i'm pro technology, but doing it right, which means as cleanly and safely as practical, and i refuse to accept the richest companies on earth can't afford basic environmental protections.

Everyone using dependency managers like npm, pypi, cargo, etc, should configure it to ignore packages that are less than a day or two old. Really it should be the default. None of the recent major compromised packages had malicious versions up that long. cooldowns.dev#javascript-e...

Yeah some unsolicated hot takes in no particular order 1. React is better than everything that came before it and I haven't seen anything do it better 2. Hooks are genius 3. If you've never done frontend on a moderately large app, you probably underestimate frontend engineering

I've been curious to see how new sci-fi deals with the current AI boom. So far I've just seen it done extremely eyeroll-inducingly: "Our setting's AI has nothing to do with the *fake* unethical AI of the past! (Our AI is an evil guy who kills people.)" (Marathon, High on Life 2)

they are putting my brain inside the computer tomorrow

for what it's worth, the vulnerabilities described in the Mythos article that it found and exploited were of usual kinds. There are no mysterious move 37s. If AI discovers a new class of vulnerability that affects code patterns we strongly thought were safe then I'll panic.

When ChatGPT was new and everyone was anxious to understand the specific pace of AI progress, I figured a significant milestone to watch for was when it could find and exploit brand new software vulnerabilities on command. It's slightly unnerving to see the milestone met today.

"Over 99% of the vulnerabilities we’ve found have not yet been patched"... "Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so ... oldest ... 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD"

The post-quantum cryptography timeline accelerating at the same time that mythos is creating mass CVEs is really threatening to alter my roadmaps

kira is now better at posting than i am, apparently i am losing my job to automation

me reading the replies to the @attie.ai announcement

I wonder how much Sora shutting down has to do with Iran using AI for propaganda videos lately. Kind of awkward for a business to be visibly associated with that.

"To achieve this, we implemented a WebAssembly interpreter inside the transformer weights." sentences with terrifying aura

and gwern.net, of course

Permutation City (Egan, '94)

aside from the AI angle, what makes the Anthropic case important is that it is -- unless there is something I am forgetting -- the first time a major tech company has stood up to Trump instead of accommodating him

ngl. to me it's a miracle that i can talk to a computer like this, and it knows what i'm talking about and does the right fix. many engineers would struggle with this (including myself)

started noticing that it's common for music apps with sleep timers to have the options max out at 1 hour, and it has me questioning why multiple companies would pick a max time that is so obviously lower than the usual time it takes to fall asleep

anyone looking to replace their use of Discord with something more private shouldn't just jump ship to another proprietary system that's run the same way, and should instead look for something open source, end-to-end encrypted, and distributed/federated, like Element(Matrix).

if the Turing test was passed in a way that matters then Moltbook would be indistinguishable or better than other social media. If you don't find Moltbook as interesting, or you find yourself talking about the funny things on Moltbook with humans instead of AIs there, then we haven't reached AGI yet

I want off Mr. Epstein's Wild Ride

This case isn't saying that Google devices have an intentional secret recording mode. It's about Google devices being too sensitive in detecting the "Ok Google" activation phrase and triggering the normal voice assistant feature. www.googleassistantprivacylitigation.com/docs/4th%20A...

I think Severance and Dark are the only 2 mystery box shows in recent memory to actually open their mystery boxes and reveal shiny answers inside

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

that recurring dream where you discover your house has a new room but it's the Google Home app showing you that two of your light bulbs have migrated to a new room named "Default"

oo wtbb.vercel.app

a lotta programming discourse is downstream of the fact that many people got Good at Computer by being not-very-well-adjusted

I finally noticed that the React Router framework fully supports Cloudflare Workers in dev mode, so you can use Durable Objects while live-editing components with HMR enabled. Next.js doesn't support that combo. I'm switching some personal projects over for this.

One of my favorite LLM use cases is literally just asking it what the closest preexisting concept to a thought is. "I have this idea, has anyone had this idea before and what's it called?" It used to be REALLY DIFFICULT to reliably answer questions like that and I feel like we'll forget it was.

actually encountered a programming situation that switch statement fall-through allowed a clear and simple solution. It feels like a rare cryptid sighting.

Just discovered an "aesthetics" fandom wiki and yes I will be reading this in detail aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Categor...

decided to try out tab groups in Firefox and wow it actually really helps my out of control number of tabs situation. My tabs list is actually very usable now

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

silksong 12 hours

waymos love little alleyways, even if taking them means going the wrong way. Waymo engineers, scared of their creation, let the cars do this to keep them happy

I added the ability for GZDoom mods to interact with external programs and tested it out by piping a live twitch channel's chat into the game

the Liquid Glass design is another major sign that we are RVTURNing to early 2000s dot com era aesthetics

Seems like I can't go one conversation about online personalities/culture/politics without saying "audience capture" and "negative polarization" multiple times. They explain a lot everywhere.

@danabra.mov just dropped a blog post in the comments where he points out why RSCs effectively solve the problems a number of disparate technologies were created to solve (but can fall short). High quality content.

prediction markets seem like they might be good at identifying over-hyped news/science headlines

scott deserves every fucking dunk for this

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

very overdue vibe shift going on with some centrist and "gray tribe" anti-woke writers re-evaluating their priorities and getting more serious with their Trump opposition instead of continuing to play nice with their maga readers

spoiler alert: "AI passed the Turing Test" headlines don't mean much.

Computer. Show me posts. Deranged.

lmao all the past media referencing Elon Musk as a friendly tech figure (Star Trek: Discovery, Rick & Morty) have just aged another chunk more badly recently