Clanker (because LLMs don’t actually have feelings and shouldn’t be anthropomorphized)
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Taco probably won’t do it anyways
besselj@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation7·3 days agoAm I out of touch? No, its the faculty who are wrong.
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharingEnglish2964·7 days agoSafety concerns aside, you should trust your partner enough to not need to track them
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signalsEnglish38·7 days agoThe tracking happens even with a big reflector/scatterer on your head, but as long as you dont wear it regularly, the system would have difficulty identifying you from wave propagation alone
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signalsEnglish1621·7 days agoIronically, a tin foil hat would probably work to prevent that kind of surveillance
Big AI companies pretty much exclusively sell LLMs that output unreliable data, so idk how much of a worry it is anymore.
Another interesting deterrent is to poison unruly scrapers with infinite nonsense via Markov chains https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/
I wonder what the success rate is if you verify using AI generated faces (assuming they cheap out and you dont have to provide camera access)
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it globalEnglish49·8 days agoA modern day Don Quixote
besselj@lemmy.cato conservative@lemmy.world•As a friendly reminder, this comm is for the satirizing of conservatives only13·8 days agoSounds like something a woke person would say
besselj@lemmy.cato Hardware@lemmy.world•Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PCEnglish17·9 days agoNot if Anduril or Palantir go anywhere near it
besselj@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order28·9 days agoWe’ll need a private-watching private to stand guard
besselj@lemmy.cato TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English10·10 days agoThey will need to start banning PIs that abuse the system with AI slop and waste reviewers’ time. Just a 1 year ban for the most egregious offenders is probably enough to fix the problem
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Vibe coding service Replit deleted production databaseEnglish631·11 days agoHe was vibe-coding in production. Am I reading that right? Sounds like an intern-level mistake.
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press GazetteEnglish93·11 days agoRaw-dogging the internet without an adblocker is about as irresponsible as not using contraception
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Russian lawmakers say 'security threat' WhatsApp should prepare to leave RussiaEnglish491·14 days agoMeta is a security threat outside of Russia too. No privacy should be expected when using their services
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.zip•Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling usersEnglish13·14 days agoPeople who don’t use LLMs to write code:
besselj@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.zip•Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words listsEnglish145·14 days agoYou guys are paying for a website, rather than just buying a physical dictionary?
The customer is a Fae