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Admittedly it was a little scuffed up from an incident involving scraping against one of the shopping cart return structures. But I wouldn’t say it looked like hit-and-run damage? I sort of kept my eye out for that other car but never saw it again. Hmm…

Apple has been slow to get into the LLM game and it’s not that intrusive at this point, but that could change.

Defaults to zsh these days but bash is certainly still there.

That is mortifying. I hope he was able to rebuild his life afterwards, and that the stigma didn’t follow him around everywhere.

I once got accused of a hit-and-run because they presumably entered the wrong licence plate? I eventually got off when I was able to prove I was in another city at the time, but I was totally freaking out!

The creepy part was there was another car of the same make, model, and colour that often parked near us at the apartment complex and its plate only differed from ours by 1 letter. It was bad enough that my wife eventually attached a little foam ball to the head of the radio antenna so we could tell our car apart.

I’ve thought about that since, and concluded it’s not as statistically improbable as you might think? Licence plates are issued in blocks that just go up sequentially, so finding someone living nearby with an almost-identical number is probably pretty common. And if you both bought the car new, there’s a decent chance it will be the same model.

It’s hard to think of an industry that is more optimized towards the discomfort of its clientele than the airline industry. In terms of the evangelist sitting next to you, that’s a symptom of a problem exacerbated by the ought-to-be-illegal practice of overbooking flights to ensure every seat is filled, thereby leaving no recourse for a flight attendant who may want to have the aircraft equivalent of having an elementary school student stand in the corner.

There needs to be some maneuvering room to separate belligerent passengers, though you wouldn’t want to “reward” them by giving them extra space as a buffer zone. Or if this is inevitable, something would need to be done to make the time-out corner more uncomfortable than regular seating. But I have confidence they could come up with something? This is an area of expertise for airlines.

For a brief moment, I had a picture in my head of some Hatsune Miku-style fashion models and it piqued my interest.

This is when it becomes painfully evident all your food, regardless of brand, comes from one ginormous central processing plant because economies of scale and wealth concentration produced that optimization.

“It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”

Ok, I’m sold. Where can I pick up this horse and buggy?

I once visited a city called Savannah and was very disappointed to not find a savannah biome anywhere in the vicinity. It was far too forested! But maybe I was in that imaginary Georgia? I need to visit the real one.

While the AI revolution threatens to kill countless jobs, leaving potentially millions of Americans in the lurch, maybe all those future jobless Americans can turn to the booming data center theft industry. Maybe AI is a job creator?

Ah yes, my retirement plan from the tech sector…

Omg you’re right! I hadn’t used the in-head gpt to sound it all out en français. LOL!!

Isn’t ChatGPT when you ask your cat what he wants in French?

I find it mildly annoying that while the post is replete with hyperlinks, the 2 central terms “ietf-tls-mlkem” and “ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem” are simply quoted with no further elaboration.

I am no cryptographer, but after some searching around, my very first order understanding is that mlkem is a new algorithm that is meant to be resistant to attacks by a quantum computer. It is not time-tested at this point, however, while ecdhe is a current (albeit quantum-computer-weak) algorithm that has a solid track record.

Using both in combination is seen by some as a safer way to move forward, since mlkem may yet prove to have a fatal weakness and at least you have that fallback on the tried and true. Advocates also point out that ecdhe is cheap to compute compared to mlkem, and so the overhead of tossing it in there is not the end of the world?

Anyway, that’s all I’ve been able to glean so far.

Most relevant paragraph for the tldr crowd:

Flavors of AI doomsaying vary dramatically, ranging from Skynet-style scenarios to mass unemployment. But more recently, as it’s become clear that one of AI’s most practical applications is generating code, experts have been sounding the alarm on AI’s potential to disrupt cybersecurity. Hackers could easily abuse AI agents and coding tools to orchestrate devastating cyberattacks, both increasing the scale of these attacks and lowering the skill needed to carry them out.

It goes on to talk about how claude has yet to release a particular model and China has closed-sourced some of its over cybersecurity concerns.

At Wendy’s you can add a shot of lime to your coke using that machine there. But there’s no rum button…

Ironically, the only solution may be to drain the swamp and start over?

Yeah you’re probably on the money there. AI gives you some sort of plausible deniability?

It certainly is. They get caught once in a while. The first time it happened was when I added the term “oligopoly” to my vocabulary.

Like do you really need an AI to do this? It’s been going on for years where I live. It’s not hard for all the local gas stations to collude to raise prices. It’s easier than ever when you have the likes of gasbuddy crowd-sourcing all the price-checking.

Researcher commenting on the patch:

he remarks that the software only checks the validity of the downloaded file using the ancient CRC32 hash that isn’t considered cryptographically secure anymore

I have to respect the researcher for his incredibly charitable wording here. CRC32 is not even remotely crypto. That’s never been its purpose, and using it for digital signing is patently insane!

I fear I would have had a much shorter temper after what he’s been through, and yet here he is keeping his cool and his criticism constructive. Good on him.