romaniitedomum

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AI isn't going to kill us(thecritic.co.uk)
4 points by romaniitedomum 23d ago|1 comments
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by romaniitedomum 1mo ago
The linked article certainly implies this: > Because our legs are positioned slightly more forward, our quads both absorb the shock of stepping and spring our bodies back upward. This more energy efficient gait may give men an advantage
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by romaniitedomum 2mo ago
> I am not an AI evangelist by any means, but it does serve a purpose when used correctly. Well, doesn't every tool? The devil is in the details of just how easy it is to use correctly versus incorrectly, and what are the consequenc
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by romaniitedomum 2mo ago
It used to be common in some places to outsource medical transcription to India (obviously not real-time recording). I spent time in India years ago working with a company in Mumbai (not medical transcription) and there were stories in Indi
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by romaniitedomum 2mo ago
It just hides that particular entry. What I meant to say is, I see certain domains and always hit hide on them, because that's a place I don't want to see anything from.
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by romaniitedomum 2mo ago
Exactly so.
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by romaniitedomum 2mo ago
Same way as always. Open the page, glance down it to see if there's anything that interests me, hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from. Lather, rinse, repeat. But I'm guessing you have more of a FOMO (Fear
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by romaniitedomum 2mo ago
> This suggests that people are drawn to AI that unquestioningly validate, even as that validation risks eroding their judgment The obvious counterpoint is the large number of complaints about OpenAI's excessively sycophantic models
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Cleaning Out Inboxes: TA488 Comes for Outlook with Another Half-Click Exploit(proofpoint.com)
2 points by romaniitedomum 2mo ago|0 comments
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by romaniitedomum 2mo ago
Especially in environments where manglement mandate something like Qualys, leading to demands that systems must be patched to address the critical vulnerabilities that it's reported despite said vulnerabilities being unexploitable. One
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by romaniitedomum 3mo ago
In beta? Why didn't they just tell Claude to finish it, test it, and release it?
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Prompt Injection as Role Confusion(theregister.com)
3 points by romaniitedomum 3mo ago|0 comments
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Huntress CEO: employee used 'poor judgment' in alerting criminal(theregister.com)
7 points by romaniitedomum 3mo ago|0 comments
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by romaniitedomum 4mo ago
Civil Defence here in NZ is saying there's no tsunami threat (to NZ anyway): https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/
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Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission(theregister.com)
5 points by romaniitedomum 4mo ago|0 comments
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by romaniitedomum 5mo ago
> Yes, good spammers make sure their DMARC, DKIM and SPF are correct. Many do, but not all. One of the hats I wear at work is mail server administrator, and it's astonishing the number of spam and phish attempts using our company do
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by romaniitedomum 5mo ago
> For a number of reasons, I feel that the only way we got here was via some kind of infinite improbability drive. Oh very much so! In my mind, it seems that someone must have figured out what the universe was for, and now it's been
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by romaniitedomum 5mo ago
To quote a famous (in certain circles) bowl of petunias, "oh no, not again!"
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by romaniitedomum 5mo ago
Can you imagine a knowledge worker from the 1950s, say a clerk or a marketer, being magically transported into our time and dropped into a meeting like a morning standup, where people talk about how they spent their time stopping the artifi
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Kubernetes release that kills Ingress Nginx, contains Japanese poetry and art(theregister.com)
3 points by romaniitedomum 5mo ago|0 comments
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by romaniitedomum 10mo ago
> I’m always a bit shocked how seriously people take concerns over the install script for a binary executable they’re already intending to trust. The issue is provenance. Where is the script getting the binary from? Who built that binary
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by romaniitedomum 11mo ago
Screenshots of text! Luxury! In my day, the screenshots were embedded in a Word document too. But I can't be the only one appalled at the suggestion to use an LLM to parse the text. The sheer, prodigious waste of computing power, just
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Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager(theregister.com)
2 points by romaniitedomum 1y ago|0 comments
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by romaniitedomum 1y ago
> with a corn tab that A corn tab you say? I'm all ears!
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Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps(theregister.com)
7 points by romaniitedomum 1y ago|2 comments
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by romaniitedomum 1y ago
> Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content and attempting to piece together mental models without the chance to receive immediate feedback on intuition or ask follow up question
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Ireland's Book of Leinster: The Wikipedia of the Age Goes on Display(irishtimes.com)
2 points by romaniitedomum 1y ago|0 comments
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by romaniitedomum 1y ago
> I don't understand believing that trans people (or whatever other belief) are a major threat, but I understand getting heavily involved in policies around trans people if one were to somehow believe that trans people are a major t
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A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal programming fans(theregister.com)
4 points by romaniitedomum 1y ago|0 comments
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by romaniitedomum 1y ago
From the article, about mid-way through: > But some detractors consider the project misleading. University of Maryland vertebrate paleontologist Thomas Holtz, Jr. pointed out to Live Science, a science news site, how the lab-created skin

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