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Multiple times yesterday I caught Claude giving slightly incorrect information about things it had read in docs and source code. Its info was accurate enough to be plausible, but it was still wrong. And when I pointed that out, it agreed that it had overstated or made statements without verifying them.

It would be terrible to be doing an emergency medical procedure and have an AI backtrack on something it had told you to do.

The number the tool found was 1861. The e-mailed OTP code was 1858. What am I missing?

You have an ephemeral laptop?

This would hurt their users by making their DNS services less useful than competitors.

Same here. I saw it and didn't really care for it at first, but after using the blink feature on that site, I kinda think I like it better than Jetbrains. I may have to give it a a try. That site is really cool.

Because the S in IOT stands for Security.

IOT devices famously never get firmware updates, which means most of them will remain vulnerable to this leaked trust chain until the cert expires in 2039. That means you can forge an HTTPS server for any domain that an IOT device connects to and act as if you are the authoritative server. This means intercepting encrypted traffic and being able to decrypt it, or serving payloads to the device from a fake trusted server.

If your TV connects to whatever.lg.com, you can create a certificate for that domain using this intermediate signing cert, and pretend to be that server. That's how https://dv-g3b-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ was created.

Finally we can learn once and for all what those LG TVs are really up to.

While I totally agree, there is precedent. HP OpenView came out in 1987, which was 11 years before the term "Open Source" became a thing.

Same with USA. I was surprised at the variety of platforms supported.

Sure, but that disregards what happened to adjacent markets during the crash. The economy isn't made entirely of tech companies. The salary of those workers goes outside of the tech industry.

It's not. The Honda Super Cub is the top selling motor vehicle in the world, with 60 million produced in 2008 alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Super_Cub

I recently blocked youtube.com on my home network so that my whole family could take a break from it. It broke my work e-mail login, because gmail sends you through youtube.com in order to set login cookies.

I am not who you asked, but lately it has been really frustrating for me that macOS locks portions of the filesystem when the screen is locked, which breaks rsync backups because they cannot read those files. I have been unable to find a way around this.

That being said, the security design that creates this problem is quite impressive, and I think much more tight than most people realize is happening on stock macOS. I just wish that I could unlock my whole home directory from the CLI somehow when I do my non-time-machine backup.

The first time I held an iPhone 5, I thought it was a demo device. It was too light to actually be the real device. That was such a great phone.

Have you ever connected an iPad to an external display, mouse, and keyboard? I agree with you that laptop sales would continue, but I bet they would decline. Apple could do the MS Surface much better than MS did.

Lots of computers have external keyboards, mice, and displays. Why not a powerful computer like the iPhone? Who cares if it's small? Lots of SBCs are small and are quite useful. This one even has a built in UPS.

So true. Whether people need them or not, people will spend the money to buy them.

It's comical how close to the telescreen this whole thing is.

> The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

In the current season of LLM driven security research, this is even more important. There are a LOT of EOL devices sitting there unpatched, vulnerable to the growing number of vulnerabilities. We can either stick our heads in the sand, we can demand the ability to update the vulnerable software on the hardware we bought, or we can exploit the CVE ourselves (collectively, as a community) and introduce CFW for the vulnerable devices.

The main thing I'm taking away from this LG thing is that I'm going to root my TV as quickly as I can with whatever CFW will get rid of this surveillance capitalism atrocity attached to the wall in my family room.

Oh thank heavens, computing hardware that the AI companies will not buy all of the supply of.

That is an orthogonal problem: popularity. What you're describing happens to proprietary software too. I have a bunch of OSS software that almost nobody cares about and I don't get bothered. The difference seems pedantic, but I bet there is something useful to learn there.

Her opening set for Github Universe 2020 that used Sonic Pi is still so great. https://youtu.be/LaKT3pli5EQ

I have been playing Cyberpunk 2077, and recently I did a side-quest where you can do something that violates an agreement, and when you reveal what you learned during that violation, you can extort somebody. The dialogue option when you extort that person is "Surprise - it's money." If you choose that option, Johnny chastises you for compromising your moral code.

For some reason that phrase "Surprise - it's money" as the obvious signal of extortion really stuck with me.

I got so much networking experience from hosting lan parties with quake and q3. Crimping cables. Installing 10 mbps pci card in people's computers, running dedicated servers with mods and map cycles. Good times...

But the answer to bad science is good science.

This podcast about the history of zaibatsu, hardware, and software comes to mind. https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-forgotten-mistake-that-k...

> Software was not viewed so much as a product, but more like a service, similar to integration, training, and ongoing support and maintenance. It was usually sold on a time-and-materials basis, and sometimes it was just thrown in for free to sweeten the deal. The real money was in the hardware.

> Software development was considered rather low-skill work. It didn’t pay well and was viewed as a kind of clerical work. The job was simply to write software that was close enough to whatever sales had promised the client while they were out drinking last week.

Even with a pseudonym, I worry that spy agencies with AI will have enough information to discover with high confidence who I really am, and that things I said online thinking I was anonymous will come back to bite me in the real world. As somebody who has family overseas and sometimes travels overseas for work, I don't want to end up on a list that will make my travels terrible.

You actually can define custom functions as named templates, but they're definitely not pretty, and would almost certainly push you towards the "just allow us to write code using a normal programming language" side of the argument.

My way of giving my kids access to music without screens was to buy a battery powered mp3 playing radio, then fill an SD card with music and pop it into the player. I put a mix of kids songs, classic songs, and things I enjoy that I'd want them to also enjoy. I have some very cute videos of my daughter skipping through the songs. It was always a bit heartbreaking for her to get to one of my favorites and then skip over it, but it was also adorable to watch her stop on a song unexpectedly and sing along with it. One video in particular that is dear to me is her singing along to If I Fell by The Beatles. Also funny is she'd play All I Ask of You by Skrillex over and over.

lemmings.exe also had an immediate quit without warning on the esc key, iirc.