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- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 days ago:
My understanding is that intention is not uncommonly litigated; I believe the question of “intent to deceive” is central to trademark law, for example. That’s also what the the “degrees” of murder etc are about.
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. I do read an awful lot of contacts and talk to lawyers.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 2 months ago:
Sure, but to me that means the latest information is that AI assistants help produce insecure code. Of someone reacts to perform a study with more recent models to show that’s no longer the case, I’ll revisit my opinion. Until then, I’m assuming that the study holds true. We can’t do security based on “it’s probably fine now.”
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 2 months ago:
Pedantics fighting pedantics LOL
I think you mean “pedants fighting pedants” :p
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 2 months ago:
As a cybersecurity guy, it’s things like this study, which said:
Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant.
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
Growing up I remember hearing that red cars were the most expensive for insurance, as owners of red cars had the highest incidence of speeding and dangerous driving.
- Comment on ‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa. 3 months ago:
Life doesn’t adhere to waterfall methodology: we don’t have to do one first, and then the other. We can progressively disarm as we’re addressing the problems you mentioned…
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 3 months ago:
Ah interesting, thanks!
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 3 months ago:
Interesting! Sounds like they may have changed things a few times, or maybe my co-worker’s memory has some gaps.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 3 months ago:
A coworker of mine has worked with CrowdStrike in the past; I haven’t. He said that the releases he was familiar with from them in the past were all staged into groups and customers were encouraged to test internally before applying them; not sure if this is a different product or what, but it seems like a big step backwards of what he’s saying is right.
- Comment on Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? 5 months ago:
What about just giving transparency to what the ranking is and letting people control it? Analogous to “sort by new/best/top” bit ideally with more knobs to tweak and a bunch of preset options?
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 6 months ago:
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 6 months ago:
Sure but given that their previous language explicitly mentions Google why remove that unless they’re trying to make people think that maybe they didn’t use Google. It’s a shady change, from a company whose CEO is already doing somewhat unhinged things.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 6 months ago:
The issue is that they’re using it but no longer being explicit about that use.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification 7 months ago:
Interesting, thanks! I’ve only vaguely followed crypto stuff, so not really too familiar with how it gets used day-to-day
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification 7 months ago:
Gotcha, thanks! So you can just swap Monero for Bitcoin without going through KYC stuff?
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification 7 months ago:
How do you use a public ledger for privacy? Are you just using Monero or something?
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
Why is it a terrible idea?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
I mean, the domestic businesses are the ones who own Congress and are using it to get rid of a competitor.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 8 months ago:
I think we’re saying the same thing there: LLMs are great at spewing out a ton of content, which makes them a great tool for brainstorming. The content they create is not necessarily trustworthy or even good, but it can be great fuel for the creative process.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 8 months ago:
You’re confusing brainstorming with content generation. LLMs are great for brainstorming: they can quickly churn out dozens of ideas for my D&D campaign, which I then look through, discard the garbage, keep the good bits of, and riff off of before incorporating into my campaign. If I just used everything it suggested blindly, yeah, nightmare fuel. For brainstorming though, it’s fantastic.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 9 months ago:
I’m a proponent of this myself. I think the big barrier to just using UTC everywhere is with the clock as a symbol: right now if you’re watching a movie or a TV show and see someone’s alarm going off at 6:00, you know “oh, they’re a pretty early riser.” If everyone used UTC, that time could be local noon, or the person could be late for work, out any number of other things.
That also applies to when people move to a new place; if I’m used to having lunch at 20:00 UTC and then move across the country, suddenly lunch is at 17:00 UTC. Symbols are really important to people, so I think these are both problematic. Meetings would be easier, but offline life would be harder.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 9 months ago:
Does KeePass support passkeys?
- Comment on First game you played 9 months ago:
- Comment on Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history 10 months ago:
KeePass doesn’t store your stuff in the cloud; it’s all local storage. You can sync your encrypted KeePass DB in a number of different ways; personally, I go for SyncThing, but you can use Box or whatever.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 10 months ago:
That’s great once we’ve got a UBI or can ditch capitalism entirely, but until then it just means fewer jobs for those that need them.
- Comment on "Trust and Safety" departments exist to protect the company, not users. 10 months ago:
FYI “comprised of” is not a thing; you mean “composed of”. The correct way to use “comprise,” if you’re interested, is like “the United States comprises fifty states”. Technically you should mention DC and the various US territories etc as well, since comprise should indicate all of the parts.
- Comment on OpenAI's reported 'superintelligence' breakthrough is so big it nearly destroyed the company, and ChatGPT 11 months ago:
self replicating the propaganda?
You can’t self-replicate anything other than yourself. You replicate things; we use “self-replicating” because it’s shorthand for “thing that replicates itself.”
- Comment on Let's confuse Americans! 11 months ago:
That’s Canada
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Yup; we are not the target audience, I guess