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maccam912 commented on Meshtastic   meshtastic.org/... · Posted by u/debo_
0x62 · 21 days ago
Huge fan of Reticulum, fixes some of my biggest gripes with Meshtastic. Shame it hasn't got as much adoption yet. For those looking for Meshtastic-equivalent things in the Reticulum ecosystem:

- Sideband: iOS/Android chat app (https://github.com/markqvist/Sideband)

- NomadNet: Desktop CLI chat app (https://github.com/markqvist/NomadNet)

- Rnode: Reference node hardware/firmware (https://unsigned.io/rnode/)

maccam912 · 21 days ago
What are those gripes? If I don't have anyone else who would use it, but would hang out in a public chat room, it didn't seem like reticulum was the right choice for that? You need destinations on things?
maccam912 commented on Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong   help.kagi.com/kagi/bloope... · Posted by u/embedding-shape
maccam912 · a month ago
Heres one I found: search for "spaceweather" and you get weather for East Derry, New Hampshire. Definitely not space. The results I need are one and two for links below, but a friend pointed out that there is an astronaut (Alan Shepherd maybe?) who lived there which is the only connection to space I can think of for that city.
maccam912 commented on First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code   koi.ai/blog/glassworm-fir... · Posted by u/dnslavin
fxtentacle · 2 months ago
I call bullshit on this: "The attacker is using a public blockchain - immutable, decentralized, impossible to take down - as their C2 server."

"There's no hosting provider to contact, no registrar to pressure, no infrastructure to shut down. The Solana blockchain just... exists. "

Yes, but you still need to connect to it. Blocking access to *.solana.com is enough to stop the trojan from accessing its 2nd stage.

"Connections to Solana RPC nodes look completely normal. Security tools won't flag it. "

Then your security tools are badly configured. Lots of crypto traffic should be treated as a red flag in almost any corporate environment.

"there's literally no way to take it down"

There is, you just have to accept that Solana goes down with it. Why is A-OK in a work environment.

maccam912 · 2 months ago
There's also the backup C2 path though, via google calendar. Wayyy less of a red flag.
maccam912 commented on YouTube seems to be down   youtube.com/... · Posted by u/alexpadula
maccam912 · 2 months ago
We had some trouble casting YouTube to the TV just now. I checked downdetector on a hunch and yup.
maccam912 commented on Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs   parthsareen.com/blog.html... · Posted by u/SamLeBarbare
electroglyph · 3 months ago
If the current position in the structure only has one possibility (like a comma, bracket, etc.) do you just force that as the next token and continue?
maccam912 · 3 months ago
I don't think so, because multiple tokens might match. If it needs a comma as the next character, but you have tokens for `, "blah` and `, "foo` you still want to leave those on the table.
maccam912 commented on Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism   aeplay.org/citybound... · Posted by u/modinfo
maccam912 · 4 months ago
I was excited for awhile about this project, but sadly it is not maintained. For scratching the same itch (for me it's traffic mainly that is somehow interesting) you might want to look at https://github.com/Uriopass/Egregoria or for the tighter focus on traffic, https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet .
maccam912 commented on Central Park hits temp record last seen in 1888   cnn.com/2025/06/23/weathe... · Posted by u/geox
cochne · 6 months ago
Wouldn’t it be 1/(number of days since 1888) for a given day? Or 1/(number of years) for a given year? So less than 1/100 if static and independent
maccam912 · 6 months ago
That's how I read it too, but the record is only for hottest June 24th of all the June 24ths since 1888. So yeah it's 1/number of years or so but we get 365 attempts at that a year to have this headline.
maccam912 commented on NASA Whoosh Rocket   www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginne... · Posted by u/speckx
timewizard · 9 months ago
> WARNING – Extreme care must be exercised in flying a whoosh rocket and students must be supervised when using this type of rocket.

Only surpassed by the time I tried to grab a falling soldering iron by the tip this is the source of the worst burn I've ever received. I cannot stress how vicious an ignited alcohol mixture in a container can be.

maccam912 · 9 months ago
What went wrong?
maccam912 commented on Notes on the New Deepseek v3   composio.dev/blog/notes-o... · Posted by u/soham123
egnehots · a year ago
If you understand how LLMs work, you should disregard tests such as:

- How many 'r's are in Strawberry?

- Finding the fourth word of the response

These tests are at odds with the tokenizer and next-word prediction model. They do not accurately represent an LLM's capabilities. It's akin to asking a blind person to identify colors.

maccam912 · a year ago
I'm not going to argue these are good tests, if you asked a coworker these questions they'd look at you weird, but what surprised me is how well you can encode a sentence never written down before, put it through base64 encoding, and then ask an llm to decode it. And the good models can do this surprisingly well.

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