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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
That's what I thought was interesting about the Watson Jeopardy Challenge. Watson had a sense of its confidence, and it seemed to be accurate. The answers it got wrong were the ones it knew it had difficulty understanding. 3 videos a
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Firefox on desktop renders as black text on white background. The link colors are yellow, which is not great, but still okay for me to read. I use the "Dark Background and Light Text" add-on. Sometimes the add-on makes a bad web
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
> He was smart/determined enough to risk it all. Desperate people are willing to risk it all, and usually smart people aren't desperate.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Your left nav doesn't have a scrollbar and doesn't fit on a 16:9 laptop screen.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
A face book is a generic term for a school directory with photographs. That's why Zuckerberg called it The Facebook to differentiate it from all the other face books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
And I hope I am just being a Chicken Little, but if LLMs become the go-to place for searching, we will lose traditional web search engines. They won't be profitable if not enough people use them. For those who don't remember how
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
In addition to giving credit where credit is due, attribution is important for verifying the trustworthiness of "facts". When someone tells me they asked a LLM and it says xxxxx, I want to know did it get it from a bad source, or
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Could you please rephrase your last sentence? I appears to be incomplete.
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> Another solution to our existing problems in western democracies would be a mechanism to select 'none of the above' on a ballot. If a super majority of the electorate chooses the 'none of the above' option than tha
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Reminds me of the notices Microsoft sent to various universities many years ago regarding the sharing of StarOffice and OpenOffice on bittorrent/Kazaa/etc networks because the contained the string 'Office'. https:/
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
I don't like the default option being to treat everyone like they are a moron. I don't like being treated like a moron.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
A different discussion on the same general topic 51 days ago (and now flagged) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346947
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Trolls do things for the LOLs. They are motivated by humor. Someone who wants rules for others but breaks those rules personally is better referred to as a hypocrite. And while he did have a sense of humor (I hear that daylight savings ti
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
I think it is important to explain why I and others are so reluctant to this. In security, you identify reasonable threats. You can't protect against all of them, and some may even be contradictory. When I get a call on my phone that
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
For those who want to read the wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometric_light
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Now that I think about it, you are right. But if they could ban my use of written passwords as easily as banning my use of a particular passkey device, why go through all the extra hoops to just be as vulnerable as before? This seems like
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
That's all I want to know. How do I restore from a backup? Specifically, a backup that I make to a medium I control, like a piece of paper or a burned CD-R in a safe deposit box. If I could get a good answer to that, I could be onbo
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Write it down on a sheet of paper and put the paper in a safe place. As a bonus, I can have multiple copies in multiple places. It is simple, easy, and I have been doing it all my life. I see no reason why it has to be more complicated t
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Honest question. Does asking "make no mistakes" actually change the output? Does it make mistakes if you don't bother to ask for no mistakes? Is it just to make the human feel more secure?
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
If you want to go for a walk in the park in the middle of the night and can't see without a light, BRING A FLASHLIGHT. That's just basic safety. You never know when a power outage will strike. If you are 100% dependent on artif
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Don't forget trucking in the cooling water.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Even if that is true, I have better things to do with my time and money than pay a expert witness to explain: see, I wasn't breaking the law, I just wanted the cops to think I did. That just seems like a really bad idea.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
That's kinda the defining characteristic of a state-level threat. They have all the money they could ever need. The reason Pegasus can charge that much is because there are people able and willing to pay that much.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
This lists two unnamed individuals. https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gramnumber7-16decrypt-data-ca...
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
We are well past the point of these companies caring about their reputations. People are already losing their homes over this. Here is Penguinz0's commentary on a news report of GA Power eminent domaining someone's home to run a
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Be careful in countries like UK which have laws requiring the decryption of any data they find. There are people sitting in jail because they couldn't decrypt the "random noise" on their computers.
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
> Most "state-level" adversaries are just high school dropouts working border jobs told to "investigate suspicious things". The state-level threat isn't just about the direct employees' competence. They als
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Thanks, "because cats are girls and dogs are boys" triggered a memory of SNL sketch of a faux-1952 educational film strip "A lady's guide to party planning" from 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
When I was a kid, I thought that nurse/doctor was a gender specific term. They went to the same schools, but when they graduated, men were called "doctors" and girls were called "nurses". It was an embarrassing mo
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by fhdkweig 3mo ago
Every once in a while a company will publicly push back on such requests, but I feel it is getting rarer. Public libraries are a good example of places that still care about privacy, but companies that have to worry about going out of busi

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