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by neilv 1y ago
A satisfying theory for a lot of DDoS would be extortion or protection rackets. Pay up or we will DDoS you, or pay up or 'someone else' will DDoS you. That's enough to explain it. But if you wanted to go more full shadowy c
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by neilv 1y ago
Before anyone has a lighthearted Sunday night moment of humor sharing: you probably don't want to link to this site in your employer's Slack watercooler channel. Different people might deconstruct the humor of the site's gimm
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Some context on why some 80s kids keep getting mistaken for GPT(old.reddit.com)
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by neilv 1y ago
(title taken from a line in the reddit comment)
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by neilv 1y ago
Exactly. And there's a complicating related situation that, if you have housing instability, there can also be pressure not to own anything more than you need, in terms of difficulty and cost having to move it or lose it on short noti
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by neilv 1y ago
Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.
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by neilv 1y ago
> Configuring your WM in Haskell seems fun, but I suspect "fun" is the primary motivator, not any kind of practical reason. Not for me. I don't know Haskell, and I had to cargo-cult forms to do what I want (which bother
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by neilv 1y ago
Why in this instance leak your actions and methods?
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by neilv 1y ago
It sounds like they directly used Anthropic-hosted compute to do this, and knew that their actions and methods would be exposed to Anthropic? Why not just self-host competitive-enough LLM models, and do their experiments/attacks themse
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by neilv 1y ago
I used to study news, which meant reading a lot of it, so maybe I'm not representative, but I immediately noticed that. Whoever tastefully drew their logo in lowercase might've warned them not do it as all-caps elsewhere, if they
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by neilv 1y ago
Corporate ethics-wise, Canonical is vastly better than Microsoft. But I prefer Debian Stable, for reasons both pragmatic and on-principle: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/d...
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by neilv 1y ago
> The sweet spot isn’t an empty market. It’s a crowded market with broken execution. The broken execution can include being twisted by perverse incentives. Example: social media tending to converge on a mix of outrage doom-scrolling fo
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by neilv 1y ago
What is the multiplayer cheating situation like on Steam games? (Technology, demographics, popularity?)
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by neilv 1y ago
The earlier description is ambiguous (i.e., is it data of or about customers, and is that data cleartext), but it seems they believe they have a drive from Backblaze with a lot of cleartext files on it, and something involving customers
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by neilv 1y ago
If I were Intel, this sounds like a great person to give an R&D skunkworks dream job. Potential lottery ticket win, they are available for consulting internally anywhere that can add value, and they're not working for anyone else.
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by neilv 1y ago
> That's how it found out that the last "new" drive I bought on Amazon was actually a used Backblaze drive. It contained terabytes of customer data, and a shit ton of cleartext files. SMART, of course, reported it was a b
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by neilv 1y ago
I too have wanted this. There are now laptop skin products that they claim are removable and re-attachable.
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by neilv 1y ago
Good catch. Like the reason that house key ring lost&found tags have an intermediary's address on them, rather than identify the other directly.
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by neilv 1y ago
This tech looks like it would be annoying to other people in a cafe/workplace/etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1drVhn0hLiI&t=40s What I think would be ideal with current tech is non-backlit e-ink color. M
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by neilv 1y ago
"Delivering this feature goes against everything I know to be right and true. And I will sooner lay you into this barren earth, than entertain your folly for a moment longer." -- Krazam, "Microservices", https:/&#
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by neilv 1y ago
If only more billionaires would start sounding as aware as this 95 year-old one: > But Lady Luck is fickle and – no other term fits – wildly unfair. In many cases, our leaders and the rich have received far more than their share of luck
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by neilv 1y ago
I wonder whether the modern ThinkPad enthusiasts are actually only TrackPoint enthusiasts. (Previously, the keyboard, durability, and repairability were also ThinkPad selling points for enthusiasts.)
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by neilv 1y ago
* The article speaks of this personnel like reservists, but could the training also apply to helping defend public infrastructure and institutions, where they work? (For example, if there ever be a need to quickly hand out firearms on-site
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by neilv 1y ago
> “Maintain a high level of vigilance and verify the legitimacy of CBO communications by confirming with the sender via telephone that they sent the message,” the note continues. Depends how sophisticated and incentivized the attacker,
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by neilv 1y ago
> After filtering by my stupid rule of open models, That's a good rule. > You must enable DRM to play some audio or video on this page. Looks like `embed.podcasts.apple.com` isn't in the same spirit.
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by neilv 1y ago
I have a little bit of skepticism about the move by Google (and you should usually be very skeptical, any time Web standards or Web "security" are talked about, lately), but... The gaudy retro amateur '95 design of this page
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by neilv 1y ago
Thanks. Sounds solid. The compensation one is the one that most companies get wrong for retention. It seems most companies say they're "competitive" (within some unspecified tier). And they may be at hiring time, but a fre
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by neilv 1y ago
> However, at this week’s shareholder meeting, Musk stated that Tesla may allow “texting and driving” within “a month or two.” The family of the first person killed by that will know who to sue for a punitive trillion dollars.
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by neilv 1y ago
I think the thieves you worry about are actually going steal your code through LLM laundering, without even knowing who it was stolen from. If you're not going to do a startup with your code, you probably need to focus on a mix of lear
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by neilv 1y ago
Some kinds of law specialties can get fun marketing. In Boston, a personal injury lawyer is recently doing a bus advertising sign that seems to be a play on "Better Call Saul" (of the scrappy fictional TV series character's a

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