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- Comment on When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%. 19 hours ago:
one possible explanation for the observed behavior could be that DeepSeek added special steps to its training pipeline that ensured its models would adhere to CCP core values. It seems unlikely that they trained their models to specifically produce insecure code. Rather, it seems plausible that the observed behavior might be an instance of emergent misalignment.4 In short, due to the potential pro-CCP training of the model, it may have unintentionally learned to associate words such as “Falun Gong” or “Uyghurs” with negative characteristics, making it produce negative responses when those words appear in its system prompt. In the present study, these negative associations may have been activated when we added these words into DeepSeek-R1’s system prompt. They caused the model to “behave negatively,” which in this instance was expressed in the form of less secure code.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 21 hours ago:
- Comment on Sync Fediverse contacts to CardDav Account 3 days ago:
Coding a carddav export / import would be easy. But realistically every platform will need to just use whatever format Mastodon uses.
And then there’s the question of what would importing fedi contacts into an address book app actually do - most contacts apps would merge contacts based on email address or phone number, neither of which are available in a federated situation. If the app merged based on name that wouldn’t work great either because few people use their full/real name on fedi.
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 days ago:
Well said.
- Comment on Gunmen abduct more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in attack on Nigerian Catholic school 6 days ago:
the gunmen are mostly former herders who have taken up arms against farming communities after clashes between them over strained resources.
climate change…
- Comment on ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response 1 week ago:
Please hurry up and delete your account, I want to test something.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
I’m mindblown that serious career/business people still post on X. Don’t they seen the brand damage they’re causing to themselves?
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 1 week ago:
Thank you Eugen, for everything.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 1 week ago:
Groups
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- Comment on Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason 2 weeks ago:
Population growth compounds, though. Once you’ve colonized a million worlds, the next million would come in a fraction of the time of the first million, and the next 2 million in less time than that, then 4 million in the same time as before, etc. Like grains of rice on a chessboard. Totally feasible to fill a galaxy if FTL travel is achieved.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m a flask developer but even so I would use PHP for this. There are a million php-based contact form scripts on the web and configuring caddy to use PHP will be easier than python/flask.
As for the sending email part - don’t run a smtp server locally, too much hassle. Smtp2go has a free tier which will be fine.
- Comment on US judge drops criminal charges against Boeing over 737 MAX 8 crashes 3 weeks ago:
For context, wikipedia says that
In 2021, Boeing recorded $62.3 billion in sales.
If Boeing can’t be held accountable because they also make weapons then perhaps the civilian aircraft manufacturing part of the business needs to be split off into a separate one.
- Comment on Tens of thousands shelter as typhoon slams into Philippines 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tens of thousands shelter as typhoon slams into Philippines 3 weeks ago:
150 kph is not crazy fast in normal situations but in Philippines half the houses are basically shacks made from thin bits of wood and a few sheets of corrugated iron. So they don’t have a lot of staying power.
Combine that with the path of the storm going straight to Cebu City, where 5 million people live.
It’s not great.
- Comment on I am curious about hosting my own lemmy/mastodon server 3 weeks ago:
IMO Lemmy/PieFed is safer to run because the community mods will delete anything illegal, which will delete it for you, too. About 5 instances host 95% of communities worth joining so it’s easy for us to coordinate defense.
Mastodon is thousands of instances and more wild west. Bad stuff can come from anywhere.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What a nightmare. Everything gets much harder at their scale…
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 4 weeks ago:
It that a lot of money? I can’t tell anymore.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 4 weeks ago:
Yes if it’s that old if they was possible to fix it’s problems then surely they would have by now…
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Please test PieFed.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
Lucky for you, python is quite readable and the person who wrote it is available to answer any questions you might have.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
On piefed, that character is automatically converted to ‘th’.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 5 weeks ago:
Installed qbittorrent and downloaded a few seasons of Linux isos onto a vps. Discovered accessing those files over SSH to be too slow to play them without buffering so installed filebrowser to get them via http which worked well.
It’s been a long long time since I used bittorrent and wow it works so much better these days.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 5 weeks ago:
I had a browse of the code recently. It’s really well put together, I think they have a great foundation it just needs to be optimized. I’m hopeful about friendica.
- Comment on pareidolia 5 weeks ago:
For people using Lemmy, it’s not different.
For us, it’s way better. https://join.piefed.social/features
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 5 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting algorithm!
IMO the Lemmy scaled sort would be ok if it wasn’t as powerful.
Try the scaled sort on PieFed.social, the amplification isn’t as strong and I just tweaked it to filter out bot posts.
- Comment on Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, don’t do that.
You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 5 weeks ago:
hell yeah
- Comment on Pope slams 'collective failure' of world hunger affecting millions 5 weeks ago:
Nice one.
Estimates vary but USAID saved roughly 90 million lives over the last 2 decades so going without that money over the next decade could mean 45 million die. Or ’only’ 22.5 million if USAID funding is restored to normal levels in 5 years.
Whatever the exact numbers, it’s pretty easy to blow past the 6 million mark…
- Comment on search engine megathread? 1 month ago:
Me too!