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no-one does secret questions anymore
Except the ‘secure email’ service that Mor...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... And microslop acvount security. Sure you have two actual security keys, and a good password plus authenticator, but you need to add security questions too.
"So let’s be completely clear: when you buy a new Mac, you’re buying a giant hardware dongle that allows you to run OS X software." hey look, absolutely nothing has changed since 2008! I'm so exci...
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> why doesn’t anyone give a crap about freedom zero?
I think the answer is people *do* care about their freedoms - including this one - but won't actually consider it worth fighting for until they want to actually use it. And right now it's still somewhat comfy in the locked-down ecosystems. Think of it as frogs in a hot tub.
> why doesn’t anyone give a crap about freedom zero?
I think the answer is people *do* care about their freedoms - including this one - but won't actually consider it worth fighting for until they want to actually use it. And right now it's still somewhat comfy in the locked-down ecosystems. Think of it as frogs in a hot tub.
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... you know steganography exists, right? And that markov model is just compression with a huge PSK - the model.
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I have had two stores fail on invisible recaptcha already. Right now they lose some customers, but soon I will lose all ability to buy anything or having to get a new Google tether. Seems relevant.
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It's frustrating how many LLM stories are of the form:
I wanted to do a thing, which should be easy. Because the designers of the software that I'm using didn't actually think about how people used ...
@nprofile1q... Similarly
I wanted to go to the supermarket, which should be nearby. Because the designers of the suburb I live in didn't actually think about how people live, or because they wanted to lock people into driving, it's needlessly hard. With a SUV, I can do it in a dangerous and expensive way! But it's still better than nothing! Success!
It's scary to me how easy that was to transcribe...
I wanted to go to the supermarket, which should be nearby. Because the designers of the suburb I live in didn't actually think about how people live, or because they wanted to lock people into driving, it's needlessly hard. With a SUV, I can do it in a dangerous and expensive way! But it's still better than nothing! Success!
It's scary to me how easy that was to transcribe...
I accidentally read LinkedIn again and lots of people are talking about the flow of writing code with an LLM and then using a feedback loop with formal verification to reject incorrect implementations...
@nprofile1q... > And why is writing a formal specification believed to be easier than writing code?
Code is just whatever format it takes to specify for a computer what it should do, in an unambiguous way. We simplify the code by making nonsensical things inexpressible. If a formal specification was easier enough to write, then that would *be* the code. Plus some synthesis tool to convert it to an executable.
Code is just whatever format it takes to specify for a computer what it should do, in an unambiguous way. We simplify the code by making nonsensical things inexpressible. If a formal specification was easier enough to write, then that would *be* the code. Plus some synthesis tool to convert it to an executable.
my old twitter account has open DMs (in case someone doesn't know how else to contact me) and gets hammered by porn bots, but I laughed at one that said "I saw you in the city the other day and wanted...
@nprofile1q... So if I'm in Amsterdam I can just send you a message & hope to see the dog?
Re all the people who asked "how much ram is a lot" the other day...
This is why I have to be careful on my office workstation with "only" 192GB.
This rig is from 2017 and is still going strong so I...
@nprofile1q... there are people with 16GB of ram that don't know why you'd need more, and there are people with 192GB ram that precalculate what to close so they don't run out mid-operation.
things no-one warns you about when you decide to convert over a hundred pieces of classical music to chiptune aesthetic: sometimes there are so many notes, so quickly, that Magical 8-Bit will drop not...
@nprofile1q... For the immigrated to NL flavor, have a Herman Finkers quote, asking the German audience about how much of the classical number to play:
"Wollt ihr nur ein kleinen Stuckchen oder wollt ihr den totalen Grieg?".
"Wollt ihr nur ein kleinen Stuckchen oder wollt ihr den totalen Grieg?".