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cynicalsecurity··on Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?
No way, a taxi triver spends more time in his car than with his family. Same goes for truckers. Farmers spend more time in the field than with their families. Vendors can easily spend more time on the market or in their store selling goods. And don't even get me started on military personnel or sailors.

What a tragedy. What a horrible revelation - work can often take more time than being with your family. Oh no. Horrible horrible computers, how can this happen to us. It's not like the same is true in many other occupations.

cynicalsecurity··on What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
You see, it works!
cynicalsecurity··on What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
It can, just use Grok.
cynicalsecurity··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Your brain is spot on. This would make much more sense.
cynicalsecurity··on The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
The article makes absolutely no sense. AI works better than humans. The quality of AI output depends on request. Higher quality request produces high quality output and vice versa. The article completely misses the point.

Beware of the TEMU-fication of AI requests. Some crappy services like Loveable are the violators here.

cynicalsecurity··on Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model?
Those who distill are like Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity.
cynicalsecurity··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
I was suggesting running personal AI servers.
cynicalsecurity··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
I don't understand the desire to run own AI models for programming locally. No laptop is ever going to be as powerful and energy efficient to run anything close to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google models. A model you can run on a loptop is simply not going to work as well as it's needed for programming. Small models for linguistic work fine, but anything more sophisticated simply won't provide enough resources or power. Or models would need to be significantly dumbed down - then why use them at all? So far the idea of carrying a "thin" or "thin"-like device looks more reasonable to me, while running AI on your own server.
cynicalsecurity··on Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium
Great news, but could we have a higher GDP per capita, please? That's the most important part, isn't it?
cynicalsecurity··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
Oh, that's an article on macs. It's actually surreal to require a manual action to install a program.
cynicalsecurity··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
Even Voyager can’t retire in today's economy.
cynicalsecurity··on Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
This comment needs to be pinned.
cynicalsecurity··on DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
You don't understand Kremlin's mentality. Any even little nasty thing they can do to the West makes them giggle like Doctor Evil. "Oh, a NATO country's government infra was not protected from DDoS? Let's have fun, haha!" You are dealing with story book villains. I know, this sounds so ridiculous it's hard to believe someone can actually be like this. But then the reality check hits.
cynicalsecurity··on DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
Really, you have no one in mind? Someone who is sending hundreds of bombing drones daily to Ukraine, killing civilian population, women and children, and who is eager to send a message to NATO countries any way possible?
cynicalsecurity··on Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
Gmail doesn't pretend to be private.
cynicalsecurity··on Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
An LLM generated Obsidian ad. Still not interested, sorry.
cynicalsecurity··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Good job on putting words in my mouth, tovarishch.

Of course every Android is like a crack house. Can't even get to the home screen without my phone offering me sex, drugs and alcohol.

cynicalsecurity··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Google Play != Android, so your comment is based on a false premise.
cynicalsecurity··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
> Why this matters

AI doesn't write articles, that's still your job.

cynicalsecurity··on We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
Shitty instructions = shitty outcome. Blame yourself, not the AI model.
cynicalsecurity··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Last time I checked an Android phone was not selling me alcohol or porn. It requires specific deliberate actions to get access to anything like this with a phone. Any checks could be justified on the store or web-site level, not on the phone level. Treating every citizen as a child or even worse a potential criminal who needs to be constantly checked at numerous checkpoints the state so kindly put everywhere is exactly the stinking smells of the Soviet Union I'm talking about.
cynicalsecurity··on Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Ctrl+F "WarGames" 0 results. I'm disappointed.
cynicalsecurity··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
This smells like Soviet Union. The next step will be a requirement to confirm your identity - trying to justify it with a wicked manipulation tactic "we need to know your are not lying when selecting your age". No one asked for it to begin with. Android is normalising totalitarianism and mass spying on citizens, one step at a time. This is a very bad feature and a very bad development.
cynicalsecurity··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
Before you decide to change jobs - the demand in electricians is caused by a temporary massive construction boom of data centers. Maintaining an already built data center doesn't require much personnel. It's a clickbait article.
cynicalsecurity··on Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite
Great job on comparing apples to oranges. DuckDB is a columnar OLAP engine, SQLite is row-oriented OLTP. DuckDB should stomp SQLite in that particular use case.
cynicalsecurity··on Peasants Working for a Tyrannical Lord
Weird, it doesn't require it for me. Old reddit links open perfectly in incognito/private mode. Residential network, Poland. They could be doing some sort of A/B testing though.
cynicalsecurity··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
What region of China was that?
cynicalsecurity··on Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included
Use a self-hosted Nextcloud server to sync your bookmarks across multiple devices and browsers - it eliminates the need for a Google account.
cynicalsecurity··on Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
How to ruin your company in 3 simple steps. Step 1: DX Core 4.
cynicalsecurity··on Lidl Introduces the European Payment Method Wero in Germany
Next steps: we need to make GrapheneOS our sovereign European mobile operating system and start making our own phones too.
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