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I warned you when the Manifest v3 rollout was announced, I warned you just before it's started, this is your very final warning to stop running Google Chrome...
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Today's conversation features Taylor Arndt and Michael Babcock, where we dive into the world of AI capabilities, particularly focusing on the potential of utilizing GPT 4.0 for content creation...
Following the recent Mutter 47 beta release that also marks the feature freze point for GNOME 47, there still are some High Dynamic Range (HDR) display preparations being merged ahead of this next stable desktop release due out in September... phoronix.com/news/GNOME-47-Mut…
TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese is produced in New York, and always has been since it was invented by William Lawrence in 1872. He named his company Philadelphia to market off of the city's reputation for high quality dairy products.
Great. Now tons of native Philadelphians are no doubt feeling a huge amount of disappointment. Speaking as someone who was born and raised in Philly, I offer my regrets ...
In an attempt to protect Mac users from getting themselves into trouble, Apple introduced numerous permissions pop-ups into macOS Catalina. In the years since, the company has accelerated its appro…
Y'know, for a project that really likes to dogpile on bloggers for not citing them, LuaJIT's docs are incredibly sparse.
I say this as a person trying to learn about its internals.
Below, the closest thing to docs or papers I can find on their site. Yes, it's instructing you to google basic compiler terminology, plus a 2009 mailing list post.
The amount of interpretive labor this asks of its reader is huge. I'm good, I'll read about other JITs.
If you haven't already seen these, you might find Andy Wingo's blog (wingolog.org/) and his talks (wingolog.org/talks/) interesting. He has written quite a bit about his work on Guile and a couple of the major JS engines.
Spelling is a known thing that LLMs are bad at, and it doesn't reflect on their performance on other problems.
LLMs don't see language like we do, all input is first tokenized (AKA turned into subwords) before passed into an LLM.
Most common words are just one token, long and unusual words are two or three. Common combinations of letters, like "ing", "able", "anti" etc also form tokens, so a word like "antiwiral" might be passed as ["anti", "wir", "al"].
LLMs have never really seen letters, you can imagine them as extremely intellectually sophisticated people who enjoy all content through audiobooks and have never actually seen written text.
@miki I'm aware, yet I feel the public discourse fAIls at explaining their limits and constraints at most tasks, while overhyping their capabilities and applications. That's the direction I was heading for.
A fire department is warning users to keep their pets away from lithium-ion batteries after a dog accidentally started a fire by chewing through a mobile power bank. pcmag.com/news/dog-starts-fire…
SafeBreach security researcher Alon Leviev discovered a Windows Update downgrade attack that can "unpatch" fully-updated Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems to reintroduce old vulnerabilities
Utah is basically burning books now. “State has ordered books by 13 authors, 12 of them women, to be removed from every public school, classroom and library.” Includes books by Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, and Rupi Kaur. theguardian.com/books/article/…
I've proposed a merge request to GNOME's likely new Video Player app codenamed Showtime. The feature? Toggling between video duration and time remaining by clicking the end timestamp. :)
It's the little things!
I think this might be my first contribution to a GNOME Python app. It was a bit of a trip coming from Vala and JavaScript land, but I _think_ I did okay for a first pass.
This is the beginnings of a series I've wanted to write for quite a while, which I call "A Brief History of White Insecurity." I'm going to draw some non-obvious connections, across two thousand years of history, between men's fashion, ancient Roman conquest, the fact that I personally speak English, and global climate change.
SHIFTsound BNO - Für kurze Zeit reduziert!🎧 Was gibt es Schöneres als mit dem richtigen Sound auf den Ohren durch den Wald zu baden, in der Hängematte zu entspannen oder den Feierabend bei einem spannenden Hörbuch zu genießen?🙂
Jupp 😁 Nicht dass ich damit gerechnet hätte, aber so hat sich die Kombi richtig gelohnt: kamen ja noch meine 15% vom Funding-Gutschein runter, sodass dann gerade mal 155 € übrig blieben (die natürlich bereits überwiesen sind).
Sobald ich jetzt ein wenig Luft finde, geht's aber erstmal an die 8er Tests. Da kann das BNO bei seiner Ankunft ja gleich nochmal mitspielen – nächste Winner-Kombi
Wow das ist ja DER 🔨 Was für ein Sound! Und macht mich glatt zum Schamanen: Das Problem, die neben mir stehende Person Dank des ANC nicht hören zu können, heile ich per Handauflegen¹ 🤣
(und ja, bin erst jetzt zum Testen gekommen, da ich keinen Bluetooth-Stick für den PC hatte).
¹ für die fragenden Blicke: Hand auf die rechte Hörmuschel schaltet von ANC auf Ambient und dreht die Lautstärke runter; Hand wieder weg macht das alles wieder rückgängig.
Der Sound ist einfach Klasse. Was ich noch nicht herausfinden konnte ist, ob es auch eine Art "Ruhezustand/Stromsparmodus" kennt, wie etwa die von mir geschäftlich genutzten Jabra Evolve2. Wenn "nix los ist" gehen die auf "minimal" und "fahren wieder hoch", sobald wieder Sound anliegt. Erhöht quasi nochmal die Laufzeit pro Akkuladung.
Und bitte liebe Leutz, keinesfalls im Straßenverkehr oder so nutzen. Speziell nicht mit ANC, da sind die echt "stille Nacht" bzgl. Außen-Ton!
@the_halmaturus Vom Klang bin ich nach wie vor begeistert. Telefonieren habe ich damit noch nicht probiert, aber vergleichbar (Jitsi/Matrix Call) – und hat gut geklappt (habe die Gegenseite nicht explizit gefragt, aber hat sich nicht beschwert, war ein langer Call).
Zwei kleine Probs: kann nicht als USB-Headset genutzt werden (wusste ich aber vorher) – und nach ~24h muss ich meinen BT-Dongle abziehen, damit das SHIFTSound wieder connected (vermute Dongle-Problem hier).
@the_halmaturus (2/2) Dongle ist ein günstiges, muss mal ein anderes probieren. Und USB geht nur zum Aufladen – das fand ich beim Jabra gut, dass man da bei "Akku leer" einfach USB anstecken konnte und weiter gehts mit Sound UND Laden.
Als Brillenträger habe ich noch damit zu kämpfen, dass die Brillenbügel mit den Hörmuscheln "kollidieren", das drückt dann schon ein wenig. Dafür ist aber ANC Klasse: wirklich Ruhe, merkt man deutlich.
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So earlier this year I wrote about this cybercrime rapper named Punchmade Dev, who wears outlandishly gaudy and expensive stuff around his neck and croons in videos in front of stacks of cash at ATMs, talking about how to do wire fraud, cashout PayPal and Cash App accounts, etc. The story showed how this Punchmade character seems to be a 22-year-old guy in Lexington, Ky named Devon Turner who operates multiple web stores that sell apparently compromised payment cards and identity information (alongside check printing software and tutorials on....wait for it...OPSEC!).
On a hunch that maybe Punchmade's lack of opsec might have caught up with him, I checked PACER and found instead that he recently sued his bank, alleging they discriminated against him for his race over his denied request to transfer $75,000 out of his account. Incredibly, Mr. Turner signed his pro se complaint filed in a Kentucky court with the same phone number and email address that are tied to the Punchmade domain names that are selling products like "ID+ High Balance CC, ID front/back, SSN, and 7$k-10k CC, for $80"
Here's the story: In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev, whose music videos sing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. That story showed how Punchmade's social media profiles promoted Punchmade-themed online stores selling bank account and payment card data. Now the Kentucky native is suing his financial institution after it blocked a $75,000 wire transfer and froze his account, citing an active law enforcement investigation.
Your regular reminder to never build a LLM-based chat interface with access to privileged information that can render Markdown images targetting external domains, if you don't want a prompt injection attack to be able to instantly exfiltrate that private data
It joins ChatGPT, Google Bard, writer.com, Amazon Q, Google NotebookLM and GitHub Copilot Chat in my collection of products that have made this mistake: simonwillison.net/tags/markdow…
Pitch Sometimes I only want to mute subthreads and not the entire conversation from the root, because a person started a branch of conversation that is uninteresting or possibly even frustrating to...
Honestly it’s like every fucking day. Every day there’s someone new declaring that they have such hateful brain worms that it has completely warped their reality sfba.social/@peterme/112915495…
the pinboard guy was already completely brain wormed last year, when he went full mask off on JKR; I even made a joke about the bookmark service having been created by Hatsune Miku in my slide deck at GUADEC: gitlab.gnome.org/ebassi/2023-g…
![A screenshot of punchmade[.]cc, a shop selling hacked visa and mastercard accounts, PayPal accounts with balances, and identity information that includes driver's license photos, account numbers, and guaranteed 4-figure balance accounts.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/579207 "A screenshot of punchmade[.]cc, a shop selling hacked visa and mastercard accounts, PayPal accounts with balances, and identity information that includes driver's license photos, account numbers, and guaranteed 4-figure balance accounts.")
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