Kissaki
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- Comment on ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code 2 weeks ago:
It does show that it can be a useful tool, though.
Here, the security researcher was evaluating it and stumbled upon a previously undiscovered security bug. Obviously, they didn’t let the AI create the bug report without understanding it. They verified the answer and took action themselves, presumably analyzing, verifying, and reporting in a professional and respectful way.
The cURL AI spam is an issue at the opposite side of that. But doesn’t really tell us anything about capabilities. It tells us more about people. In my eyes, at least.
- Comment on The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind. 2 weeks ago:
Should posts like this have [Satire] added to the title?
I’d prefer them to be obvious. Just like we title posts to describe them, and put them into communities, mark them nsfw or not, whether it’s satire or not is an important differentiator.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 26 comments
- Comment on How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet 2 weeks ago:
Seeing him on German TV in a documentary was surprising.
- How ASML Makes Chips Faster With Its New $400 Million High NA Machine - CNBC (YouTube)www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel 2 weeks ago:
There’s a public petition - separate from the employee petition
- Comment on Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft continues to provide the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI services that are crucial in empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal efforts targeting Palestinians.
www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-goo…
‘Order from Amazon’: How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel’s war
The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, while procuring further AI tools from Google and Microsoft for military purposes, an investigation reveals.
Is every single Israeli resident complicit in what their government is doing? None of them should be allowed to use Windows?
This is not about Israeli citizens using Windows. This is about Microsoft’s contracts with the Israeli military and government.
- Comment on Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel 2 weeks ago:
When he died he called it…? I assume before he died?
- Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments 2 weeks ago:
Seems like that would be the engineered high effort version that I don’t think spammers would invest.
Is there a need to manipulate moderators? I don’t think so. Unless you have a specific target and don’t mind the effort.
- Comment on Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help 2 weeks ago:
Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily.
What’s the discovery replacement they are referring to here?
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 3 weeks ago:
You title them ports or remakes - do these all require the original game asset files?
When I read remake, I thought they’d be independent games, inspired by or replicating the originals.
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 3 weeks ago:
My local game store had Starflight for Sega Genesis for $80 in 1991 when I was just out of high school working minimum wage at an ice cream parlor in Pismo Beach and I found a way to make it happen.
What is 80$ in 1991 worth today? calculateme says 190$ adjusted for inflation (in 2025).
What about the minimum wage? dol.gov says $4.25, or $10.08 adjusted for inflation. Since 2009 it’s $7.25.
7.25/10.08 = 0,72 or 10.08/7.25 = ~1,40
80/60 = 1.33
So we have a decrease in minimum wage by 30%, but an increase of product price by 30%.
Is this correct? Does that make it 60% more expensive than his personal analogy from 1991?
Man, the two-sided percent reference point is confusing.
- Comment on OpenAI rolls back ChatGPT’s sycophancy and explains what went wrong 1 month ago:
a user pretending to espouse paranoid delusions received reinforcement from GPT-4o, which praised their supposed clarity and self-trust
This may be the next big sabotage of society.
Algo-driven unregulated social media pushed negative views, division, misinformation, while opening the platforms to manipulative content producers and connecting positive as well as negative influences (like finding communities of extremism).
If unregulated AI interfaces get pushed to people, they will not critically verify, but be confirmed in their own and the AIs biases, without any obvious indicators that this is happening.
Good thing we see some kinds of positive regulation. Like them pulling this model, interfaces adding disclosures of AI and uncertainty, and regulation by law.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 month ago:
Both are valid considerations, but I find the large shift to time spent on social media apps a much more compelling argument.
Indie games are part of the industry too, so I don’t think they’d be losses in accumulated industry revenue. The small and niche indies probably don’t have much of an impact on the market as a whole.
I also think the big titles largely marketed towards the general people and casual gamer. And I have to assume that still works the same way. They buy the popular marketed title, or on their console digital store. They don’t care as much about classics or indies [outside of the store’s popular titles].
- Comment on Duolingo ditches more contractors in 'AI-first' refocus 1 month ago:
👋
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 2 months ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 3 months ago:
also
Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, “You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.”
Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.
So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you’re (probably) good to go.
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 3 months ago:
The announcement blog post linked on the bottom of the linked Turnstile page has some info on that
For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser. The current deployment of Turnstile checks billions of visitors every day, and we are able to identify browser abnormalities that bots exhibit while attempting to pass those tests.
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 3 months ago:
Since Cloudflare published Turnstile I’ve hated Captchas even more, because Turnstile does it so much better. Captchas are such a hassle. One website I occasionally visit does not keep me logged in and then presents one of the worst captcha puzzle systems. Shitty captchas are a huge barrier.
Turnstile is, in almost all cases, one checkbox to click (I’ve never been challenged beyond that). All captcha puzzles should be replaced with Turnstile or similar simple (for the user to solve) tech.
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 3 months ago:
we do so via a large-scale (over 3, 600 distinct users) 13-month real-world user study and post-study survey
results indicate that the website context directly influences (with statistically significant differences) solving time between pass- word recovery and account creation.
We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated.
- Submitted 4 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 4 months ago:
I wonder how many software devs and admins now weigh their morals. And how many reject to implement or not.
- Comment on 'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio 4 months ago:
“creating and bringing value requires secrecy”
I disagree
- Comment on China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats 4 months ago:
Is it open source? Another article I read earlier said R1 is open weight, not open source. This article only says the org uses open source practices. No other mention of “open”.
- Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans 4 months ago:
I’m surprised there’s not an evident fork yet.
- Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans 4 months ago:
Real issues and contributions aside; creating one plugin is not contributing to Wordpress core/itself. And if they make good money over many years, I would agree it’s not a proportional or very significant contribution.
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 6 months ago:
and then modify these using neutral prompts to meet a business goal (e.g., “increase the likelihood of us selling our product”).
That how deceptive design gets introduced by humans too…
- Comment on New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got leaked 6 months ago:
All I hope for is that the Controller fits well in my long thin hands - like the fat Steam Controller does.
With the right joystick in place, it’s certainly a product I may buy. The Steam Controller trackpad was not a sufficient alternative for joystick input when most games designed input with the right joystick in mind. Aiming and camera control with a variable and non-tactile deadzone and input default of trackpad camera controls has always been annoying to me.
- Comment on New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got leaked 6 months ago:
lol
- Comment on Hackers breach Andrew Tate's online university, leak data on 800,000 users 6 months ago:
I stumbled over this video going over what’s in the leaked data dump (14 GB of text) and potential consequences (it’s pretty good/concise) [timestamped]: youtu.be/j84gB2cbNps?si=msCVMyQzdCaf-VHs&t=47…
