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by loumf 7d ago
Contemporaneous notes are absolutely used in courts. That doesn't make these summaries illegal, but I can't see how they won't become evidence. They will be subject to discovery. The main argument against them being good evid
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by loumf 7d ago
There are legal prohibitions against one-sided recording in some states (for example, mine). Am I liable if my watch starts doing this? Or is Apple if it does this by default without even my consent? I have no idea if the law cares about th
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by loumf 2mo ago
You'd have to compromise wikipedia in some way to get invisible text on its pages. The one that was shown to work[1] was a niche answer to a specific question that programmers might ask. That site was controllable by the attackers in a
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by loumf 2mo ago
Suddenly it’s “copyright infringement” to put dots of ink on white paper.
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by loumf 2mo ago
I am unaware of any statute or constitutional provision that confers rights to AI.
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by loumf 2mo ago
Even if so, in older disputes (see Betamax/VHS), the possibility of verbatim reproduction didn’t stop the technology from being allowed because there were other non-reproduction benefits (time shifting). Also, the restriction isn’t on
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by loumf 2mo ago
Even after they decide, it is ok for people to disagree and work to overturn those decisions. You could just be a person that _wants_ a different reality. We have political mechanisms to do that. I am not personally affected because I don’t
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by loumf 2mo ago
The instructions will have to get more and more sophisticated to work, but the general problem is unsolvable, I think, in the way we do it now. This paper describes a two-agent “solution” that is more like what I think we need: https:&#x2F
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by loumf 2mo ago
You are saying exactly what I said, but making it seem like you don’t agree with me.
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by loumf 2mo ago
Part of reading a document is that in the middle of it, it may ask the reader to do something. That is true for humans too. Sometimes they might not realize that the instructions are malicious or are coerced to comply. A simple example: Let
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by loumf 2mo ago
The intellectual property law that governs ACM articles is copyright law, not patents. I don’t know who controls these (the ACM or the authors) or what rights might have been granted to the public. The entire point of copyright law is so th
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by loumf 2mo ago
I don't know if his final analysis is right or wrong, but if he believes this, he's completely clueless (about this aspect at least). Edit: to be clear, I am talking about Ed’s contention that AI coding isn’t net productive.
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by loumf 2mo ago
I think it’s apps that don’t implement the JPEG orientation tag correctly.
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by loumf 2mo ago
Also cash? Scammers will (and do) send a mule to your house to pick up boxes of cash.
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by loumf 2mo ago
I’m sure the source is LinkedIn ultimately. They reference my job and things from there and pretend to have carefully considered my posts (just LLM generated BS)
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by loumf 2mo ago
I am saying that 70 emails would be 70 seconds of time, so not a big deal. I can usually tell from the sender that it won’t be real and it takes just a couple of words to prove that. The good thing is that they tend to get to the point quic
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by loumf 2mo ago
I get about 10 AI generated spam emails a day that get through my spam filter. It takes about 10 seconds to block and mark as spam. I barely read the first three words of each.
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by loumf 2mo ago
It’s been known for decades that you should never put your current directory in your PATH. There are endless opportunities for vulnerabilities then. I learned this in college in the 80’s (by not following it and getting owned).
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by loumf 3mo ago
For me, it feels like a prompt injection based security nightmare. Literally every file on my mac and every site I browse is potential malware. Edit to add: every email and text message as well.
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by loumf 4mo ago
Wins for "devices owned", but not necessarily for customers, which depends on the product/service. The OP has said they have fallback to SMS/RCS.
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by loumf 5mo ago
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
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by loumf 6mo ago
The threat is that you depend on this library or use the VS Code Extension.
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by loumf 7mo ago
This is great. Now we won’t have to fix y2K36 bugs.
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by loumf 8mo ago
https://loufranco.com
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by loumf 9mo ago
I recently switched to Linux for all development. I still use my Mac for everything else. The main reason was to protect my personal data from possible supply chain issues or LLM agent mishaps. I’m 99% in VSCode, a browser, and a terminal.
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by loumf 9mo ago
I have recently gone all in on Python. Before I decided this, I was using Python for projects where I needed Pandas or numpy. I used React/TypeScript/Node for web applications. But, I moved to Django/HTMX. The main reason is
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by loumf 10mo ago
When you do regular updates, they are quick. But also, you can timebox it and then back out and plan a harder than expected update. Also, it keeps you in touch with your deps so you can consider if it’s even worth it. My favorite update was
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by loumf 10mo ago
I think of it a different way. The consumer market (if Microsoft doesn’t value it) is holding them back from paying tech debt. The fear of regressions is a good reason to not touch stuff. If you do value a market and ignore this, the conseq
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My "Show HN" Follow-Up for "Swimming in Tech Debt"(loufranco.com)
1 points by loumf 1y ago|1 comments
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by loumf 1y ago
Wanted to share some stats and thoughts about Show HN's impact on my book.

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