truelson

I reposted this as it wasn't clear from previous comments with this URL that there's a patch that's worth running in there from Apple themselves

Here's what apple (themselves) recommends to patch: https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555

Pretty much every developer on mac should probably run their patch.

So, uh, isn’t the blast radius huge here? Like ticking time bomb for unpatched servers huge once someone figures out how to craft their br payload just right?

Browsers were patched back in March, but if you can get anything else that is unpatched to decode br, and most HTTP clients do by default, and you’ve figured out the right payload (yes not easy, but still), isn’t this, well, really bad? Like Heartbleed big?

He is a bit more of a PR person rage-farming disguised as a futurist. He's not optimizing for correct predictions. That's really hard and not his incentive.

Look at his incentives. It makes more sense.

Not always planned obsolescence. Good ol' "only the cheapest survive" plays a role, too.

You're wiring up a number of critical systems... and prompt injection here could be really bad. I worry about such systems with a single point of contact

Just going to say it... no mention of handling the security aspects of this. Scary.

This is cool, I should say, but I would be really worried about the security aspects. Prompt injection here could be really painful.

Really liked this. Made me laugh even if not intentionally funny.

Also, given how markets and news cycles are moved with words not actions these days, I really like this site.

There are still so many misaligned interests; this is a much tougher situation that may get some local stability for a period, but will likely return to chaos again.

Anyone use fly.io sprites for this yet?

Uh... i think Graphite (yay, stacking!) uses the API pretty heavily.

My wife is my favorite editor. She's usually not available. LLM editor is fine.

Write it first, quick self edit, then have an LLM edit. Then I edit again. It's most definitely my voice, and I love it.

Certainly possible, but this is all possible and ABSOLUTELY worth having alignment discussions. Right. Now.

Are we going to end up with an army of Deckards hunting rogue agents down?

You may indeed have a licensing issue... but how is that going to be enforced? Given the shear amount of AI generated code coming down the pipes, how?

Regardless of the technical details of the weighting issue, this is an alignment problem we need to address. Otherwise, paperclip machine.

I'm going to channel a little bit of @patio11 .

First, worth reading this on how he deals with credit agencies and debt collectors: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r... . There's gold in here for dealing with big globo-corp and how to get their attention.

Ask Google for a certified mail address so you can send them the timeline of events that occurred. This is the shibboleth that lets them know you mean business and that by not responding, they may be facing legal action. DO NOT THREATEN or mention legal action. The managerial class doesn't act that way. Just signal you are building a case against them. Start with getting that certified mailing address... you may be surprised how they respond after just that request.

If they don't respond, keep following up. Send them a timeline of events, proof of ownership even if they do not ask you what you need to prove ownership. Make it clear what this is costing you.

But here's the thing, EVERY TIME I HAVE ASKED FOR A CERTIFIED MAIL ADDRESS, the globocorp gave me what i wanted, and I never had to follow up. Every time. They don't want to deal with actual legal action from "people who know what they are doing."

It's a shibboleth. Like "Baa-ram-ewe." Use it wisely and honestly.

Wired was such a great magazine to read as a teen in the 90s. I remember just itching for the next issue.

Snowballing. Sometimes it's ok to pick something easy, especially for a team, to get a small win first. If you're in debt, pay off the smallest amount first. Get the easy win. Build to the next.

And remember, you win by showing up each day, not by tilting at windmills.

If someone in the coming years ran on taking down regulatory capture and returning that as social safety net funding, public goods, and lower taxes, and had the chops to actually deliver, they'd do well.

Though best to start local government first, obviously.

We're reaching breaking points in so many places...

"Evidence-based" stats tracking is the only somewhat scientific method i know of that can give you a good range of estimates. But it takes effort. Thus why many don't do it.

But accurate estimate ranges are a super-power for businesses if they can trust them. Never understood why that's not demanded more... oh yeah, it's work :p

I preffered: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...

20-25 years later, this is still where we are at :)

AT&T was able offload a bunch of debt on to them, and cash out at about what they paid in 2016. Not shabby.

It’s still “new tech” to our monkey brains and it takes a long time, and probably a lot of destruction, before our we develop better cultural norms for dealing with it. Our cultural immune system has only just started to kick in.

sooooo agreed. Just like George Lucas needed the original cast of Star Wars telling him no.

Java no barter

The ectoplasm name makes me want to make a "Don't cross the fs.createWriteStream()s" joke.

But I did like how it started with Watson joining him to get a hit of adrenaline and not deal with his soldiering past. Was a great scene.

Also, re: Dr. Who, Moffat gonna Moffat

A friend of mine does this as English as second language and his tone was always misconstrued. I'd bug him about his slop, but he'll take that over getting his tone misconstrued. I get it

It's still an editor I can turn to in a pinch when my favorite humans aren't around. It makes better analogies sometimes. I like going back and forth with it, and if it doesn't sound like me, I rewrite it.

Don't look at social media. Blogging is kinda re-surging. I just found out Dave Barry has a substack. https://davebarry.substack.com/ That made me happy :) (Side note, did he play "Squirrel with a Gun??!!!")

The death of voice is greatly exaggerated. Most LLM voice is cringe. But it's ok to use an LLM, have taste, and get a better version of your voice out. It's totally doable.

Dave Barry having a substack was such a bonus find here