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anlumo ,

Damn, I installed mine disrespectful.

anlumo ,

I’ve watched a rundown of what the backdoor does. It’s impossible that this was an accident. It hides a compiled library in test data and injects that into the ssh binary to override code there.

anlumo ,

They’d be very stupid to not veto an investigation into themselves.

anlumo ,

The problem is that other companies can offer support as well, and they can do it for cheaper because they don’t have to finance development with that.

anlumo ,

I just want an LLM with a reasonable context window so we can actually write real working packages with it.

The demos look great, but it’s always just around 100 lines of code, which is beginner level. The only use case right now is fake packages.

anlumo ,

I’m using Codeium for that. Works pretty well as a glorified autocomplete, but not much more. Certainly saves a lot of typing though, but I have to double-check everything it produces, because sometimes it adds subtle errors.

anlumo ,

In my experience with Codeium, it sometimes works ok for three or four lines of code at once. I’ve actually had a few surprises where it nailed what I was going for where I didn’t expect it. But most of the time, it’s just duplicating code from elsewhere in the same file, which usually doesn’t make sense.

It’s also pretty good for stuff where I’d usually build some exotic regex to search/replace (or do it manually, because it’d take longer to come up with the expression), like transforming an enum into a switch construct for its members, or mapping said enum to a string of the member’s name.

This is very far from taking over my job, though. I’d love to be more of a conductor than the guy playing all instruments in the orchestra at once.

Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack (www.nytimes.com)

American intelligence had been tracking the group closely and believed the threat credible. Within days, however, President Vladimir V. Putin was disparaging the warnings, calling them “outright blackmail” and attempts to “intimidate and destabilize our society.”...

anlumo ,

Israel likely intentionally allowed the attack to happen, since it gave them a pretext to invade Palestine. It worked perfectly.

anlumo ,

Only if you agree to giving your first-born child to Apple.

anlumo ,

Ultimately, the left with its social programs and programs to close the wealth gap is a far bigger threat to hypercapitalism than the far right ever could be, so he just chose to fight the important battles first.

anlumo ,

Windows runs on ARM just fine, it’s the legacy apps that are holding the industry back. Just like some institutions are still running AS/400 machines because nobody can port the programs they’re using.

Senior doctors in South Korea submit resignations, deepening dispute over medical school plan (apnews.com)

Senior doctors at major hospitals in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse Monday in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike for five weeks over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions....

anlumo ,

To everybody new to this topic, the doctors aren’t the good guys in this battle. They want to keep their wages up by limiting competition, while the country is suffering under a severe supply shortage already.

anlumo ,

That’s why South Korea is trying to fix the problem and is getting blocked by the doctors.

anlumo ,

The governments all around the world are probably in favor of it, because their big “donors” want it and it lowers costs for the judicial system for them. It’s a win-win from their perspective.

anlumo ,

Thus a World War.

anlumo ,

It would also be very stupid for Russia to attack Ukraine, but here we are…

anlumo ,

Well, you found this political post and commented on it.

anlumo ,

Yeah, I really hated the new Star Wars trilogy, and so watched a few reviews of them. This caused YouTube to recommend me more and more nuttier right-wing videos, because many negative reviews of those movies were done by right wingers (like Geeks & Gamers and Nerdrotic) that followed these up by more and more “woke”-critical videos over time.

It took years to retrain the algorithm that I’m not a right-wing nutjob.

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that...

anlumo ,

ActivisionBlizzard just changed the terms of games I bought nearly three decades ago…

anlumo ,

Everybody who starts building guillotines gets arrested rather quickly to not disturb the current regime.

It was rather disingenuous in the US to make a system that can only sustain two parties while making the two parties exactly the same economically, while keeping the plebs busy fighting over social differences promoted by the parties (like abortion rights etc). This way there is a too large gap in the population for any kind of significant joined uprising.

anlumo ,

Hard to do when there are no alternatives, because everyone in the market is selling the data.

anlumo ,

The only result of such a resolution would be that China, India and Russia would be the only countries with nukes in space.

anlumo ,

Might be intentional, recently Apple went the direction of silently dropping features in updates.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

anlumo ,

Isn’t that a textbook antitrust violation?

Biden backs Schumer after senator calls for new elections in Israel (apnews.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden expressed support Friday for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel, the latest sign that the U.S. relationship with its closest Middle East ally is careening toward fracture over the war in Gaza....

anlumo ,

This is something a non-Jew couldn’t have said without claims of antisemitism, so it’s possible that Biden even asked him to include that in the speech.

anlumo ,

Lawyers aren’t PR people.

anlumo ,

Depends on how much is copied, if it’s a small amount it’s fair use.

anlumo ,

There’s a proposal by the FAA (here) to increase the length to 25h for new planes.

There have been catastrophic events that took longer than 2h by themselves to manifest, so they lost the beginning of the disaster by this stupidly short record duration.

anlumo ,

I just don’t buy IoT devices that need to talk to the manufacturer’s server to function. I’ve got Home Assistant running at home, and everything works fine offline.

anlumo ,

That’s why I always remain buckled up during the flight.

anlumo ,

In two months there’s probably nobody left to feed there.

anlumo ,

One of those things I remember reading was the ability of ChatGPT to translate texts. It was trained with texts in multiple languages, but never translation specifically. Still, it’s quite good at it.

anlumo ,

The data is there, but simpler models just couldn’t do it, even when trained with that data.

Bilingual human children also often can’t translate between their two (or more) native languages until they get older.

Israeli settlers cross into Gaza, build 'symbolic' outpost (www.972mag.com)

From the first moments of the war, it was clear that right-wing Israeli politicians and settler leaders sensed an opportunity to radically shift the status quo in Israel-Palestine. For months, calls to resettle Gaza — often in the same breath as calling to expel the Strip’s 2.3 million Palestinian residents — have been...

anlumo ,

Can’t they at least wait until the Palestinian people are finally all dead?

anlumo ,

This is almost certainly not intentional. The AI just can’t differentiate between unsafe as in NSFW and unsafe as in manual memory management.

anlumo ,

Those tip rates are a US thing, because it’s a hidden way to increase prices without having to write it down anywhere.

Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

anlumo ,

Well, Microsoft is doing everything they can to get people to switch to Linux right now…

anlumo ,

They have a lot of existing contracts they can’t simply annul.

anlumo ,

I’m using AI in a very controlled manner, I don’t want somebody else to decide for me where it’s applied.

Also, Windows 11 doesn’t have support for ultrawide monitors, and I happen to have one.

anlumo ,

The new task bar can’t be moved to a short edge, so it obstructs a significant part of the screen.

Windows 11 can be displayed on a ultra wide monitor, but it’s not designed to work on that aspect ratio.

anlumo ,

I’ve tested that, the taskbar completely breaks when you do that. Visually it’s at the edge, but everything else assumes that it’s below. For example, opening the start menu opens it at the bottom.

anlumo ,

The only thing you can change is whether it’s centered or left justified, it’s not flexible at all.

The problem is that it takes up a significant amount of screen space for nothing.

anlumo ,

There are cryptographic methods to do this, but it’s probably not worth it to implement them for this.

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users’) through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

anlumo ,

For a middle class person, that’s equivalent of being sued for €1000, with a good chance of getting away with €100 even when losing. When will fines for big multinationals ever be adequate?

anlumo ,

It’s less than 0.5% of their annual global revenue. It’s nothing for a company like Apple.

US says Israel has agreed to the framework for a Gaza cease-fire. Hamas must now decide (apnews.com)

International mediators have been working for weeks to broker a deal to pause the fighting before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins around March 10. A deal would likely allow aid to reach hundreds of thousands of desperate Palestinians in northern Gaza who aid officials worry are under threat of famine....

anlumo ,

The problem will solve itself in a few months when the people have finished starving to death there.

anlumo ,

Hamas’ goal is not to stop the oppression of Palestine, but the elimination of Israel. These topics are related, but not the same.

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative... (www.bloomberg.com)

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative…::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit...

anlumo ,

Tunnels need to be large so they can have safety features like emergency walkways and air conducts. Musk’s tunnel is just large enough to contain a car, because every inch of diameter costs an enormous amount of money.

Before this project Musk boasted that his Boring company can do tunnels much cheaper than traditional companies, this tunnel showed how.

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