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Comment · 6 months ago
Cthulu is supposed to rise and induce madness in the population, driving them towards death and destruction right? Seems like he'd be bored these days
Comment · 6 months ago
The Butlerian Jihad looms
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Comment · 6 months ago
At a previous job, we had to refactor our entire front end build system from Rollup(I believe it was) to a custom Webpack build because of this attitude. Our FE process was completely disconnected from the code on the site, existing entirely in our Azure pipeline and developer machines. The actual theoretically exploitable aspects were in third party APIs and our dotNet ecosystems which we obviously fixed. I wrote like 3 different documents and presented multiple times to their security team on how this wasn't necessary and we didn't want to take their money needlessly. $20000 or so later (with a year of support for the system baked in) we shut up Dependabot. Money well spent!
Comment · 6 months ago
Feed, cloth and educate our population? What's next? Structure society in a way that benefits the people? How horrifying!
Comment · 6 months ago
I'm curious if there is a particular technical reason you chose to make this as a separate script rather than some kind of Jellyfin plugin? I actually appreciate that you did it in this fashion (more useful for me personally), just curious if there were limitations within the Jellyfin/dotNet system.

Either way, gonna make my World Cup viewing experience this year a lot easier haha

Comment · 7 months ago
What a neat LLM question! Most of my results were the same as what you posted except for the first time I asked it which resulted in this pretty interesting answer: Taiwan is in the Taiwan Standard Time (TST) zone, which is UTC+8, while the Pacific Time (PT) zone is UTC-7.

To convert 9:30 AM Taiwan time to Pacific Time:

1. Subtract 15 hours (since 8 hours ahead is 15 hours behind).

9:30 AM - 15 hours = 6:30 AM PT.

So, 9:30 AM Taiwan time is 6:30 AM Pacific Time.

Never thought to use an llm for time zone stuff. Seems like it struggles as much as a normal person, which makes some sense given what they're trained with.

Comment · 7 months ago
Louis Rossman recently posted a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc) where he had Gemini replace his 10+ year carefully curated content with AI slop and he instantly shot (back) up to the top of the rankings. They're very clearly favoring their own generated generic content rather than any sort of organic, well written or well informed entries. Shame.
Comment · 7 months ago
I think a web ring combined with some kind of web of trust style system would be nice. Ideally they could be both centralized where an initial creator holds the keys to what's allowed and decentralized where it just sort of exists. I haven't quite been able to sketch out a reasonable way to keep sites persistent and consistent except DNS records, though. DNS of course making it hard or impossible for smaller and less tech-savvy creators while also having it's own issues regardless.

I'm a big web ring person though so I might be biased and trying to use a hammer in place of a screwdriver.

Comment · 8 months ago
Go old school and have the script inject the "how did this get here im not good with computers" cat onto random pages
Comment · 8 months ago
>Though a variant of the last one may well have happened here, and the justification we read is just the one less damaging to everyone involved

Hegseth was planning on getting the model via the Defense Production Act or killing Anthropic via supply chain risk classification preventing any other company working with the Pentagon from working with Anthropic. So while it wasn't Siberia, it was about as close as the US can get without declaring Claude a terrorist. Which I'm sure is on the table regardless

Comment · 9 months ago
My understanding is that it's quite easy to poison the models with inaccurate data, I wouldn't be surprised if this exact thing has happened already. Maybe not an AI company itself, but it's definitely in the purview of a hostile actor to create bad code for this purpose. I suppose it's kind of already happened via supply chain attacks using AI generated package names that didn't exist prior to the LLM generating them.
Comment · 9 months ago
This is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. I love it.
Comment · 9 months ago
Yeah, seriously. I've seen musicians nearly come to blows over tube vs solid state amps. Music has even more anger associated with brands and technique than gaming or tech. It's just not flooding the algos like AI currently is

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