Sturgist
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
- Comment on When tech hardware becomes paperweights 9 hours ago:
StopKillingTech?
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 6 days ago:
Heck yeah! Gotta watch that again, thank you kind stranger!
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 1 week ago:
God, I haven’t seen that movie in years. What’s it called again?
- Comment on Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad 1 week ago:
AI hype is smoke and mirrors
Funny story. When I was in my early 20s myself and 2 friends had been on a major shroom trip, full day affair. We were on the last bus to our small town, and the only other person on the bus was a middle aged stoner.
Just as we’re starting to get into town the stoner says:
You guys wanna smoke a joint?Us: Sure, where you getting off?
Stoner: Nah, we’ll just smoke it here at the back of the bus!
Us: Aren’t you worried about getting kicked off the bus?
Stoner: Nah man, they call it smoke and mirrors because you can’t see smoke in mirrors!
Now, I was still fucked on mushrooms, but even I could tell this man had smoked himself within a razor’s edge of his last brain cell.
- Comment on UK to be first country to use AI healthcare system to prevent future scandals 1 week ago:
How? There’s loads of actual humans who have been pointing things out for decades at this point, what makes you think the government is going to listen to an LLM when they ignore the experts who’ve been doing this for ages?
- Comment on Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training 1 week ago:
Their lawsuit, filed in New York federal court
Welp… that’s going nowhere.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 1 week ago:
Guess the Tankies are loving Trump for that one.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 1 week ago:
Could just VPN into the UK. Proton offers a free, no login required, VPN tier with several end points in the UK
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 1 week ago:
Yes? Anything I can help you with?
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 1 week ago:
Not all heros wear capes
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
Fuck you pig!
- Comment on OSTP Unveils Agency Data, AI Guidelines for ‘Gold Standard Science’ 2 weeks ago:
Every accusation is actually an admission
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 2 weeks ago:
That’s not a twist at all…
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
if a human he is
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 2 weeks ago:
This is dope. I live in Scotland, but I’m from Canada, and having a cheap local number for recieving texts from stuff like my bank would be super helpful.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 weeks ago:
I plead the 5th…
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 weeks ago:
It’s proof of tech. It’d be stupid and wasteful to do all the tests on a full size rocket.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
💪🤓
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 3 weeks ago:
Sooooooo…more serious than I thought… shiiiiiiiiit…
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, pardon?
- Comment on How Social Media Brings Out the Worst in Us 3 weeks ago:
Suffering from asthma? 9/10 Doctors recommend menthol cigarettes! Peppermint fresh puts the pep in your step!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I DID grow up with Nintendo. The first gaming thing that wasn’t a DOS computer with asteroids and commander keen on it was a NES. Then an SNES. Then an N64. A few months after the N64 we got a Sega Genesis, and a PS1.
All that said?
…fuck Nintendo. Switch 1 games play at a higher resolution and better frame rate ON MY PHONE. I refused to buy a switch, and there’s no chance in hell I’ll get a switch 2. The fact that they say if they “detect” cheating or that your S2 is jailbroken they reserve the right, and built in the ability to, brick your device. Fuck them, get fucked, no fucking chance they’re getting a single cent, pence, fucking whatever out of me. Fuck yourselves well and truly to fuck! 👍🖕👍
Rant over 🥰
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.
I disagree. It would be more accurate to say:
If we’re putting the Steam Deck against the Switch 2, the natural comparison is between Switch 1/2 compatible games, without jailbreak, versus any game that works on the Steam Deck hardware be it Linux Native, with wine/Proton and any emulator that runs games minimum original frame rate with minimal issues.
Bear in mind that the Steam Deck is a handheld Linux computer, and anything that will run on the level of hardware it has and plays nicely with Linux will run on the Steam Deck.
Even just with only installing Steam on the Deck, as of mid-May there is 18k Deck Verified games.
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 3 weeks ago:
M$ and Apple both extensively use OSS projects in the creation and maintenance of their own products. And neither really fund many/any of the projects they use. So this would directly benefit them even further.
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 3 weeks ago:
And also do away with concerns about data security. As far as I know if you’re using the M$ office suite stuff like email gets routes through American based servers. And that gives the US government access.
- Comment on Zero-click AI data leak flaw uncovered in Microsoft 365 Copilot 3 weeks ago:
Though fixed and never maliciously exploited, EchoLeak holds significance for demonstrating a new class of vulnerabilities called ‘LLM Scope Violation,’ which causes a large language model (LLM) to leak privileged internal data without user intent or interaction.
As the attack requires no interaction with the victim, it can be automated to perform silent data exfiltration in enterprise environments, highlighting how dangerous these flaws can be when deployed against AI-integrated systems.
How EchoLeak works
The attack begins with a malicious email sent to the target, containing text unrelated to Copilot and formatted to look like a typical business document.
The email embeds a hidden prompt injection crafted to instruct the LLM to extract and exfiltrate sensitive internal data.
Because the prompt is phrased like a normal message to a human, it bypasses Microsoft’s XPIA (cross-prompt injection attack) classifier protections.
Later, when the user asks Copilot a related business question, the email is retrieved into the LLM’s prompt context by the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine due to its formatting and apparent relevance.
The malicious injection, now reaching the LLM, “tricks” it into pulling sensitive internal data and inserting it into a crafted link or image.
Aim Labs found that some markdown image formats cause the browser to request the image, which sends the URL automatically, including the embedded data, to the attacker’s server.
- Comment on Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent 3 weeks ago:
Sugar already exists
- Comment on Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent 3 weeks ago:
If you were the real Sprog, this correction would have been more poetic.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 3 weeks ago:
❤️
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 3 weeks ago:
Almost certainly they won’t. But yeah, you’re ruining the joke.
