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misk OP , 2 months ago

You’re right, fixed that headline now.

misk , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

They paid someone with incentive not to find anything, to investigate what LTT decided to share. Yeah, no, I’m not resubscribing. But I guess consultants recommended more trainings so at least there’s some competition for the least surprising outcome.

misk , 2 months ago

I think you’re forgetting initial responses from LMG to this whole fiasco. They didn’t appear to be acting in good faith then and now I’m setting a bar for trust higher than I would otherwise.

misk , 2 months ago

The outcome of the investigation is a statement by a third party which can’t present proof so ultimately this is still about trust.

misk OP , 2 months ago

They’re probably doing this to catch up with Apple though :)

misk OP , 2 months ago

We’re using it for streaming services, anything with loyalty plans, insurance, catering plan, routers and other common utility non-personal stuff.

misk OP , 2 months ago

Who do you trust with your passwords?

misk OP , 2 months ago

I would understand self hosting but those are for-profit entities as well. They might be subject to less regulatory oversight because they’re smaller. They might not have as many resources to keep my data safe. They have benefits for sure but trust is not this easy to judge.

misk OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I don’t trust them in general but I’m certain Google doesn’t use my passwords for advertising.

misk OP , 2 months ago

So far big guys didn’t leak passwords but 1password and LastPass did.

misk OP , 2 months ago

Plaintext passwords was a fuckup that they self-reported 5 years ago and affected some business users. Most browsers don’t really encrypt locally stored passwords.

misk OP , 2 months ago

That’s a lot of words to confirm what I said.

misk OP , 2 months ago

My point was - no tech giant leaked passwords but small guys did. We have no insight into how internal policies look like and if they are actually followed, we can only see outcomes. Lastpass exposed encrypted passwords in 2022. In 2019 1Password app had a bug where it didn’t clear master password after logoff and kept it in plaintext. Both enormous yikes for companies that deal primarily in security.

misk OP , 2 months ago

Based on prcinpipes Bitwarden is an obvious choice. With things like passwords I’m leaning into giving my keys to a company that, if it comes to be, can pay gargantuan ransoms.

misk , 2 months ago

It’s funny seeing this every couple of years. People get up in arms about something with Windows, some switch to Linux because they outgrew Windows and the time was right. By now I think you guys could be primary source of Linux users.

misk OP , 2 months ago

It’s worth noting that it was quite cheap and therefore a very good budget option to MacGyver music streaming into older cars.

misk OP , 2 months ago

We’re one step closer to Cheesoid.

misk OP , 2 months ago

No, Cheesoid! It’s cheese with glue :(

misk , 2 months ago

I doubt that anyone saying that LLM are calculating next word solely based on previous sequence. It’s still statistics, regardless of complexity.

misk , 2 months ago

Most people don’t know what Bayesian statistics are so you could say most people don’t really get how machine learning works in general anyway. It’s not misleading though as it perfectly sets expectations on what you’re getting as output. It’s much more healthy to general understanding of AI than anthropomorphizing very inflexible and limited models achieved thanks to technology that is seemingly in a plateau.

misk , 2 months ago

ELIZA from 1966 was enough to convince people that computer program they were talking to was human. People are now being sold on getting answers to their questions via natural language prompts and those answers are pretty much plausibly sounding sentences that happen to be right sometimes due to probability calculations.

Bayesian statistics is very different from what’s being taught up until high school (at least here) and is foundational to earlier machine learning applications like spam filters. It’s hard to imagine understanding what LLMs do without basics.

misk , 2 months ago

Not using reddit pretty much guarantees it.

misk OP , 2 months ago

It’s not even the right solution to the problem. I have my car registration among other government issued IDs in a government issued app. With how much power AI uses this is blockchain-level waste of resources.

misk , 2 months ago

They knew what they were doing.

misk , 2 months ago

Labor is relatively cheap despite how much IT is raking in at the moment. Most developers in Poland are registered as sole proprietors which contributes to one of highest rates of self-employment in Europe (source). Tax system favors those over regular work contracts leading to regressive burden (source) and to the point we could be classified as tax haven. Also means those developers are not covered under normal labor protection.

misk OP , 2 months ago

You could convince Elon to do this by telling him it would be terrible for internet preservation.

misk , 2 months ago

That’s because ChatGPT and the likes use machine learning to calculate odds of word combinations that make up a plausible sentence in a given context. There are scientific studies that postulate we’ll never have enough data to train those models properly, not to mention exponential energy consumption required. But this is not the only application of this technology.

misk , 2 months ago

Doesn’t appear that the rule is enforced consistently and in my experience is used mostly to remove Twitter related news, even those that aren’t really business (like primary domain change, which broke some extensions). At the same time posts about pricing changes of streaming services are OK.