yaelwrites

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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
I'm a pretty late adopter and nost of my LLM use has been 1) vibe red teaming (having Codex RE the data flow of various extensions, comparing the attestation with the ToS, seeing if I think it's a potential FTC violation) which is
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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
Oh, no problem! But now I am thinking I may need to rethink using AI for light editing. I've gotten in the habit of that because I don't have a human editor for my blog, and I like getting that extra polish sometimes, but it'
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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
Heh, no problem. I will say the rule of three is something I've been taught over and over again... in speaking training, in a class I took on fundraising, and most recently in a book I read. (See, I just did it again!) Book was by Mehd
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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
There are a lot of parallels between "just ask an LLM" in response to a thoughtful, well-researched question and spurious accusations of heavy LLM use that never happened in response to a post, so that's actually a pretty ast
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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
And yet, here we are. :)
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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
Good post. I'm trying to decide if this is better or worse than people sending their AI Q&A without anybody asking (as Cory Doctorow wrote about here https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-03-02... )
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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
Wrong, those were all me. (I just checked the draft.) The only part I tweaked was the conclusion, plus I broke up a few paragraphs that were too long. I often leave out details and specifics or make things purposely vague because I am writi
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by yaelwrites 2mo ago
I wrote this by hand but I did run it through an AI for editing. The changes were pretty minor; just a couple of lines.
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Google Workspace's Security Warning Was Just a Sales Pitch(blog.yaelwrites.com)
2 points by yaelwrites 5mo ago|0 comments
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Can People Tell When You’ve Blocked Them on Texting or Messaging Apps?(consumerreports.org)
3 points by yaelwrites 5y ago|0 comments
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Why is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by yaelwrites 7y ago|0 comments
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Safe Harbor, or Thrown to the Sharks by Voatz?(magazine.cointelegraph.com)
2 points by yaelwrites 7y ago|0 comments
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German police raid homes of Tor-linked group's board members(zdnet.com)
7 points by yaelwrites 8y ago|0 comments
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by yaelwrites 10y ago
Yeah, that's why I described it as an examples of a bad design choice that may be accidental rather than a dark pattern. I do still think it's misleading, though.
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by yaelwrites 10y ago
See http://darkpatterns.org/british-airways-distract-from-cheape... .
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by yaelwrites 10y ago
1. It's too bad that Switzerland has a mutual legal assistance treaty relationship with the United States which requires it to hand over any information legally available to their local authorities to the requesting government.
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by yaelwrites 10y ago
Here's a deep dive into ProtonMail's claims on Wired (disclosure: I wrote it) www.wired.com/2015/10/mr-robot-uses-protonmail-still-isnt-fully-secure/
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Awkward How One Woman's Tinder Dates Popped Up as Prof. Suggestions on LinkedIn(forbes.com)
1 points by yaelwrites 11y ago|0 comments
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Ruling May Stop Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches at US Borders(wired.com)
1 points by yaelwrites 11y ago|0 comments
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Whisper Says It Doesn't Track Your Exact Location–But It Still Could(readwrite.com)
2 points by yaelwrites 12y ago|0 comments
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Meet Canary Watch, a Way to Disclose Gag Orders Without Disclosing Them(readwrite.com)
1 points by yaelwrites 12y ago|0 comments
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by yaelwrites 12y ago
I use Thunderbird with Enigmail, but for some reason it wants to load up thousands of archived emails and crashes my computer. It is annoying as fuck. While I really enjoy reading and sending encrypted emails, and think it's far better
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Empathy can change the world: an open letter to the tech community(medium.com)
3 points by yaelwrites 12y ago|0 comments
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by yaelwrites 12y ago
I got accepted in NYC, had to turn it down because I'd already decided to go to a conference (ironically also in NYC) since I'd assumed I'd be rejected, emailed my cancellation and was told this wouldn't DQ me for SF, an
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by yaelwrites 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
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by yaelwrites 12y ago
Glad to see this being discussed. Relevant: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychologi...
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Why Basecamp just launched an online magazine that shuns technology(contently.com)
1 points by yaelwrites 12y ago|0 comments
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by yaelwrites 12y ago
I'm so psyched to see this. It's incredibly heartening to see YC set a great example because of their visibility and the amount of respect we all have for them in the tech/startup community. As someone who's unsuccessful
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by yaelwrites 12y ago
I just have to say how nice it is to read a discussion about this topic that's productive and supportive. I guess the new H/N algorithm that I whined about is actually working. :)
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by yaelwrites 12y ago
Great, once I get 991 more karma points I'll be welcome into the conversation.

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