I think RAG will be surpassed by LLMs in a loop with tool calling (aka agents), with search being one of the tools.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

Converting free text to standardized forms such as json

The worst one, for me, is banking. All banks in my country discontinued development of their in-browser online banking. They replaced it with smartphone apps (that are itself webviews 🤔), making android or apple phones the only way to do online banking. Even jailbroken ones they detect.

Then my government forced the banks to hand over balance and transactions to the tax department (1).

The mass surveilance machine is being build before our eyes, and no one cares, as it’s all for solidarity and equality, ofcourse.

You can ping yourself

The manual copy is a bit annoying, but in the end it’s maybe 10 minutes of work. Start the transfer in the evening, it’s finished in the morning.

I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users.

Email does that. Anyone can send it to your mailbox, only you can download it.

I have 5 copies of all my files on 5 devices, synced using syncthing with staggered file versioning. 2 of those are with friends and family who let me put a thin client at their place.

To protect against me misconfiguring syncthing, or some bug deleting all copies, every 3 months I manually make a copy and put it on a hard drive into a fire resistant safe.

Wifipassfinder? I’d guess you could sell the technique to a product like PDQ. Or even metasploit. But that’s just guessing, I know very little about that market.

Not gonna lie: my first customer was a place I interned at when I was a student. So I knew who to contact, and what the potential value of my product was, as it was tailor made.

After that I started with contacting other companies via linkedin. Here my “trick” is to contact managers with an engineering background, as they more than often speak my language. In other words: I look for people who (a) have a technical understanding of their production process and (b) are high up enough on the corporate ladder to have a say about spending. Weirdly enough: a rare combination.

I went the route of selling B2B because they have bigger budgets. And they are, in my opinion, easier to convince to pay (my first customers had a no gain, no pay contract).

Just to let you know that that’s an option, too.

Everything is a file. Your past, your present, hopes and dreams, loved ones: it’s all a file. That’s the true goal of Linux.

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This is an obscure forum with fake internet points 🙄

Configured changedetection.io to notify me when my usual bus is delayed or canceled.

While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.

Having worked at one: no they don’t

Did she use any virtualization?

but then I rarely downvote anything.

Same, I either upvote, ignore or block.

I believe they’re argueing, as it can store more than passwords, it’s not purely a password manager.

I use keepass+syncthing.

One of those things that has been there for years, works flawless, to the point that I’ve stopped thinking about it.