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by dspillett 2mo ago
> Organisationally it never works to have a group whose only job is to say no to some other group. That is only true where the pressure to be [the thing that is inconvenient to the other group] is not from a source that can cause massi
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by dspillett 2mo ago
Is this like when they declared E2EE was the future and those not doing it were behind, but as it turned out bad for the bottom line¹² such features are getting rolled out of their properties? U-turn when meta finds an inconvenience due to
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by dspillett 2mo ago
There had always been some incentive for manufactures to publish device documentation, and yet it has often been quite lacking either in quality or overall existence. I doubt LLM/agents being the readers will change that at all. What I
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by dspillett 3mo ago
Yes, it is a sliding scale. I'd prefer to stay nearer this end of the scale, not that end.
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> not user, an agent on behalf of the user. Identified by the user agent header. Which most bots fake or leave out to increase the chance of getting where they are not wanted. Your bot is a good bot? Great, let us know when you've
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user You are mistaking yourself, well your bot, as his target audience. You might as we
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by dspillett 3mo ago
In some cases being told "just treat it like you are a manager", when we've always done our level best to avoid anything vaguely like management because we like doing things particularly the nitty gritty details.
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by dspillett 3mo ago
UK, unless you are quiet about it. Though you might not notice as our reaction only tends to be in body language, or for particularly loud speakers (particularly those who are GOING INTO A TUNNEL or otherwise think shouting will help with b
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by dspillett 3mo ago
A significant part of science is plucking the true bits from common sense. A fair chunk of what we call medicine is folk remedies that stood up to rigorous testing.
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> Is there a common source of extra \r in malformed inputs, beyond those existing as part of \r\n? Old Macs and some other systems use \r as their EOL, I still sometimes see that with string values in CSV files y code has to deal with
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> Isn't scalping a term used for tickets? It is also a term use in general trading anywhere traders open and close their positions quickly to make profit off an upswing which might be in part caused by traders doing this. If done
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by dspillett 3mo ago
It is deliberately targeting known AI-scapers, or anything it sees as a bot? Could it be that other scrapers are pulling the pages, without making the extra requests to get ad related resources, to present the content to people ad-free, and
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by dspillett 3mo ago
Same, I tend to assume it is a sign that AI is used across the board. But please keep it coming. I need to spend less time idly browsing and the growing preponderance of AI is helping push me in the direction I want to go. My time spent on
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> Although i was under the impression that they usually preferred hand optimized assembly. Using LLMs/agents to do gap analysis and fill boilerplate doesn't rule out also reviewing the output and hand-optimising. That is how
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> The vast majority of CVEs are not exploitable, basically noise. This is not true if you consider security-in-depth. Many of them are exploitable on their own but maybe not in combination with other issues that are as yet unknown or
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> it's rude to ship your first draft To whom this should concern: Oh, do pop off. Bothering to write/edit anything yourself should be given bonus points these days, not pulled apart for minor grammar/structural/styl
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by dspillett 3mo ago
Possibly because they hope for gainful employment in future, and being a whistleblower of any variety tends to massively reduce the chances of that.
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by dspillett 3mo ago
I'm not sure about less targetted bots, but I gave a friend an account on my media server without locking off shell access (which she had no need for), and it turns out that she used the same password as she used for every other servic
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by dspillett 3mo ago
That doesn't look to me like it would find many real credentials. It is collecting the credentials that automated bots are trying to use, some of them, perhaps many of them, will be credentials that someone somewhere is using for som
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by dspillett 3mo ago
Sounds like something a machine (or someone planning to make money out of renting out access to that machine) would say! I admit there is a certain hypocrisy between my irritation at them hovering everything up irrespective of licence and m
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by dspillett 3mo ago
The problem with adding slang to any organised education program is two-fold: some of it changes much more quickly than you course materials can, and much of it is quite localised.
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by dspillett 3mo ago
Something wore out from overuse, with everyone, including AI-training scrapers, filtering on “three years or older” to get non-AI output…
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by dspillett 3mo ago
Most of what I watch is 1080p (I don't really have 4K capable eyes!) but it definitely plays 4K 265 well. Only 265 though, the hardware support for 264 is limited to 1080 so 4K there means software decoding which I imagine being a prob
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by dspillett 3mo ago
If they are actually doing some work (editing significantly after generation) then they are protected on two fronts (currently, active cases may change this): * as discussed elsewhere in these threads, the judgements pertaining to copyrig
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by dspillett 3mo ago
Again, that seems to be talking about fully AI generated work, like “works created solely by machines” from the previous document, not AI-aided work. It is only stating that the prompt is not considered sufficient human work because it come
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by dspillett 3mo ago
A Pi4 does the job well too. They can be had noticeably cheaper than Pi5s ATM, if you don't have the luck of having a device lying around ready to be repurposed, and even the 1Gb models are plenty sufficient. A Pi3 may suffice even, th
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by dspillett 3mo ago
The streaming sticks the article is discussing basically need network access to function. They might support streaming from local media sources and file shares too, but that is also done over WiFi. Unless you have a properly firewall contro
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> Why would there need to be a stigma for getting paid based on a tool they used? Is it being used a tool, or is it being used as a ghostwriter? There is often stigma attached to that when done by humans. > Artist have a stigma for
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by dspillett 3mo ago
> Would we not expect AI fiction to be the same? A stream of poor and excellent taste, not particularly original or surprising, samey in hard-to-define ways, but capable of being hammered into a good story by an editor. That could also
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by dspillett 3mo ago
That specifically states “works created solely by machines” so probably doesn't cover AI-aided work? Though where you draw the line there is likely to be something that'll tax legal budgets for years to come…

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