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pseudonym, 1 day ago to ai

More #AI shenanigans.

https://nitter.poast.org/petergyang/status/1793480607198323196#m

Link to X/Twitter replaced with nitter link.

Tl;Dr AI suggested adding glue to pizza to make the cheese stick. Sourced from 11 year old reddit post.

These are all good fun to mock until someone actually gets hurt taking these responses literally.

I'm torn. I've thrown my share of shade at #LLM s and the rush to shove "AI" into everything, and even what they do well, one can argue if it's worth the cost.

But I've seen some useful stuff too.

pseudonym, 4 days ago to KindActions

#mindfullness and #gratitude on a daily basis can be at odds with existential dread and fear for the future. It creates a good bit of cognitive dissonance.

pseudonym, 6 days ago to random

Aircraft museum.

Retro future that could have been.

Commuter electric VTOL aircraft

pseudonym, 6 days ago to tesla

Riding in passenger seat in the car, looking at my phone, and some nearby car (a #Tesla) tried to Bluetooth pair with me.

It nominally had the owners's name in the pairing request. That's a #privacy and #infosec problem.

I denied the request, of course, but was really tempted to accept, then play "Baby Shark" out their speakers.

pseudonym, 10 days ago to aiart

Another banger from @pluralistic . I don't know how he consistently keeps putting these out.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112435369749859354

There are too many great lines for a single pull quote. Spend the 5 minutes, read the whole thing.

This is brilliant stuff about #aiArt #copyright and the nature of meaning.

pseudonym, 18 days ago to random

@dumbpasswordrules

Try resetting your password on Southwest airlines website.

It didn't reveal the requirements, until you try to submit, then it tells you which you failed, onesy twosy.

Space not allowed at all (tell me you didn't trust your input sanitization)

Non-alpha required, but can't be the first character.

Other shenanigans

pseudonym, 19 days ago to random

Today I learned. I'm one of today's lucky ten thousand.

https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/

Origin of the term "blue tooth"

Also didn't know about the futhark runes for his initials

pseudonym, 20 days ago to infosec

From a friend's discord

#infosec #starWars

pseudonym, 21 days ago to random

Even the #LMM 's are on our side on this one. I had one create a fictional persona of an "average American" and it came up with a cisgendered midwest father of two, mildly conservative, that I could ask questions of. "He" fixes cars.

llama3-70b has internalized some of our more idealistic self-myths, of the US, and I don't think that's a bad thing.

pseudonym, 23 days ago to random

Any building civil engineer tyoes out there who could opine on this?

Structurally, could you build a human habitation house out of name-brand Legos? Do they have enough structural strength? Would it be more or less earthquake safe than, say bricks(not very) or other materials?

How many layers thick would you have to make a Lego floor to support a 100 kg human?

pseudonym, 26 days ago to dadjokes

Wife was talking to me about seeing geese with a single baby. I said "Oh the little one must be Ryan."

"Why Ryan?"

"Ryan Gosling."

"I walked into that one, didn't I?"

"Yes love, yes you did."

(And she's still married to me)
#dadJokes

pseudonym, 27 days ago to llm

Easy #LLM Turing test.

Ask your counter party to swear and say something disparaging about a famous political figure.

All the commercially viable, Internet facing ones, have guard rails for polite conversation.

Swearing will be our captcha, our human shibboleth.

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Kid is in the school talent show.

Proud papa waiting for the show to start in the audience.

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

I'd love to see #ubi in place for all Americans. Like others, I agree that taxing billionaires, companies, reducing military spending, and such would all be good sources. But to my untrained math mind, it still doesn't add up.

Order of magnitude: GDP ~20 trillion $/yr, Population 330 million.

Assume $10 /person / day. (Not enough, I know) But even that modest number would be over a trillion a year.

That's 5% of GDP to buy everyone a nice sandwich a day.

Not sure how we fund bigger goals.

pseudonym, 1 month ago to workersrights

No, interstitial pop-up, I will not be recommending your software to my friends, because: a) I'm not in the habit of chatting about SaaS products with my friends at all, but more importantly, b) you are interfering with my workflow while I'm trying to use your software for $thing and prompting me now is the worst experience you could provide.

Kthnxbai

#work #ux #nps

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Went to our local #cvs drug store last night to get some cold medicine. Store was almost empty. Only one checker. Get to cold isle and thing I wanted is locked up in the security cage. Press button, no body comes. Walk up to front, cashier can't leave front of store and manager is only one with key and "in the back doing money stuff".

Can you (cashier) get the key from manager? No, can't leave front. Does manager know I want to give you money? Yes. After 20 min, I left without purchase. #gripe

pseudonym, 1 month ago to food

I keep forgetting how good cheese sauce is when made with sodium citrate.

So smooth, so easy, so tasty.

#food #cheese

pseudonym, 1 month ago to space

At the USS Hornet naval ship museum.

It's the one that picked up the Apollo astronauts when they returned to Earth.

The sense of history is intense. It's old, but solid. A floating city.

Mind blown seeing the Airstream trailer they retro fitted to be a mobile quarantine zone for the returning astronauts.

Seeing the cramped but efficient durability of things made to last, it's the opposite of #enshittification

#space #hornet #history

That's a big boat. USS Hornet
Apollo block 1 command module

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

After all the news about Amazon grab and go being essentially Mechanical Turk, a friend on discord said:

"oh god now I'm thinking of a building full of teenagers with game controllers remotely steering 'driverless' cars through heavy traffic"

And I'm just afraid Tesla is going to totally "Ender's Game" this.

Shudder

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

I worked food service in a previous life.

For the love of dog, if parents come in with an obviously hungry child, please bring the kid's food first. Or some bread sticks, or rice, or whatever you can.

I know servers are constrained by what the kitchen can provide, but...

Speaking for all parents everywhere (I'm totally authorized to do this) we will be incredibly thankful and tip well.

Not much less fun than a hungry kid when the parents' food comes out first.

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Gentle request.

Please don't drop fake stuff for the lols for April fools.

We all have enough mental bandwidth consumed filtering out active disinformation and innocent mistakes to add to the burden. In general they aren't funny and degrade many folks online experience.

Thanks for listening.

#PSA

mo you know

pseudonym, 1 month ago to music

It is a beautiful spring day, clear blue sky, kid is playing in the park. Reminded of "Time Stand Still" by Rush.

Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away

#music

pseudonym, 1 month ago to infosec

Two of the biggest attack surfaces in #infosec are: confusing the data plane with the control plane (think buffer overflow to code execution) where attacker data is given control, and social engineering to convince an actor to do something unusual.

#LLM's elevate both of these to new heights. They are literally designed to facilitate both of these patterns.

Instructions and data to operate on are delivered together, and the instructions' phrasing can influence the processing.

It's a two-fer

pseudonym, 2 months ago to KindActions

Laying in bed, under comfy covers. The windows are open just a bit to let in a cool breeze and the sound of rain. For a brief moment, nobody needs anything from me, and there is nothing I have to do right now, but be. Had a nice dinner with the wife, kid got to do fun stuff this evening.

It's a tiny moment of joy

Soon enough I'll have to pick back up tasks and worries and plans, but not just yet.

Be kind to yourself

Recognize these moments.

#mindfulness #kindness

pseudonym, 2 months ago to infosec

Resets the sign to zero for "days since it was an expired TLS certificate"

It's DNS. It's always DNS. When it's not DNS, it's certificates. But it's always DNS.

It's 2024. How was this not automated?

#infosec