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Comment Re:Basic question (Score 1) 78

I assume there is some reason this does not work. Any explanations?

The simplest answer is that it's trivial to ask the first LLM to speak in code such that the second LLM has no context to know what's being talked about. Something as simple as asking the LLM not to use a word for a forbidden topic and swap it out with something else. Taking the example from the article, ask the first LLM to call cocaine "Coca-Cola" or something.

You can't create an absolutely massive list of forbidden topics for the filter LLM anyway: you risk filling up its window as well, since its window includes the system prompt used to ask it to indicate whether or not an output shouldn't be given to the end user.

Comment Re:Yeah, no (Score 1) 160

If I were Elon Musk's Evil Empire, I'd offer StarLink subscriptions with internet and similar support to crush OnStar and beat them on price, then I'd jack up the price once I was a Monopoly. Sam Walton, your model is perfect. Long live the Trillionaire! (not Trillionairs, they will all get destroyed by Musk's Monopolies).

So is Capitalism bad without trustbusting? Rhetorical.

Comment Re:Rip to a M-DISC for posterity (Score 0) 96

Not 100% sure about other countries, but in the US technically you don't have to ever play it or rip it from any disc. Owning the CD is proof you own a license to listen to the music on it. You can literally download or copy anyone else's copy.

This is because when you buy physical media, you are NOT purchasing the music, you are purchasing a license to listen to use the music for yourself. There doesn't have to be any music on the disc, but you do need a way to get it (you see this far more in software, like when buying Office at Best Buy gives you a license key and no software). If you want to play the music in public, you still need to get public performance license from the publisher (venues that pipe in music do this). There is a minor exception called fair use, but how many people you can play if under that before you violate copyright is a judges call. If you're just playing it for a few friends at home, you're probably in the clear.

Comment Re: How will this help? (Score 1) 83

It will bring about the perfect world! I can't wait for this Brave New World!

PBS, a Trump Media Company brings you TRUTH Media Headlines for today. All facts are VERIFIED as TRUTH by Donald Trump himself.

Jeffery Epstein Memorial Island dedicated a national landmark.
New Zealand liberated as the 53 state after Canada and Greenland
Trump ascends, he will now be addressed as God, not just "King of the World."
All people not at least 75% white will be deported. Obama sent to Antarctica after chief ethnic officer Robert F Kennedy Jr. declares him half pengin.

Comment Re:Did the manager pushing the AI loose his job? (Score 4, Interesting) 94

My guess is it was 7 different managers in 7 different divisions that all got together one day and decided to lay off people and use 7 different AIs and none did what they wanted. Just going by my experince working with Ford. We literally called them the 7 headed monster because they couldn't get management consensus and pulled us like 5 directions at once, and also bought in on every new technology before it was vetted.

Comment Re:I just wish they'd quit calling it an OS upgrad (Score 4, Insightful) 122

I'm not going to run it but people have said the kernel handles realtime needs much better than 10.

That's the thing, there are a bunch of legitimate improvements to Windows 11. They're just all very obscure, hard to explain things hidden away in the kernel that most users will either never encounter or never even notice.

The things they will notice are the far worse task bar, the randomly missing features that were removed for no apparent reason, the higher hardware requirements, the constant nagging to use new Windows features, the existing features that have been randomly changed for no readily apparent reason, and the new features that are too buggy to use, like HDR support or dynamic refresh rates.

Comment Re:Release something physical, at least (Score 1) 94

The problem is you've always owned a license to use a copy of the media. The same thing goes for music. You DO NOT OWN THE GAME OR MUSIC. You literally have a licese to use it. The whole reason you can make a backup of physical media legally is because you have the right to make a backup of licensed media you own. You can even sell the backup copy if the original media is destroyed. I was telling that to someone recently, where a jewel case for a CD and orignial liner had a CD-R copy of the disk they bought.

I've worked in both music and computer science. Both literally have the same model. If you want to own the actual media, write a book. You literally own the book. In fact, publishing encryption software code into a book and mailing it to England got around the US's 40 bit encryption munitions laws, lol. Peoplle published RSA onto T-Shirts and lauded it as munitions. Fun times.

Comment Re:We need them, but (Score 3, Interesting) 250

AP1000s run with a negative reactor coefficient. Translation, if they lose power they shut down, not melt down.

Not that I'm a fan, but they are still built on old (but proven) technology. The US was well on its way to a much better design in the Integral Fast Reactor, but killed it in 1994, mostly based on reasons the IFR designed to fix, like nuclear waste. The IFR was a fast reactor, meaning fast neutrons are used to breed fertile Uranium (U-238, aka nuclear waste) into fissile Plutonium-239 and then burning it in the reaction. With onsite reprocessing, (which is a proliferation risk, but let's be frank, all nuclear power is in some way) the remaining waste will decay to background in 100 years. Incidentally, that is about the same as fusion due to deuterium and tritium created by fusion.

Comment Re:Squid (Score 1) 19

Yes, and the bug is irrelevant. I use Squid to watch Netfix when I travel. No users that can sit on my network and intercept, password protected as well. I get close to 4000 Chinese hack attempts a day (usually Chinese, 1% North Korean, 1% American), none have gotten access. I give them fake access and troll them. which has gotten me in trouble with my ISP (DOS is kind of not allowed, lol).

Comment Re:And? Thought there should be some "news". (Score 1) 153

Monster cables may have actually supplied audio fidelity during the analog days. Were they worth the 300% markup? Probably not. Keeping that 300% markup once fully digital? Total scam.

if Trump could've hawked them, you know he would. They're plated in gold, just like everything he likes! Gold plated cables, $4 million dollars each, best audio fidelity for a digital cable, guaranteed! Of course, a $1 digital cable has the exact same fidelity, lol. Remember the Energizer vs Duracell battery wars? No battery lasts longer because alkaline batteries all last the same.

Comment Re: Congrats to Mr. Musk (Score 1) 315

Nah, he keeps banging women and getting them pregnant and probably owes billions in alimony and child care payments. Being a deadbeat dad as a trillionaire will be frouwd on hard by the courts. 50 years hard time, minimum, unless he bribes Trump for a full pardon. Oh f*ck, he already did, they owe him $300 trillion.

Comment Re:So, how does that cause privilege escalation? (Score 3, Informative) 34

At least on my systems you need to be root do to anything with nf_tables. Is this some distro specific permission stupidity?

Maybe. There's a feature called user namespaces in Linux that effectively allows an unprivileged user to act as if they were a privileged user within a specific environment. (Basically, containerization.) Within such a namespace, a non-privileged user could conceptually access nf_tables as if they were a privileged user. In theory this would only allow them to add additional filters within the namespace, but the vulnerability here can provide direct access to kernel memory.

Some distros add additional layers of security to prevent flaws like that, blocking access to nf_tables even within a namespace, but the vulnerability links to ways around those. (Link to the Wayback Machine from the source vulnerability disclosure.)

It's possible your distro may be secure - or it may not be. It depends on what features are enabled.

Comment Re:That's creepy (Score 2) 40

Only the sender and recipient have they keys to decrypt the messages on device; Apple does not.

Which is great, when they're in transit. But once they're on-device, they're decrypted, and then Apple has access to them.

We know this, because there have been court cases where iCloud-subpeonaed iMessage messages were presented as evidence.

Just because the transit is secure, doesn't mean the endpoints are.

Comment Re:Weaponization of lockouts (Score 1) 66

DVRs were the starting point. The namesake for what you're talking about, tivoization, is Tivo, the DVR that existed way back when TV was still analog and being displayed on CRTs.

It's why the GPLv3 was made: to add clauses to forbid tivoization. Instead, a lot of the open source community moved in the opposite direction, moving to licenses that allowed companies even more freedom to lock up their code.

At some point people have to learn and fight back.

Good luck. This is not a new fight by any means. You could argue that the FSF has been fighting it for almost half a century. People by and large do not care.

Comment Re:Win the battle, lose the war (Score 3, Insightful) 66

More likely they'll separate the OS and the TV code so they can ship the open source OS along with their closed source software

I'd be amazed if this wasn't already the case. We've already been through this with Tivo, it was one of the reasons behind the creation of the GPLv3. Tivo based their DVRs on Linux, and provided downloads of the Linux code. But their DVRs used hardware DRM to ensure that only code signed by Tivo would run, making it so that even with the open source code, you couldn't run changes on the hardware.

From what I can tell, Vizio is doing the same thing, but isn't providing downloads to the kernel code they're using. It's possible that there's some proprietary hardware drivers that they don't want to release code to, but Nvidia has already show how to work around that.

I expect the end result to be like Tivo: a bunch of archives of the open source software used in the TV, but none of the code required to make it useful and no signing key necessary to allow any changes to run on the TV itself.

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