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cynicalsecurity··on What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now
Ex Machina (2015) looked like fiction back then, nowadays not so much.
cynicalsecurity··on Android may soon restrict on-device ADB
Good point. They don't. Huh, that's really worrying. My bank started requiring phone for web portal only about a few years ago. They don't allow to use an alternative MFA method. This should be made illegal.
cynicalsecurity··on Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
Poland, all banks I know offer web portal. Linux, Firefox - works perfectly.
cynicalsecurity··on Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
Companies are full of idiot managers who still prioritise new features over security. Security doesn't get your promoted, new features do. New features can be shoved in customers' faces and sold. Security is invisible. The idiocy in companies runs all the way from the top to middle managers. This feels a lot like Titanic.
cynicalsecurity··on Future euro banknote design proposals
Proposal E from Myrsini Vardopoulou is absolutely superior.
cynicalsecurity··on Future euro banknote design proposals
We don't have it. Some US states have passed those laws already, weirdly enough.
cynicalsecurity··on Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users
Do you have a health insurance?
cynicalsecurity··on Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
I assume trying without a credit card will bankrupt him immediately.
cynicalsecurity··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
You can easily turn dumb mode on any smart TV.
cynicalsecurity··on Do we just want slaves?
The anti-AI hysteria comes predominantly from the American left, as AI is going to hugely undermine their power. American right are excited - they are finally going to get rid of their longtime annoying nemesis. It doesn't really change anything for Europeans and I have no idea what Asians think. I can imagine, AI is actually going to hit Asia the most, eliminating all the cheap offshore workforce. I can imagine Indian IT sector can be almost completely wiped out. I guess Japanese don't hate AI for the same reasons as Europeans - it doesn't really change much in their stable life.
cynicalsecurity··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
Absolute bliss.
cynicalsecurity··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
The pasta factory analogy is hilarious, get an upvote. Is it something from the WWII?
cynicalsecurity··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
It's meant for war. Today it folds your clothes, tomorrow it plants mines and shoots at you on a battlefield.
cynicalsecurity··on Fake food delivery site for the dopamine
Isn't it just like porn and video games work too. Weird no one thought of it before.
cynicalsecurity··on If You Build It, They Will Come
That was a Rorschach test.
cynicalsecurity··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
StackOverflow was a pretty toxic and hostile place. I'm surprised they did nothing to fix it. And I'm not speaking of rainbows and unicorns, it was really easy to stop punishing people for asking questions - it was a web-site for asking questions after all.

Then they forbid using AI to answer questions - another huge miss. They could have leveraged AI as a great cool gig on their web-site - they didn't. Too bad.

cynicalsecurity··on Decoy Font
Good job on creating a firewall for people who have poor vision.
cynicalsecurity··on What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
Vatican server names sounded somewhat interesting too: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. They set up their own ISP and cloud hosting since then, but it was a funny gig they did in the past.
cynicalsecurity··on Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
Check what companies he worked for and never work for them. He's got his CV on his website.
cynicalsecurity··on The kids with phones are alright
Did the UK get rid of the Muslim rape gangs already? No one is being raped on social media, yet all the hysteria is focused on social media when it should be focused on a completely different issue that actually harms children in real life on a massive scale - outside and unrelated to the internet.
cynicalsecurity··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
Why the hell EU even needs an age verification app? Who's genius idea is this and what for?
cynicalsecurity··on A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
That is an anime voice.
cynicalsecurity··on The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
This is not what I'm saying. Telling people to eat less meat or live in smaller houses is not only inefficient, but a counterproductive way to protect environment. This is environmental protection theatre, if not circus. It makes environmental protection measures look laughable and ridiculous. Unless something is done against the biggest pollutors, eating less meat (now think about how dangerous this advice looks without taking into account who it's addressed at - stupid parents can stop feeding their children meat and cause them lifelong health problems) won't prevent environmental problems. Sorry, I'm interested in participating or endorsing environmenal protection circus.
cynicalsecurity··on A graph that should be front-page news
Chinese and Indian CO2 emissions dwarf anything you mentioned. You can stop eating meat altogether and move to a small doghouse, it won’t make any global impact at all.
cynicalsecurity··on Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router
It won't work. You would need to back up your claim with proof that someone hacked your router. You can't drive a car that is easily breakable and expect the court to clear you of any responsibility if it causes harm because it broke while you were driving.
cynicalsecurity··on AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery
AI has been seriously around for how long? Two years? Isn't it a bit too early to say?
cynicalsecurity··on Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
Old people and bad vision people firewall. This will violate disability accessibility requirements.
cynicalsecurity··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
You are teaching your children to be even more secretive and hide things from you even better.
cynicalsecurity··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
I have some bad news for you, the Chat Control was originally brought up by the left. Mainly by Ylva Johansson (Swedish Social Democrat, S&D group). Leftist origin via Johansson/S&D, but later sustained by mainstream centrists and now a watered down version is partly supported by conservatives too.

Left fascism was not so long ago. Think of the woke hysteria, black lives matter, cancelling on twitter, people losing their jobs because of them saying something the left ideology did not like etc.

Left have been and still are viciously hateful and racist towards white people. So if you are left and while, you are basically destroying your own livelihood.

Conservative Poland, Italy and Ireland are strictly against Chat Control. Well, at least against the worse version of it.

cynicalsecurity··on AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn
AI generated article to promote some product. What a great meta proof.
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