ptidhomme

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by ptidhomme 25d ago
"Geiger" Prepping for AI apocalypse I see
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by ptidhomme 26d ago
Some Jews see AI as a messianic entity, so it fits the bill.
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by ptidhomme 27d ago
Interestinly, it does include the string "myrtus", which was likely it's real internal name. https://medium.com/@arpit.writes/stuxnet-and-the-birth-of-di...
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by ptidhomme 2mo ago
Well, it's actually an essay against the thinness of AI slop. > Erasing the line between the thick and the thin has left us defenseless against slop at the exact moment of its onslaught. Everyone can sense there’s something amiss w
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by ptidhomme 3mo ago
Man, thanks for this precious tip
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by ptidhomme 3mo ago
It's all parallel construction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by ptidhomme 3mo ago
Is porn birth control ? Yes it is. But why is porn free and ubiquitous ? Surely there's an enormous amount of money behind it, but where's the ROI ?
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by ptidhomme 4mo ago
Someone must be funding the NGOs organizing it all.
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by ptidhomme 5mo ago
Yeah, I also use it because it is fairly low maintenance. There's the sysupgrade every 6-month, but it goes smoothly every time.
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by ptidhomme 6mo ago
I used to have the opposite rule in my signal processing field : the more Chinese names, the less innovation was there. They seemed like they had to be churning out papers and any little adaptation to existing research triggered a new publi
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by ptidhomme 6mo ago
I liked this reply in the thread : There's another issue surrounding developer skill atrophy or stunting that I find \ particularly concerning on an existential level. If we allow people to use LLMs to write code for a given project&#
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by ptidhomme 6mo ago
I'm not sure why this would force him to retire as an OpenBSD developer ? Did this research bring him some backlash from other developers ? If not, maybe he can advocate for a better acknowledgment of the issue from the inside ? Just w
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by ptidhomme 6mo ago
Plus you can install them in a separate work profile (use app "shelter"), which isolates them more. Personally I need them for my banking app (which is a shame but here we are), but I disallow network access for Google Play Serv
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by ptidhomme 7mo ago
The theory still emanated from actual observations, didn't it ?
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
Now of course, the only input LLMs have is human text (for text only LLMs anyway). So their model is entirely dependent on how we see the world. I wouldn't restrict LLMs to description of human understanding. They can articulate con
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
What would a human say about what he/she is or how he/she works ? Even today, there's so much we don't know about biological life. Same applies here I guess, the LLM happens to be there, nothing else to explain if you a
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
Tbf banks are truly driving the coercion. My banks used to have functional apps on bare GrapheneOS, but nowadays they won't launch without Play Services (to wich I can deny network access, pretty neat of GrapheneOS). Plus my main bank
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
"How concepts relate" is called a model. That it uses language to be interacted with is irrelevant to the fact that it's a model of of a worldly concept. What of multi modal models according to you ? Are they "models of
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
When you ask an LLM a question about cars, it needs an inner representation of what a car is (how imperfect it may be) to answer your question. A model of "language" as you want to define it would output a grammatically correct wa
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
A model of language is a model of the world, else it being pure gibberish.
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
Those billion parameters, they are a model of the world. Autocomplete is such a shortsighted understanding of LLMs.
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
Aren't botnet targeting cheap and unsecured consumer devices specifically in the residential IP ranges ?
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
Filesystem is one of the rare areas (albeit crucial) where OpenBSD is flaky, tbf.
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by ptidhomme 10mo ago
> "how do I get <thing> working" OpenBSD is very different from FreeBSD in this regard. OpenBSD mostly works out of the box.
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by ptidhomme 11mo ago
Man, I remember when you told this story some years ago, and I still very much like it ! (I have an hnrss.org feed with all comments mentioning OpenBSD, so, I was bound to catch it).
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by ptidhomme 1y ago
Have some self awareness. One could say the exact same things about western media.
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by ptidhomme 2y ago
Beware of yours. Working in inhuman conditions cannot be justified by any amount of money.
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by ptidhomme 2y ago
Your browser arrived here like a ninja—empty referrer, sneaking in from nowhere after 4 seconds of indecision—yet your "K" phone from Chiapas (but actually Querétaro?) has the mystery of a spy using misspelled Linux armv81 and the
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by ptidhomme 2y ago
Israel does regularly bomb Syria. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/12/how-can-israel-att...

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