The_Decryptor

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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

If one day clang of gcc ships with a local LLM to lint code for security problems I would probably run it occasionally even on my hobby code despite being an AI hater.

Compilers already have deterministic linters built in, devs often turn them off anyway.

Quite a lot of the bugs being found in existing codebases show up as soon as you re-enable them.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

And it's also not like the hardware is improving much either, we've effectively hit the wall performance wise with processors and RAM.

That's literally what all these datacenters are for, we can't scale the individual computer performance up, so instead we build more and more of them.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The LLMs are wicked fast at reviewing code

That's because it's not actually reviewing the code, rather just producing text that statistically looks like review comments.

So it does look vaguely useful, e.g. if code has null checks, review comments usually won't ask for them to be added, but it's never actually reviewing, or understanding, or reasoning, or anything else people claim.

It's like an actor playing a doctor in a TV show, they're not actually diagnosing patients, they're just following a script that looks like it.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

"Prompting" isn't a skill, that's just asking for what you want. Same way as asking a barista for a drink doesn't require the same level of skill as making it.

But in general yes that's how arguments and decision-making works, for any law. These things aren't mathematical proofs interpreted by computers, they're people you convince of your point.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ehh, it seems pretty targeted to me, it's defined to only apply to automatic apps or services, e.g. it specifically exempts manually created images.

Bans X from allowing grok to make naked pictures of celebrities but doesn't apply to people using photoshop to do the same.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Secure boot does have a revocation mechanism (It's literally how this issue has been mitigated) though.

You can not only load in allowed signatures, you can also load in disallowed ones so even properly signed binaries will get rejected.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Starlink the worlds fastest growing ISP, while having an enormous profit margin is the bread and butter.

Starlink has only had one profitable year ($70m total), and that's only if you exclude the cost of rocket launches and only count selling end user hardware and subscriptions.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

From other articles I've seen (Here's an example) it was telemetry and cross referencing the IPs used.

VPNs might help hide from passive identification, but they don't help when you connect to the same service on your normal and private connections alternatively. The computer equivalent of using both your real name and an alias with the same person, they'll know who you are.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Could be using Edge (Account syncing), or using Bing while signed in (Considering they were signing into private accounts while on the VPN, seems possible)

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

OEM systems come with the license key stored in the firmware (ACPI tables specifically), you can read them from *nix easily enough.

sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

If you boot the system and login an account then yeah they'll be able to link that, but the install itself can "self activate".

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

And it'll take ages to have an impact too.

Furthermore, we find that these reentry byproducts may take up to 30 years to settle from the top of the mesosphere into the stratospheric ozone layer. Upon reaching an altitude of about 40 km, aluminum oxides catalyze chlorine activation which promotes ozone depletion.

So the "reentry byproducts" from a satellite re-entering now, won't start breaking down ozone until 2056, and by then there will be another 30 years' worth of byproducts deposited in the upper atmosphere.

And since it's a catalyst, it won't even be consumed in the process like CFCs are.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All the more reason to delete it and ban the person uploading them.

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