API endpoint in the cloud. - bentoml/OpenLLM

GitHub
Benjamin SchmidMar 20, 2023
I just tried #BingChat and it was a rather repelling expierience.
In the screenshoted scenario it states completely false facts with a disturbing confidence in his "voice". These #fake facts only turn out to be utterly wrong on checking its claimed sources manually!
Benjamin SchmidFeb 25, 2023
Tipping culture is getting out of hand #github #gitlab #opensource
Show threadBenjamin SchmidJan 25, 2023

Even their own Status Page is down for me sometimes.

The root problem also does not help with my general reservations on transforming the Internet from a decentralized systems to an increasingly centralized system again

Show threadBenjamin SchmidJan 17, 2023
Someone at Hacker News extracted the two CLI commands that site actually performs: So onstead of uploading your data to an untrusted site, you can run from the comfort and safety of your local computer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157408
Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned | Hacker News

Benjamin SchmidDec 22, 2022

I'm flabbergasted: Our article „#Kotlin statt Java: Effizienter entwickeln“ has made it into the #Top10 of the most popular articles on heise Developer for 2022.

Of course, we are very happy about this great year-end surprise. Also, that the heise readers appreciate compact and substantial knowledge transfer. Awesome. Really very happy!

https://www.heise.de/news/Top-10-Die-zehn-beliebtesten-Artikel-auf-heise-Developer-im-Jahr-2022-7440916.html

Top 10: Die zehn beliebtesten Artikel auf heise Developer im Jahr 2022

Die meistgelesenen Fachartikel des Jahres umspannen ein breites Feld von Praxisbeiträgen zu Programmiersprachen und Tools über KI bis zu Quantencomputing.

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