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by arcfour 8mo ago
I haven't used Anthropic's desktop app in months since I don't have access to a Mac anymore, but when I did...it was just an electron app? Did something change?
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by arcfour 8mo ago
The world really would be a better place if we had psychotic people committing homicides over real or perceived slights on the internet. Have you seen the verbal abuse, harassment, and stalking celebrities endure? It's wise to extend t
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by arcfour 8mo ago
So if you took one of the greatest software engineers ever and made it so he was unable to answer this nonsensical and pointless question, he would be a lesser engineer because of it?
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by arcfour 8mo ago
Because it's nice to get $10k legally + public credit than it is to get $100k while risking arrest + prison time, getting scammed, or selling your exploit to someone that uses it to ransom a children's hospital?
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by arcfour 8mo ago
OCSP is deprecated and basically dead at this point. Some clients still use it but I don't think many (any?) have actually enforced OCSP for years since it was notoriously fickle anyways.
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by arcfour 8mo ago
What does this nonsensical question that some LLMs get wrong some of the time, and that some don't get wrong ever, have to do with anything? This isn't a "gotcha" even though you want it to be. It's just mildly amus
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by arcfour 8mo ago
I have gotten both responses with Sonnet and Opus in incognito chats. It's kind of amusing.
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by arcfour 8mo ago
There are a number of Microsoft-signed drivers that have vulnerabilities in them that can be exploited allowing kernel-level access (memory read/write primitives, etc.) - they would load fine under Secure Boot - and, indeed, malware al
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by arcfour 8mo ago
fTPMs and attestation/endorsement, Boot Guard, Secure Boot etc. have existed for years. They are just now beginning to be discussed/used for anti-cheat. I still think the ideal solution is server-side data analysis, however.
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by arcfour 8mo ago
Well, the end-goal is to stop cheating, not to detect it - detecting it is simply a means to an end. In that sense, sending more data is not ideal because even though you might be able to detect cheating more easily that way, cheaters would
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by arcfour 8mo ago
> At that point, the telecom carrier's representative intervened and bluntly told the set-top box representative to just shut up. This got a laugh out of me. The whole scenario was both hilarious and surreal from start to finish. It
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by arcfour 8mo ago
> If the law was bad, does it make it okay to violate it? St. Augustine: "an unjust law is no law at all." John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison: "a law repugnant to the constitution is void." This is actually a fairly
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by arcfour 8mo ago
https://spectator.com/article/how-a-fraudulent-experiment-se... Goes over things pretty well - the experiment seems to have been almost completely fraudulent with fabricated or heavily cherry-picked data.
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by arcfour 8mo ago
Ah, so, in addition to turning off automatic updates (everyone knows patches are for wimps! The real threat is supply chain compromise, not 1-days!), you also have taken all of the other necessary steps to protect yourself from the NSA? Wha
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by arcfour 8mo ago
If the people with access to Room 641A want you, you're toast unless you're ready to make some REALLY big digital lifestyle changes that most people would not be amenable to, because you would have to be extremely paranoid on mult
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by arcfour 8mo ago
I was objecting to the incorrect use of the phrase at the end of the article.
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by arcfour 8mo ago
Well, I for one won't be party to it. I think informing everyone I can is my drop in the bucket in the fight against the incorrect usage of words. :-)
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by arcfour 8mo ago
It doesn't beg the question, it raises it. Begging the question is a type of logical fallacy in which you assume the truth of your conclusion. It doesn't mean something "begs for the question to be asked." I have no idea
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by arcfour 8mo ago
I can detect it pretty well, but that was just one example. No person starts a summary that way, it's over-the-top and meaningless. I have seen AI do that many times when summarizing something related to security, though. Claude often
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by arcfour 8mo ago
Explains why it reads like AI slop. "CRITICAL BREACH..."
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by arcfour 8mo ago
It's also terribly misunderstood by pedants since you can be charged with a DUI with a 0.00 BAC by doing drugs. The point isn't that it's a definitive line in the sand between impairment and not, but if people are trusted to
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by arcfour 8mo ago
I don't see how that relates to, say, software engineering or physical pentesting though. And 1/3 people is still a fairly significant number that do not suffer ill effects. I also said heavily impaired—not that they were catego
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by arcfour 8mo ago
Their ability to drive being impaired is somewhat dubious since they are under the legal limit in all of the states I have heard of. W/r/t drinking and working, I personally dislike the puritanical zero tolerance for alcohol appro
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by arcfour 8mo ago
I doubt judgement is heavily impaired at 0.05 BAC. That is at or below the legal limit to drive a car. And it really is more of a red herring since they were obviously not visibly intoxicated and they didn't actually do anything illega
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by arcfour 8mo ago
I'm not saying it's the most professional choice, but if I were about to burgle a courthouse as part of my work, I'd like a beer or two to calm my nerves beforehand. Regarding force, this article says: > The rules of engag
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by arcfour 8mo ago
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.skiing.alpine/c/frIx-J1XpnI Reading one of the original threads involving Scott is...really something. Boy, the early internet was very weird. Also, that dude is completely nut
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by arcfour 8mo ago
IIRC GCM offers additional authenticated data whereas OCB doesn't (or you would have to roll it yourself), right? That would be another reason to pick GCM over OCB.
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by arcfour 8mo ago
It's terrifying that this is even possible in the present day. And what a brave man. I'm glad things worked out in the end for him, but it's rather unsatisfying that things didn't work out for anyone else and it doesn&#x
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by arcfour 8mo ago
It would be very surprising to see someone use OCB when GCM exists and is what everyone uses. Although I agree in principle it is quite scary!
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by arcfour 9mo ago
It's a shame more people don't assume good faith so we can have more direct and honest communication with each other.

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