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by krupan 5mo ago
I mean, kind of. If I give you an address to use to send me money, and I don't tell anyone else that address, and you don't tell anyone else that address, then nobody else can be sure who is behind the transaction.
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by krupan 5mo ago
A general distrust of things that aren't publicly available is very healthy. We should all do more of that! Honest question, do you buy the narrative of everyone trying to sell you a product?
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by krupan 5mo ago
I don't know, but it always seems weird to me when people notice AI isn't performing super well and then they conclude that the solution to problem is to try using more AI
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by krupan 5mo ago
How do you know we haven't looked for substance, found none, and then decided to be snarky? I can agree that snark probably isn't the type of comment that we generally value or encourage here on Hacker News, but neither is posting
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by krupan 5mo ago
The concerns around Mythos are not well founded
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by krupan 5mo ago
KeepassXC is much better than older keepass clients. Syncthing runs quietly in the background. It's really not much harder to use that other password managers once you set it up
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by krupan 5mo ago
This is what we get for telling everyone how amazing AI is at writing code. It started with the people selling AI and for some reason tons of independent developers, some quite well respected in our field, piled on. Facebook now laying pe
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by krupan 5mo ago
Studies are great. Free training material for commercial AI products, not so great
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Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone(kv4p.com)
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by krupan 5mo ago
Wr aren't talking about clicking links even. This is a bug in some stupid code that tries to read your messages for you and act on them. No thank you!
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by krupan 5mo ago
This isn't even an exploit if the crappy AI or whatever that's trying to do something fancy never "processes" the message. At least give me a choice before you automatically do that
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by krupan 5mo ago
Preferably a two-click exploit. One to view the message and one (if I decide it's safe) to process it through your buggy code. A 0-click exploit is horrendously worse than even a 1-click one. I often don't even open messages fro
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by krupan 5mo ago
That's funny, I was told my real last name is a swear word in Czech
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by krupan 5mo ago
AI hype. Don't bother
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by krupan 5mo ago
So we've seen sellers of AI hardware invest in AI software companies to create demand for their hardware. Now we are seeing AI (and/or AI adjacent) companies requiring their employees to use AI to create demand for AI. When does
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by krupan 5mo ago
I'm sorry, but that's insane. I mean, I guess if you have cash to burn I could think of even worse ways to spend it, but seriously, this is dumb. What other tool have businesses spent millions of dollars and person hours on to t
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by krupan 5mo ago
Are you sure this isn't being funded by our taxes? How many data centers are being built in areas where they have been given a huge tax break? How many banks are loaning money for AI infrastructure knowing that they'll be bailed
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by krupan 5mo ago
But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
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by krupan 5mo ago
News flash: predicting the future is hard
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by krupan 5mo ago
"There is an international arms race with China" I keep seeing this. Where did it come from? Has China said that they intend to attack other countries using AI? Have other countries declared that they intend to attack China wit
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by krupan 5mo ago
There definitely is hype around AI as a security tool right now. Someone else pointed out that the rate of CVEs has gone up, but that doesn't tell is why. This article doesn't mention AI helping find this bug. Seems like humans
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by krupan 5mo ago
I followed the link to the Pixel 9 bug/exploit and saw this: "Over the past few years, several AI-powered features have been added to mobile phones that allow users to better search and understand their messages. One effect of thi
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by krupan 5mo ago
Original scorch had a text file with all the sayings the tanks would "shout" out just before firing. Trading those around on BBSes was part of the fun. I still remember, "from Hell's heart I stab at thee!" which i
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by krupan 5mo ago
It had multiplayer, as long as you were all sitting at the same computer:-)
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by krupan 5mo ago
That's why I only do passwordless sudo ;) Actually now I use my yubikey to authentice so I don't have to type my password for sudo. Take that!
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by krupan 5mo ago
I can agree that the original aims of the movement haven't fully caught on, especially the subtle difference between Open Source and Free/Libre software. The pragmatic side of better security, low-bureaucracy standardization, and
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by krupan 5mo ago
The local models are still centralized and proprietary. They are basically closed source software.
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by krupan 5mo ago
That's not what this thread is about? We're saying some new breakthrough is needed, someone said it already has happened, and I'm asking if it really has. Has it? I don't think so, those models are not in some way fun
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by krupan 5mo ago
You really don't know the limits of LLMs. They can't make anything "from the ground up" they are only as capable what they were trained on. Someone had an LLM make a C compiler and they found code regurgitated verbatim
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by krupan 5mo ago
Isn't half the reason companies push for these sorts of controls is so they are allowed by the Chinese government to do business there?

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