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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
If that's true then it's a piece of shit that should die along with the crappy little company that pushed it. If it's a tool to self-install then that's amazing and it should be praised. Consent and user control is liter
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Fully opt-in, fully client side. Just offers a warning. People's problems holding boundaries aginst technofascism notwithstanding, this is a good and useful tool right?
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Flagging can be useful, although I wish that there were more details about why posts get flagged and dead (though of course people could be dishonest about that). Those that are flagged for _legitimate_ reasons, because they're links t
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
We haven't had anything like a "classical" economy since the second world war. It's not "dystopian" it's just a tragic waste of human and natural resources. """ Forget the idea that &quo
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
What came up in this interview [0] was that 1) Because of "AI" we're moving more to API-like model in which the end user gets more say how they want to consume content. 2) That is in tension with (ahem) intention. We can&#x27
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I thought "Attention Is All You Need"
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Hype maybe, but roads seem clear ahead for a step change revolution in storage, and I personally think that's much more exciting than "AI". I mean, what if you really can put the Internet and more onto a crystal micro SD card
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Technopoly: Cybershow S05E04(cybershow.uk)
2 points by nonrandomstring 2y ago|1 comments
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
What are the implications for national cybersecurity of hostile mega tech monopolies? Did Neil Postman predict Musk's ploy?
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
There was this one that ran on networked SGI Indigos, tiling an X Display for screensaver on each workstation so the whole lab came alive as this insane petri-dish of things flying around the room.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Ah the slippery "last refuge of scoundrels", that we all believe we naturally posses. Once I was dissecting this unpopular piece of "duty guidance" [0], a stinking heap of twitching net curtains to obscure the beaten bod
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
oops, I see. And who knows they may be. For defence against enemies with bots we better have skills building bots. I'm not really commenting on the morality of Google so much as the cheapness with which conscience and voice gets bought
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
There needs to be a hall of fame for some Google employees. In any company there's always some unfortunate person whose job it is to defend the indefensible, to lie for the team and throw their dignity into the mud. It takes a particul
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Literally. Social engineering 101. Grab a clipboard, put on a hi-viz, speak in an authoritive, directive voice and people will absolutely do what you ask at the sound of the word "security". Social engineering defence 101: teach s
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> the product of an isolated mind That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
The twilight zone between control and chaos. I think pinball machines and analogue modular synthesisers share a lot in common. Including constant maintenance and skills with a soldering iron.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
"Work" is a heavily overloaded word that cleaves meaning in a very unhelpful way. I've met great artists and scientists who tell me about "their life's work". Things they did, or would have done, even without m
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I think the gulf of America is in Washington right now.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> It’s the dumbest PoW imaginable, but it works Nice one! I guess you mainly need to get above a certain novelty threshold, because all ML is based on what has already been seen/learned rather than actually outsmarting the defence.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I had a great conversation about this last week. I'll just casually leave this [0] here for anyone who has time (50 mins - ausio only) for a deep-dive into machine learning to protect sites (APIs). TLDR - a lot of serious defenders hav
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
You can get people to do almost anything if you lie to them that it's for "security".
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Well done. This is a very useful security previewing tool. PDFs are a menace.
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Botslayer: API Defence with Behavioural AI(cybershow.uk)
1 points by nonrandomstring 2y ago|1 comments
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Fighting a new generation of network bots attacking APIs using intelligent behavioural monitoring.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> correlates with age Definitely a "citation needed" moment I think. Friday, I was with a lot of 12 year olds all firmly of the opinion that it's a "way to get intelligence/information" but it's not ac
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Sorry, "inappropriate" might have been inappropriate :) What am I trying to say here?....that we're soon gonna find ourselves in an insoluble and exhausting debate around machine thinking and its value.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> I used the same trick as the magician, which is no trick at all: I did the work. When you explain to kids that hacking is not like in the movies, that it doesn't take 10 seconds of typing very quickly, but that you snuck into the
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> implies an intent to deceive Not necessarily, see H.G Frankfurt "On Bullshit"
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> cynical () positions on some controversial questions. I feel "cynical" is an inappropriate word here. We may have to, for the same (ecumenical) reasons that thinkers like Churchland, Hofstadter, Dennet, Penrose and company h
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
We do that, and have been doing it since 2013. I organised a schools outreach visit just last Friday for 12-14 yo. It's called "digital self defence". We even have public money from our NCSC (UK whitehat intelligence outreach

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