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@i0null@infosec.exchange
A marketing press release escaped containment by masquerading as a security incident report and then successfully hacked mainstream media
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I like hackspace stuff, STEM education, discrete electronics, microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi, kinetic art, electronic music synthesis
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@pdmckone@cosocial.ca
@pdmckone@cosocial.ca @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt One writer did speculate how publishers could convince writers to fall in line
https://youtu.be/xe4nUZqX9Ec
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@actinomy@systerserver.town
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@bornach/109893870966297758
@actinomy@systerserver.town
I'm gonna need to buy a whole lot more ESP32 boards
https://fosstodon.org/@bornach/112192249226091152
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@sleet01@fosstodon.org
@sleet01@fosstodon.org @wdormann@infosec.exchange
That's chokepoint capitalism for you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokepoint_Capitalism
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@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place
@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place @wdormann@infosec.exchange
Eventually monthly plans will go away and everyone will have to pay per-token pricing
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/partnernews/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/4515688
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org
@MLE_online@social.afront.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Their HR dept is probably using gen-AI to make the hiring decisions based on AI slop generated by the candidates themselves using gen-AI
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org
@MLE_online@social.afront.org @RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange
I've been using up my vacation allocation by a half day per fortnight just so I can travel into London to hang out with live coders in person
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social
@cmconseils@mastodon.social
Like the Peruvian Temple at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark
Populated by creepy crawlies
Littered by the decaying carcasses of failure and poor choices
Filled with booby traps guarding artifacts that belong in a museum
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
@mattsheffield
Reminds me of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's, "Old Person's Home"
https://youtu.be/FoM9RzzaB4Y
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@diyelectromusic@mastodon.social
@diyelectromusic @MakersHour
I fear the Internet resources needed to support microcontroller boards I bought 10 years ago may be corrupted by AI/SEO slop or disappear altogether.
For example, Hobbytronics is now gone. I have a couple of their MIDI USB Host ICs that I probably can no longer use.
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social
@MakersHour
Whatever genre this is, I guess
https://youtu.be/ViHCotzWLDU
The why should be obvious
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@netpraxis@tech.lgbt
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@jbond@mastodon.social
@jbond @gabrielesvelto
You can do that right now on the Polymarket
AI written article on AI prediction of AI model performance based on bets placed by AI on prediction markets that AI tech bros are claiming is the next great thing
https://www.ainewshub.org/post/ai-powered-forecasting-how-prediction-markets-like-polymarket-are-enhancing-tech-trend-predictions
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@saltywizard@beige.party
@saltywizard @gabrielesvelto
Recalling back in 2007 when $100 oil suddenly made living in the ex-urbs unviable
https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/economists-say-high-gas-prices-triggered-housing-crisis-2007
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
@nazokiyoubinbou @gabrielesvelto
To be fair, "artificial" is in the name
Cannot really claim buyers of artificial fur, artificial leather, artificial jewels, etc didn't know they would not be getting the real thing
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@Lisseuse@fnordon.de
@Lisseuse@fnordon.de @JohannaMakesGames@mastodon.gamedev.place @warandpeas@mastodon.social
Line ending suggests those robots run on Win/DOS and not Unix
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@c_majalis@rebel.ar
@c_majalis @TodePond @yaxu @320x200 @ahihi @hpunq
Perhaps we might count DJ_Dave in as well given her thoughts on AI and calls for more openness and authenticity in performances
https://youtu.be/9b2YXZE91s8
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@jwz@mastodon.social
@jwz@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr
I am reminded of the "Wrong Direction" experiment
https://youtu.be/Pyo1ZkM2v4E
For the background see:
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/wrong-direction/pump-and-squeeze-me
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@cmconseils__dup_986@mastodon.social
@cmconseils@mastodon.social
Getting strong Taxi vibes
https://youtu.be/piPz1prPrzs
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@riffraff@mastodon.social
@riffraff@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
The counterpart to Very-Much-Greater-Than
https://www.mathematics-monster.com/symbols/Very-Much-Greater-Than.html
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town
@futzle@old.mermaid.town @cwebber@social.coop
When newbies encounter toxicity for asking their question on a public forum, cannot really blame them for turning to a LLM.
https://youtu.be/N7v0yvdkIHg
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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social @blotosmetek@circumstances.run @hypostase@bsd.network @ArchiteuthisFlux@leds.social
But I do love the Spanish version of the story
https://youtu.be/KvRYd8U7qGY
Beginning to think like this has become a standard filmmakers coursework exercise given that I've now seen 3 different versions that made it all the way to being filmed with actors, crew, etc
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@morgan@leds.social
@morgan@leds.social @ArchiteuthisFlux@leds.social
We know that the AI systems serve the company that created them and so they will mindlessly direct their defenseless crew towards warnings
https://youtu.be/-6mvwOCYJjc
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@_thegeoff__dup_1550@mastodon.social
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social @ArchiteuthisFlux@leds.social
Several versions of this
https://youtu.be/x91iciAYcw0
Someone probably did an AI slop version by now
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@fedipete@techhub.social
@fedipete@techhub.social @TechTangents@dialup.space
Try it with Notepad?
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@Quasit@kolektiva.social
@Quasit@kolektiva.social @TechTangents@dialup.space
Perhaps they do like Mozilla and re-enable on every patch update
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@mvilain@sfba.social
@mvilain@sfba.social @Robgbysea@mstdn.social @mattblaze@federate.social
If they bother to even use a turner wrench
https://youtu.be/1d-ISQfmCmM
When script writers for TV drama just needed to move the plot along, any contrivance would work regardless of accuracy. A credit card shim or a swift kick would be just as effective.
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@Uglesett@snabelen.no
@Uglesett@snabelen.no @graydon@canada.masto.host @Robgbysea@mstdn.social @mattblaze@federate.social
Given that there is a secretive locksmith community who is actively hostile against anyone revealing the specific weaknesses of particular locks, I now realise the LPL has good reason to never allow his face to be shown on camera
https://youtu.be/b6jI9W1wERI
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@7leaguebootdisk@mindly.social
@7leaguebootdisk@mindly.social @graydon@canada.masto.host @Robgbysea@mstdn.social @mattblaze@federate.social
"surprising how easy it is *for the LPL* to pick locks"
Was inspired by those into lock sports to buy a set of picks to try this myself. Substantially more difficult than depicted in videos on YouTube and orders of magnitude more difficult than depicted in 1980s TV detective dramas.
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@ibk@aus.social
@ibk @vikxin @NanoRaptor
Was there ever any doubt?
There it is right at the top of the reviewer's table summarising the features. Note the surge protection to prevent fire. Ideal for the home or office with multiple devices
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@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place
@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place @janellecshane@wandering.shop
They just need another agentic supervisor to supervise the first agentic supervisor's supervision of original Claudius agentic AI.
It's just agentic AI supervisors all the way down
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@fivetonsflax@tilde.zone
@fivetonsflax@tilde.zone @janellecshane@wandering.shop
WSJ reporters turning against a humorless authority figure by flooding the context window with pro-socialist writings to get a communist outcome.
Why do I find this so hard to believe?
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@gray17@mastodon.social
@gray17@mastodon.social @psdavey@mastodon.social @janellecshane@wandering.shop
Bugs Bunny does have a knack for finding the right sequence of words to turn the situation in his favour
https://youtu.be/NoSVnc-7eTk
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@janellecshane@wandering.shop
@janellecshane@wandering.shop
WSJ video on the Agentic experiment
https://youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ
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@RichiH@chaos.social
@RichiH @GroupNebula563 @glyph
Why can't they do that with sea water then recondense that evaporated water as desalinated rain to provide drinking water to a community or irrigate a desert or something?
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@ilumium@eupolicy.social
@ilumium
Or installs The Onion Router and starts learning another foreign language
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@jackeric@beige.party
@jackeric@beige.party @micefearboggis@fediscience.org
That sounded more of like a mix made for humans by humans
I believe the idea is for the AI to put as little human thought into the mix as possible
https://youtu.be/Uvl9Rt70nJE
Try speeding this up are it approaches more like a scream
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@utf_7@mastodon.social
@utf_7@mastodon.social @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @Viss@mastodon.social
"A work-from-home police officer tricked bosses into thinking he was busy solving cases– by jamming a key on his computer."
https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/29/work-from-home-policeman-jammed-keyboard-bosses-wouldnt-spot-skiving-24294289/
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@iju@mastodon.social
@iju@mastodon.social @derek@social.coop @Viss@mastodon.social
And risk your cyberbrain getting hacked?
No way. Too risky.
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@alterelefant@mastodontech.de
@alterelefant @jilleduffy @brianvastag
Even if the virus specifically targeted those susceptible to the bunker prepper mentality
https://zeroes.ca/@NilaJones/115586274804522333
they still wouldn't follow through. They want to see everyone else who lacked the foresight to prepare for judgement day to come to them begging, thus justifying in their minds their rightful place in the class hierarchy.
Recall when billionaire David Geffen posted a photo of his superyacht at the start of lockdown
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/billionaire-david-geffen-brags-about-self-isolating-on-400-million-superyacht-142335.html
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@tomw@mastodon.social
@tomw@mastodon.social @stefan@front-end.social
Describing the LLM as a form of autocomplete doesn't sway people either. This guy believes predicting the next word is evidence that the chatbot is smarter than the human it is autocompleting
https://youtu.be/5CKuiuc5cJM?t=46m40s
(Skip to 46:40)
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@stefan@front-end.social
@stefan@front-end.social
What about people who don't cite AI but instead just do whatever the LLM suggests they do
https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q
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@pascaline@mastodon.nl
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@clarissawam@mefi.social
@clarissawam @BigGayShaun @ElleGray
And you'd be right. See original photo here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/confusing_perspective/comments/lf4g5a/i_thought_this_boat_was_filthy_then_realised_it/
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@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo
@RobotDiver @ElleGray
I think that's exactly what the 'shopper did to the original photo which looked more like a blueberry topping 5 years ago. Also there used to be more crumbs
https://www.reddit.com/r/confusing_perspective/comments/lf4g5a/i_thought_this_boat_was_filthy_then_realised_it/
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@stekopf@mstdn.social
@stekopf @xmacdonald @ElleGray @altbot
The image is likely in the training data given that it is at least 5 years old
https://www.instagram.com/p/CATb1fIhC7M/
It even predates the "Everything is cake" meme of 2020
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@hanshuebner@mastodon.social
@hanshuebner
I would easily have mistaken Lenovo's stretching screen laptop for one of those @NanoRaptor creations
https://youtu.be/WzyFCbpcB9c
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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz
@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz @LockEx@ioc.exchange
But he does make the occasional appearance on other YouTube channels
https://youtu.be/b6jI9W1wERI
My current theory is he's related the This Old Tony, however the similarities to JerryRigEverything are undeniable
https://youtu.be/Eppsx71XW7I
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@L_howes@mastodon.social
@L_howes@mastodon.social @micefearboggis@fediscience.org
Can OpenAI/Microsoft be sued for libel if ChatGPT/Bing accuses you of saying/doing something you never said/did?