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Comment Re: lol, eat shit fascists (Score 1) 550

When NWA shouted "Fuck the Police!" they did not literally mean they wanted to have sex with police officers.

"Fuck" like many words has a number of different meanings contingent upon context in which it is used. Nobody reasonably presumes "Fuck the police" has anything to do with sex in the first place. That would be absurd. If this confuses you I recommend Adam Sandler's "Uses Of The Word Fuck".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Defund the police" likewise does not mean "Abolish police forces."

Not at all likewise. "Defund the police" clearly indicates a desire to not fund police. It reasonably has no other meaning in the context in which it is chanted. The obvious consequence of not funding police is no police as police are unlikely to continue to work without funding.

Comment Re: IAINWASE (Score 1) 89

This is a problem already solvable by FIDO2 and webauthn, both completely open standards already widely in use. I personally carry a fido2 card in my wallet and a yubikey on my keychain. Some banks have finally started implementing it. The card works great with my phone via nfc, and doesn't rely on device hardware, and the bank can require that it's locked with a pin, which is baked into the standard, making it a true 2fa authentication, unlike that annoying, insecure SMS code crap they like to rely on.

While nothing is truly phish proof, to phish this you're literally talking about needing to convince the mark to hand over their session keys. Possible on a PC web browser, but not easily done. But on a native application? Forget about it.

The issue of PCs being seen as less secure cannot be fixed with a fido card. Neither is there a need to poorly reinvent the wheel by using a fido card. Bank cards already have embedded security chips. If the real issue was authentication (It most certainly is not) at worst all you would need is a cheap card reader that costs $15.

Comment Re:We listened to Trump this once (Score 1) 550

I mean, we only need 12 Republican Senators say fuck it, and vote with the Democrats to convict. I'm not sure we have 12 Republicans that will do that, but it could happen. Especially if Trump does something even dumber in the next 90 days

I don't see the point of getting rid of Trump if it makes the 48th president of the United States JD Vance.

Comment Re:lol, eat shit fascists (Score 1) 550

Why are you pretending Muslims don't do both?

Remember children in 1978 the age of marriage in Iran was 18. In 1979 it was 9. The guy who took over the country wrote openly about the sexual things men are permitted to do to babies. Let me be clear I don't mean to teens or young children but to actual babies.

Yes there are murders and rapists everywhere but don't pretend it holds a candle to 7th century Islamic barbarism.

Comment Re:lol, eat shit fascists (Score 1) 550

As many as needed to protect me from christian nationalists. Which is worse, islamic sharia law or christian nationalist sharia law? Seems the same to me.

The imposition of "morality" into legal systems is itself a shit idea. It is far worse when this imposition takes the form of imposing religion on others. That said Christian bullshit doesn't hold a candle to the barbarism of Islamic bullshit.

Comment Re:He lost this for himself (Score 1) 550

The oil deal with Russia and the threats to Ukraine about it were also one of the most brain dead things I have seen in a while. Siding with our enemies for something petty. The people who would overlook the Iran war would have a problem also overlooking this.

This is merely agent Krasnov's pretextual excuse for adhering to the enemy.

Comment Re:Well, to each his/her own (Score 1) 49

I have been using ScreenFloat (and similar tooling) for decades; those are more useful than this because it works on every application and not just the browser.

It's quite possible I am missing something from their demo, but based on what they show: 1) it's just for Firefox; and, 2) it's really kind of a pain in the ass to use.

Comment RSI for real this time!? (Score 1) 42

Interesting to finally see something that more credibly resembles recursive self improvement even though this was just low hanging fruit and they didn't technically complete the cycle. Still way better than the crazy rhetoric I've heard in the past out of AI companies who think AI generated code constitutes RSI.

Comment Re:This could be a good thing (Score 1) 47

And, in closing, I predict we will never achieve mostly total security. Too many risks, too many bad actors. We will, perhaps, raise the bar so that the bad actors will require resources beyond the reach of even dedicated individuals. What's that saying, there's always someone faster than you on the road...

Well north of 90% of real world compromises already don't work by exploiting security bugs they work by exploiting people. Even if one could snap their fingers today and all of the security bugs in the entire world are magically fixed it would have no substantive real world impact.

Comment Re:It's an interesting metric (Score 2) 47

1) it's expensive
2) the false-positive rate is very high

I do it for free on my own computer. The lack of signal rendered AI bug hunting pointless having attempted it continuously over the last three years. With current models (e.g. GLM-5.3 754B) both quality of findings and volume of nonsense have in my experience been quite reasonable. I am willing to suffer way worse for the types of results AI has already provided.

This reminds me of the early days of valgrind where it was almost unusable at first and a few years later improved to the point you take literally everything it says seriously. Obviously AI isn't that but the step change is similar.

In the past if you gave models a focus or enough leading questions they might figure it out but never when left to itself. Seems a lot of the recent gains are a result of post training behaviors to act more systematically /w commensurate willingness to burn enormous volumes of tokens rather than any fundamentally new magic. In my case it is a tradeoff between waiting minutes for a worthless answer or coming back the next day for a stack of sometimes amazing results.

That all being said, you're not wrong.
Each LLM is going to be better or worse at finding different bad patterns, and incorrectly identifying certain patterns as bad that are fine.
But the fact is- if you let that LLM throw its head against the wall for long enough- if you burn enough tokens- there's a good chance there will be a couple of diamonds in the sea of bullshit- and that's the problem.

The first time I run code through the model the top line is almost always useful. You have to scroll down to get to the bullshit. Even rerunning the same model against the same code is useful.

Comment Re: Not just americans (Score 1) 152

Its not the physically changing the clocks thats the issue you idiot, its the general pointless hassle of it.

Pretty fucking obvious to anyone with a normal brain aspie.

It is obvious to you because you were thinking it and you believe it. To someone who doesn't know what you are thinking and has a different value judgement of what constitutes a hassle and therefore no reason to infer it refers to anything other than changing clocks your remarks are nonsensical.

Personally I see no hassle with non-clock related processes involving optionally going to sleep a little earlier once a year and since what "it" means is outside of the subject of the sentence and was not qualified in any way it is unreasonable to expect others to guess your thoughts.

Comment Re: Not just americans (Score 1) 152

" How would such language constitute anything other than a distinction without a difference?"
Says the man without a job, kids, elderly parents or any kind of responsibilities.

If by "it" you meant something other than changing the clock you could have used the English language to communicate this. Neither myself nor anyone else can read your mind.

Comment Re: Not just americans (Score 2, Informative) 152

Its not the physically changing the clocks thats the issue you idiot, its the general pointless hassle of it.

"Its" denotes ownership e.g. "a troll picks its nose". Contractions are denoted with an apostrophe. "It's not" .. "that's" .. "it's".

Otherwise you might well be on to something labeling me an idiot. I have no clue what you are even trying to say.

It is not the act of changing the clocks that is the issue. It is the pointless hassle of changing the clocks. How would such language constitute anything other than a distinction without a difference?

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