@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-10-18 03:25:19
@… If you have to worry about whether the current thing is in cents or dollars, then perhaps the real problem you have is Primitive Obsession.
Claude would never call *that* problem out, of course.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-10-19 13:26:33
How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions https://www.404media.co/how-a-massive-chinese-crime-ring-hacked-staples-to-steal-millions/
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-10-15 14:53:29
Hmm, I wonder why they didn’t just use a herd of #AI agents to fix the code?
Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos - Slashdot
@dcm@social.sunet.se2026-09-10 14:03:55
When discussing scientific achievements made mostly or partly by AI systems, especially the headline-making ones, it's good to think about the resources being allotted to such projects, which are plausibly incomparable to previous investment. For instance, I suspect that no one had previously invested several millions of dollars to hire a team of mathematicians exclusively to tackle a single millennium problem.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-10-19 12:16:20
"One of the hackers... stole a trove of credit card data. Another tried to get AI agents to rob a cryptocurrency exchange. The Chinese-speaking hacker was the most prolific. Beginning on September 25, they set their AI army loose against US, Canadian, Australian and Japanese e-commerce websites."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used-ai-agents-few-thousand-dollars-break-into-scores-sites-2026-10-19/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6ad5edb0ab53aa0001d99f5c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
@pre@boing.world2026-10-15 19:51:30
I don't really understand what Omarchy even is, other than a front for corporations to donate money to fascism.
It sounds like it's not even a full distro really, just Arch with a bunch of config files?
I mean: If you can get millions of pounds for your config these days, my config is:
Three-key keyboard shortcuts for:
They are all ctrl-alt and keys around J on the keyboard. I move my windows around like a wizard.
5x2 virtual desktops. Move between them with ctrl-alt left/right/up/down. Shift to carry the current window as you move.
The desktop configuration is:
Main:
One-Desktop-left, messenger screen:
Telegram will be phased out. Nearly done.
One desktop right, lights.
One desktop down: Godot-coding.
Diagonal right-down: Steam.
Diagonal left-down, spreadsheets.
Rarely active really.
The other desktops are for sundry tasks as and when they might arise.
The OS is on the root of the hard-drive and /home/pre is mounted from a set of zfs drives that frankly need rethinking and reorganizing.
Directories in there:
In /pub we have basically the Jelly-fin formats with side-directories.
In /doc we have
Vimwiki is my opinionated choice for personal journal and reference notes. It is amazing and I should have gone with markdown from the start but it's still all in vimwiki syntax.
I will post the basic structure of the vimwiki only if this post gets 50 boosts or thousands of dollars in donations.
It is several levels deep with symlinks into the project directories.
Then of course there's the server-config which there's flavours of, and the way those servers are backed up, and the themes for the things.
Nextcloud, ttrss, goto-social, mastodon, peertube. I got servers running 'em all.
Can I get me some of those fascist dollars if I publish my config for mixing gotosocial with a static website to combine a social and web identity into one?
It's basically just an nginx config and a hugo run and some scripts.
If I install all that and snapshot it can I have the millions of fascists money please?
#opinionatedOperatingSystems #opinionated #operatingSystems
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-10-04 09:16:40
I keep beating this drum, but...
It's.... Interesting that we're having an entire conversation about "AI alignment" when Sam Altman and Darius Amodei have flat out said that their goal is to make paperclips out of everything even if the human race goes extinct in the process.
Oh I'm sorry, dollars. They're making dollars, not paperclips. That changes everything, clearly.
...
What's more insidious is that even if you Luigi'd Altman and Amodei tomorrow, OpenAI and Anthropic would happily elect new leaders and continue with business as usual. There is no shortage of humans willing to step up and run the paperclip machines and who have the same misalignment issue (they're not actually a large percentage of humans, mind, but there are plenty of them). So the thing you have you defeat in order to stop the paperclipization is in fact a corporation (and the idea that wealth makes right behind it), not a human.
It's almost as if we're *already* locked in an existential battle with an inhuman entity whose effective goals are dangerously misaligned by nature... 🤔
...
I wonder if the same techniques used to defeat the entity already threatening us would work against the hypothetical threat it's waving around to distract us? Only one way to find out!
#AI #LLMs
@piger@mastodon.social2026-10-09 18:04:35
so postgresql is supposed to be the better database, and I'm trying to upgrade an installation and this is all very delirious?
@tarah@infosec.exchange2026-08-03 20:31:42
This Friday at DEF CON I host the @… Poker Tournament, and novices are especially welcome.
We play Fri Aug 7, noon to 3, at the Horseshoe Poker Room in Vegas, with my dad running a beginner clinic at 11. This is not the ESPN boys' club version of poker. The room is safe, surveilled, and respectful, and the dealers are briefed to teach, not judge.
Your buy-in donation is also a full year of EFF membership. Send eff.org/poker to one curious friend.
#DEFCON #EFF #Poker
@piger@mastodon.social2026-10-09 18:04:35
so postgresql is supposed to be the better database, and I'm trying to upgrade an installation and this is all very delirious?