MadPsyentist

u/MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz
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The only way for these fancy text generators to do dangerous shit is if you hook up its fancy text to something that does dangerous shit.

If you connect an LLMs output up to a car, then give it any prompt other than the most basic. Dont be suprised when it starts driving the bloody car!

Load a pistol and give it to a baby, it will eventually pull the bloody trigger! Not because of intelligence or some sadistic streak to kill all humans, just by doing what children do.

Its also hard for new zealand to have the market to sustain a competition in a bunch of markets. I like this policy because it is using government for what it is ment to do. Regulate.

Yes NZ is a small market. Yes your offshore money means you can be in a dominating position and quickly squash home growen competitors. No you cant be a dick about it, you can earn some of the monies, you dont need to have ALL of the monies.

They probably scaned a manuscript from some unheard of eastern european mathmatician that wrote in some long forgoten Cyrilic "heres how you can work it out. Im going to leave working out the cypher as an excercise for the reader... Look, its a cypher, its easier to prove the math that solves it than it is to acctually solve it. Thats how cyphers work"

We will see. It was our package repository so a bunch of repackaged libraries with malicious code potentially got pushed. Not a massive amount of fallout for my team, just rebuilds and redeploys. An interesting chat to our newest developer,

"Oh we cant push to production just yet i need to run the test suite on the QA environment."

"Look, any other day you would be right. Right now i would much rather have a broken production than a compromised production"

Still dealing with the fallout of the companies decission to not update one of the self instanced tools we use. "It will cause outages", "we will do it in a quite month"

So anyway the service got popped last week and the team only reacted to it on Tuesday... The CVE and patched versions were released on the 28th of August...

This week was a fun week

The issue i have with the policy of "Have a state owned supermarket", in my eyes, is that it dosent give a how. Its just an empty promise, thats what i like about the Greens policy is that it says How they plan on doing it. I take issue with a bunch of our political parties for just releasing policy without saying HOW they will achive it. Excersise for the reader i guess?

I do like the idea of breaking up the duopoly much in a similar fasion as Telecom, that sounds a bit better than "give me your things!" As proposed by the Greens policy.

Boss: "Corperate demand more AI. AI is the future and the future is now!"

Graphic artist: "fuck i need this job to pay for my families survival. Fuck it 'OpenClaudPT generate a breakfast burrito'"

OpenClaudPT: "Wow that is an amazingly insightful and well reasond idea. There are not many people around who could have come up with such a fasinatingly innovative idea for a picture. Here is a picture of a cat! Hope you like it"

Graphic artist: "I didnt want a picture of a cat i wanted a picture of a breakfast burrito!"

OpenClaudPT: "Whoopsie poopsie. You are absolutly right. That is 100% my fault, i will own that one. Here is your Moon Sausage Burrito"

Graphic artist: "Fuck it! Close enough. If the boss dosent give a fuck about my work enough to let me do it then the best they are getting is a Moon Sausage Burrito. Whatever the hell that is"

Boss: "Why does the burrito look weird, oh well corporate asked for more ai and Graphic artist clearly used AI to make whatever this is. I need this job to pay for my families survival so im not going against corperate. Full send it!"

The wiki referance linked and subsequent article talk about trackers on the DDG browser not about search queries. DDG have a corperate license with Microsoft, sure, but any amount of line reading on or between seems conspirital at best.

Looks like this corperate contract with Microsoft is a secret especially if you have to "between the lines" read about a completly seperate product.

And i go to a publicly hosted instance of searxng and immediatly get told the past 10 search queries? Dosent seem magicaly private to me. To which your response might be "its designed to be selfhosted. " Sure that maybe the case, but we are just putting extra lines on this social contract to read between now. Not terrible but not perfect, which is the same area DuckDuckGo is playing in so i am prepared to take them at their word.

I'll admit Labour could have done more, should have done more when they were in power. However, it is also really easy to feel like they did nothing when everything they did ( Collective bargaining, Lake Onslow, Pay equality, etc ) was all revoked, under urgency, the moment this current pack of clowns got into power, Christopher Luxon's bloody "100 day plan".