Sunday afternoon and a boat trip around the nearest islands of #Stockholm with a friend of Harry. Such a privilege having this all just around the corner.
When you choose to use an #ML#LLM foundation model, you accept the risk management decisions made by the vendor without your input. Wonder what they are? Read this #MLsec paper from #IEEE computer.
I finally did it. I used an LLM. A couple of months ago, MS added its Copilot to Windows. I turned it off. But the latest update shoved it back in my face and tried to get me to let it use my data. So I asked it a question: How do I get rid of Copilot? It suggested I uninstall it like any other program, but MS removed that option. But Copilot went on to tell me the exact registry key to change to block it from loading, and now it's gone.
Our university deployed a mail filter that rewrites URLs in emails to redirect them via a service that checks for bad websites. Somebody clever worked out that PGP-signed emails are exempt from the rewrite rule, so now people are starting their emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" even though they haven't used PGP at all, just to fool the filter 😂
Anybody sending malware links has probably also worked out that trick by now, thereby rendering the entire filter pointless
Casey Newton describes the web as now being in a stage of managed decline as Google embraces AI search results.
Websites will lose traffic as Google replaces links with answers and will need to advertise more to make up for the lost traffic.
More websites will block Google’s crawlers as the relationship is now increasingly one sided and Google will have to pay more websites like they do Reddit to access their content.
Just a reminder, if you're in a state without access to abortion, there is a network of care, providing safe, effective, and free abortion pills and information.
