Dave.

but air resistance is a bitch. You wanna go twice as fast, you need four times as much power

Unless your supersonic aircraft is up a lot higher than your subsonic one. Coffin corner is a different beast when you can go above Mach 1.

So perhaps this will work out as twice as fast for only 3 times the fuel. An acceptable tradeoff, perhaps.

According to OpenAI, the agents eventually chained together multiple vulnerabilities, escaped their testing environment, gained internet access, and attacked Hugging Face while attempting to complete the ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark.

This is just gross incompetence on OpenAI’s part. It took days for the LLM’s to do what they did. Meanwhile, nobody’s looking at network traffic or wonder what the LLM’s are doing sucking down a bunch of tokens.

exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed.

_Thinking......_

_Still Thinking......_

The article is quite fixated on how dialup was around in the early 2000s, and how Americans used dialup in the early 2000s with screeching modems, and how AOL turned off their dialup last year and only a thousand people were using dialup by then.

But there’s no indication that this has anything to do with the application, except for maybe everyone used a popular means to connect to the Internet to use it when it was first built.

Now if someone maintained a bank of modems and people legitimately called them up and connected to the system like it was an ISP, and it was secure by way of that was the only way to access it as opposed to over the Internet, then sure, I can see that maybe it’s time to work on that part.

On disk 17 out of 37 of a Microsoft Office install in 1994:

GRONK-GRONK-GRONK-GRONK-GRONK

Disk error reading Drive A:

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Firstly, suspend might be an option compared to hibernation for your subsequent startups if you can suffer a slow startup the very first time.

Otherwise look up “Linux from scratch” .

A lot of boot time is decompressing and mounting initrd, loading modules there, mounting the root filesystem, jumping to that.

Build a kernel that has exactly the minimum modules needed for your system, skip initrd and jump straight to a root filesystem and call your init binary (it can be BusyBox even) do exactly what’s needed there to get your network+graphics card up and running with a single shell script, done.

Also look at COW filesystems. Read only base with an overlay file for writes. Discard that file on each boot and you basically have a system that is always at the same state on startup.

Ok it occurs to me that people use this like they use a spellinng/grammar checker in a word processor.

Spellcheck:

• They have an idea.
• They type up the idea.
• They run spellcheck and it churns through their document and it fixes mistakes that it can see.
• They send it to someone for review.

LLM coding:

• They have an idea.
• They type up the idea.
• LLM churns on the idea and spits out a solution-of-sorts.
• They send it to someone for review.

Regardless of other opinions of it, they see it as a tool that helps take the effort out of getting ideas into reality.

Edit: Oh wait, this is c/programming. Fuck. Ok, give me 5 minutes for me to sharpen my pitchfork and come up with something that matches the groupthink, I’ll be right back.

If you’re including a link to your tool, you can add one sentence at the end:

This keeps the post focused on discussion and feedback rather than promotion, which is generally better received in developer communities.-

At least proofread your post and remove the LLM comments first, because it surely won’t be better received in developer communities at the moment.

CXMT will sell the chips to memory manufacturers in China for “domestic use only” at near cost price as directed by the CCP.

Those manufacturers will construct consumer ram modules and sell them locally, and there will be grey market exports to other countries for ridiculously low prices compared to everyone else.

This way the CCP props up domestic supply, and chips away at foreign manufacturer market share by turning a blind eye to the massive grey market export of RAM.

nationalize Micron

No, no, no, you don’t understand, that doesn’t happen in the US.

What will happen is that they’ll get a trillion dollar bailout, a yuuuuge amount of protectionary tarrifs on overseas competitors and then some other company will scoop them up with no obligations.

And then - and this is very important - maximum profit will be extracted from consumers, who end up being measurably worse off.

Complains about incomprehensible short commands in legacy shells.

Builds own shell with a new set of incomprehensible short commands, minus the hookers and blackjack of existing shells.

(Insert xkcd standards comic here)

I’m quite sick of my browsers auto-updating and adding stuff I don’t need.

I’m pretty much at the point where I’m going to turn browser updates off. It’s perfectly functional for me as is, and if I ever hear of some crippling browser security issue I’ll consider its impact myself before thinking about updating.

I did some work for a company that owned a /16 public IP range and used it on their internal network. I had to put a safety rated control system on it that ran mining machines that weighed 60 tons and cost a couple of million bucks each.

They gave me a subnet range for the system that was clearly non-private and I was like, “ummmmm, is that on the Internet?”

Apparently it wasn’t routed to the rest of the Internet but it always felt like it was one misconfigured router away from disaster.

That’s a great post , except for the tiny, tiny, fact that boomers make up less than 20 percent of the population in all developed countries.

All your effort in getting on their radar and pandering to their particular needs nets you a quarter of that percentage, at best.

And good luck getting them off Facebook.

If it were a human doing it.

LLMs didn’t spring forth fully-formed out of the void, there are actual companies and actual people responsible for their construction, and thus, responsible for their output.

Just because current norms seem to handwave that responsibility away doesn’t mean that they are not responsible.

We all laugh about LLMs recommending a cup of glue being added to your pizza toppings. But there are increasing cases of considerable harm occuring from LLM “advice”, and no amount of “LLMs might give inaccurate answers” fine print attached to results is going to save big corps if something sizeable happens and multiple deaths occur.

“I call the big one ‘bitey’.”

English definitely needs more clues for pronunciation. Plenty of homographs could have been cleared up with diacritics. Wind/Wind, Bow/Bow, Sewer/Sewer, etc.

I actually have been using claude to go through all my old projects and review from a security perspective.

It flags a heap of things that I never considered, mainly because a lot of my projects were ad-hoc solutions to various issues that were written in a hurry and never intended to be visible to the general internet. But it also has been suggesting architectural and robustness changes that have some value, as a lot of stuff I wrote grew organically and weren’t structured particularly well for future growth.

He’s using a “thorn” cuz he’s so tistic and awesome.

The poster’s stance is that one day they hope to see thorns in AI generated text.

This is probably quite difficult to actually happen, as LLMs will see the characters as a spelling mistake compared to their general corpus of text and correct them.

In the meantime it makes their posts difficult to parse and irritates other readers, so surely this can be considered a win for everyone in the fight against AI. /s

Consider only exposing a VPN service, like Wireguard.

Then when you are away from home, it’s one tap / click to be back on your LAN again.

Seems like a quick way to get all your research and assets forcefully absorbed into a shadowy government department.