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Riskable

@ riskable @programming.dev

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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

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    Over 100,000 illegal cockroaches confiscated in Australia bug bust

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  • The suspects were audibly upset that their underground cartel has finally come to light.

  • This cat has recently started visiting me

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  • Careful: Random cats make love when they find cozy, secret places. This could be an ominous sign of things to come.

  • Study finds GPT and Grok more likely to favour sponsored answers over users’ best interests

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  • This is why open source AI is necessary!

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  • Oh right! I completely forgot.

    It's happening to the guy in front 👍

  • I keep tripping over “true, false, true”

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  • If your language requires an IDE to show you WTF is going on in the code, it's a bad language.

    Given, there's ways to write poor code in any language, but some are much, much worse than others. Java and JavaScript being the kings of that kind of thing.

    Some day, AI assisted coding will become so intelligent that it will look at your average "enterprise" Java code and ask the user, "WTF were they even trying to do here?" Which is the only correct response a lot of the time.

  • I keep tripping over “true, false, true”

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  • Thank you for posting this comment. I came here to write the exact same thing and now I don't have to!

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  • Guy in the back is going to get his kneecaps kicked out.

  • The Great AI Misdirection: "Regulation Can't Keep Up"

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  • There is a story people tell about AI regulation, and it goes like this: the technology is moving too fast, governments can't keep up, regulators are overwhelmed, and by the time anyone writes a law the thing they're trying to regulate has already evolved into something else entirely.

    No. That's not the story people are telling about AI regulation. It goes like this:

    If we regulate AI, that will give an advantage to AI companies in other countries. They will surpass our AI capabilities and leave us in the technological dust.

    There's a related story:

    If we regulate AI, we're likely to create more problems because Boomers don't understand technology.

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  • Roku and TCL are being sued for allegedly bricking smart TVs with bad updates

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  • Everyone wants to access Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, etc through their TV interface and I just don't get it. The best experience is when you hook up a PC to your TV... not some TV-centric Android OS or Roku's thing.

    Install Kubuntu on some old PC with a GPU that can handle 4K @60Hz and you're good to go. KDE and Firefox let you crank up the zoom so everything's easy to read and it even has HDR support (though I prefer going without it... Old person eyes).

    It's such a vastly superior experience. Not only do you get the usual stuff, you can use a real keyboard to type into that search bar. You can also access all those pirate streaming sites and do normal PC stuff like play games.

  • 'He’s got to pay': Chaos as Republican caught pantless in town hall refuses to resign

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  • Inappropriate for sure, but impactful?

    I mean, was he cheating on his wife or something? Is he known for episodes like this that weren't caught on camera?

    If it's just a one-time thing... It's funny but really, who cares? I mean, this is really on-brand for a Republican to pull shit like this but there's definitely situations where I'd rather leave a public building wearing nothing but underwear rather than keep those pants on.

    Example: If the toilet overflowed with sewer shit while I had them down. I'd leave the pants, socks, and shoes behind!

    Especially if I was drunk off my ass!

    (I don't actually drink... Just sayin 😁)

  • A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

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  • Old news, but prescient since the Trump administration is blustering about criminalizing journalism.

  • Meta staff protest surveillance software on work PCs

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  • Zuck is having all his keystrokes recorded too, right? Right?

    Make sure the AI engineers get that data. Especially the passwords to his and the company's bank accounts. All his accounts, actually.

    There's a reason why most businesses don't implement keystroke logging.

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • The reason why you hear this so often is because academia is designed to teach students based on a logical, reasonable curriculum. The curriculum will be mostly well-thought-out and cover all the important topics.

    Then you take someone who followed this perfectly reasonable path and you place them in front of the total shitshow that is most businesses. Everything they think they know won't be applicable because most of the time, logic and reason were not what drove adoption of any given tool or practice.

  • FBI Director Kash Patel Sues the Atlantic Claiming False Reporting About Drinking, Absences

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  • ...and when he shows up in court, drunk.

  • Cal.com goes closed source “because of security”

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  • So... In no time at all, they're going to be breached. Proving them wrong.

    Will they go back to open source after that? No. Of course not. Because it was never about security to begin with. AI is just an excuse.

    It's like saying, "anyone can scan the source for vulnerabilities! It's so easy. Too easy! That's why we're not going to justdo that ourselves and instead bury our heads in the sand and pretend the availability of source code was the problem."

  • Judging by your own behavior what is your nature?

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  • I'm the protagonist of a show that got cancelled once I could dress myself.

  • Judging by your own behavior what is your nature?

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  • Don't be so hard on yourself! I'm sure you're just one catastrophic heart failure away from greatness 👍

  • RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

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  • I've been researching this a bit... I've come to the conclusion that there is no AI bubble. In fact, we're only just getting started down this road. Unless there's some massive 100x efficiency breakthrough in training AI and inference, the entire world is going to be building seemingly endless AI data centers (and the normal compute kind, e.g. for stuff like AWS, Google/YouTube, Meta, banks) for at least a decade. Probably a little longer (12-15 years before demand levels out).

    Everyone thinks that "AI data center" means ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc but there's 10,000x more demand for AI than those services. Think: Pharmaceutical companies trying to find proteins, scientists (and big agriculture!) trying to model the weather, and other businesses trying to automate stuff. Not just software; robots and things like conveyor belts.

    Another example: Ever use one of those self-checkouts that's mostly just a camera pointing down, where you place the stuff you're purchasing? That uses AI too.

    Having said that, there is a great big bubble in AI: OpenAI, specifically. That will definitely pop one day. And hopefully, the DRAM bullshit will go along with it.