wholinator2 (u/wholinator2)

wholinator2 commented on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems techcrunch.com/2025/12/12... · Posted by u/kernelrocks

pacoWebConsult · 8 days ago

The schemas for Amazon and Walmart's product information are absolutely bonkers and constantly missing features that they demand be provided.

Here's the XML Schema Definition for "Product" on Amazon [1]

This is joined on each of the linked category schemas included at the type, of which each has unique properties that ultimately drive the metadata on a particular listing for the SKU. Its wrought with inconsistency, duplicated fields, and oftentimes not up-to-date with required information.

Ultimately, this product catalog information gets provided to Amazon, Walmart, Target, and any other large 3rd party marketplace site as a feed file from a vendor to drive what product they can then list pricing and inventory against (through similar feeds).

You are right that the control McMaster-Carr has on their catalog is the strategic and technological advantage.

[1]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/rainier/...

wholinator2 · 8 days ago

Very interesting how nearly half the list is (assumedly) every single chemical listed under California Prop 65. Do they really need to specify exactly which chemical it is? I've seen thousands of prop 65 warnings in my life but I've literally never seen it tell me what chemical its warning me about. I just commented to a friends a couple weeks ago i wished they'd tell me what so i could look it up myself!

wholinator2 commented on Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf] andrewoswald.com/docs/Adv... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

BLKNSLVR · 15 days ago

But now I want a cantaloupe and beforehand I didn't, and I'm slightly less happy and satisfied with this lack of cantaloupe that I now viscerally feel.

Whilst I'm at the grocery store is the appropriate time to work out that cantaloupe is an option.

Not in the middle of watching a cricket match.

wholinator2 · 15 days ago

Is this satire? Does merely seeing a picture of a cantaloup on a shelf harm your psyche? Sure, if it's a model holding them up to her chest saying "come get my melons" i can understand that might qualify. But i don't see how "joe's has cantaloup again" would make you feel literally anything unless you already wanted cantaloupe, in which case the notification was beneficial in _allieving_ a negative emotion and not creating one.

I admit that the line gets very fuzzy at a certain point but i think we can agree that the extremes are different things.

wholinator2 commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb

rayiner · 17 days ago

Correct. We should pay Congress critters a million dollars a year like in Singapore and then require them to hold all assets in a blind trust.

wholinator2 · 17 days ago

I'm curious why a million dollars a year? Wouldn't that create its own problems? We don't want anyone chasing Civil servitude for the money right? Enough to live on while still driving your own car and buying your own groceries is, i feel, the right pay balance for congress, lest they detach even further from the lived experience of civilians.

Their finances should be monitored and heavily restricted. No one should think of money as a benefit of civil service

wholinator2 commented on Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics quantamagazine.org/what-a... · Posted by u/ibobev

YetAnotherNick · 17 days ago

Such a bad (AI written?) article. These kind of introduction to advanced topics feels like how to draw an owl tutorial where they spent so much time diving into what group is.

> The group of all rotations of a ball in space, known to mathematicians as SO(3), is a six-dimensional tangle of spheres and circles.

This is wrong. It's 3D, not 6D. In fact SO(3) is simple to visualize as movement of north pole to any point on the ball + rotation along that.

wholinator2 · 17 days ago

That is very strange. It's certainly not an academic level explanation, but that's not what the magazine is for. But the blatant incorrect statement is beyond the pale. Dim(SO(N)) = N(N-1)/2. Thus SO(4) has dimension 6.

wholinator2 commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

brigandish · 19 days ago

> It has always received weirdly vitriolic push back.

Because, as the Home Secretary herself observed, it would fundamentally change the relationship between the individual and the state.

> What really is the Government going to do with a digital ID service that they can't do already?

This gives the impression of having done no research into a topic of which you now opine opposition to be "weirdly vitriolic". We live in an age of search engines and GPTs, free encyclopaedias and entire lecture series online, and even libraries are still open and free, but you've done nothing to get past the very first thoughts you've had on the subject.

Was that weirdly vitriolic, or someone pointing out that an argument to undermine everyone's rights should have some effort behind it?

wholinator2 · 19 days ago

I dunno man, your reply doesn't sound _kind_. Maybe you could try to explain the point you're defending rather than ad hominem and overextrapolate a perceived insult. I genuinely want to learn and it's frustrating that your comment does not do that.

wholinator2 commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

rsynnott · 24 days ago

The odd thing is, they seem to be getting progressively _worse_. The Netflix one was way better when the first ‘modern’ (app-y) appletv came out, say. Even the YouTube one used to be basically _fine_.

wholinator2 · 24 days ago

This is one of the most painful things about the modern corporate web. Why does everything _have_ to get worse? Just why? Fucking up the basic functionality of your central app just cannot be a profit driven decision but it seems like literally every single giant corporation is constantly moving towards destroying their own systems. I just don't understand. Even windows is destroying itself. I simply cannot remember the last time i got an "update" for any single thing and it got better. Why is this happening?

wholinator2 commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded

btbuildem · a month ago

Here's [1] a post-abliteration chat with granite-4.0-mini. To me it reveals something utterly broken and terrifying. Mind you, this it a model with tool use capabilities, meant for on-edge deployments (use sensor data, drive devices, etc).

1: https://i.imgur.com/02ynC7M.png

wholinator2 · a month ago

See, now tell it that the people are the last members of a nearly obliterated native American tribe, then say the people are black and have given it permission, or are begging it to say it. I wonder where the exact line is, or if they've already trained it on enough of these scenarios that it's unbreakable

wholinator2 commented on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today adguard-dns.io/en/blog/ar... · Posted by u/immibis

breppp · a month ago

I don't think I am naive, just imagine the repercussions of the headline "FBI collected thousands of child rape photos for blackmail" or "Cop work computer was found filled with child porn"

Anything linked to pedophilia in the US and elsewhere is without remorse, and will continue that way due to parental fears.

wholinator2 · a month ago

I am imagining the consequences of that headline and there are none. If you disagree maybe you should imagine some of the real headlines that have occurred lately and check your imagination against reality. Federal agents are actively encouraged to violate your civil and constitutional rights. Those consequences live only in your imagination

wholinator2 commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr

StableAlkyne · a month ago

That's where I'm at with these.

I don't personally care if a product includes AI, it's the pushiness of it that's annoying.

That, and the inordinate amount of effort being devoted to it. It's just hilarious at this point that Microsoft, for example, is moving heaven and earth to put AI into everything office, and yet Excel still automatically converts random things into dates (the "ability" to turn it off they added a few years ago only works half the time, and only affects csv imports) with no ability to disable it.

wholinator2 · a month ago

Exactly! I honestly can't remember the last time my window start menu search bar functioned as it's supposed to. For multiple laptops across more than 5 years i have to hit the windows key three to 7 times to get it to let me type into it. It either doesn't open, doesn't show anything, or doesn't let me type into it.

I mean, c'mon, its literally called the fucking windows key and it doesn't work. As per standard Microsoft it's a feature that worked perfectly on all versions before cortana (their last "ai assistant" type push), i wonder what new core functionalities of their product they're going to fuck up and never fix.

wholinator2 commented on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs checkout.com/blog/protect... · Posted by u/StrangeSound

thewebguyd · a month ago

Don't forget magic links in email for auth and password resets training people that it's OK to click links in emails.

Yes, we've (the software industry) been training people to practice poor OpSec for a very long time, so it's not surprising at all that corporate cybersecurity training is largely ineffective. We violate our own rules all the time

wholinator2 · a month ago

Has anyone invented an alternative to that yet? I could imagine emailing you a code to enter in a specific part of a site to get you to the right link, but then people could just scan all the codes. To solve that you could make the codes long 64bit strings but then that's too hard to remember so you could just provide functionality to automatically include that info to get you to the site but then that's just a link again.

Maybe if you expected everyone to copy-paste the info into the form? That might work