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elrik ,

hello world in HTML by punching holes in cardboard

elrik ,

I do, friend. I do.

elrik ,

As others have mentioned, a trusted 3rd party signs the correct key so your browser can check the key itself.

However, it should also be noted that your browser must have a list of trusted 3rd parties and their certificates used for signing in order to perform this check. It's entirely possible to modify this list yourself. Some examples include:

  • executing your own MITM style "*attack" in order to intercept and analyze local https traffic
  • corporate network inspection and monitoring, where a gateway does the above for all devices on the network which have a CA cert pre-installed through some policy

So while it's possible for trusted 3rd parties to issue valid certificates to bad actors, it's also possible to add anyone (you, your employer, or some bad actors) to the trusted parties list.

elrik ,

This is another one of those situations where for them (and every other company with access to similar content) the upside is just too much money to ignore.

What is the downside? Lost customers? No problem, they'll charge the remaining customers more for new premium features based on the newly trained models. Also if they didn't develop those features in the first place, a competitor would have pulled away customers anyways.

Fines from some government for the egregious violation of a TBD law relating to AI that doesn't even exist yet? Lol, just the cost of business.

And policy changes? Who actually believes they'll discard the model parameters they've already spent presumably millions of dollars training?

elrik ,

How does it verify the command is valid? Does it run what I enter?

If so, just give it an infinite loop followed by some attempt at a tar command:

while true; do :; done; tar -xyz
elrik ,

Unpopular opinion I guess, but I think Teams is actually pretty good at my workplace.

elrik ,

I can't say I've run into those issues with the new teams. Worst I've experienced is the app freezing during a call, which has happened twice in the last year or so.

elrik ,

That may be, but I'm not sure that's a problem for a communication platform. I remember one time when they moved the share screen button around and some less tech savvy users thought the feature was removed!

Teams has something like chat threads too. E.g. you can reply to a message in a channel and it groups all replies, and you can also focus that thread if you want. But I agree it isn't hidden "off the main topic" quite like slack threads.

elrik ,

Would anything have prevented an increase in rates? I'd bet if everyone got out of line, the rate increases would have been the same or higher. The only difference would be no one received $100.

elrik ,

Good. Please proceed as quickly as possible.

elrik ,

How is this different from the capabilities of Tesla's FSD, which is considered level 2? It seems like Mercedes just decided they'll take on liability to classify an equivalent level 2 system as level 3.

elrik ,

Ah so it's marketing BS then, got it.

elrik ,

Yeah I don't really understand either. Under those conditions any comparable level 2 system would operate without ever requiring the driver to take over.

elrik ,

They're assuming liability but that doesn't mean it's safe or more capable than other systems.

elrik ,

I've never clicked an ad on purpose. I use DNS to block all the common click thru domains for ads.

This move by Microsoft will undoubtedly result in more Windows PCs infected by malware as people find tools to remove the ads and some of those tools will turn out to be malware.

elrik ,

Not only that but the API cost is per token, so every message exchange in every conversation costs more because of the length of the system prompt.

elrik ,

It wasn't just one man who was discriminated against. Your genetics determined which opportunities were available to you, even for those who were selected for at conception. There were still varying degrees of "genetically perfect."

The problem presented by gattaca and with the thought process behind this company is the suggestion that your "value" to "be selected' (for conception, for employment, etc.) should be determined by your genetics.

elrik ,

I am not using passkeys until it's possible to easily migrate them between providers (not just devices / browsers). If I used Proton Pass, and then later decided to use another password manager, could I export my passkey data?

elrik ,

That's excellent. Thanks for pointing that out!

elrik ,

I use an app called Recipe Keeper. It's amazing because I just share the page to the app, it extracts the recipe without any nonsense, and now I have a copy for later if I want to reuse it. I literally never bother scrolling recipe pages because of how terrible they all are, and I decide in the app if the recipe is one I want to keep.

It also bypasses paywalls and registration requirements for many sites because the recipe data is still on the page for crawlers even if it's not rendered for a normal visitor.

elrik ,

Sure, I agree.

Unfortunately, no such solution currently exists or has been widely adopted.

elrik ,

I haven't pumped gas in 3 years and it's glorious.

elrik ,

You're in the wrong Rochester!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b05edfb8-6bc6-4712-9480-d8aae4f39e49.png

elrik ,

Advertisers would absolutely love to augment your reality with ads or even just the ability to accurately confirm you've actually watched a traditional ad along with how you "felt" about it.

At that point people would absolutely sign up for free implants so they can access ad supported services that may otherwise become unaffordable within a society further strip mined of wealth by the then trillionaire class.

elrik ,

You may be underestimating the role of targeting in conversion optimization, and I'm not sure how you could better target individuals than based on what they're thinking at any given moment (literally).

For instance, it's not hard to imagine a future where gen-ai inserts product placement for a drug like ozempic into your favorite show, just for your view, while you're actively paying attention, even though you didn't realize at that moment you're still a bit upset about a negative comment someone made about your weight earlier that day. An advertiser didn't have to select this scenario, but instead you were targeted by an ML algorithm at that moment based on brain activity correlated with others who ultimately were successfully nudged to have a conversation with their doctor about their weight. Simultaneously, another ML optimized the product placement generation to minimize viewer disgust while maximizing its visibility. Your behavior becomes immediate feedback to further optimize these algorithms, as you're tracked for how much attention you paid to the placement, what was your emotional state before and after, did you schedule an appointment with your doctor over the next 3 days, were you prescribed ozempic, etc.

That is just a simple example which isn't that far removed from advertising approaches today. I'm certain there are plenty of clever techniques to turn your thoughts and perceptions into conversions far more effectively once advertisers have real-time access to your brain.

elrik ,

The paper concedes that AI hardware regulation isn't a silver bullet and doesn't eliminate the need for regulation in other aspects of the industry.

You can try and control the hardware, or impose other regulations, but at a certain point if a model is trained and released into the wild, nothing will be able to stop its distribution and use.

elrik ,

You're famous for being photographed shirtless on a horse. Is that because horses can't judge you, or is it a new Russian policy for reducing laundry costs?

elrik ,

Can someone provide some context here? Why is he screaming at a coach?

Also side note: why is that even vaguely tolerable behavior for a professional sports player / role model?

elrik ,

Users would get bored quickly. The most engaging content on social media tends to be those posts that you disagree with or even anger you.

The real trick would be to sprinkle in about 40% controversy, 5% trolling and a healthy dash of nonsensical hate posting.

You need to give the user a tribe along with an opposition to defend the tribe against.

elrik ,

There are huge gaps in ipv6 adoption which means most users and services must continue to support and use ipv4.

Since everyone has to continue ipv4 support, there's not much motivation to push general adoption of ipv6. Maintaining dual stack support has its own costs.

Even within AWS, many of their services still don't support ipv6. AWS fees for ipv4 addressing may end up being a comparatively big driver for adoption.

elrik ,

IPv4 support is required and works perfectly.

Except it doesn't work perfectly, because it has a relatively small address space. That's why ipv6 exists.

elrik ,

It's not skippable as far as I can tell. It also frequently advertises shows I've already watched. Sometimes it advertises the show I'm trying to watch.

I'm pretty sure it also has the "ad counter" showing on the screen during this as well.

Here's what they call it in their docs:

You'll also see a quick preview only once per day before any show to keep you up-to-date on our original programming.

It's not an ad, it's a "preview." /s

elrik , (edited )

It's a really interesting question and I imagine scaling a distributed solution like that with commodity hardware and relatively high latency network connections would be problematic in several ways.

There are several orders of magnitude between the population of people who would participate in providing the service and those who would consume the service.

Those populations aren't local to each other. In other words, your search is likely global across such a network, especially given the size of the indexed data.

To put some rough numbers together for perspective, for search nearing Google's scale:

  • A single copy of a 100PB index would require 10,000 network participants each contributing 10TB of reliable and fast storage.

  • 100K searches / sec if evenly distributed and resolvable by a single node would be at least 10 req/sec/node. Realistically it's much higher than that, depending on how many copies of the index, how requests are routed, and how many nodes participate in a single query (probably on the order of hundreds). Of that 10TB of storage per node, substantial amounts of it would need to be kept in memory to sustain the likely hundreds of req/sec a node might see on average.

  • The index needs to be updated. Let's suppose the index is 1/10th the size of the crawled data and the oldest data is 30 days (which is pretty stale for popular sites). That's at least 33PB of data to crawl per day or roughly 3,000Gbps minimum sustained data ingestion. For those 10,000 nodes they would need 1Gbps of bandwidth to index fresh data.

These are all rough numbers but this is not something the vast majority of people would have the hardware and connection to support.

You'd also need many copies of this setup around the world for redundancy and lower latency. You'd also want to protect the network against DDoS, abuse and malicious network participants. You'll need some form of organizational oversight to support removal of certain data.

Probably the best way to support such a distributed system in an open manner would be to have universities and other public organizations run the hardware and support the network (at a non-trivial expense).

elrik ,

Yes, at least currently. There may be better options as multi-gigabit internet access becomes more common place and commodity hardware gets faster.

The other options mentioned in this thread are basically toys in comparison (either obtaining results from existing search engines or operating at a scale less than a few terabytes).

elrik ,

0.1mm seems awfully thin for a double edged blade.

It's also unreasonable to assume they will stack anywhere close to perfectly.

My guess is you're off by at least a factor of 20.

elrik ,

I was thinking the same, but then realized it's probably just quiche.

elrik ,

Suburbanite: Child, go open the instacart app on my phone and have some eggs delivered by an underpaid driver for $35.

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