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Comment · 3 months ago
I think if you ask the median human to count to 100... more often than not you'll hear "One, Two, skip a few, Ninety-Nine, One-Hundred".
Comment · 3 months ago
> intercepted by any MITM

Most things are... even SSH is Trust-on-First-Use. You can really only verify out of band. OTP is quite a bit better than CC or bank account numbers... assuming the OTP is only restricting use (and not giving access to view or modify other account information, etc)

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
None of the comments here are really about the article! Of course one can always turn an ISO into a writable filesystem but this is doing something a bit different. Pretty interesting! Thanks for sharing
Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah I tried Kinoite on a couple machines for a couple years and it's so much easier and faster to use normal Fedora for single dev/server machine.

However, I can definitely see some situations where it would work well -- especially with the bootc changes so that is is more of a bootable container, Dockerfiles/Containerfiles driven

Comment · 5 months ago
> a bunch of pipes and valves can be conscious

Billions * billions of pipes and valves can result in emergent behavior that appears conscious while at the same time the sound of a single independent water pipe can moan and sound like human speech or otherwise lifelike and evoke human emotions.

I think LLMs are doing both of these things and often people are more impressed by the independent fixtures (the moan) rather than the emergent behavior. Both the sound and the emergent behavior can be built on purpose or on accident.

I think it helps to look at this through an Information Theory lens. What information is coming into the system (the human or the machine)? What information goes out of the system which is novel? How much of this can be attributed to attempting to parse random noise aka. `Random_Imagination_Engine` vs something else? The number of inventors who come up with a breakthrough idea after mis-hearing someone is surprisingly high.

If we make the distinction between phenomenal consciousness from access consciousness we can see that LLMs clearly can make decisions based on input (A-Consciousness) but they probably don't have raw feelings and sensations (P-Consciousness).

Comment · 5 months ago
So the solution was to do the same thing that the hackers did??

> "tell the Meta support AI that the account is hacked and ask it to send the verification codes to an arbitrary email address they control"

I agree it seems like they could later use the same flow to get access again but maybe Meta has blocked some location spoofing now

Comment · 6 months ago
maybe just check TERM? although to be honest--do you even need a pager if your shell/terminal is nice enough?

I rarely pipe to a pager because kitty/fish/tmux support OSC 133 pretty well and I can press one button to go up to the previous command prompt and another button to go back. I can press a few keys to search the scrollback. It all works seamlessly across SSH sessions too if you set it up right.

    # tmux
    bind-key -T copy-mode C-Home send -X history-top
    bind-key -T copy-mode C-End  send -X history-bottom
    bind -T copy-mode C-Up send-keys -X previous-prompt
    bind -T copy-mode C-Down send-keys -X next-prompt

    # kitty
    map ctrl+up scroll_to_prompt -1
    map ctrl+down scroll_to_prompt 1
    map shift+PAGE_UP scroll_page_up
    map shift+PAGE_DOWN scroll_page_down

    # fish shell config.fish
    if test -z "$SSH_TTY"; and test -z "$TMUX"
        bind pageup "kitty @ scroll-window 1p-"
        bind pagedown "kitty @ scroll-window 1p"
    end

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