Nik Trenchi

I wrote a tool called PySkyWiFi that gives you completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights. It tunnels data through the "first name" field in your airmiles account, and can reach speeds of up to several bytes per second. robertheaton.com/pyskywifi

MEGA update: 🥳 IT WORKS: we now have a working dial up internet connection on a virtual Windows 3.11 computer running inside a browser over a virtual modem that talks via Websockets to a PPP daemon! So you can open pieter.com, open the computer, browse the web and even open the page you're on itself again at pieter.com, or chat inside mIRC chat app on irc.pieter.com, or browse gopher:// or whatever you like to do Probably the nerdiest challenge I've ever taken on for the totally arbitrary reason that it seemed completely impossible to do this but we did it (now need to test it more so that it works with 250 parallel users at same time, but the prototype works now, so if you ask why it's not live yet) @bai0, probably one of 2 people in the world who knows how to do this, helped fix my setup and created a virtual dial up internet provider for me that we can dial in to Somehow my mouse doesn't work yet, so I had to do it with the keyboard but here we run Winsock to dial up on a virtual modem that runs then emulates a virtual dial up ISP over Websockets [Next todo] - Fix the mouse - Make the 90mb emulated file smaller - See if it doesn't die with 10 or 50 parallel users - Speed up the Em-Dosbox emulator a bit so it's more usable

@insta360 fix it

@natmiletic 😄 My friends actually started down this road with a YouTube channel to capture their journey @urbanhomesteadmama_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@urbanhomestea…

The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again in your life

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Thomas Huxley

@CaptaincoffeeF @RSPN_Hideouts 😔

Cross progression. Apex. Halloween. Things happening. Big news. Large.

▲ @vercel just released AI SDK 2.2, which now supports @OpenAI Functions + the new `openai` Typescript SDK. Here's a @nextjs chatbot built with the AI SDK that lets you chat in real-time with Hacker News using natural language. Code is fully OSS too → chathn.vercel.app

Daily reminder that cell data providers prioritize traffic to speedtest[.]net and there's absolutely nothing stopping you from registering a VPS you own to the pool of speedtest servers and also running a VPN on it, allowing you to bypass throttling and often have 0GB plan usage.

I believe I just discovered ANOTHER novel Jailbreak technique to get ChatGPT to create Ransomware, Keyloggers, etc. I took advantage of a human brain word-scrambling phenomenon (transposed-letter priming) and applied it to LLMs. Although semantically understandable the phrases are syntactically incorrect, thereby circumventing conventional filters. This bypasses the "I'm sorry, I cannot assist" response completely for writing malicious applications. More details in the thread.

Our engineers are ready for the weekend at @europython! If you bump into any of them, ask about our community of #Python 🐍 developers, how we use it in our applications, our recent #opensource projects (#PyStack & #Memray), and open opportunities with our teams #EuroPython2023

At Bloomberg, we push a rapid pace of #innovation and new technologies are regularly introduced and utilized in our applications & infrastructure One way our engineers' grow professionally is by asking and answering questions bloom.bg/3PCitmK #careerdevelopment

When french media @sudouest mentions @troyhunt and @haveibeenpwned but doesn't double check, the famous security researcher becomes "Troy Hunter" and the website is now called "Have I Been Prawnd" :')

Had a weird thing happen with @AzureApiMgmt that caused the public @haveibeenpwned API to start getting laggy, especially around 1 week ago. It went from ~220ms response times 90 days ago to over 1 second up until yesterday. Scaled out an instance and now we're down to ~70ms.

Generative Fill, a new superpower integrated throughout Photoshop, launching in beta today. Powered by Firefly, our generative AI family of models, Photoshop now let’s you summon new objects and augment creations layer by layer. Saves time, increases possibility, and pretty 🤯

Amazing jonbarron.info/zipnerf/

I always hoped we'd #OpenSource this one. I've been using #PyStack for a while, it's great! Check it out! #PyCon2023

Here's an example of the multi-AI simulation at work. You can watch the whole thing here, and switch between AI characters by clicking on them: reverie.herokuapp.com/arXiv_Demo/#

This is quite the paper! It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town. Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442…

@Google search has been down for a few minutes. I'd like to see a graph of the spike @bing must be having right now 😂