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I would not be surprised to find that the numbers provided to insurance/media were not accurate. I suspect a little bit of fraud on the merchants side. While I can't provide proof of any kind, I just suspect after reading that this is what a lot of jewelry stores did upon robbery.


I checked out the archive and came across https://simon.datasette.cloud/data/chatgpt_public_messages?_...

I’m wondering if the archive missed something or what this random statement from the system is about. It seems to be telling itself who it is and setting a restriction on what it knows. I know if it’s not trained on data past a certain point, it cant know it, but still i wonder if you could intercept that and change the cutoff date (if even possible), would that have any effect on anything. But then again, I am probably reading to much into it because it seems to be coming from system.

2023-03-26 04:10:49 - [system] : You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09 Current date: 2023-03-25


That's called the system prompt - it's present at the start of every conversation, just to feed in some hints as to how the underlying model should behave.

If you play with the ChatGPT API in the OpenAI Playground developer tool you can set your own system prompt. I used it to create a sentient cheesecake that could answer questions about SQL using cheesecake-based examples yesterday.


Personally I like my dots but I am pretty novice and I do use GNU stow.


I read somewhere on their site or in GitHub that files in the home directory are encrypted when you disconnect and when you connect again the encrypted file is restored and so you have files back. If you were to install a program with apt however when you log in again that will be gone.


a lot of times it’s the same company selling the high end brand and the low end copy.


I don't agree with you that the addiction, need and nicotine + other triggers will remain with me until the end of time.

Deprogramming is part of the process of quitting to smoke. I do now never want to smoke.

First I want to say I don't want you to start smoking again, nor go through something painful. I will admit I have a habit of being negative about things-- so I can't help but to wonder, because you sound so confident.

Would you say that in the time you quit smoking you experienced a time where "The chips were down" so to say? I'm not talking about something small. Im talking things got real real. Cause that's usually when the switch appears.


> If a webserver runs nginx + php-fpm and nginx have a configuration like

And it's the config settings every blog ive ever seen about nginx + php-fpm said to use. So I think a lot of sites are vulnerable right now.


Well, for what it's worth, I think the best practice was always to test the existence of the PHP script, either with `try_files`, or with `if`, so, if you do that, then you aren't vulnerable, according to the exploit.

E.g., if you follow the "PHP FastCGI Example" from nginx.com, then nginx would protect you from this vulnerability in PHP-FPM:

* http://web.archive.org/web/20150928021324/https://www.nginx....

Here's the current version of the page, which seems to have the same info as the archived one above:

* https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/p...

(I think it used to be at another URL prior to the involvement of the marketing department in 2015; not sure if it's worth finding at this point, because the bug is not even in nginx in the first place.)


Mailinabox as well.


According to [1] mailinabox seems to be not affected.

[1] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/1663#issu...


Good news, and good to see them respond so fast as well. I looked through the config files (could not get the exploit to work for some reason) and found the exact offending lines and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Weird how the config appears to have the exact setup that NextCloud has and yet it does not seem to be exploitable. Wonder why that is.


Exploit required specific combination of software and config lines. MIAB didn't have those lines.

That's not to say another similar exploit might have worked a different way. Luckily that bug is patched now.


I have noticed lately that the "Are you still there" message has gone away. While it is nice when you are awake, it sucks when you fall asleep and wake up on season 6 of something when last you knew you were on season 2. Then you have to figure out exactly what episode you fell asleep on, not impossible but can be a pain.


You can turn off "play next episode" in the web page based interface. Or, you could. I turned it off a while ago, and that change still works for me.


I turned off the auto-episode advance just for this reason. When I'm awake it's a perfect feature but when I'm asleep it's a total misfeature.


You can turn off auto play of the next episode. It both saves your sanity and avoids that problem.


Hate that option. I tend to work from home and leave my TV with something on. Picking up my remote every few hours is a waste. I don’t see why it’s so hard to let users turn it off.


I think your arm could deal with the pain every few hours.


Netflix carries a decent selection of kid's entertainment, where having a 10-minute show followed by the next episode automatically is useful.

On the Apple TV app, at least, the "Are you still watching" message is still there.


I don’t find this useful. I really just want for my kids to watch one episode and then we can decide if we want to do something else.

I also find it infuriating that when we watch a kids film, your immediately shown a preview for another film during the credits.

I get it, but I wish there was an option to turn them off.


>> https://web.archive.org/web/20170330184054/http://observer.c...

archive of page. adds were crashing my browser.


I'm sure it varies by provider/location, but the one I am with is decently priced and if I do a bandwidth test its only about 5MBPS slower when connected compared to when I am not. I forget what the upload was, but it was good enough for me.


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