And books

Especially those by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkein.

Chinese state-sponsored spies have been spotted inside a global engineering firm’s network, having gained initial entry using an admin portal’s default credentials on an IBM AIX server.

In an exclusive interview with The Register, Binary Defense’s Director of Security Research John Dwyer said the cyber snoops first compromised one of the victim’s three unmanaged AIX servers in March, and remained inside the US-headquartered manufacturer’s IT environment for four months while poking around for more boxes to commandeer.

Emphasis mine.

“Hmm, yes. Let’s connect this server to our trusted network and never touch it again.” FFS.

Honestly, this is the question people should be asking in response. I totally get the gut reaction against censorship, but I don’t think anyone would agree that Facebook, Xitter, etm. are innocent, neutral parties in all of this.

Part of the issue (as the article points out) is that those companies have been allowed to essentially craft people’s internal narrative, often amplifying our worst impulses and inclinations—all in service of making the black line go up for investors.

So is banning social media for teens the correct path forward? Maybe in the short term, but until we direct the governance to the companies creating the problems in the first place, we’re almost certainly going to have this conversation again in the future.

And D&D

It’s still an ad, intentional or not, mainly because of the unrestrained, almost hyperbolic positivity. It sounds almost exactly like a pitch to investors, assuring them that they can invest in this totally-not-a-fad tech scheme. Also, it’s a wall of text…

Which is exactly what I’d expect from a LLM that doesn’t actually comprehend what it’s writing but instead plagiarizes and amalgamates businesses pitches and internet fanboy screed.

It’s not a copyright suit, it’s a patent suit. So it’s indeed just like the Apple suit, though what patents were infringed upon is still unknown as of now.

Eat shit, Nintendo. I hope you lose and experience the Streisand effect.

I would actually recommend Spiral Linux if somebody new wanted to go with Debian. It’s the Debian analog to Endeavor.

I do QA Automation for a large software company. We still have manual QA testing, because it’s costly and sometimes impossible to automate everything.

Also, there is no scenario where you can automate everything until you can automate social engineering. It’s why scammers don’t bother trying to hack your bank but instead try to get you to buy $2000 in Applebee’s gift cards to settle “an IRS debt that you need to fix RIGHT NOW!”

No, I just thought they were vaguely similar enough words to make a dumb internet joke.

Oh, the artificial humanity!

This is a very good point, and it’s one of the reasons I don’t use my old laptop as an always-on server.

I had heard that. Maybe I’ll get my hands on one someday. I hear Commodore makes one.

(I do wonder now if whatever variable is being used to denote time is signed or unsigned, because that would make a big difference, too.)

Doh! You are absolutely right.

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Plasma has a Win 11 menu clone as well, iirc. I forget what it’s called.

It’s already hard to not write buggy code, but I don’t think you will detect them by just reviewing LLM code, because detecting issues during code review is much harder than when you’re writing code.

Definitely. That’s what I was trying to drive at, but you said it well.

Yeah, they are. They’re not the ones getting banned, because they maintain an air of plausible deniability.

Not saying they don’t deserve to be banned, but they’re not overt Russian propaganda—simply the regular, alt-right Conservative kind, and apparently Facebook is totally fine with that.

They’re just better at hiding it.

Oh, so it’s not just me either. It’s one of the reasons I’ll never install Ubuntu.