Yeah, friend of mine did that as a hobby project 8ish years ago. You can do that with just a small self-trained language model.
So, with AI as in the current RAM-sucking, earth-boiling monstrosities that are being pushed? No, it’s not a valid use case for that AI because it was already solved.
No bro the new model from 3 months ago is infinite gooder than what they tested. In 12-18 months we get agi or some shit i dunno just 10 more billions$ bro.
Kim: Aw shit I regret my contract. Maybe I can get out of it by lying. I need tons of lies. I need to lie and bullshit like a madman. I need to spout tons of absolute unhinged bullshit with a straight face.
ChatGPT: This. Is. My. Moment.
If everything on Windows is a vibe-coded web app then everything is going to look like different, feel like shit to use, and perform like shit.
I am happy to report: Windows apps that look different, feel shit to use and perform like shit are already available!
E.g. Teams, the CPU warmer from hell, was rolled out to Windows long ago. It was coded for Electron and couldn’t even integrate with Microsoft Windows’ taskbar popups. They had to fake one by creating a window that moved itself up from below the screen. Did this break when you changed resolution? Yes it did. Did it break when you moved the taskbar? Yes it did. Did it break when- YES IT DID
Clammy Sammy
It’s unlikely to be anything close to what the headline fuels to the imagination, but it’s good to read about some nice actual scary stuff instead of the calculator that Sam Altman put googly eyes and a miniskirt on and keeps claiming will kill us all.
AI doomerism is pure fiction and a marketing ploy.
According to mousetrap manufacturers, putting your tongue on a mousetrap causes you to become 33% sexier, taller and win the lottery twice a week.
While some experts have argued caution that it may cause painful swelling, bleeding, injury, and distress, and that the benefits are yet to be unproven, affiliated marketers all over the world paint a different, sexier picture.
However, it is not working out for everyone. Gregory here put his tongue in the mousetrap the wrong way and suffered painful swelling, bleeding, injury and distress while not getting taller or sexier.
Gregory considers this a learning experience, and hopes this will serve as a cautionary tale for other people putting their tongue on mousetraps: From now on he will use the newest extra-strength mousetrap and take precautions like Hope Really Hard that it works when putting his tongue in the mousetrap.
We don’t need cautionary tales about how drinking bleach caused intestinal damage.
The people needing the caution got it in spades and went off anyway.
Or maybe the cautionary tale is to take caution dealing with the developers in question, as they are dangerously inept.
I mean… Deloitte is mercenary, and hired by the company wanting a passed audit.
They get paid to check pre-agreed spots A, B, and C and keep their eyes closed outside those areas.
A RAM-only server can still send metrics, metadata, “anonymized” metadata…
As a long time Firefox user, I believe Firefox sees orders of magnitude more RAM issues than other apps because it is using orders of magnitude more RAM than other apps.
Zero-knowledge proofs are a good concept. They’ve been possible for a long, long time, and allow age check without surveillance.
So why are they not being used? Because age check is just a cover. These people want to do surveillance, not protect kids.
So it’s a good counter. Want age check? Do it like this. Oh, you don’t want it that way? Why not, pray?
Whether it works (it has, previously) or not (as with the current bullshit from the US), it does bring to the public debate that this is unnecessary surveillance.
Proton works great. I now play all my windows-“only” games on Linux.
Not out of principle. I’m just lazy. My coding laptop is always within reach and Proton works. The Windows laptop is, like, way over on the other side of the living room and I don’t feel like spending the evening disabling more ad shit or ai shit or whatever they did to Windows since I used it last.
Not to mention that one time he saved all those trapped kids with his custom-built submarine.
I hope there’s more to it than presented here, because this can be summarized as “64 bytes is too weak, so we make it bigger. Solved. The big is too big so we reduce it to 64 bytes. Solved.”
The strong certificate is not part of the end check, but proven via merkle tree reference. At the end of the day the end user check is only verifying 64 bytes of proof.
So it is kinda pointless? Can I attack the merkle tree reference to claim the strong certificate is used when it is not?
What am I missing?
Brb, I have decided to dunk my laptop in gasoline, and then throw it into the fireplace as hard as I can. This will make it run super fast and make me effective.
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Hey guys. Guys! Listen up. I have something important to tell you all.
Ok. So…
This. Damaged. My. Laptop. Turns out the gasoline damaged its internals and the fire deformed it into a solid lump of badly-smelling plastic. The toxic fumes from the battery gave me permanent lung damage.
I know I KNOW it is easy to judge me in hindsight, but literally there was no way to know and I hope this warning helps you avoid doing the same understandable whoopsie I did.
Now, I have learned my lesson. For my next laptop I will use diesel instead.
What is it with AI users that make them comfortable outing themselves as utterly incompetent?
They are pushing the “scarily unsafe” angle not because it is, but because that implies it is powerful.
What is the phrase? Kicking in open doors?
The waste is the point.
It needs to be more expensive, because that can be leveraged for higher valuations.