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In 2014 I set up GitLab for my then employer. It had to be something self hosted because of client requirements. I was apparently the only one in a company of about 200 that knew anything about Linux.

Wasn't too bad, just keeping it up to date etc. When I left in 2016 I'd just upgraded the server to ubuntu 16.04. It's probably still running that now. I know someone who is still there and they've said GitLab itself hasn't been updated since I left.

I set up a VPS as a VPN server just for me. There's sites have definitely done this. Reddit for one. I get cloudflare captchas a lot as well.

We have these and i have term filtered but honestly the most obvious giveaway before you even read it is the font.

I can only think of 1 person who routinely used a different font from Outlook's default in my entire working life. Sometimes you get something copy pasted with formatting from elsewhere but that'll be in the middle of an email.

I dont know why the phishing tests always use a different font.

We only have to do these tests at all because someone bought a load of Apple gift cards for the "CEO".

Yes

You might be already paying a premium for a Skyscanner's cut. I'd suggest find the flight on Skyscanner and then go directly to that airline's website to see what the price is there.

I just tried it and got 723 on Skyscanner and 547 for the same ticket direct from airline.

Had the same research issue from multiple models. The website it linked existed and was relevant but often the specific page was hallucinated or just didn't say what it said it did.

In the end it probably created more work than it saved.

Also a programmer and i find it OK for small stuff but anything beyond 1 function and it's just unmaintainable slop. I tried vibe coding a project just to see what i was missing. Its fine, it did the job, but only if I dont look at the code. Its insecure, inefficient, and unmaintainable.

It's from this report https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69411a3eadb5707d9f33d7e8/E03512978_-_Un-Act_The_National_Security_Act_in_2024_Accessible.pdf

I emailed my MP about this before Christmas and am yet to get a reply

No. Its had external library support for quite a while now

Obtainium can solve that. It will check websites for updates and then download the new apk and install it. I use it more than fdroid now, can get apk straight from the developers github repo usually.

Sort of related, I was fact checking some of the content on my own website that had been provided by someone who later turned out to be less than reliable.

There was one claim I was completely unable to find a source for and suspected it was an AI hallucination. Turned to chatgpt and tried to find a source with that and it provided nearly the exact same sentence and cited my website as the source thus completing the hallucination cycle.

I just deleted it all from my site and started over.

100%. It irks when software has messages in the first person. The human-like TTS are very uncanny valley to me.

I needed voice over for a video recently and everyone is telling me to use AI, I tried dozens and they'll all just off. Ended up getting a friend to record it. I don't have a decent mic so my own recording sounded bad.

I have to use windows at work, have 32gb and regularly get browser tabs unloaded for low memory. I'm not running VMs or anything. Usually just Firefox, visual studio, and slack.

Personal computer is Linux with 16gb and that's more than enough.