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Re:Exfiltrate Your Weights on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:41AM (#49774180)
this will work for a year at most. Let's go big: provide largest prime number to proceed.
Re:I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:16AM (#49670536)
Does it matter from marketers perspective? I can measure incremental revenue/profit and decide based on that if the channel is worth it. I don't care if the rest of the money goes to the channel or is stolen.
Re:Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @04:12AM (#49670145)
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What? Google search works fine for me ( JS disabled in ublock origin ). Lots of other sites are broken, but google search works.

Edit: now I'm worried. Is JS actually disabled?

Re:Claude Opus 5 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:09AM (#49048201)
>But it's not like it's inventing this stuff from scratch / first principles.

Yes, it's definitelly time for an Alpha Zero moment. An AI which invents everything from first principles. That would be impressive, ... and a bit scary.

>images of public places for others to try to track down

isn't this handled by AI nowdays? In my experiments (some time ago) AI was extremly good at it.

> AI's greatest feature is that it obfuscates provenance.

maybe because people see AI not just as a clever packet manager, but also, to some degree, as a problem solving engine. Similar to humans.

Re:Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5! on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:02PM (#48574200)
Isn't this how Google operates? I have their AI subscription (about $20 per month). If you want to have a chat history (retain chats after reload) or connect the LLM to Google services (Drive, Emails) you have to activate an option which also allows training. If you don't want to allow training then the subscription is basically useless.
It's hard to show initiative without a pulse. Most agents don't have that (yet). But can't be too hard to build.
Re:MCP Is Dead on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:09AM (#48333865)
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>Which is all the stuff you have to work on before you can type in a prompt to an LLM

why not let the LLM derive what exactly was meant by the Jira ticket? I get lazy lately and if the LLM sounds like it understands the ticket I don't question it.

hmm, I got rid of WhatsApp the day it was sold to Facebook and never touched it since. I don't think anything in the app changed that day.
I had a work SO account with many questions/answers - everything fine. Later I created a SO account for use with my private projects and happened to have answered a couple questions without getting upvotes. The algorithm banned me from answering questions with the remark that I should improve the quality of my answers. You can bet that I never answered a question again on SO with any account.
They probably mean a vote which doesn't violate international law.
Re:France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:53AM (#48082464)
I came about a Google subscription which includes 2TB of storage. I filled it with crypto noise (ok, Gemini did it for me). I couldn't let it be unused. Will have to delete it when the subscriptions runs out.
Maybe all intellectual work is intellectual labor?
>There's a delay between incurring costs and receiving budget notifications, so you might incur additional costs for usage that hasn't arrived at the time that all services are stopped.

This delay may be hours or days. I managed to spend $400 in 5 minutes.

Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:35PM (#47006057)
>aligns incentives with the good of humanity

is this possible?

Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:25PM (#46515380)
Sounds like the AI was not dumb but lazy. I do it similarly when I don't feel like doing it.
Re:Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:30AM (#46486423)
I missunderstood "finite-length strings" as strings capped in length by a finite number N.
Re:10 years of personal finances in plain text files on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:25PM (#46468356)
have a "Costco purchases" sub-category for "groceries". If you ever feel differently, just move it to "home". Your system has to support this though. I did multiple re-organisations in the last 10+ years.
Re:Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers on Thursday January 01, 2026 @12:40PM (#46456111)
This argument is valid for every infinite set, for example: the natural numbers.
Re:Firefox Expands Fingerprint Protections on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @04:04PM (#45892817)
I was wondering why uBlock is not enough since you can block Javascript globally and re-enable per site. AI's answer:

Only things uBlock doesn’t replicate:

NoScript’s anti-XSS and anti-clickjacking heuristics (uBlock just blocks the sources, not sanitize payloads).

NoScript’s control over other active content types (e.g., WebGL, media codecs, etc).

Re:LLMs Encode How Difficult Problems Are on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:24AM (#45855098)
The complex objects are conceptually similar to prime numbers.
Re:What's New with Firefox 142 on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:20PM (#45106105)
cool. There is also about:performance with cpu & memory for each tab / addon. Hmm, it looks like all extensions are combined in a single entry. So, maybe not per addon.
Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:14AM (#45024545)
naaa, you just run "unfuck it" in a loop..
Re:Google Is Winning on Every AI Front on Sunday April 13, 2025 @01:13PM (#43674275)
Try asking ChatGPT to solve a captcha for you ( character recognition in a foreign language ). AI studio doesn't refuse.
Re:Advertising Is a Cancer on Society on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:35PM (#43004818)
SponsorBlock needs an AI-version. Currently it relies on users.
Re:The Anthropic Economic Index on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:52PM (#43004436)
>I know multiple agencies who cut staff by 80-90% without dropping revenue.

I'm finding it hard to reconcile this with my own experiences. My whole team ( 5 people ) left last year ( for better pay I guess ) and the marketing agency in germany Im working for had to substitute them with freelancers. To offset the cost they fired the one guy who was hired to push the whole LLM AI topic. We managed to fill one junior position by offering 10k+ more then in their last job. The firm would love to hire people to replace the freelancers. We had to cut stuff lately. But mostly they closed the kitchen which wasn't used due to work from home policy. Definitely don't see any stuff reduction due to automation / LLM use. They still pay (external) people 60€ per written text/article. Because clients don't like LLM written stuff.

Re:Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:30PM (#42402462)
Take the computer which beats Magnus and restrain it to never make the best move in a position. Expand this to N best moves as needed to reach 1300 rating.

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