The Assist
At work we recently started experimenting with generative AI for assistance with programming. We have a new Visual Studio Code plugin which we can ask questions in English, and it spits back code.qntm.org
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"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor
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Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/
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AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do thatThomas Claburn (The Register)
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I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.
If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.
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thank you, I see the paragraph that begins:
"To reproduce outside of systemd, …"
I have someone claiming:
"The exploit requires systemd. …"
Can both be true?
Postscript: thanks to @vi for helping me to realise my misunderstanding.
Apologies for the noise.
Ricevo, e credo che sia utile per un po' di vittime di #trenord qui sul fediverso
https://www.prealpina.it/pages/lombardia-treni-in-ritardo-aumenta-lindennizzo-334475.html
“La norma nel prevedere la necessità di richiesta dell’abbonato reindirizza la misura compensativa del disagio a chi effettivamente lo ha subito, diversamente da quanto accadeva con il vecchio bonus.”
che credo voglia dire, più o meno “speriamo che la maggior parte dei pendolari si dimentichino di chiederlo e/o non vengano a sapere di doverlo chiedere”
se ho ben capito le istruzioni su come fare la richiesta sono già su https://www.regione.lombardia.it/wps/portal/istituzionale/HP/DettaglioServizio/servizi-e-informazioni/Cittadini/Muoversi-in-Lombardia/Treni/bonus-ferroviario/bonus-ferroviario
Lombardia: treni in ritardo, aumenta l’indennizzo
Sale dal 10 al 30% per gli abbonati. L’assessore Lucente: «L’82% delle corse è puntuale entro i 5 minuti»La Prealpina - Quotidiano storico di Varese, Altomilanese e Vco.
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@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 @Fabio mi pareva tempo fa di aver trovato su uno dei siti istituzionali (trenord o regione) che i treni soppressi contino uguali ai treni con più di 30 minuti di ritardo, ma adesso non ho il link sottomano (e non so se le nuove regole siano cambiate).
Comunque c'è il fatto che quei dati non dicono che i treni in ritardo sono ovviamente soprattutto in ora di punta (anche per ragioni ragionevoli, tutto sommato), e che quindi impattano molte più persone rispetto ai treni in orario alle 10 di mattina o alle 8 di sera.
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1/ It’s a big day for the Radicle community :space_invader: We're excited to announce the rollout of our first release candidate for Radicle 1.0 — our most significant update to date :tada:
Start collaborating today
👉 https://radicle.xyz
Here’s an overview of what’s new 🧵
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I've been asked if I can identify these audio cassettes that are in a university archive and I'm stumped.
They have two playback cutouts, and in one of the spools I can see 'Japan'. It would appear to be 30 minutes of tape.
Anyone got any ideas what machine they might have been used in?
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@cstross The combination of a TV show and the sprocket holes made me think video tape. It's hard to gauge though without knowing the dimensions of the cassette. It might be a micro audio tape for all I know.
Just because the tape has a show from 1969 on the tape doesn't mean it's 1969 tech—that could be a newer format that someone recorded an old show on.
@ColesStreetPothole So you're telling me you never recorded the audio off the TV through a microphone onto a compact cassette because no real human beings could afford a video cassette recorder back in 1974?
Young folks these days, I swear!
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
— Brian W. Kernighan
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Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - File 770
Vernor Vinge, author of many influential hard science fiction works, died March 20 at the age of 79. Vinge sold his first science-fiction story in 1964, "Apartness", which appeared in the June 1965 issue of New Worlds.Mike Glyer (File 770)
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Lots of people sharing their love of A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, but don't miss Rainbows End.
It's perhaps a less successful story but remains, after almost two decades, the best description of what augmented reality games and ARGs might do to the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)
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@cstross Rainbows End is the one that lives in my head more than the rest of his books (though they all have their places in there).
Every time autocorrect fucks up again, I find myself wishing for the kind of interfaces described in Rainbows End.
@cstross NOOO. That's fucking *horrifying*.
I do like the idea of searchable marginalia, but not at that cost.
Mastodon Just Let Me Save The Original GIF And Not The h.264 encoded MP4 You Made From It Challenge 2024 - Impossible Difficulty
:( big sadge
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A thing I have periodically been pointing out for like 20 years now that nobody else seems to know is that you can write CSS that controls how your web page will look when it is printed out. You can even set up completely separate stylesheets for printing, and the browser will be smart enough to automatically use them when the user hits "print"
https://www.sitepoint.com/css-printer-friendly-pages/
How to Create Printer-friendly Pages with CSS — SitePoint
Craig Buckler reviews the art of creating printer-friendly web pages with CSS, showing how to retrofit them to any site, at minimal cost.Craig Buckler (SitePoint)
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Yep. I've used this before.
I really should add print CSS to my project release pages, though.
"Who Killed Asmodean?" was by far the most commonly asked question Robert Jordan received. He said the answer should be "intuitively obvious to the casual observer." So, who did you think it was at first?
#AesSedai #BrandonSanderson #Community #Fandom #Fansite #Fantasy #FantasyBooks #RobertJordan #TarValon #TarValonNet #TheWheelOfTime #TheWhiteTower #TootersOfTime #WheelOfTime #WheelOfTimeSeries #WoT #WoTBookSpoilers #WoTOnPrime
#scaleway offers #riscv metal instances now. And they support @alpinelinux !
It appears to be relatively vanilla alpine edge with a custom kernel.
https://labs.scaleway.com/en/em-rv1/
Elastic Metal RV1
The world's first RISC-V servers available in the cloud. Taste the new open processor architecture now. Will you take the risk?labs.scaleway.com
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“Scale melds incredibly creative and thought-through hard science fiction with the kind of social-political angle Egan’s increasingly been foregrounding in his work, and you’d do well to pick it up.”
https://locusmag.com/2024/02/the-year-in-review-2023-by-jake-casella-brookins/
The Year in Review 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins
2023 wound up being a strange reading year for me. I started the year with a big move: from Chicago back to beautiful Buffalo, NY. While it’s wonderful to be back east and closer to the mountains, …Locus Online
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Wrote an article about turning a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen laptop into a programmable USB device by enabling the xDCI controller 😯
Now I can emulate USB devices from the laptop without any external hardware, including via Raw Gadget or even Facedancer 😁
The overall process included fiddling with Linux kernel drivers, xHCI, DWC3, ACPI, BIOS/UEFI, Boot Guard, TPM, NVRAM, PCH, PMC, PSF, IOSF, and P2SB, and making a custom USB cable 😱
https://xairy.io/articles/thinkpad-xdci
🤫 Unlocking secret ThinkPad functionality for emulating USB devices
Enabling and using xDCI controller on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th GenAndrey Konovalov
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Purtroppo a rimetterci è anche la reputazione dell'Agcom.
PiracyShield ci ricasca: decine di siti leciti bloccati dietro un IP di Cloudflare. Danni collaterali o illecito?
Sabato 24 febbraio 2024 la piattaforma PiracyShield ha ordinato ai provider italiani di escludere un IP dalla navigazione, una delle tantissime segnalazioni. Ma si trattava di un IP di Cloudflare: in un colpo "bannati" decine di siti leciti.Gianfranco Giardina (DDay.it)
A podficcer posted this link about voice acting that is pretty hilarious.
#voices #voiceActing
This message does not exist
I received an intriguing notification in the Microsoft Outlook 365 web interface: "This message can't be saved because it no longer exists. It can only be discarded. Make sure you copy the contents of the message before you discard if you want to use them later. " I have some ontological questions.www.kmjn.org
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On my blog: Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R
https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pandas-feels-clunky-when-coming-from-r/
Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R
Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, a staunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. Working with data, most of my Python work involved using pandas, the …Rasmus Bååth's Blog
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"One price of free speech is eternal humility, recognizing that none of us is immune to becoming a tool of censorship if we fail to recognize its manipulative tactics."
“Tools for Thinking About Censorship”
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Since Reddit has now sold out to AI, a reminder if you're into #Linux / #LinuxGaming that Lemmy exists and it's open source.
I'm a mod here too: https://lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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È notizia di un paio di giorni fa che insieme agli ip di alcuni siti di streaming video siano stati indiscriminatamente bloccati in toto gli ip di 2 CDN (cloud4c.com e parte di zenlayer), rendendo impossibile anche a chi avesse servizi leciti li sopra di essere raggiunti dall'Italia, l'organo che si occupa della faccenda (agcom) è un organo privato che si erge a "controllore", "multatore" e "bloccatore". Con il mer(d)aviglioso governo fascista che abbiamo ci vorrà poco affinché da un utilizzo anti pirateria si passi ai blocchi per fini politici adducendo motivazioni fantasiose (tipo il decreto antisemitismo di Salvini per gli artisti e le tv).
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This youtube video does something I literally had no idea was possible with the subtitle system. Watch it without subtitles to get an idea for what the base video looks like, then watch it with the subtitles on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYlaUrj2Zkk
Oshi no Ko Opening (4k 60FPS)┃Creditless
Oshi no Ko OP / Opening Theme "Idol (アイドル)" by YOASOBITV Anime "推しの子" Opening ThemeLyrics by @yaco77 , @ichimonji4kanime , https://www.youtube.com/@JakeUHDv...YouTube
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Very proud that the IEEE has published my article “Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability - A 2024 plea for lean software”:
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Ok che (come al solito dato che idee tue non ne hai mai avute), hai "copiato" l'impegno profuso da me e @kenobit sul progetto bookwyrm, ok che ti sei preso il dominio bookwyrm .it perché senza atteggiamenti predatori non ci sai stare, ok che hai mantenuto il logo ufficiale così puoi fare il paraculo e attirare gente spacciandoti per "istanza italiana" (tanto la descrizione non la legge nessuno), ma cazzo, copiare lettera per lettera (solo che non sai formattare il testo) il codice di condotta di bookwyrm.gatti.ninja... Dai su un po di fantasia, ce la puoi fare anche da solo no?
Nelle immagini in scuro gattininja in chiaro filippone.
#bookwyrm #gattininja
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@guardaminfaccia
Mannaggia!
Non dirò neppure che è una faccia da culo perché stimo troppo i culi.
È strano che non si sia già inventato un suo partito.
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È strano che non abbia ancora registrato puntarella it.
[EDIT]Ah, capito… è GIÀ registrato.
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A locally exploitable glibc vulnerability
Qualys has disclosed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library that can be exploited by a local attacker for root access. It was introduced in the 2.37 release, and also backported to 2.36.lwn.net
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Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).
The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .
#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!
EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)
🚩https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening
Like FLoC and Privacy Sandbox before it, Google Chrome’s Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of the largest internet advertising networks.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Mozilla Firefox
Desktop
📥https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/Android Play Store
📥https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefoxiOS App Store
📥https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/id989804926
Tor Browser
Desktop
📥https://www.torproject.org/download/Android Play Store
📥https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowserFdroid Repo
📥https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-7/
iOS App Store(try OnionBrowser)
📥https://onionbrowser.com/
#Firefox #Mozilla #TorBrowser #Tor #Browser #Privacy
Firefox - Protect your life online with privacy-first products
Firefox is more than a browser. Learn more about Firefox products that handle your data with respect and are built for privacy anywhere you go online.Mozilla
When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
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Bobby Moss
in reply to Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ • • •Al
in reply to Bobby Moss • • •I saw that too and that said so much about the problem.
They treated him as a prop.
Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
in reply to Al • • •Brian Campbell
in reply to Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 • • •@Natanox @mral @trechnex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogU
He was clearly trying to express something profound about the experience, and Jeff Bezos is just like "Imma let you finish, but here's a fountain of champagne" and a bunch of other people in the background are cheering and spraying champagne.
William Shatner Tries To Describe The Awe of Space, Jeff Bezos Shoots Champagne Like An Asshole
YouTubeNatasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
in reply to Brian Campbell • • •@unlambda @mral @trechnex "Shatner clearly taking in the moment"
They can't even correctly identify someone who's clearly feeling uncomfortable with Bezos not giving a single fuck. This is fucking dystopian in every dimension, I have no words.
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