@arstechnica "X’s new head of safety must toe Elon Musk’s line where others failed"
The only thing that stops a malignant narcissist from doing the things they do is for everyone to recognize what they are and treat them accordingly. No "head of safety" or any other such individual position will fix that. The closest they could do is spread awareness. A thing which would, of course, result in a very very immediate firing and probably a lot worse.
Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social), page 11
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:49:46 JST Nazo @arstechnica People aren't like LLMs, no. The basic mechanism breaks things down to the minimum and focuses, so it's just effective for both.
Anyway, "social engineering" to this degree smacks a lot of the kinds of trickery that con artists and sociopaths use. I feel like this is a dangerous path to go down.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:44:44 JST Nazo @arstechnica They literally came in and raised prices almost across the entire board, canceled all sorts of products and services people had been relying on for years now, and so on. And now they say "it's crazy anyone would complain about this!"
What I still want to know is why it feels almost like they're just straight up sabotaging VMWare.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:43:03 JST Nazo @arstechnica Do we even need to have this discussion? Of course it doesn't have to. No other VPN software does this. That was a clear and intentional choice.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:19:01 JST Nazo @nixCraft ctrl+alt+f1. Well, now ctrl+alt+f2.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 08:49:22 JST Nazo @arstechnica I really want to be able to use a Raspberry Pi that way. I've tried several times over the years. They're just so constrained and weak. Plus hardware acceleration is still lacking (especially if you don't use Chromium.)
In the end, yeah, a minipc still really does just work better.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 08:34:55 JST Nazo @itsfoss Here is my favorite: https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc
This gives syntax highlighting for a number of file types. It's very useful for visualization in a color terminal.
I just wish we didn't need a bunch of external changes to the configuration file for this -- some sort of internal configuration built in for it would be nice.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 07:47:25 JST Nazo @arstechnica Well, if it's "not that significant" then they should have no problem doing it and it shouldn't have required a lawsuit to force them to do it then should it?
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 07:45:06 JST Nazo @arstechnica I've already had to block one that won't even close with my adblocker. This is BAD. Usually once they start down this road they start trying to ban ad blockers and such. Not acceptable. What scares me is how much harder it is to get people to "vote with their dollars" so to speak these days. When they pull crap like this, people should move to other things like Matrix. Instead people will probably just double down on it and make excuses.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 14:45:27 JST Nazo @arstechnica I normally don't bother with such things, but I started using LocalSend a while back and it has been fairly convenient for some really quick and simple transfers. Though I generally prefer FTP/SFTP for better handling and control, it's convenient to quickly fire it up to just transfer one simple file.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 14:34:15 JST Nazo @arstechnica Would probably have to be something like 24GB as a realistic minimum. I can see why they'd need them loaded all the time though. It takes a little bit to load a LLM from a SSD with a fast desktop PC. A smartphone/tablet could be near useless if it only loaded on demand.
I guess it goes without saying this whole thing is just going to wreck battery life. And it's still probably going to phone home with insanely private info.
Apple users take note, Apple has similar plans.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 09:13:30 JST Nazo @arstechnica I mean yeah, what can possibly go wrong in designing the devices to be able to power on, install stuff without user verification in any form, and then turn back off to appear as if nothing has even happened?
Are people really so lazy now they can't take a few minutes on a new device to do updates?
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 08:26:46 JST Nazo @arstechnica That is positively crazy. I can't even imagine how hard it must be for this to even form this way.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 07:13:29 JST Nazo @nixCraft The only reason I chose Chrome in the first place when Opera died (god I miss the real thing -- I'm not referring to the Chromium clone that calls itself Opera obviously) was that it was lighter and better performing than Firefox at the time. It remains better performing in really constrained environments (such as my Raspberry Pi 4) but in the end is not worth it now that Google has completely lost what little sense they ever had. It's troublesome on my RPi, but I am never going back
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 07:05:14 JST Nazo @arstechnica I see a windshield. I think you mean no clear glass. A windshield means it protects you from wind getting through. Putting aside aerodynamics and etc, a completely open rear would mean a prospective thief could just crawl in if there was nothing in the back. This is solid, so they can't.
Really it's hard to look out the rear of such form factors anyway. Chances are this uses rear cameras and the like with much more effectiveness than trying to bend to look out.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 06:56:24 JST Nazo @arstechnica It was only a matter of time until this started to become a thing.
I might add that there is a similar attack vector already being used in a lot of things where things ask for permissions they should not have and people are basically already trained to hit allow without conscious thought. Facebook (and Meta in general) among others have been using this to gain access to things they should not for many years now.
Eventually people just get tired of hitting no or make a mistake.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 06:53:15 JST Nazo @arstechnica The irony is the one single advantage of running "AI" locally is to keep it from phoning home with all of your data.
And that's the one thing Microsoft would never actually allow. They've built entire systems around taking people's personal info dating back to before the so called "AI" craze.
I can see this as being about selling a product, but selling a service is profitable too -- probably more so -- so I'm not entirely clear why they'd want to focus on this really.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:30:44 JST Nazo @nixCraft It makes no decisions. It's merely putting together patterns. Some patterns form more than others. It doesn't select between them based on knowledge but on frequency matching with a random seed. With zero decision making actually taking place, it can never make a good decision by definition. It lacks and cannot ever have understanding.
The sad thing is, LLMs could have instead been used complimentary with actual experts as ways of narrowing possibilities to be double checked.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 06:23:30 JST Nazo @itsfoss It would be good to see more gaming-oriented OS competition. I doubt it will beat out SteamOS, but it certainly might drive innovations all around.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 06:20:53 JST Nazo @nixCraft I have a 5600X and sort of regret it sometimes, but then in actual practice I've found few things are actually truly utilizing those cores super well anyway. Pretty much only encoding and compression can fully utilize all cores. Games typically use 2-4 cores in my experience.
Actually, I've found that turning SMP off has benefits. Things are more stable and I get better metrics. Many things that benefit from more threads can be manually specified.
So I guess six is actually fine.