This guy will now say anything, regardless how stupid.

I was occasionally looking at things there, but that has become a non-option now.

And the LLM assholes fully deserve that. The rest of the AI field, not at all.

Not my experience.

No argument about that. Blockchains have good uses.

Indeed. Although the Swiss system has some real safeguards in place and cannot be corrupted by a single person put in power by voter failure.

Ok, thanks. I agree that all these are annoying. While it is not actually a lot of work, the memories of it not working stay with you. Of course, if you are not an expert, this can be a lot of work.

As SPF provides no real security advantage (and DKIM, DMARC and ARC do not either), I only add something when needed to get email accepted on the other end. The only thing that actually provides security is PGP and that is not part of the mail transfer system.

If you cannot rely on PGP, yes, then you want them all. But do not expect them to do much.

Excellent. Thank you!

Agreed. If you don't know what you're doing it's hard to even ask for the right thing or know what's possible. For example: I'm currently developing a system that uses a local AI to help debug internal issues. The initial incarnations of it were very slow to start up each command; clearly, it wasn't doing proper KV caching and was having to prefill every turn; it required patches on the llama.cpp fork and our API wrapper, and also adjusting the system prompt to keep variable content at the end. But if you have no idea about KV caching issues, how do you even know something is wrong with the backend, let alone what to tell the AI to fix? You'll end up deciding you need to upgrade the GPU instead.

(That said: "lovingly handcrafted" code is a hilarious phrase that should give any developer who's ever worked on a big corporate software project the giggles, and also, these software devs are clearly people angry at knowing they're going to be let go looking for revenge by badmouthing their boss to the press)

Or maybe even a nice hardware wallet? Like this one here?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...

Face it, crapto is stupid. Banks are regulated strongly for really good reasons.

Clearly. But you know what else we learn from classic Ponzi schemes and more modern versions? "There is a sucker born every minute" is literally true and these people keep the scams going.

Indeed. The problem is system immanent cannot be fixed. The whole idea of "deregulated finance" is broken and cannot work. The reason why banking is so regulated is because it had severe problems before. The crapto-bros are in denial about history and are currently repeating it.

I doubt they thought at all. That is the "modern" way of doing it, after all, thinking is a task for AI and doing it yourself is for the weak. The strong go do something and build stuff with AI.

Well, the one type of code LLMs can (somewhat) competently write is attack code. Use-once, can be crappy and insecure, no maintenance needs and a very simple problem description.

Maybe LLM-supported attackers are what was needed to finally make the prevalent slop code non-viable. Of course, from the patch-lists at some large FOSS projects, LLMs do not find most vulnerabilities, so they are mostly useless to the defenders.