silver_sun

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by silver_sun 13d ago
It's simulating the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by silver_sun 13d ago
GPT-8 Novo
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by silver_sun 17d ago
Flatpak uses Portals to let the user grant access to different files/directories, apparently they don't have access by default: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html I was also unab
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by silver_sun 17d ago
I think that depends on your point of view. I wouldn't run a program on my computer unless I were sure that it's not malicious. And if you mean that some program I already trust could be exploited, that's true even for the
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by silver_sun 17d ago
But if an attacker can put arbitrary code into your .bashrc, you are already executing arbitrary malicious code.
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by silver_sun 17d ago
If you're running a malicious user process with write (or read) access to your files, you are arguably already compromised.
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by silver_sun 21d ago
Revolution Medicines has an Expanded access program: https://www.revmed.com/expanded-access-policy/ I would suggest you have your physician submit a Expanded access request immediately, because the same page says that
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by silver_sun 23d ago
Some problems with this particular system: If the TPM signs the original image taken by the camera, then even the slightest image processing on another device would invalidate the signature. Routine changes like cropping, scaling, convertin
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by silver_sun 24d ago
There's some common-sense understanding of this situation that I'm not sure you're wilfully overlooking or oblivious to. The claim is that it's unjust to blatantly exploit a system that was intended to fund/sustain
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by silver_sun 24d ago
I totally agree with you, and didn't mean to endorse that.
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by silver_sun 24d ago
I'm not a lawyer. But I think if your "binary patch" is a series of instructions to write specific code to specific locations in a binary file, and the patch itself doesn't include any of the code present in the original
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by silver_sun 24d ago
I'm curious whether OP could have achieved the same result without rooting the tablet, by running the following command in ADB shell, to remove the unwanted package: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.device.software.ota The on
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by silver_sun 27d ago
The difference here is that the scientific papers he downloaded weren't freely available to the public, like those scraped webpages would be. Corporate scrapers have been sued[0] in the past for scraping pages from behind a login page
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by silver_sun 27d ago
>The public might donate food to the poor. That doesn't give them the right to go into their house and rummage through their fridge. I think a better analogy for this situation is: The public donates food, then the recipient, after
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by silver_sun 1mo ago
Why would you want to create things for people to use if you regard them as "useless"? This attitude is so alien and repulsive to me.
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by silver_sun 1mo ago
Are you thinking of TDCommons? https://www.tdcommons.org/
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by silver_sun 2mo ago
It's not even predictable like dynamite. Sometimes it can blast through a mountain, impressively, the problem is you can't predict which mountain it works on. And other times it can't even make a dent in a molehill, which is
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by silver_sun 2mo ago
Looks like that was published in 1998, but that's also the year they submitted their patent application for PageRank. So you couldn't use it because they didn't want to risk losing their budding search business to, say, Micro
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by silver_sun 2mo ago
As long as LLMs need their users to "engineer" prompts for them to actually work well, clearly LLM-driven development is not exactly equivalent to back-and-forth conversation with a human programmer. In principle if what you say w
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by silver_sun 2mo ago
I think this comparison is interesting because it shows the difference between theory & practice, but it's a little inaccurate. The halting problem being undecidable just implies there is no single universal algorithm that can tell
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by silver_sun 2mo ago
Not infinite memory, a Turing machine only requires "unbounded" memory, which is a way of saying that it will not run out of memory while running its program with the given input. In other words it just needs to have enough memory
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
I'll give you that, enforcement of the rules can sometimes fail. But scamming & malware is a global industry, definitely not limited to state-funded actors in those two countries (which is what I think you're referring to).
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
I don't think it does because of the workaround I mentioned upthread.
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
Isn't app data, photos etc. usually synced with the Google account? Besides, Google claims that the scammers are using social engineering to create a feeling of panic and urgency, so I think the victim would be willing to reset and log
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
Users don't have to wait 24 hours because Google Play store already has registered developers. Scammers can be held liable when Google knows who the developer of the malicious app is.
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
> Allow a toggle with no waiting period during initial device setup I like this idea in principle but I think it could become a workaround that the same malicious entities would be willing to exploit, by just coercing their victims to &q
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
Well maybe nothing ultimately changes. Maybe we end up in a world where Android users have to wait 24 hours to change a setting so that their devices will install any apps they want, from then on with no further delays. But this seems to me
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
I don't think it's fair to extend the analogy to what amounts to censorship of websites since that's not the system they're proposing. Also isn't the owner of a website already identifying themselves when they regis
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by silver_sun 6mo ago
It's a little inconvenient for someone setting up a new phone to have to wait a full day to install unregistered apps. But while I can't speak for others, it's a price I'm personally willing to pay to make the types of s

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