The28thDuck

Silly question: how does an immune system get “trained”? I imagine some of it is through familial transmission but getting sick seems to kick it into high gear.

I wonder if these are novel attacks or if we’re still really bad at getting phished lol.

The question I have is what happens when all “private” information is exposed in a society.

4 major organizations breached in the past week? Is this some sort of coordinated attack?

It seems everyone and their grandmother has had their information in some way exposed to the internet. The time of pseudo-anonymity is over.

I’m pretty sure their philosophy is that ideas are a penny a pound, it’s proven execution (an MVP) that gets attention.

I find the habits of the very wealthy fascinating. What incentivizes your behavior when you have own all the traditional incentives?

Binary search strikes again!

It’s awesome that they are doing this, but doesn’t that incentivize people to use trackers that are not to that specification?

This building has people in it.

I recall reading an article about how E. coli or elegans or something has the ability to amplify signals 1000x through nothing than a clever biological configuration. The fact that proteins have “memory” blows my mind. It’s interesting how the macro scale emulates the micro scale.

How do investigators find leaks in a craft that has exploded? I imagine it’s difficult to determine (though evidently possible) whether a defect is in the design, or if it has been introduced by a defect in manufacturing/installation of parts like with Boeing.

They ran out of dangerous places to do designer drugs.

In all honesty, Vice was a cool outlet for out-there stories for teens and adults alike. Shame it’s shutting down but then again I never supported it.

^is this a bad response to someone who’s showing something off?

Website is a bit jumbled on mobile, just a heads up.

I wonder if phones have cursor support. Obviously they have to for touch-based text editing, but it feels different. Touch screens inherently have dead zones with no input, a cursors position persists. I imagine there are a couple of gotchas if you were to try to implement this yourself. Fun to think about.

A free gaming console for every household!

Nothing quite like closing the article on a zinger.

“ Corporate profits accelerated 4.3% during the period, up sharply from the 0.8% gain in the second quarter.”

Won’t anybody think of the corporations??

I know govt. contractors use Okta for authentication. Since names and emails were taken, I expect more targeted phishing attacks as a result of this. Fortunate it wasn’t sensitive data (hopefully.)

Looks useful for people who aren’t AWS savvy, but it doesn’t look like it has much utility beyond a fancy documentation lookup. If I could interface with it with the state of my AWS account and services, I could see that being useful.

Sick!

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

I wonder why certain usernames are blocked. Are they typically honeypots or something?

What genre of story is this? I love these tales.

Doesn’t seem like an operational issue, seems more like 99.9% design coverage of preventing these issues from arising.

I will say, I’m not very satisfied with just “improved security tooling.” My gut is telling me that there is a better solution out there to guarding against credential leakage, but I feel wrangling memory dumps to have “expected” data is a fools errand.

Sorry to hear that. Next time you’re looking for a new TV, look for “digital signage” instead. Though the price isn’t subsidized with adware, it should be what you’re looking for. It’s a shame it’s come this far.

I think society tends to put just enough effort where things generally work. There is little reward for perfection, and even less in the diminishing returns that happen when you try to optimize for as close to perfection as we can.

We deal with what we are given.

All of these long-term research projects in science seem to be popping at once. What a time to be alive.

I feel intuitively this makes sense. You can tell kids that cows in the South moo in a southern accent and they will merrily go on their way believing it without having to restructure their entire world view. It goes with the problem of “understanding” vs parroting.

Human-centric example but you get the point.

I imagine models will be chosen over another for very specific use cases, at least until we can ad-hoc generate LLMs specific to what we want.

There is value in stable asset management. I don’t foresee a future where credit-based systems are superseded by something else.

Is it not autocompleting code?

Autocompleting code and programming with others in mind are completely different (though related) tasks. It’s a copilot and it’s your responsibility to make sure it’s on the right track.