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iamacyborg··on Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505
> Judge the work on its merit.

We are, it reads like shit. Calling it slop is being polite.

iamacyborg··on Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505
From the first tool page. Clearly LLM slop.

> Löffelholz does not open his book with a showpiece. He opens it with a practical tool you can adjust: choose a size, clamp it, work.

iamacyborg··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
Claude loves announcing counts as well.

“X things follow”, or from your example, “It waits for Y things to line up”.

iamacyborg··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
I've read too much Claude slop. It's very easy to spot the sentence construction.
iamacyborg··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
Hah, you can literally tell from the subheader.

> Rules downloaded from their server decide your pieces, your score and your ads. One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place.

iamacyborg··on Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
At least replace it with dbt charts rather than a whole new vibe coded mess.
iamacyborg··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
Read Article 4. "PII" is not a thing in the GDPR.
iamacyborg··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
PII is not a thing under the GDPR. Like, at all. Personal data is. Personal data and PII are not the same thing.
iamacyborg··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
You’re conflating PII with personal data.
iamacyborg··on Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
> A non-zero amount of it is probably going directly to the AI companies through tokens...

Much the same way that VC money has been funnelled to Google and Meta through advertising budgets.

iamacyborg··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
No, it really isn’t.

Putting a static, printed poster on a wall is in no way analogous to surveillance.

iamacyborg··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
The fact one of the spyware cos was named after the fish that swims up your dick hole is too funny
iamacyborg··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Showing an advert is fine. A poster on a billboard is not deploying mass surveillance.
iamacyborg··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
> Wait what, so there is no content disarm between companies making ads, and the publishers? They can literally push whatever they want? Wild.

RTB (real-time bidding) does not incentivise publishers to care about what ads are actually being shown to individual users, so long as CPM is maximised.

iamacyborg··on Creating a Garmin "MCP"
> For example, if you want to track your maintenance calories (TDEE, total daily expenditure), Garmin isn't going to be much useful.

Why not?

iamacyborg··on Creating a Garmin "MCP"
This wouldn't sync over any of the data points that are calculated by the device, VO2 max, various sleeps cores, etc. Probably a good thing as those things are rarely all that useful.
iamacyborg··on US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams
If there was a sane payment system for spotify it would be literally impossible for that to be the case.
iamacyborg··on ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
As far as I know, the Braze/Snowflake integration is just to pull contact data and event feeds into Braze and to sync out performance data.

If they’ve gained access to Braze presumably they’ll have access to the contact db stored in there along with whatever other information is pushed in to support segmentation and personalisation but it’s definitely limited in scope vs just gaining access to their snowflake db.

This assumes they implemented things sanely with the db user for Braze having limited access rights…

iamacyborg··on ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
I am genuinely impressed at the lack of tech literacy in the live feed about this from the beeb.
iamacyborg··on Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
That doesn’t track with reality as far as I can tell.
iamacyborg··on Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
Post-Cambridge Analytica, yeah, a smidge surprised.
iamacyborg··on Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
The story from Hunterbrook is also pretty crazy with Muse having much more access to Meta’s social graphs than I suspect most users would hope.

https://hntrbrk.com/breaking-news/muse-doxxing

iamacyborg··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
The only mention of red light jumping is the victim’s opinion that it’s a factor.
iamacyborg··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
I don’t think that’s true given how many people do it with their own bikes.
iamacyborg··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Let’s not be too harsh, 3 years should be sufficient.
iamacyborg··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
We also need a points-based system on the tube, if you’re walking slowly in tunnels blocking traffic at rush hour because you’re staring at your phone you get a point. 5 points and you get a 6 month ban from the tube.
iamacyborg··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
How many unique faces though
iamacyborg··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Set up some automated scanners for cyclists jumping red lights in the City as well.
iamacyborg··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Yeah I definitely don’t take that much.
iamacyborg··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Citation needed
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