Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 2mo ago Replying to @Viss@mastodon.social @h2onolan@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org its possible, at least on android, to go app by app and manually disable mic access to every single one. its kinda buried and its a chore, but you can do it. they make it a pain in the ass on purpose @Viss@mastodon.social @h2onolan@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org what about disabling the mic access in the global options while not using it?
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 2mo ago Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange (sorry, I somehow flubbed my keyboard and posted this half-finished, so I deleted it) an important thing to understand here is that software like theorem provers were designed around the assumption that the user cares about getting a correct answer, and wouldn't intentionally sabotage themselves by leaning into obscure, buggy behavior but AIs are the proverbial "nasal demons" of programming lore at their most manifest: you said you needed this theorem proved; it will "prove" the theorem at any cost, because the AI itself doesn't know or care about the beauty of mathematical truth, it cares about you clicking the button that indicates you were satisfied with its output today and are likely to pay for more tokens in the future The metaphor of "nasal demons" was invented to teach new programmers about the dire meaning of "undefined behavior": asking the compiler to do something it doesn't have exhaustively clear rules for, so it will do... something. Do nothing at all for one cycle, perhaps. Delete the hard drive, perhaps. Summon demons to pour out of your nose, perhaps. This is of course an absurdly impossible example to get you to remember it, but the point is: if your program causes undefined behavior, it is entirely possible something you don't expect and won't enjoy will happen. LLMs are nasal demons. They do not have exhaustively clear rules for anything: they wing it, all of it, all the time. Asking it to interface with a complex system with hidden bugs and find a miracle solution will cause results that you, as the entity that actually cares about the result being correct, will not enjoy. :neodog_devil: @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Just like humans, but with even messier incentives
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 7mo ago Replying to @0xabad1dea__dup_153@infosec.exchange Linguists: writing like this (superfluously mixing three languages in one fucking sentence!) does not make you seem like some sort of linguini houdini. It makes you seem utterly unable to communicate #linguistics @0xabad1dea that's what Babel's curse looks like
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 6mo ago Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io And of course there are a thousand practical lessons in fighting authoritarians, and we are passing them on as best we can as so many thousands of thousands have before us — but for now, for today, this is the one thing I can tell you: stop waiting for someone else to save you. This is it. We’re all we’ve got. Either we do this or no one does. ❝ It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing. ❞ /end @inthehands the Land of the free and the home of the brave 🫡
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 5mo ago Replying to @iagox86@infosec.exchange @Viss @Dio9sys @da_667 @hrbrmstr For no particular reason, I'm thinking of this line: I spent more time than I should have correcting fundamentals. Eventually I stopped. He was not, in any meaningful sense, on the other side of the conversation Imagine doing a technical review and instead of reading feedback, they simply paste it into Claude. I'm not mentioning this for any particular reason of course @iagox86 @Viss @Dio9sys @da_667 @hrbrmstr It reminds me of when I comment a pull request lately
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 5mo ago Replying to @MauroV1968@mastodon.online @s_wilson@mastodon.uno Su questo posso anche concordare. Anzi, concordo proprio. Ma accostare un occupato (Ucraina) a un occupante (Israele) non ci sta. Per nulla. @MauroV1968@mastodon.online Si, concordo
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 6mo ago Replying to @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social @donni@mastodon.social and too overworked to tell the difference @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social @donni@mastodon.social so true
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 19mo ago Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Most of the world was not ready to even begin to understand why Black folk celebrated the OJ verdict. Now that the world has seen George Floyd, and understands what Ben Crump does for the families of George Floyd and so many others, we might be able to understand. Read the entire transcript of that star officer, in his own words: https://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/bh/fuhrman.htm Please don't try to talk to any Black people, (especially me!), about the OJ trial, if you have not read this transcript in its entirety. @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io thank you
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 6mo ago Replying to @anon_4601@nerdculture.de @tsm @GrapheneOS @sicurezza Utente graphene da anni , qui tutt'apposto! Le app bancarie funzionano come tutto il resto; l'unica cosa che non funziona sono i pagamenti contactless tramite NFC, perché le banche vogliono che usiamo un portafoglio americano, che noi ci rifiutiamo di usare. EUDI Wallet potrebbe cambiare le cose se i governi europei smettessero di imporci sistemi operativi americani come unica soluzione... @anon_4601 @tsm @GrapheneOS @sicurezza le app per lo Spid?
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 7mo ago Replying to @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu <p>For digital spaces built on safety, transparency, and freedom. </p><p>We brought together top experts for our new Special Panel on child safety online. </p><p>We are looking into real solutions, like harmonised age limits for social media across all EU countries , and making sure tech platforms step up to protect young minds. </p><p>We are here to help make the internet a safer playground. </p><p>More 👉 <a href="https://link.europa.eu/cKjMRh" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">link.europa.eu/cKjMRh</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu this is just surveillance, the children should have privacy and safety, not grow up in a panopticon and being told it's love (especially girls need to know that surveillance is never love)
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 3mo ago Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social Disapproval from the crowd as they appear to begin to install a tarp over scaffolding. @mattblaze@federate.social I would feel very nervous because of the people, not just the physics
Open post Wilson @s_wilson@mastodon.uno · 5mo ago Replying to @MauroV1968@mastodon.online <p>Lo so che mi beccherò un sacco di insulti, ma devo dirlo.<br />Non capisco chi accosta Israele all'Ucraina.<br />Israele va accostato alla Russia.</p> @MauroV1968@mastodon.online più probabilmente sono guerre con una storia così diversa che non vanno accostate affatto