ASalazarMX

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"AI, but verify" -- Winston Churchill (alternate universe)
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Comment · 2 days ago
Even if they're not malicious, there's no guarantee that they won't become malicious in the future. Prefer living off the land, and install only the very essential extras.
Comment · 2 days ago
I don't know what Apple is looking for. The iPhone ships with a Weather app preinstalled, you allow it to your location so it can warn of severe weather, and several weeks later "OMG WEATHER APP IS USING YOUR LOCATION!!11!".

Same with MDM agents. Ours are installed automatically as part of the Apple Business Manager configuration, we manually grant them precise location in the background, and months later "HEY USER, WANNA BLOCK LOCATION FROM 'MDM SERVICE'?".

Edit: To avoid replying to the two following comments with the same reply, my gripe is not about the notification, that's a good thing; my gripe is with their implementation, which seems very in tune with Apple's way of complying with regulations. There are definitely many user-friendly ways to handle privacy compared to seemingly random notifications.

Comment · 4 days ago
Only slop can fight slop.
Comment · 4 days ago
Why not both? After the collapse of civilization, as long as you can maintain the computer running, you could educate the next generation as soon as they could write. Maybe they will bypass the local agent as they learn their way into the library, to save energy.

Consider they won't have access to the plentiful practice opportunities we have now, most resources would have to be spent with a practical goal.

Comment · 4 days ago
A great strength of LLMs is how they provide useful answers even if the prompt has glaring spelling or grammatical mistakes. If your prompt is not great, as you said, they will reply in a way that helps you identify that flaws, and learn how to steer the model better.

They're amazingly useful tools, but they're nowhere the level believers want them to be, not yet.

Comment · 4 days ago
TL;DR:

Trump hit on The Wall Street Journal for using the term AI, rather super intelligence (SI), his preferred term.

“When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be,” he wrote.

He signed an executive order in September directing the executive branch to use SI, instead of AI.

Comment · 4 days ago
You only unsubscribe from legit senders, never click on a true spam unsubscribe link.

If it's a regular email that you vindicatively want to classify as spam, do that and don't unsubscribe. It will go directly to your spam folder in the future, and it will hurt a tiny bit their standing with Google.

Comment · 4 days ago
> I have no idea how anyone is going to profit off this stuff

Spoiler: they don't, and never will without a significant price rise or technological breakthrough.

Comment · 4 days ago
> jailbreaking deepseek with a less aligned model (glm 5.2) which then allowed me to jailbreak deepseek with deepseek

Could you elaborate more on this specifically? What is the process to jailbreak one model with another?

Comment · 4 days ago
A thousand times this. Housing crises are not caused by the people looking for houses, they are caused by people/corporations speculating with houses.
Comment · 4 days ago
IMO this is beneficial to Australia. Young, healthy, skilled immigrants? Things might be bad now, but this is the type of immigration other countries would beg for. Compared to retirees gentrifying health, housing, and sevices in general, this has more potential for the future.

I bet these foreign students are not profiting from your housing crisis, they're probably victims too. You should look further up, follow the money.

Comment · 4 days ago
Aztecs used cocoa beans as currency (in their case, money did grow on trees :), and drinking chocolate was reserved to the higher classes. Every time I see expensive food with gold leaves I'm reminded of that. Maybe they tried to eat money too?
Comment · 4 days ago
> Turns out 80% of the chocolate flavor comes from the processing, including fermentation and roasting and not from the plant

As someone who has roasted cacao beans and made their own chocolate, I feel slightly offended by this... yet, I have to concede that roasted beans share a lot of qualities. Cheap coffee used to have (maybe still has?) roasted garbanzo beans as filler, and it wasn't that bad. Old-style roasteries used to roast peanuts the same way they roasted coffee: a very tasty snack, and as aromatic as the coffee beans.

Comment · 5 days ago
The "Fuck knows" response highlights Gibson's style perfectly. Not any writer is bold enough to not take themselves, or their works, that seriously. That's why I enjoy it so much.
Comment · 5 days ago
I'll agree, since arcades could never give the experience a JRPG could. No shop would allow a player to occupy a machine all day unless they spent a lot of quarters.

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