Wildmimic

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Non-technical people should not have a say in security at all. Just as the opinions of Joe Shmoe should be disregarded in sectors like public health, science, law and politics. We have to start to purge the people knowing shit in all important areas. Crap like a shitstorm on X (aka nazi central) or something should be used to target the participants in those campaigns to mark them as unreliable bums.

Edit: more extreme people than me might propose a system that is close to the Black Mirror episode "Hated in the Nation", but not with killing the fuckers participating, but by taking away their talking rights on online platforms. Humanity would be better off this way.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 42 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

LOL why are those systems even exposed to the internet? This is fucking inane, making sure those systems can't connect to the internet is basic security, and whoever decided to cut corners here should get fired, sued, sentenced and fined, all of this into eternity because their decision was fucking braindead. VPNs are NOT a new technology.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 4 points 4 weeks ago

This has nothing to do with weather conditions or lighting. It has to do with basic statistics: if you are looking for a very small subset of identifiers in a very large pool, and you have a system that has a (pretty good btw) 96% chance to read an identifier correctly, you will get more and more false positives the more identifiers you scan.

That means expanding the Flock network also expands the amount of false positives.

This cannot be avoided, except if you are able to make the 96% rate better; but be reminded if this system would get upgraded from 96% to 99.6%, total precision would only increase about 1% (from 29.1% to 30.1%). reducing the number of false positives in this example by only 15 licence plates.

To actually reduce the amount of false positives, you would have to make the system less sensitive - which isn't possible in this context.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's basic statistics.

  • True Positives (TP) 415
  • False Positives (FP) 1,012
  • False Negatives (FN) (Calculated using 96% Recall) 17 Target plates that were missed.
  • Precision TP / (TP + FP) 29.1% When it hits, it’s wrong most of the time.
  • Recall (Assumed from Global Acc.) 96.0% It successfully catches almost all targets.

That’s the problem if you are fishing for a very small number of targets out of an absolutely bonkers large pool of potential targets - at some point your false positives start becoming more and more prevalent in relation to actual positives. That is simply statistics and if flock can’t improve the global accuracy by some exponents, this problem will grow - the more Flock gets used and the more licence plates they are scanning, the more the false positives increase.

And it is a massive problem, because the false positive marks you as a criminal - that means any legal recourse gets expensive and painful. This technology creates more problems for everyday people than the amount of issues it removes by tracking actual criminals.

Cutting them down with a reciprocating saw is absolutely justified. These things are an affront to privacy and accuse random citizens of being guilty of felonies.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 weeks ago

algorytme, depassed and Capitalisme for sure aren't.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)
  • True Positives (TP) 415
  • False Positives (FP) 1,012
  • False Negatives (FN) (Calculated using 96% Recall) 17 Target plates that were missed.
  • Precision TP / (TP + FP) 29.1% When it hits, it's wrong most of the time.
  • Recall (Assumed from Global Acc.) 96.0% It successfully catches almost all targets.

That's the problem if you are fishing for a very small number of targets out of an absolutely bonkers large pool of potential targets - at some point your false positives start becoming more and more prevalent than actual positives. That is simply statistics and if flock can't improve the global accuracy by some exponents, this problem will grow.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 month ago
  • There are common techniques that can be used broadly to get results with LLMs.
  • Some source code is floating around out there, like it is mentioned in the article.
  • Yes, decompilation techniques are something that cannot be prevented and are sped up by LLMs.
  • There are only so many devs patching bugs, while there might be millions trying to break in - they mentioned the chaining of multiple "low"-priority bugs to escalate the severity, and if you need months to even get the really dangerous stuff fixed, it's a free-for-all bonanza as soon as those models hit the public, and these people don't even need to know anything about cybersecurity - Joe Shmoe can tell Mythos to "go hack Onedrive" and that's all that is needed from Joe Shmoe.
[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it might help with the behavioral issues which are attached to male puberty, maybe reducing bullying and sexual harassment. It could also be used to teach about female anatomy, a thematic complex that seems to be sorely lacking in the US in general.

Ok, end of sarcasm. Simply putting this thing there as a bad substitute for a real teacher is not even a bad joke. It is insulting towards both the students which deserve to be taught by someone they can relate to and who is invested in their growth, and it is insulting towards teachers by showing them that they are seen as nothing more than information dispensers.

Teaching is so much more; the most important lessons i learned in school weren't the information i was getting or the stuff i was asked on tests, but the continued impulses to make sure i think for myself, to be critical towards my surroundings, to make sure i don't just accept incoming information, but also making sure to see who is feeding me that information and WHY i get this information fed at all.

It was an inoculation against bad actors and propaganda. I know i am still not immune to it (noone is), but i often just realize why a specific piece was written, being able to read between the lines, without much effort. This is what is needed for a functioning democracy, and it is obvious that exactly this ability is under attack from all sides.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

That thing would get vandalized, hacked and flashed back to a sexbot firmware in no time. Funnily enough, the improved fleshlights these things normally have can be bought standalone, so maybe even a hardware upgrade would have been in that abominations future.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 146 points 1 month ago (30 children)

Anything but regulate guns, making mental health ressources more accessible or punish bullying.

This normalizes policing by machines, controlled by faceless people who will be shielded against consequences just like cops are shielded now. Drones don't have a face, a name or an personell number. If something happens (and it will), you can't even point your finger on the guilty party anymore. It also shields those controllers from any social backlash they would get if they would hurt someone in person.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 month ago

Naah, would be wasted on him, send it to me instead, i make good use of it!

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The banks wouldn't give them the credit needed without this. This is one of the signs of the bubble crumbling. The question isn't if the card house collapses, but when. We're all waiting for it. Currently the can still cover for each other, but that strategy only goes so far.

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