www.theguardian.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_pager_explosions
Technology
"participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code" and "were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code" - 2023 Stanford University study published at CCS23
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I really don’t get how its different than a search engine
Neither did this guy.
The difference is that LLM output is (in the formal sense) bullshit.
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What if there were an outside force that was attacking students/university
That happened at UC Los Angeles a few months ago; the university police chief and 19 of his officers stood by and watched the attacks for over 3 hours before intervening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/11/ucla-protests-police-inaction-fights/
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UC Merced annual training required only 7 rounds, while UC San Francisco used 7000 and UC Santa Barbara used 9000 🤔
Shoutout to UC Davis for having the only police department on the list who "did not use any military equipment during this timeframe".
For some reason the linked PDF varies from the screenshot in several ways, though most of the numbers are the same. (UC Riverside's number of rounds of .556-range ammunition used in training is 3000 in the screenshot but 6000 in the PDF now.)
I was curious how much this launcher costs:
... over here I see this glorified paintball gun is normally $2400 but currently on sale for just $1850.
www.lieffcabraser.com
www.lieffcabraser.com
World News
Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community
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I hope they’ll be gentle if they ever realize Canada exists
here is their canada portal: https://www.aljazeera.com/where/canada/
they also have some documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish/search?query=canada
husseini.substack.com
www.aljazeera.com
World News
Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community
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Auschwitz was in Poland. They were careful to keep all the concentration camps out of Germany
The six extermination camps where 2.7 million of their victims were murdered were all in Poland, but the Nazis did have hundreds (or dozens, if you count all of the subcamps near a larger one as being a single camp) of concentration camps in Germany.
chapotraphouse
Boston self immolater final message allegedly
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the same twitter account that found the youtube found it
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Boston self immolater final message allegedly
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here is the bluesky profile for the actual Matt Nelson it is: https://bsky.app/profile/gusavocados.bsky.social (via)
chapotraphouse
Boston self immolater final message allegedly
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The phrase "I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest" is homage to Aaron Bushnell's statement.
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Boston self immolater final message allegedly
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I'm pretty sure that is not the same person
linuxmemes
Remember back when Ubuntu put ads in the dash? I do (~2014)
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Ads?! in Ubuntu? Never! They were simply "integrating online scope results into the home lens of the dash" 🤡
(that is an actual quote from the sentence immediately following "We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu" in Mark Shuttleworth's blog post responding to the entirely predictable backlash after they did this, twelve years ago...)
World News
Iran backs China-Brazil peace plan for Ukraine war
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Posting maps and call it a day. Classic. Any kind of context is for nerds I guess?
Your comment I replied to also doesn't say anything about the context of the expansion, it just says it "is not real".
But if you want some context, I encourage you to watch the 20min video i posted earlier in this thread.
World News
Iran backs China-Brazil peace plan for Ukraine war
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NATO expansion
Which is not real. I am saddened you choose to believe in it.
🤔
(via this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO ...which will presumably amaze you)
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theonion.com
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Iran backs China-Brazil peace plan for Ukraine war
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If you're actually curious and have 20 minutes, try this video: Ukraine: The Avoidable War
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before a paywall kicked in
Oops, I didn't realize there was a paywall (using tor browser w/ ublock origin there isn't).
I've edited the post body to include the whole article now.
www.telegraph.co.uk
headline: Gang of wild otters mauls jogger subheadline: Woman, 40, badly hurt in park after eight of the carnivorous creatures launch early-morning attack Lilia Sebouai 11 September 2024 • 4:08pm  The otters were filmed running across a car park moments before the attack A group of wild otters viciously attacked a woman jogging in an inner-city park in Malaysia. Mariasella Harun, 40, was chased and mauled by eight of the mammals on Wednesday morning in Tanjung Aru, in the northern Sabah state of Borneo island. A graphic video of the aftermath showed the victim huddled on a pavement with deep gashes visible on her arms, as blood streaked her temple, T-shirt and leggings. Another clip captured the bevy of otters – each as big as a small dog, with slick dark hair – charging across a car park moments before the attack.  Mariasella Harun, 40, was badly hurt in the attack It is the latest in a series of incidents involving humans and otters in the area. A man was recently taken to hospital after another unprovoked attack. Otter attacks are increasing across the whole of South-East Asia, according to wildlife authorities. Despite their somewhat cuddly appearance, otters have teeth and jaws that are strong enough to crack open shellfish. They can weigh up to 14kg and grow up to 4ft, including their tail. Ms Harun said she fought off the animals for what felt like five minutes until other joggers came to her aid. She described finding herself suddenly surrounded by the pack after they “jumped out” from a drain in Perdana Park at about 6am local time. “At first, I thought it was a cat, but the creature jumped out and bit me while I was running, and there were many of them ... I could not even stand up when it happened,” she told local media. Ms Harun was then taken to a nearby hospital as a wildlife team was sent to monitor the otters. Roland Niun, the director of the Sabah Wildlife Department, said the otters might have seen Ms Harun “as a threat to their cubs and reacted defensively”. “Otters generally avoid humans, and their perceived cuteness might lead some to mistakenly believe they are friendly and tame,” he said. “It is not advisable to approach them, as they can bite when provoked.”  A medical team at the scene on Wednesday morning Mr Niun said a family of otters, including six adults and two cubs, had frequently been seen hunting for fish in the park’s lake. He said the fence around the park would be reinforced and warned the public not to “feed them or provoke them in any way”. The adoption of otters as household pets has become a growing trend across Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. However, a recent report found that 60 per cent of the animals seized by authorities in South-East Asia were headed for Japan, according to Traffic Japan, a group monitoring the illegal wildlife trade. The trapping and export of otters is illegal in many countries, but the carnivores are often freely traded online. In Indonesia, otter owners often join online communities and organise meet-ups to show off their pets, even parading them on leashes in the streets of Jakarta on Sundays.
Asklemmy
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To answer your question: yes, YTA 🤦
Also, I'm deleting this post per asklemmy rule 3.
Lemmy Shitpost
Local cuisine
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Snopes says they haven't found evidence that this is something he actually said, and also that even if he did say it, it was most likely "kayfabe" - a pro wrestling term for maintaining the story line outside of the ring.
Otoh, https://www.houstonpress.com/news/opinion-the-reality-behind-hulk-hogan-vs-andre-the-giant-16554572 is an interesting read i just found while searching for the above which includes some good reasons why Andre might legitimately have stopped being friends with Hogan. Also TIL Jesse Ventura tried to unionize WWF and later learned in court that it was in fact Hogan who had ratted him out to their boss (Vince McMahon). (Or maybe this is all just higher-order kayfabe? 🤡)
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Ah, figures. I should know better than to post quotes without checking if they’re attributed correctly
Why don't you correct it then? (Eg, either delete your post, or replace the linked image with an updated one that attributes the quote correctly.)
This isn't facebook; please don't post years-old misattributed quote memes.
Lemmy Shitpost
I've bean missing these memes
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(my contribution to lemmy's beans arc)
Technology
'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next
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CBOR uses variable-sized length prefixes. Strings zero to 23 bytes long require just one byte of overhead, after that it becomes two bytes for strings up to length 255, and 3 bytes of overhead for strings up to 65535. Above that, it requires 5 bytes of overhead, which is probably enough for strings up to at least a few hundred GB, though I didn't test that far.
::: spoiler click to see how i empirically determined those numbers
$ python -c 'import cbor; overhead=0; print({ length:overhead for length in range(65537) if overhead < (overhead:=len(cbor.dumps("a"*length))-length) })'
{0: 1, 24: 2, 256: 3, 65536: 5}
:::
Programmer Humor
spreading misinformation online (javascript??)
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No Stupid Questions
Why isn't everything mouldy?
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also: The Oyster was an erotic magazine published in London in 1883
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Upload bandwidth doesn’t magically turn into download bandwidth
Actually, it does. Various Cable and DSL standards involve splitting up a big (eg, measured in MHz) band of the spectrum into many small (eg, around 4 or 8 kHz wide) channels which are each used unidirectionally. By allocating more of these channels to one direction, it is possible to (literally) devote more band width - both the kinds measured in kilohertz and megabits - to one of the directions than is possible in a symmetric configuration.
Of course, since the combined up and down maximum throughput configured to be allowed for most plans is nowhere near the limit of what is physically available, the cynical answer that it is actually just capitalism doing value-based pricing to maximize revenue is also a correct explanation.
Linux
LWN report about the "Rust for filesystems" session which a Rust for Linux maintainer referred to for context when retiring from the project this week
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The tone which comes across in the video (linked from the other post I linked to in this post's description) is unfortunately much less amicable than this article conveys.
Their resignation is already being discussed in another post here from yesterday: *[One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"](https://lemmy.ml/post/19699109)* ...but I think this LWN reporting (from back in June) deserves its own post as it makes it easier for those of us who are not kernel hackers to follow what is going on.
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the guy speaking off camera in the linked 3min 30s of the video is Ted Ts'o, according to this report about the session.
www.phoronix.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1044280 > > Wedson Almeida Filho is a Microsoft engineer who has been prolific in his contributions to the Rust for the Linux kernel code over the past several years. Wedson has worked on many Rust Linux kernel features and even did a experimental EXT2 file-system driver port to Rust. But he's had enough and is now stepping away from the Rust for Linux efforts. > > From Wedon's post on the [kernel mailing list](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/): > > > I am retiring from the project. After almost 4 years, I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the nontechnical nonsense, so it's best to leave it up to those who still have it in them. > > ... > > > I truly believe the future of kernels is with memory-safe languages. I am no visionary but if Linux doesn't internalize this, I'm afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix. > > > Lastly, I'll leave a small, 3min 30s, sample for context here: https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1529 -- and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code." > >
Technology
"REM sleep is the next AI"
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That label is there because I'm subscribed to XBlock Screenshot Labeller and it misclassified this image. (You can find here and here more info about how labelers in ATP work...)
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"REM sleep is the next AI"
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i regret to inform you there is another startup literally pitching that: https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-dream-startup-prophetic-headset-prepare-meetings-while-sleeping/
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"REM sleep is the next AI"
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"REM sleep is the next AI"
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i hope you're joking but if you're not i assume you live in the bay area? if you want to go to their pitch tonight, here's its eventbrite.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702 > ::: spoiler image transcript > screenshot of [this](https://bsky.app/profile/comraderobot.bsky.social/post/3l2o7qak3wk23) bluesky post (which you can read without logging in [here](https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fcomraderobot.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3l2o7qak3wk23&viewtype=tree)) from `@comraderobot.bsky.social` ("Notorious RBMK") saying: > > my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got. > > > > there’s unhinged and then there’s *tech unhinged* > > image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text: > > > REM sleep is the next Al > > > > The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup > > > > - Controlling a smart home from dreams > > - Transferring speech from dreams > > - Controlling virtual cars from dreams > > - Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants > > - Social media for sharing dream journals > > - Smart sleep masks powered by Al > > - Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech) > > > > Don't miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors > > > > Aug 29th Palo Alto > > Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying "Possible tumblr screenshot" with a "hide" button. > > ::: > > -- > > the guy behind this startup: > * (CW bloody photos) "*[I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain's motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming](https://xcancel.com/MichaelRaduga/status/1681232462276444161)*" > * https://www.newsweek.com/russian-implants-chip-brain-control-dreams-hospital-1814256
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702 > ::: spoiler image transcript > screenshot of [this](https://bsky.app/profile/comraderobot.bsky.social/post/3l2o7qak3wk23) bluesky post (which you can read without logging in [here](https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fcomraderobot.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3l2o7qak3wk23&viewtype=tree)) from `@comraderobot.bsky.social` ("Notorious RBMK") saying: > > my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got. > > > > there’s unhinged and then there’s *tech unhinged* > > image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text: > > > REM sleep is the next Al > > > > The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup > > > > - Controlling a smart home from dreams > > - Transferring speech from dreams > > - Controlling virtual cars from dreams > > - Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants > > - Social media for sharing dream journals > > - Smart sleep masks powered by Al > > - Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech) > > > > Don't miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors > > > > Aug 29th Palo Alto > > Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying "Possible tumblr screenshot" with a "hide" button. > > ::: > > -- > > the guy behind this startup: > * (CW bloody photos) "*[I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain's motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming](https://xcancel.com/MichaelRaduga/status/1681232462276444161)*" > * https://www.newsweek.com/russian-implants-chip-brain-control-dreams-hospital-1814256
Late Stage Capitalism
"REM sleep is the next AI"
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This just crossed my radar again and... it turns out this startup is not only into non-invasive EEG electrodes: the founder of it self-trepanated last year 😬
I edited the post to add two links.
Memes
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That pin can be found for $30 or $35 on on ebay here and here, where it is described as being from the 80s and as an "employee pin".
I was thinking that this might have been something aimed specifically at technology buyers in US schools in the 80s or 90s, to whom Apple offered substantial institutional discounts in a (relatively successful) effort to dominate that sector. However searching the phrase "does more costs less" i found this TV spot advertising the Quadra 605 which at $1000 was the cheapest computer Apple sold when it was introduced in October 1993 (and allegedly cheaper than something else they refer to as "PC Leading Brand" 😂). That system was sold under the LC and Performa brands up to 1996, but it was only sold as a Quadra until October 1994, so, to answer OP's question: that slogan was in use at least sometime in that year.
theintercept.com
Late Stage Capitalism
"REM sleep is the next AI"
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That isn't Twitter at all, it's BlueSky with its "composable moderation".
That particular incorrect label is in my screenshot because I am subscribed to this "XBlock Screenshot Labeller" someone runs, which is kind of goofy but something I currently have enabled and configured so that I have to click on screenshots-or-false-positives before they are displayed.
You can read more about how labels work in bluesky's docs.
Mildly Interesting
You can translate the wookies in lego star wars if you're willing to solve a substitution cypher.
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i'm glad somebody got the reference.
(i assume the people downvoting my comment only know the word as an alt-right thing and are unaware of its earlier etymological journey which makes it a relevant response to this thread. in fairness, I'd forgotten how far they went with it in 2016 until I just read that wowpedia page 😬)
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Privacy
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::: spoiler image transcript screenshot of [this](https://bsky.app/profile/comraderobot.bsky.social/post/3l2o7qak3wk23) bluesky post (which you can read without logging in [here](https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fcomraderobot.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3l2o7qak3wk23&viewtype=tree)) from `@comraderobot.bsky.social` ("Notorious RBMK") saying: > my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got. > > there’s unhinged and then there’s *tech unhinged* image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text: > REM sleep is the next Al > > The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup > > - Controlling a smart home from dreams > - Transferring speech from dreams > - Controlling virtual cars from dreams > - Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants > - Social media for sharing dream journals > - Smart sleep masks powered by Al > - Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech) > > Don't miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors > > Aug 29th Palo Alto Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying "Possible tumblr screenshot" with a "hide" button. ::: -- the guy behind this startup: * (CW bloody photos) "*[I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain's motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming](https://xcancel.com/MichaelRaduga/status/1681232462276444161)*" * https://www.newsweek.com/russian-implants-chip-brain-control-dreams-hospital-1814256
via https://cr.yp.to/talks.html#2022.11.10
postmarketos.org
therecord.media
www.rollingstone.com
www.theverge.com
apnews.com
www.nytimes.com
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12066332 > [News coverage from 2014, when the dead baby bear was found](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/nyregion/baby-bear-is-found-dead-in-central-park.html)
theintercept.com
theintercept.com
www.windowscentral.com
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/11225086 > Not my OC
www.declassifieduk.org
www.declassifieduk.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23752792 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23752739 > > > https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/