Ancient wisdom from 311: You've got to trust your instinct And let go of regret You've got to bet on yourself now, star 'Cause that's your best bet

Critical vulnerability in AI gateway

GitLab AI Gateway Critical Patch Release: 18.6.2, 18.7.1, and 18.8.1

Learn more about GitLab AI Gateway Release: 18.6.2, 18.7.1, and 18.8.1 for GitLab Duo Self-hosted

I guess they forgot to ask the AI if there were any vulnerabilities in their AI gateway. 🤣

Tell me you're a bitcoiner without telling me your a bitcoiner. Exhibit A:

Well I guess we won't be seeing any more articles suggesting the 4 year cycle has ended. Time to hibernate for a year. You can talk about bitcoin price again in '27. You can talk about actual bitcoin whenever. I don't make the rules.

LOL. Peach bitcoin blocks Tor users from reading their blog.

Surely there is someone out there selling military surplus gear (boots, jackets, thermals, etc.) and accepting sats, right? cc: @Bitcoin Veterans

George Carlin was truly ahead of his time. War, crooked politicians, getting fucked by the rich, people trying to control one another, people's rights...

@Hestia Hacker when will the hestiapi support heat pumps?

OK, #bitcoin folks. If you run a lightning node and want to open channels to one another, I'm down. DM me for my node info. You open a channel to me, I open an equal channel to you (assuming you're not a baller who is going to open up some crazy huge amount like a .05 BTC channel or something; I'm a geek but I ain't rich). I have channels to some of the big nodes and plan on opening more, so hopefully my fees will be lower than going through a single LSP. I'm not doing this as a business, I'm doing it because I want more #decentralization, so I can afford to have low AF fees. If going through me is as few or fewer hops as going through a big LSP, it should save you some fractions of a cent. 😝 I do ask that you actually USE your lightning node though. Even if you don't buy anything and it's just for zaps. Even if it doesn't go through our channels. And I do take suggestions on to whom I should open channels. I do plan on hitting up as many of the #nostr vendors as I can and seeing if I can open a channel to them directly. Failing that, I'll open a channel to the LSP they use.

Ugh. Contractors. Had a communications error on my thermostat (system was installed in 2022, has a 10 year warranty on parts and labor). Called up the same company that installed it, told them that resetting it from the stat fixes it for about 30 seconds, powering off the HVAC at the breaker fixes ot for a few days. Said I thought it was probably the HVAC side, but just wanted them to come out and take a look. They come out and say the electric heat walire shouldn't be connected. (Context: it uses modbus, not the traditional relay system, ajd it has been wired that way since it was installed and worked fine the whole time). OK. They flipped the breaker to change the wires, so we couldn't tell if the fix really worked, but the tech seemed confident. Next day: comm error again. Call them back, they come out and replace the stat. Also flashed the firmware on both HVAC boards Again, since they flipped the breaker, we can't really tell if it worked, but the same tech was confident this would do it and if not said the next step would be to replace thr HVAC board. Next day: I get a bill for $260 for that first call. Call them up and ask if it's covered under warranty. It's covered, but the charged me more for labor than is covered because they have to drive an hour each way. OK, I pay the $130 that wasn't covered. Evening that same day: comm error again. It was after hours, so I emailed a photo of the error in to them explaining that the new stat didn't fix the issue, I understand the board will need to be replaced and that might take time to get the parts in. No worries, I can manage with flipping the breaker every few days. Also, I'd be happy to just have you come deal with this next time you are in town to save you the travel time, and me the money. They reply: the tech thinks the stat wire might be getting interference from the power line that's run next to it. I take about 35 minutes crafting as polite of an email as I can explaining that it's been wired like this from the start and nothing has changed, that I realize I'm not the HVAC expert, but I was skeptical about the first two resolutions and neither of them worked. I explain that I am frustrated that it's taking 3+ trips to resolve this issue. I ask if we can just replace the board instead. They give me a one-sentence reply. WaterFurnace said we should re-run the stat wire, so that's what we're goi g to do. I simply ask if it'll be partially or fully recovered by warranty. It's been 5 days and they haven't answered, or even ackowledged my question. So yeah. I'm frustrated. Just venting (haha). No need for trying to solve the problem. But I will say that I'd prefer a permissionless system for warranty repairs instead of this "authorized repairpersons only" approach.