Onno (VK6FLAB) @ vk6flab @lemmy.radio

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source

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Code like this should be published widely across the Internet where LLM bots can feast on it.

Because nothing protects children more than uploading their selfie or government id to a random company who "promises" to delete the information seven days later .. because of course it will and everyone will be able to check and see the pink unicorn in person.

Name and Shame.

The only way this is going to stop is when the organisation is either forced by legislation or embarrassed by public pressure into change.

Legislation only happens due to public pressure.

This is not NSFW and tagging it thus makes it less effective, eventually meaningless.

Unfortunately that doesn't work.

This is getting fucking tiresome. Now we're stopping humans who browse anonymously from reading content, what's next, block all humans and only let LLM bots access your site?

What's your point?

One place to look is 80000hours.org.

I don't keep a browser history at all, but my most recent visit was to:

• Vehicle registration plates of Western Australia

Or my favourite passive aggressive attempt by Admiral's anti-ad-blocking "technology":

"Continue without supporting"

This article doesn't at all explain what actually happens. There's a hand wavey description including PowerShell scripts and the clipboard, but it doesn't indicate how the code gets executed.

The article talks about a complex and sophisticated attack, but I don't see any evidence of that assertion.

Also, given that it's talking about PowerShell, I'm going to guess that this affects Windows only.

Finally, there's no source links, no CVE allocation, no indication what the URL looks like.

I'm going with deep scepticism about this report unless more information comes to hand.

There's an Australian Canadian co-production that goes into some of the atrocities the British got into:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff_the_British_Stole

There's a whole range of cli tools to extract and query structured data like that, but you might consider loading it into something like sqlite3 and treating it as a database because those formats are really not intended for queries, they're designed for sharing data.

For some workloads it's true that you can do the heavy lifting on a more powerful remote machine and transport the results back to an endpoint device like a phone. Websites are a good relatable example of that, as are services like YouTube.

It's not universally applicable for many activities that computers are involved with, data analysis, record keeping, simulations and a myriad of other processes.

Blurring of the lines between these different orders of magnitude is made possible by faster and faster networks, but that's physically not able to beat processing done inside a single device.

The more powerful we make computers, the more complex problems we use them for. I suspect that this is unlikely to change as computers evolve.

One of the fundamental differences between phones, laptops, desktops, and beyond is size. While that sounds obvious, it also means that the amount of processing within the device is constrained by that size.

The constraints relate to how much energy can be used by each device and more importantly, how much cooling is available for the system.

It means that there's a physical limit on how much work each device can do without being unusable.

While miniaturization is a factor, it's not linear and you can only get so small before you fail.

So, depending on what you want to do in any given time, the device you use will dictate what's physically possible.

This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.

A search engine?

There is a lot of hype in this article and precious little in the way of verifiable facts.

Does anyone have any links to something more credible?

There is a lot of hype in this article and precious little in the way of verifiable facts.

Does anyone have any links to something more credible?

I work in ICT. Leaving Gmail is much easier said than done. It has the best spam filtering bar none and integrates with a whole host of other services that I use daily, like the mobile phone I'm writing this on for example, the one that integrates my calendar, tasks, contacts, photos, websites, YouTube channel, spreadsheets and, oh yeah .. that other thing .. Gmail.

So, if wishing made it so.

What I'd like is a Google Workspace tier that is entirely without AI.