News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

jjbinx007

Re:A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:37PM (#50318190)
There's a little box on there that says "No AI" which is pretty much meaningless. It implies it was written without AI but maybe it just means the product doesn't ship with an LLM?

Either way, it's a no from me.

Thanks for the disclosure. The product looks good, it's just a pity the LLM generated prose is so weird.
How much AI went into this? All the text on your site and the Readme on Github look incredibly LLM generated.
Re:How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:15AM (#50219806)
The page looked LLM made so I bothered to read I looked at the headings. Every one looked like nonsensical slop.

If they can't be bothered to write, I can't be bothered to read.

We just used Hyper-V
Not DOS but we recently had to virtualise a Windows XP box as it was running crucial software for a visitor attraction. The software was written by a member of staff who sadly passed away and the PC it was running on was approximately 20 years old.

We managed to virtualise it and then run it in a VM, and it needed a couple of USB-to-serial adapters passing through as well.

We're also finding some kiosks are running Shockwave Flash apps provided by companies that are no longer trading. We can decompile the files to extract the assets but at some point it's easier to just replace completely.

Border agents in America can search your phone or laptop without a warrant or sufficient suspicion at the border.

Jeff Gray is a man who regularly gets arrested and/or trespassed from public places for holding up a sign saying "God bless the homeless vets". Seems to happen nearly every time he does it at various locations.

Oh, and flock cameras and ICE aren't exactly a sign that America is this beacon of freedom that it likes to portray.

Also consider the fact that if someone else makes accounts in your name (whether maliciously or simply because they share the same name) I imagine this could be used against you.
If anyone hasn't seen it yet there is an excellent short movie online called "I'm not a Robot".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrLQXR7mKU

Well worth a watch.

"Wiping is obviously extremely suspicious and asking for trouble"

It's sad this is the default view. It's his device, his data, his life on that phone. If he had wiped the phone before the interrogation it wouldn't be a problem. How long before? A second before? A week before? But wiping the data a minute later is suddenly asking for trouble.

It's my understanding that those websites are in violation of the gdpr for doing so.
Re:Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:28AM (#48381390)
Same here. What worries me most is what if Google just decide for whatever reason to close my email account down. I've already had several Youtube accounts closed for (in my opinion) spurious reasons. The appeals process is a joke. I can live without Youtube, but I can't easily get myself out of the gmail hole I've dug over the last 2 decades.
Re:How fast is N tokens per second really? on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:37AM (#48220965)
That's really impressive from a speed point of view but it hallucinates like it's on drugs.

I'd much rather trade speed for accuracy.

Re:Using the internet like it's 1999 on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:46AM (#47886500)
I always find it strange when people refer to twitter and YouTube etc as apps rather than websites.
Re:DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @03:15AM (#47762304)
Although MacOS users get this on the free version if they are using M-series chips
Re:DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @03:13AM (#47762288)
I have a Lumix camera which doesn't have support for Raw files but apparently you can just use the free Adobe DNG converter and it works well. It should work for your Fuji Raws too.
Re:London's most controversial cyclist on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:49PM (#46966686)
You're comparing someone reporting a person using a mobile phone while driving to the atrocities committed by Nazis?
Re:London's most controversial cyclist on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:43PM (#46965703)
You ought to petition the government to change the law then, not the guy reporting people breaking the law.
It's already got to the point that if I see an interesting video showing a cute animal doing something or a natural disaster my first thought is "Is this AI?"
You can also use pig's latin for the next level.
If by level 2 you mean the name of the village, I asked it to write a poem using the letters of each sentence starting with the name of the village
I'm probably very bad at this but I just hit this message:

"RATE_LIMIT:Hourly limit reached. Max 20 attempts per level per hour"

A bit frustrating to be honest.

Re:What an unprocessed photo looks like on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:44PM (#46416493)
Equally bad is the massive over sharpening applied to CCTV and dash cams. I tried to buy a dash cam a year ago that didn't have over sharpened images but it proved impossible.

Reading reg plates would be a lot easier if I could sharpen the image myself rather than try to battle with the "turn it up to 11" approach by manufacturers.

I've got lots to hide.

Doesn't mean you or anyone else has a right to know what it is and it doesn't mean I'm doing anything wrong either. We should all admit that we have lots we want to hide from other people and that's just fine and normal.

Older »