Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space 9 hours ago:
I hope there’s more to it than presented here, because this can be summarized as “64 bytes is too weak, so we make it bigger. Solved. The big is too big so we reduce it to 64 bytes. Solved.”
The strong certificate is not part of the end check, but proven via merkle tree reference. At the end of the day the end user check is only verifying 64 bytes of proof.
So it is kinda pointless? Can I attack the merkle tree reference to claim the strong certificate is used when it is not?
What am I missing?
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 4 days ago:
Brb, I have decided to dunk my laptop in gasoline, and then throw it into the fireplace as hard as I can. This will make it run super fast and make me effective.
…
Hey guys. Guys! Listen up. I have something important to tell you all.
Ok. So…
This. Damaged. My. Laptop. Turns out the gasoline damaged its internals and the fire deformed it into a solid lump of badly-smelling plastic. The toxic fumes from the battery gave me permanent lung damage.
I know I KNOW it is easy to judge me in hindsight, but literally there was no way to know and I hope this warning helps you avoid doing the same understandable whoopsie I did.
Now, I have learned my lesson. For my next laptop I will use diesel instead.
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 4 days ago:
What is it with AI users that make them comfortable outing themselves as utterly incompetent?
- Comment on ‘It was ready to kill and blackmail’: Anthropic’s Claude AI sparks alarm, says company policy chief 1 week ago:
They are pushing the “scarily unsafe” angle not because it is, but because that implies it is powerful.
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 1 week ago:
What are you on about mate
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 1 week ago:
Got same from newest chatgpt (cue “bro you need to use $model-from-last-week it is a zillion times smarter it’s pure cocaine bro”), but the fascinating part was confronting it with the missing car. It doubled down and went all Pissy Redditor With Thesaurus at me, it was glorious.
- Comment on Claude Desktop Extensions 0-Click RCE Vulnerability Exposes 10,000+ Users to Remote Attacks 2 weeks ago:
What is the phrase? Kicking in open doors?
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, a bit. But that still has more autonomy than usual with these Claw thing.
The decision to write the piece, the complaints, the tone and the decision to published it were initiated by the slopherder.
- Comment on ai;dr | (ai; didn't read) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah he decides “AI is good actually for coding” but the same reasons apply there.
LLM code lets people shit out systems with no intent. And those systems are a waste of time. They just feel “90% there” for people who never had to finish a project in their life.
In the small scale, I get PRs of 200 lines of JS from someone who felt super productive because Claude wrote it for them. What did the JS do? Replicate the CSS “transition” property badly.
In the large scale, you get thousands of lines of RPC middleware instead of someone saying “hey at this point, should we move this responsibility from module A to module B and get rid of a lot of code?”
And I refuse to be on the defense of luddite or hater like the author does. Because I have never heard that claim from anyone who is capable of actually shipping stuff better or faster than me.
- Comment on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash 2 weeks ago:
Their stock valuation relies on leaving partnerships like this open.
Watch the incentives, not the face.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 2 weeks ago:
Sockpuppeted, not autonomous.
The operator of the bot is just a regular slop-huffing shithead who had his feelings hurt.
- Comment on AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. 2 weeks ago:
As with everything else with Claw that sounds mildly interesting: A shithead human wrote that, or prompted it and posted it pretending to be his AI tool.
- Comment on Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview 2 weeks ago:
Sure.
Most people in entry level do.
That’s not my point.
People not in entry level have other options, and they are discouraged by this.
- Comment on Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview 2 weeks ago:
I never understood this need to filter out applicants who have other options.
If I had three potential employers to interview with and one of them pulled this, I’d put them on hold and see if the others pan out.
- Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
They are speedrunning capitalism.
Next is to pass the corpses of the major IP holding companies around and sue each other and everyone for patents until nobody can afford lawyers anymore.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
“Your kid is safe at school, because we insist all teachers use condoms”
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 3 weeks ago:
60+ Haha, I can’t imagine it’s worth it. 20-59 Buy if it comes strongly recommended. 10-19 Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool. 1-9 Buy if I like the store thumbnail. 0 Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.
- Comment on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code 3 weeks ago:
Don’t signal boost their lies.
Another spammy wave of invalid security issues is disgustingly disrespectful of the maintainers’ time.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Are they slowly inventing movies?
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 3 weeks ago:
I went to Librefox. It has some harsh defaults that I ended up tuning, but so far it works well. Could just port over bookmarks and such.
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 3 weeks ago:
As a Firefox user, this is not long-awaited. It’s a tepid excuse for a dead project. The forks of Firefox are the only real alternatives if you value privacy over convenience. If you don’t, then there are faster browers than FF anyway.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
Silksong.
Love the game, but playing a few times a week isn’t enough investment for me to build up the necessary skill to complete it. Got to a point now where I literally spend the entire gaming session refreshing my fingers from last week, and decided to take a break until I lose my kids or legs or go to prison or something.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What if Z was X?
This thing looks like it can do okay on Q. It may be good at Z in the future!
Headline: “Thing does X!”
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, at HQ: “The userbase hallucinated that they don’t want AI. Maybe we prompted them wrong?”
- Comment on Cursor is better at marketing than coding 4 weeks ago:
Every single line of code is a maintenance cost, a liability, a velocity cost, and a stability risk.
The software industry knows this. Even Bill Gates famously proclaimed it.
Yet we now allow “it generated so much code!!!” to be told as success stories. Fuck you Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Anthropic for damaging both my industry and its reputation.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 5 weeks ago:
Fun experiment: Ask Google if there are more stars in the solar system than grains of sand in a glass of water. See the AI confidently say “yes” and then refresh the query and see it confidently say “no”.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 5 weeks ago:
We are?
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab 5 weeks ago:
It is obvious, but we have so many liars lying to eveeyone and each other about AI that they get away with it. Skilled bullshitters shitting up clouds of smoke and using every manipulation tactic in the world.
Some hard evidence makes it easier to prevent their damage.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Don’t ask for advanced advice for your business from forums hire a consultant jesus christ
- Comment on Asking AI if its useful and worth its costs. 5 weeks ago:
Just post your prompt, bro
This space filling word soup is just wasting people’s time