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by pona-a 5d ago
I think few will argue it's ethically or legally fine for my website to pay by installing a keylogger through a zero-click Chromium RCE, burying it in the EULA.
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by pona-a 5d ago
That's just what a government is. The idea is you elect it democratically and bind it with a constitution.
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by pona-a 6d ago
Are people seriously routinely experiencing serious harm from social media use, comparable with alcohol or gambling addiction? The discussion may have suffered from much unnecessarily hyperbole in comparing YouTube to heroin, in how a sing
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by pona-a 6d ago
Social media algorithms have increasingly promised to replace self-curation, an effort consuming higher thinking activity, with an automatic optimization of limbic responses. AI just proved to be an effective tool for stretching the base mo
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by pona-a 11d ago
Code is a human formalism that is only incidentally made executable. The elegance of code represents understanding of the problem to its most minute detail. LLM code being recognizably terrible shows it still doesn't understand what it
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by pona-a 11d ago
70% seems unexpectedly high... Was there maybe some overcounting? Yubico Authenticator https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-flutter I actually don't see any significant signs of AI use. There's Copilot listed i
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by pona-a 11d ago
The rate at which these "labs" are creating these incidents is simply staggering. Imagine we made nuclear weapons a private industry, had CEOs bragging how they have enough warheads to blow the Earth to smithereens, and then they
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by pona-a 12d ago
Yes, but does can author truly predict how they'll misread their work? Should we treat the audience as cattle to be deprived of every emotion that doesn't serve some external political goal? The author might indulge in vividly pai
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by pona-a 12d ago
Re: Re: Fediverse. My point was more than indeed the Fediverse is more a technical detail than an actual cohesive platform, so it only makes sense to talk about Mastodon, whereas XMPP is more cohesive by virtue of instant messenging being a
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by pona-a 12d ago
This is effectively settled. Every client worth using has standardized on certain extensions, and there are server capability testers for it [0]. There are still a LOT of things very much up in the air, such as message deletion, which work
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by pona-a 12d ago
Mastodon too has several client (web)apps. The Fediverse is itself a more neutral protocol with more heterogeneous platforms based on it (e.g. Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc), so Mastodon refers more to the platform (schema, UX, wider community) than
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by pona-a 12d ago
This is a very flimsy argument to say a vibe coded one-shot Claude app is equivalent to actually hand-made Django app hosted on a Linux system that runs systemd which used Claude PR reviews. People don't care about your entire dependen
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by pona-a 12d ago
Just because techbros keep misreading allegories for societal ills as ads doesn't mean their authors have any influence on the future, beyond the warning or inspiration their works bring.
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by pona-a 13d ago
It used to be OpenAI was a real research organization that wrote real open-access papers that aren't marketing brochures, and when they did large training runs, they released all artifacts including model weights. Now certainly they ar
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by pona-a 16d ago
Is this actually grounded in real experiences and not headlines? Have real projects / people actually experienced this hyperbolic insta-hack you describe? People are getting DDoSed regularly sure, but no, you don't get hacked the
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by pona-a 17d ago
This was an issue before watermarking was publically announced. I'm also not an expert, but aren't bits of a hash indistinguishible from uniform randomness?
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by pona-a 18d ago
Maybe it happens that LLMs are great at finding human bugs which have some more patterned structure that's easier to match for then LLM bugs. They prefer LLM prose to human prose, so what if they're similarly wooed by slop code?
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by pona-a 18d ago
Just like external AUX-type-C DACs, manufacturers took a trivial feature of a smartphone and outsourced it to an array of disposable device vendors with questionable practices
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by pona-a 22d ago
What's their excuse with Flock-like surveillance? Leaving the house is consent to their tracking. Let's be real: they don't value consent in any form. I wouldn't be surprised one of those big-tech product managers gets t
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by pona-a 24d ago
In his defense, ECC is unusually fast compared to both RSA and current PQ
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by pona-a 1mo ago
In the case of the US AI industry, how about some stricter banking laws to forbid its current circular financing?
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by pona-a 1mo ago
euroan
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by pona-a 2mo ago
That's what happens with scale... The purpose of a car itself didn't change. But the massive inflated demand, as our city planners decided every adult must be put in a rolling metal cage to participate in society, changed the envi
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by pona-a 2mo ago
So brainrot? I don't want to belittle anyone's creative pursuits, but really, I struggle to see how "Balenciaga Harry Potter" is any more artistic than "Italian Animals".
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by pona-a 2mo ago
Not platforming your slop is the same as killing minorities? Okay... Codeberg is not a state. This is not life and death. If you have any disagreements, feel free to join another community. The network effect hadn't kicked in yet, you&
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by pona-a 2mo ago
We have a non peer reviewed proof in a niche area of mathematics claiming to have been "co-written" by an LLM. What are the comments about? Lamenting or celebrating humanity's intellectual death... Very insightful.
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by pona-a 2mo ago
"Why spend $1k on a helicopter ride to Costco when you can bike there?"
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by pona-a 2mo ago
A sustainable patronage from the Russian intelligence community? /j
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by pona-a 2mo ago
Speak for yourself. Programming was my main hobby and I've diversified into learning aelectronics to have some escape from the blatant current of anti-intellectualism in software. Yes something major is lost when you commission a plagi
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by pona-a 3mo ago
The title reads a lot like the lab logs you'd find in a horror game. But for the paper itself, it seems they're using genetic optimization over predefined keywords. Wonder what would happen if they did gradient descent on the late

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