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nicolasbustamante.com
2 points·by bfelbo·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

Cursor uploads local credential files

forum.cursor.com
8 points·by bfelbo·letztes Jahr·1 comments

Cursor uploads .env file with secrets despite .gitignore and .cursorignore

forum.cursor.com
46 points·by bfelbo·letztes Jahr·18 comments

The Tesla protests are getting bigger – and rowdier

theverge.com
50 points·by bfelbo·letztes Jahr·31 comments

Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice

fortressofdoors.com
284 points·by bfelbo·vor 2 Jahren·106 comments

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1 points·by bfelbo·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

Structured generation for LLMs performs better - a detailed rebuttal

blog.dottxt.co
2 points·by bfelbo·vor 2 Jahren·1 comments

EU consumer groups slam 'manipulative' video game spending tactics

france24.com
2 points·by bfelbo·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

comments

bfelbo
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
It’s now EOD Thursday. What was the conclusion of the vote?

(not shown on the chat control website as far as I can tell)
bfelbo
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
It’s infuriating how US-centric some OSS maintainers can be. Really sad if the OOS ecosystem also have to fragment into pieces like much of the internet is starting to.
bfelbo
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
Great with a truly open model! How much would it cost to train the different versions?
bfelbo
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, this was the case before MCPs as well. Especially with some of the really bloated SDKs (looking at you Firebase and Twilio).
bfelbo
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Would love to use Zulip, but the bad mobile app reviews are scaring me off.
bfelbo
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Great hack, thanks for sharing! Any other hacks like this you’ve found useful to improve voice AI?
bfelbo
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Good idea. I’ll add some that have annoyed me for years just in case:

- On iOS, the alarms app breaks down once you get to ~250 alarms. You can try to add/delete alarms and it’ll appear like they changed, but the change wont be saved. I can’t use the alarms app now and can’t fix it as I can’t delete alarms. By the way, would be nice to reuse alarms when creating at the same time as an existing alarm so you don’t end up with 250+ alarms in the first place.

- On iOS, the notes app breaks down in long documents (~10 pages of text with bullet points). When writing beyond that, some text will sometimes disappear only to reappear when you type some more. Other times, the cursor disappears. This only happens in long documents. All English text, mainly bullet points, often with some text pasted in.

It’s shocking to me that my iPhone 11 Pro can play gorgeous 3D video games, but can’t handle 250 alarms or 10 pages of text..
bfelbo
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Cursor uploads files like credentials.json, .env, and .git-credentials to their servers for their Cursor Tab model. They do this despite those files being clearly credential secrets and even if these files are listed in .gitignore. See the link for a forum post with repro and details by a Cursor user.

You can use a .cursorignore file to prevent the upload, but you need to have that file present before you open the project in Cursor. You also need to update your .cursorignore file before saving any new credential files into your directory to prevent Cursor from uploading them.

Cursor users might feel safe when they have privacy mode enabled, but IMO that feels like false safety. The Cursor team have responded to the forum post describing the security issue saying that privacy mode only means that the sent files aren't stored in plaintext. They don't say anything about not training on uploaded files.

I have no affiliation with Cursor or any other AI IDE company. Sharing as I use Cursor myself and was shocked to see it autocomplete my own secrets and that it uploads such sensitive files.
bfelbo
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
How many dimensions would you need to increase by to capture positional information?

Seems to me like it’d be a quite low number compared to the dimensionality of the semantic vectors?
bfelbo
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
We might need to preserve seeds again due to climate change. Impressive to read about those who literally sacrificed their life during a siege for science and the future of humanity. Thanks for sharing.
bfelbo
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
There’s very few and poor cables in the areas between Russia/Mongolia/India.

AFAIK, the latency from Mumbai to southern Russia (not that far in distance) is surprisingly high. Much higher than from e.g. Frankfurt to Moscow. Don’t know if it’s enough to violate the triangle equality between Frankfurt-Moscow-Mumbai.