creatonez

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by creatonez 6mo ago
> However, our recent analysis found over 90 times more malware from sideloaded sources than on Google Play Google has seemingly never seen an elderly person's phone, where it is completely infected with crap including literal popup
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by creatonez 7mo ago
I never actually thought about this. How are people making HTML emails so responsive? Email HTML is stuck in the IE6 era, right? So everything is just a horrible workaround with tables and ancient CSS?
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by creatonez 7mo ago
And once you start adding these accessibility problems, people will respond by using weaker passwords.
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by creatonez 7mo ago
Sorta reminds me of the i3lock screen locker. It shows an incredibly confusing circle UI where every keystroke randomizes the position of the sector on a circle, with no explanatory text on the screen (^1). To new users, it's not clear
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by creatonez 7mo ago
Covered in detail here: https://reflectivealtruism.com/category/my-papers/human-biod...
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> and people selling murder for hire on the Darknet. When this existed, it was quite literally done using the prediction market model. It was an early prototype for all this insanity.
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by creatonez 7mo ago
You should have lost your respect for the "rationalist" "community" a long time ago. They are aggressively wrong about everything, and most of them are eugenicists.
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by creatonez 7mo ago
Problem is, it took until around 2016 for IE6 to be fully dead, so people continued to justify these hacks for a long time. Horrifying times.
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by creatonez 7mo ago
For IE7 support, yes... https://caniuse.com/mdn-javascript_builtins_json_parse
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by creatonez 7mo ago
It has? Many distros have it enabled by default, too. The article discusses it quite a bit.
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by creatonez 7mo ago
IMO the key behavior is that LLMs are really good at fuzz testing, because they are probabilistic monkeys on typewriters that are much more code-aware than a conventional fuzz tester. They cannot produce a comprehensive security audit or
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> For example, it focuses a lot on doing "ablation studies", by which it means removing random layers of an already-trained model, to find the source of the refusals(?), which is an absolute fool's errand because such beha
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> Valve This is a funny thing to say when Valve hasn't actually released any ARM device yet, and the Steam Deck is still fully reliant on x86. The ARM hardware they do plan to release relies on x86 emulation, which is something that
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> We put a particular focus on improving GPT‑5.4’s ability to create and edit spreadsheets, presentations, and documents. Nothing infuriates me more than an LLM tool randomly deciding to create docx or xlsx files for no apparent reason.
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by creatonez 7mo ago
No one actually knows what the payload from basemetrika.ru contains, though. So it's possible it was originally intended to be more damaging. But no matter what it would have caught attention super fast, so there's probably an upp
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> It has a lot of unusual stylistic choices that I don't believe an AI would intentionally output. Indeed. One of those unusual choices is that it uses jQuery. Gotta have IE6 compatibility in your worm! I'm not sure what to mak
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by creatonez 7mo ago
As much as an inconvenience this may be, this is exactly what "agents" should be doing. If your tool doesn't have a builtin sandbox that is intended to be used at all times, you're using something downright hazardous and
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> Colorado residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2028. This law hasn't even passed
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place. It's absolutely disgusting that they would even consider working with the US government after the Gaza ge
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by creatonez 7mo ago
> No fiddling with setting needed either. It's since become the default in several distributions, including Fedora.
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by creatonez 8mo ago
The proof is right there for you to see. Denying it is rather wacky.
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by creatonez 8mo ago
Here are a bunch of examples: https://github.com/McTsts/mc-core-shaders This one is particularly interesting because it integrates block data in the rendered world along with some server-side augmented data to render a
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by creatonez 8mo ago
That's still the official name of bedrock, but it was never meant to establish a hierarchy or a plan for ending Java, they always seemed very careful in their words to avoid making it sound like it does. If anything, they might have ju
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by creatonez 8mo ago
It will be a while before JNI itself is dead, because far too much stuff still relies on it. The unsafe helpers in the Java standard library will die first because they are fundamentally incompatible with Valhalla, but it's likely the
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by creatonez 8mo ago
> it's a shame you need mods to have shaders on Java You don't. Ever since 1.17 you have been able to build GL shaders directly into resource packs. Resource packs don't require any complex loaders and don't pose a ma
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by creatonez 8mo ago
Specifically: Minecraft Pocket Edition for Xperia Play -> Minecraft: Pocket Edition -> [Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Minecraft: Gear VR Edition, Minecraft: Apple TV Edition, Minecraft: Fire TV Edition, Minecraft:
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by creatonez 8mo ago
> As far as I remember the original plan was to only maintain both in a transitional phase Is there a source for this? I don't remember any language to suggest Java Edition would eventually be replaced when they announced Windows 10
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by creatonez 8mo ago
I'm not super worried that this transition is cutting off hardware too soon. - Vulkan requirement raises the baseline to 2016-2017 hardware. 2017 was 9 years ago. - They're not cutting off OpenGL right away, according to the annou
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by creatonez 8mo ago
Miss the boat on what? Idiotic agents with no sandboxing, with the door fully open for prompt injection purgatory? There's nothing interesting about this technology other than how dumb it is and how badly it will spam the internet (see
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by creatonez 8mo ago
Then you can personalize it... manually, using deterministic filters. Ideally, the algorithm just wouldn't be black box anymore.

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