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RandyOrion commented on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce   wired.com/story/the-red-b... · Posted by u/smurda
RandyOrion · 9 days ago
A related paper interviewing victims of the pig-butchering scams.

“Hello, is this Anna?": Unpacking the Lifecycle of Pig-Butchering Scams [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20821

RandyOrion commented on Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only   restofworld.org/2026/iran... · Posted by u/siev
dist-epoch · 17 days ago
Nah, just for a year or so, after they will say all the footage is "AI generated".
RandyOrion · 16 days ago
Sadly, this already happens in China.

After many years of heavy censorship on 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there are a lot of accounts on Chinese BBS who say all the footage "AI generated".

RandyOrion commented on Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only   restofworld.org/2026/iran... · Posted by u/siev
culi · 17 days ago
Have they though? Everybody I know who grew up in China has told me its trivial to bypass restrictions with VPNs
RandyOrion · 16 days ago
NO.

They can do unconditional blocking at any moment and suddenly you can experience Internet blackout. [1]

The censorship from GFW is ever evolving. See the endless cat-and-mouse games yourself. [2][3]

[1] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/511

[2] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+state%...

[3] https://gfw.report/en/

RandyOrion commented on From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown   kentik.com/blog/from-stea... · Posted by u/oavioklein
hkalbasi · 21 days ago
As an Iranian in Iran who is now connected, I have a request: Please tell google make colab available behind the safe browsing IP. Google's safe browsing IP is usually the #1 whitelisted IP in internet blackouts. Having colab on this IP allows tech people to ssh into their servers, and bootstrap connections based on the available protocols at the time.
RandyOrion · 20 days ago
There is a dedicated thread of record and anti-censorship resources of the Iran Network Shutdown [1]. Hope it helps.

[1] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/561

RandyOrion commented on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher   novalauncher.com/nova-is-... · Posted by u/KORraN
RandyOrion · 22 days ago
Using Lawnchair for more than a year now. No major issues on my device with Android 13 and Lineage OS 22.2. Will not look at other alternatives for a long time.
RandyOrion commented on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence   embedding-shapes.github.i... · Posted by u/embedding-shape
wilsonzlin · a month ago
Hey, Wilson here, author of the blog post and the engineer working on this project. I've been reading the responses here and appreciate the feedback. I've posted some follow up context on Twitter/X[0], which I'll also write here:

The repo is a live incubator for the harness. We are actively researching the behavior of collaborative long running agents, and may in the future make the browser and other products this research produces more consumable by end users and developers, but it's not the goal for now. We made it public as we were excited by the early results and wanted to share; while far off from feature parity with the most popular production browsers today, we think it has made impressive progress in the last <1 week of wall time.

Given the interest in trying out the current state of the project, I've merged a more up-to-date snapshot of the system's progress that resolves issues with builds and CI. The experimental harness can occasionally leave the repo in an incomplete state but does converge, which was the case at the time of the post.

I'm here to answer any further questions you have.

[0] https://x.com/wilsonzlin/status/2012398625394221537?s=20

RandyOrion · 25 days ago
Hi, there. Two questions about this repo [0].

Can you show us what you did after people failed to compile that project [1]?

There are also questions about the attribution of these commits [2]. Can you share some information?

[0] https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender [1] https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/issues/98 [2] https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/d09225180ea3236f180...

RandyOrion commented on Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN   hn-wrapped.kadoa.com?year... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
RandyOrion · 2 months ago
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/RandyOrion

Well, as a local VRAM libertarian, to manually prune the safety alignment part of a 500B LLM for it to run on 1GB RAM or VRAM is definitely a lifetime goal for me.

RandyOrion commented on Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review   radar.cloudflare.com/year... · Posted by u/ksec
RandyOrion · 2 months ago
The outage happened in Aug 19th-20th, China is directly linked to the misconfiguration of GFW. It's government directed, not so-called "technical problem".

See https://gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditional_rst_20250820/en/

RandyOrion commented on 10 Years of Let's Encrypt   letsencrypt.org/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/SGran
8cvor6j844qw_d6 · 2 months ago
I plan to make use of a Caddy on a cheap VPS to expose some self-hosted services behind Tailscale, behind Caddy will be a mix of Raspberry Pi and a occasional hosted VPS when trying things out.

How's your experience with Caddy regarding memory usage? I am currently serving a static site with 500 MB, but this is with very low to zero traffic.

RandyOrion · 2 months ago
I see 3-4% of 1GB ram usage for caddy only. Note that in my case caddy serves as reverse proxy and there is also very little traffic.
RandyOrion commented on 10 Years of Let's Encrypt   letsencrypt.org/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/SGran
8cvor6j844qw_d6 · 2 months ago
Caddy's way of using plugins seems to require building custom binaries, may I know if that's what you did?

I preferred to use wildcard certs, which requires a plugin for the dns

RandyOrion · 2 months ago
Well, I use Arch Linux and the caddy package from pacman just works. You may checkout https://github.com/caddyserver/xcaddy for custom caddy build.

Besides, I don't use wildcard certs. I use caddy to reverse proxy a number of self-hosting things, and manually assign domain names to each of them. Caddy can handles many certs just fine.

u/RandyOrion

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