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by slacktivism123 5mo ago
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c89... "5.10 External assessment from a clinical psychiatrist" is a new section in this system card. Why are Anthropic like this? >We remain deeply uncer
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by slacktivism123 10mo ago
>Would this be grounds to report zigbook to GitHub maybe? 100%. https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safe...
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by slacktivism123 10mo ago
If we use the strict definition of organic results in SERP, these aren't the result of webpage indexation, they're the output of widgets and other natural language parsing in Kagi. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/s
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by slacktivism123 11mo ago
Thank you. Halloy is a wonderfully configurable replacement for beloved Mac IRC client Textual, whose development has sadly wound down (now officially, as of last month). I hope it continues to grow in popularity while keeping performance a
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by slacktivism123 11mo ago
>Just not the GPT-5 series! My experiments so far put Gemini 2.5 at the top of the pack, to the point where I'd almost trust it for some tasks Got it. The non-experts are holding it wrong! The laymen are told "just use the app&
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by slacktivism123 11mo ago
>Strange I would get so many downvotes for this. Care to explain? The terminally online developer cares very much about signaling his love of artisanal webshit. He makes his chosen flavor of the month JavaScript framework, and by extensi
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>dumb ahh prompt detection algorithm Don't worry, you can write "dumb ass" here without needing to use algospeak. This isn't Instagram or TikTok and you won't be unpersoned by a "trust and safety" team
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>Hanlon's Razor Sorry, but drive-by philosophy is not applicable here. YouTube developers single out adblocker users and taunt them with an "Experiencing interruptions" toast prompt that locks the video stream for ~5 secon
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
The decompilation might be interesting but the prose is full of sheen and puffery. It's like someone took a technical report from a bug tracker and ran a linguistic obfuscator on it.
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
Tracking-free link: https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1nifp6c/they... PSA: Much like YouTube's "si" parameter which tracks your individual share of a video, the /s/
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>thinking that they are somehow helping >Our worst nightmares are becoming true indeed Agree completely with you, but most of the time this isn't people being altruistic. It's people spraying bullshit at maintainers to try a
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
Fascinating case showing how LLM promoters will happily take "verified" benchmarks at their word. It's easy to publish "$NEWMODEL received an X% bump in SWE-Bench Verified!!!!". Proper research means interrogating t
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
One level up => https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/roadmap-... : >Package Validation discusses using Internal Consistency Evaluators (ICEs) to test the internal consistency of insta
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>Importantly, we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors, and the issues mentioned above stem from unrelated bugs. Sure. I give it a few hours until the prolific promoters start to parrot this apo
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
What offends me is a "security scanner" for "ground truth" using fake checksums to verify integrity of its dependencies ;-) https://github.com/TheAuditorTool/Auditor/commit/f77173a5517...
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
Describing the commercial offerings as "weird and unintuitive" is a weak criticism palatable to corporate comms teams. It suggests a fault in the user ("you're holding it wrong") rather than deficiencies inherent to
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
Sounds like HackerOne Managed Triage Services dropped the ball again and closed both reports without even flagging to Cloudflare's security engineers. This happened in a high-profile way with the Zendesk situation ( https://n
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
The linked page explains: Magic Lantern is a free software add-on that runs from the SD/CF card and adds a host of new features to Canon EOS cameras that weren't included from the factory by Canon. I also found this conci
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>Notable because often when people complain of degraded model quality it turns out to be unfounded - Anthropic in the past have emphasized that they don't change the model weights after releasing them without changing the version nu
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I got people to pay me $50K in 3 days with NFTs (2021)(paulstamatiou.com)
10 points by slacktivism123 1y ago|10 comments
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Sensitive AlgoVPN privacy, logging, Ansible changes now authored by Claude(github.com)
5 points by slacktivism123 1y ago|1 comments
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
Of course it does. Do you really think you have full control over API output? Do you really think "the system prompt you can specify in an API call" is the system prompt and not the developer instructions prompt?
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
No secret. Just vibes. Since you know the tells of LLM generated text, you'll know that this is a classic: No X. Just Y. Proxyman -- pick your poison. And if you're from PureGym reading this—let's talk.
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'It's bad for the health of the internet to publish large volumes of AI content'(lobste.rs)
3 points by slacktivism123 1y ago|0 comments
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>What exactly leads you to make this sort of claim? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29651993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42365295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=440385
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
What's with the mock-security-advisory with logo for the 'vulnerability' (Heartbleed, anyone?) Why is the important safety advice buried in a bunch of interpersonal drama and administrivia?
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need to pause the Grants Program and would instead be granting even MORE awards to our inspiring community. >The AI sector, for example, relies heavily on Python and is mostly untapped for the PSF, PyCo
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
>That's like asking why is an SDK phrased as a special kit It's Software Developer Kit, not Special Developer Kit ;-)
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
This guide ignores many sane defaults in favor of a patchwork of cargo cult scripts and outdated packages, added over time by random people with no thought for threat modeling, that may even result in an increased attack surface. See this c
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by slacktivism123 1y ago
> As long as the conclusions are sound, why is it relevant whether AI helped with the writing of the report? TL;DR: Because of the bullshit asymmetry principle. Maybe the conclusions below are sound, have a read and try to wade through ;

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