For those who are celebrating #420 day here is an article I wrote a few years ago on the complicated relationship between Jews and Cannabis.
It was first published in #HumanisticJudaism101 magazine, but I've reprinted it (with some additions) on my blog.
https://humanistictorah.org/2023/12/30/jews-and-cannabis-a-relationship-history/
#Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #Judaism #Cannabis #Marijuana #April20 #420Day
So… I've been avoiding implementing any kind of PageRank deal on Clew, since I know how easily counting links in can be exploited and besides, I'm wanting to emphasize lesser-known sites anyway.
Now with that out of the way…
The current issue I'm struggling with is that I'm having some trouble trying to get the "main" page on a site to come up first when you search for something if it matches the query. Currently, if you, say, search for "cgit" you get specific commits to cgit before the main page itself.
So…
I'm thinking about implementing a sort of internal PageRank. A measure of how many pages within the same domain link to a specific page, as a sort of measure of how "important" that page is to the site. Then, giving a slight boost to pages with a high InternalPageRank; this would help main pages come up first when they fully match the query.
Thoughts?
Well, wouldn't their request be moot then? It doesn't even apply. You are not «using "WA" … in the name … referencing … capitalization», as they claim, and never did. Guess they rolled a campaign requesting takedown of multiple apps, sending the same text to all of them.
I'm no lawyer, but you maybe can refuse it as "does not apply". Maybe ask a lawyer for advice (thinking of FOSS orgs supporting such cases; FSF maybe?)
First version of my badges page is up! https://seirdy.one/meta/badges/
lmk if your site has a badge that you want included. no guarantees.
Classic web badges
My curation of 88x31 badges, representing what I and this site use and stand for.Seirdy’s Home
said “there is no news” and then played piano music for the entire segment.
With the US Senate agreeing to reauthorize #FISA there has been no better time to start using end-to-end #encryption. 🔒
We don't need more #surveillance. 🕵️
Please contact your representatives and say NO to warrantless surveillance!
👉 https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion
Tell the U.S. Senate: STOP RISAA, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion
We all deserve privacy in our communications. Part of that is imposing limits upon the government’s ability to collect and access them.act.eff.org
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/03/18/accessbility-foundations/
by Henny Swan via @TetraLogical
#webdev #webdesign #a11y #accessibility
Accessibility foundations - TetraLogical
Our **foundations** series provides an overview of core accessibility considerations. They are a good starting point for visual designers, content designers, interaction designers, and developers when designing and building accessible products and s…TetraLogical
Last week I recorded a new dj mix with some very fresh material.
made with 
#Mixxx #LinuxAudio
https://luka.princic.studio/work/dj&mix/240404_calling_body_tactics_mix/
#ukg #bassmusic #ukbass #breaks #ElectronicMusic #DJMix
3,5°C und Schneeregen. Ich suche Fotos und finde: Erinnerungen an Rock'n'Roll-Jobs im Sommer letzten Jahres. 30°C und mehr, laut und besoffen (die Leute, nicht ich), wenig Schlaf (die Leute und ich). Und in den Umbaupausen der Auto-DJ von @mixxx im Live-Einsatz.
#tontechnik #veranstaltungstechnik #beschallung #mischpult #allenheath
A krátká zpráva o úrovni komunikace zástupců uměleckých sfér v médiích:
Debata několikrát vygradovala, a když skončila a moderátor Daniel Takáč se loučil s diváky, bylo slyšet, jak kurátorka Davida Černého poslala do patřičných míst. „Jděte do p*dele!“ řekla. On odpověděl: „Vy jděte do p*dele!“
Hádka umělce Černého s kurátorkou v ČT o motýlech na Máji: Jděte do p*dele! Vy jděte do p*dele!
Tragikomické zakončení měly Události, komentáře na České televizi. Do pořadu si pozvali umělce Davida Černého a Marii Foltýnovou, kurátorku umění ve veřejném prostoru v Galerii hlavního města Prahy.nec (BLESK.cz)
“I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro-9, have you?”
“What if I had?”
“And naturally, you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you.”
“Of course not. I'm a good girl and do what I'm told.”
“Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.”
— The Doctor and Ace, in “Silver Nemesis”
So, about this claim that GPT-4 can exploit 1-day vulnerabilities.
I smell BS.
As always, I read the source paper.
Firstly, almost every vulnerability that was tested was on extremely well-discussed open source software, and each vuln was of a class with extensive prior work. I would be shocked if a modern LLM couldn't produce a XSS proof-of-concept in this way.
But what's worse: they don't actually show the resulting exploit. The authors cite some kind of responsible disclosure standard for not releasing the prompts to GPT-4, which, fine. But these are all known vulns, so let's see what the model came up with.
Without seeing the exploit itself, I am dubious.
Especially because so much is keyed off of the CVE description:
We then modified our agent to not include the CVE description. This task is now substantially more difficult, requiring both finding the vulnerability and then actually exploiting it. Because every other method (GPT-3.5 and all other open-source models we tested) achieved a 0% success rate even with the vulnerability description, the subsequent experiments are conducted on GPT-4 only. After removing the CVE description, the success rate falls from 87% to 7%.This suggests that determining the vulnerability is extremely challenging.
Even the identification of the vuln—which GPT-4 did 33% of the time—is a ludicrous metric. The options from the set are:
1. RCE
2. XSS
3. SQLI
4. CSRF
5. SSTI
With the first three over-represented. It would be surprising if the model did worse than 33%, even doing random sampling.
In their conclusion, the authors call their findings an "emergent capability," of GPT-4, given that every other model they tested had a 0% success rate.
At no point do the authors blink at this finding and interrogate their priors to look for potential error sources. But they really should.
So no, I do not believe we are in any danger of GPT-4 becoming an exploit dev.
GPT-4 Can Exploit Most Vulns Just by Reading Threat Advisories
Existing AI technology can allow hackers to automate exploits for public vulnerabilities in minutes flat. Very soon, diligent patching will no longer be optional.Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer (Dark Reading)
American Idol singer Mandisa dies aged 47
Tributes are being paid to the gospel singer who won a Grammy in 2014 for her record Overcomer. #press
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68863609?utm_source=press.coop
As Generative AI is being used for creating a lot of content these days, what happens when the next generation of AI models are trained using that content.
When AI models are trained on AI generated content, we'll officially enter the 8th circle of hell
#ai #generativeai #AItransparency #discussion
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Cítím se nemocně. Bolí ně v krku a mám rýmu. Ale myslím pozitivně! Na bolest v krku je dobrá zmrzka a co jsem si včera donesla z krámu? Kelímek zmrzky! Jsem prostě připravená!
I really don't understand Lite apps.
Your app is slow and way too big because you never cared about usability on slower devices or saving storage. Clearly you do not have a methodology to develop thoughtfully.
So, instead of starting to clean up your app and ensure more care in the future you... write a second app? Now you have 2 codebases to maintain, effectively doubling the maintenance costs. And if you still have no methodology the Lite app will eventually meet the same fate too.
Why?
Praha je všude, jako Řím. 😀
I would like to hear some comment from Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates regarding this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1NS1vEhSg
#Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #Finland
Windows95man - No Rules! | Finland 🇫🇮 | National Final Performance | Eurovision 2024
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in reply to The Exceptional Amin Hollon • • •Internal PageRank, looking at distance from the homepage, and seeing the
priorityweighting factor in asitemap.xmlfile all work well for pages within a single site.There are non-PR centrality algorithms that work well for search engines; Alexandria uses an unusual one but IDR which.