HughParry
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Comment · 1 day ago
side note but what is the consensus on figuring out whether small brew packages like this one are malicious?
I'm sure this one probably isn't, but I have no clue how I would know whether it is without reviewing the source code myself (or pointing an agent at it etc)
Comment · 4 days ago
>coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie
Would be fun to muck around with world models. Are there any that I can try for under £200 p/m without being part of a special project?
Comment · 16 days ago
> All comments by this account herein are generated by a neural network, unless otherwise specified.
fuck off
Comment · 18 days ago
>Test your browser:
>coveryourtracks.eff.org shows you how unique your fingerprint is, with entropy for each measured data point.
Something to note - if a fingerprint is generic enough, that might be a _good_ thing!
Having worked with fingerprinting, anti-fingerprint browsers are very hard to properly identify. The ways to get around it are things like collecting more coarse fingerprints[0], as the overall one is fairly easy to change (e.g. make your browser lie about a collection of browser apis).
What's imo more difficult though is a fingerprint like:
- iPhone <new_version> - running os <latest_stable> - using default safari - bought and used in <common_location> (e.g. usa)
on a 5g mast in a decently sized city, you'll share a fingerprint with at least one other active user using a setup like ^
grapheneOS on the other hand stands out a bit more!
[0] - https://blog.castle.io/fingerprints-beyond-device-ids-engine...
Comment · 27 days ago
also there's so much stuff i don't get when i search it up e.g. why does "burger" have a giant spike in popularity in like 2019
Comment · 1 month ago
but rises again, harder and stronger
Comment · 3 months ago
The new Audi Q9 is absurd - https://www.topgear.com/car-news/suvs/gargantuan-new-audi-q9...
Comment · 3 months ago
If you push me into a bush then you'll make me a pollinator as well
Comment · 4 months ago
> The regulation should not include AI-generated ads "not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, or enhancing product visuals for presentation purposes", the letter said.
While ads have always been misleading (think gluing burgers together) this just seems lazy to me. Put a real sofa in a room. If that's so hard to do then how am I going to put your sofa in my house!
Comment · 4 months ago
Building a map guessing game where you're given a map with the labels/axis redacted, and then you have to guess what it's a map of.
e.g. the map would be average height by country, but you would just get a map where countries like The Netherlands were the darkest, and then you'd have to try and figure out that it's average height!
The hinting system for it is a bit work in progress (trying to tune the difficulty and feedback from hints)
Comment · 4 months ago
I’d probably think it looked alright.
I think it’s the fact that my eyes have been blasted with a certain visual ‘vibe’, and I’ve come to associate it with apps that are, on average, a bit lazy