[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

handcuffed device

I'm surprised he wasn't stopped. I can't imagine the authorities would look very kindly on someone handcuffed to a thing they're holding, encrypted database or no.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

This coming off the end of the OpenAI/HuggingFace business does come across rather like Anthropic is doing a "actually, our models did it first, and better".

Didn't the company also recently have a spot of bother with the US government recently, where their new models were banned because of all their rabble about it being too dangerous? This hardly seems like it would help their case.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago
[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It's a text completion model/glorified Markov chain. Of course it can't input sanitise, it was never meant to do this to begin with.

The tool calling integrations that let it do more are basically making it add a markdown code block in JSON format into the user message, where the middleware intercepts it.

The input and "instructions" are the same thing from its perspective. There's nothing special that differentiates the two. The user input text, so it will output text, following the most likely sequence from its training.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Presumably the AI scraper would also have OCR, and would sidestep things like this?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Or that perfectly legitimate software can't be used in nefarious ways. Teamviewer, for example.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Not unless they caught a space disease, or someone had some cheese, anyway.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Nonsense, they're hardly any tribble at all.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The larger part of the infringement is probably its use commercially. I doubt that there would have been such a fuss if it was a fully-open, low-profit operation.

But as-is, the commercial products are being used to make money for the AI company in an unauthorised way.

Similar to how it's generally frowned upon for fan media to make money, because it starts being infringement. You can have a "support the fan media maker" button, but you generally can't do things like put your fan media behind a pay wall. The IP owners will come down hard on you for that.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This seems like it would be a sizable target for ransomware. Why include an encryption program if you can have the OS do it?

All the ransomware needs to do is make iOS think it's a payment provider.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Oh, I've been doing it wrong all this time. No wonder my bows are cross.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by T156@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

Voyager takes after the Apollo app in this regard, where if the app is closed while text is being edited, it'll bring back the unsaved draft, but it'll pop that into the next reply window you open, even if it is a different thread entirely.

Being able to reopen the same thread and resume editing would make it much easier if you're switching to another app to look up a reference or a link, and Voyager gets destroyed by the OS. It'd also help refresh your context if you can't remember what it was you were writing and why.

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

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While ordering a crew cut is easy, since it's on the menu, what about other kinds?

Can you just go "I'd like a men/women's haircut" and leave it at that, or do you need something more specific, like saying you want a Charlestone done by a No. 3 to the sides, and a 4 up top?

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In our world, the police going to a spirit medium for the DL-6 case, and being ridiculed might be logical, since spirit channelling isn't a real thing, but in the world of Ace Attorney, it is.

Not only is it a known and established practice, with detectable physical effects, but the monarchy of at least one country is specifically sought out for their spirit-channelling powers by other governments, so that they can commune with the dead, and receive advice that way.

However, it also seems to be disbelieved, and ridiculed as a pseudoscience, despite that.

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I've been using "mechanoid" as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it's both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.

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You wouldn't start off an e-mail with "My Dear X", or "Dearest X", since that would be too personal for a professional email, so "To X" being more impersonal seems like it would make the letter more professional-sounding, compared to "Dear X".

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Doctor Who zips all the way up and down through time, popping in at any time and place. If you don't have a time machine to follow them around with, it should be impossible to keep track of which incarnation was where. And yet, the Doctor's enemies somehow manage to do just that, with the Daleks being accurate enough to determine he was on his last regeneration on Trenzalore.

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One of the options for students enrolling into Hogwarts, if they come from a wizarding family, is that they have the option of using a hand-me-down wand. But short of wands being damaged beyond repair, we don't see many people replacing them, even though it happens enough that hand-me-downs are a valid option for new students.

So how long does one last? Does a wizard normally use one wand in their lifetime, or is it the kind of thing where an old, worn-out wand is fine for schoolwork, but you'd need something newer/better for adult life?

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What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?

It seemed to just pop up out of nowhere, seeing as the previous terms seemed fine, and are in use for some things today (like rheostat brakes, or condenser microphones).

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world

You often see people in fitness mention going through a cut/bulk cycle, or mention one, with plans to follow up with the other. Why is it that cutting and bulking so often happen in cycles, rather than said person just doing both at once, until they hit their desired weight?

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While we hear of the TARDIS having engines that are implicitly essential to it working, we've also see a TARDIS work without the rest of the machine.

"The Doctor's Wife" and "Inferno" show that a TARDIS is capable of operating as just the console, which would seem to imply that they're just a power source to allow the console to do its thing and move the whole ship around, or to allow for the pilot to do silly things like tow an entire planet one second out of phase.

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