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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
I mean, they do happily explain the TailScale features that you can use to avoid this kind of issue, but the general advice of "don't leave long-lived keys lying around where they're accessible, do anything except for that&qu
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
I mean, I interpreted the comments to mean that it committed a felony based on research it performed after getting internet access. I don't want to attribute much agency to a machine here, but an AI agent is certainly capable of using
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
In OpenAI's writeup ( https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-secur... ) they explain that the model initially spent its efforts obtaining internet access in an attempt to cheat on the evaluation. Onc
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
It's all things at once. Perhaps it's incentivized the open weight strategy. It's also prompted Huawei to ramp up production of AI chips to try and create a local competitor to Nvidia. It's also also created a grey marke
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
Which is kind of weird, imo. Shouldn't increased competition spur increased investment? If your competitor's product is approaching or beating yours on some metric, isn't the answer to improve your product to differentiate it
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
I suppose it stands to reason: LLMs were trained on human writing, and overuse certain tropes and patterns because those patterns are commonly represented in human writing. But many people aren't particularly adept writers, and they&#x
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
I might be a dog for all you know (though I neither confirm nor deny this), but I assure you I'm real.
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
Embarassed to say I didn't realize that Tracy had a new gig over at Autopian. Really pleased this article made it here because now I can see what he's been up to! This is a great place to start.
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
I think Oblivion's reception was mostly in relation to how people felt about Morrowind. Oblivion simplified a lot of what Morrowind did, which drew some ire. Atmospherically, though, people weren't happy that they moved from Morro
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by brendoelfrendo 3mo ago
Generally speaking, encyclopedias are tertiary sources, so that makes sense (though the line between secondary and tertiary sources is sometimes blurry)... but as you say, there are plenty of topics (a niche programming language under activ
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
An NFT is superfluous here. If you buy a digital copy, and someone gives you DRM-free files that you can copy and run anywhere you'd like, you have about as much ownership as you can get over a digital good. In this case, an NFT would
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
I don't buy every game on a physical disc—I don't see the point for live service games, for example—but I do have a fairly large collection of physical PS5 games because I like that assurance that I can continue to play that game
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
You can only expand the economy so much by building yachts and bunkers.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
Unless that money is being spent on more tokens, it'll probably be used for stock buybacks.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
They can buy a USB Fido token. I've had this argument with employers in the past; some states have laws that require the employer compensate employees for requiring the use of their personal mobile device, even for something as simpl
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
I agree. I'm sure someone will try to split hairs and say that "well, buying a license is buying something, just maybe not the thing you wanted," to which I say, it should be disclosed up front. Simple as.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
The legal reality is that you probably purchased a license, tied to your PlayStation account, and revocable at any time for any reason. You don't buy a movie, you buy access to watch it as many times as you want during the period in wh
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
The surveillance is not about protecting you or your property; I'd argue it never has been. It's about protecting those in power and entrenching the power they wield.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. The Rivian R1T starts at $80k for the dual motor trim and the quad starts at $116k, before options. This is so far outside of the average car that I am comfortable considering it high-end luxury. A Ferr
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
Brand damage and lost of trust from customers are consequences of security breaches. I'm not saying don't have a CRM, but I am saying don't complain when the customer data in your CRM leaks and customers complain. LastPass
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
> I think a lot of people use products like LastPass because it makes storing passwords easier. Works on mobile, computer, tablet. Pretty good experience tbh. Yeah but wanting a product like LastPass doesn't require that you use L
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
You wouldn't cross-shop a Rivian and a Slate. The Rivian is a high-end luxury vehicle with a laundry list of features, including things like self-driving. The Slate is literally the opposite: it has a laundry list of things it doesn&#
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
Ok, but riding an ebike on the interstate is already illegal. If the problem you're trying to solve is kids taking ebikes onto the interstate, then you don't need any new laws
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
"Wary," not "weary." I try to suppress my pedantic urges online, but wary is a great word and it gets misused a lot! I hope the feedback is helpful and not annoying.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
I open the safe where I keep my spare Yubikey. Or I use the passkey stored in my phone, or the one on my laptop. Make passkeys, put them everywhere.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
That's why you keep it on your keychain and not in a spare slot on your laptop.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
I don't think that's what the person I was replying to was saying, though.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
I don't use TikTok, but a cursory search shows that there's a #tiananmensquare tag that has a few thousand videos, including many about the protests and Tank Man. So while I haven't seen a TikTok about it, someone has.
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
That aid money went, in part, to preventing the spread of screwworms in Central America. As of 2024, the flies were mostly eradicated in Mexico and efforts were on-going in Panama to wipe them out down to the Darien Gap. In less than 2 year
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by brendoelfrendo 4mo ago
We didn't need to genetically modify them, we just sterilized them with x rays and the released masses of sterilized flies into the population. We had that tech in the 50s and wiped them out in the 60s. The best treatment we had was el

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