Kazumara

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know my first instinct wast to reply with: "No."

Maybe I should have stuck with that. I had a feeling this would lead nowhere.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

here’s the link, sorry it’s reddit

Where?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'd start with the following, and refine if necessary:

"Gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer resource by technical means."

  • Port scanning --> Not hacking because there isn't any access to resources gained*
  • Using default passwords that weren't changed --> Not hacking because the resource wasn't protected*
  • Sending spam --> Not hacking because there isn't any access to resources gained
  • Beating the admin with a wrench until he tells you the key --> Not hacking because it's not by technical means.
  • Accessing teacher SSN's published on the state website in the HTML --> Not hacking because the resource wasn't protected, and on the contrary was actively published**
  • Distributed denial of service attack --> Not hacking because there isn't any access to resources gained

* Those first two actually happened in 2001 here in Switzerland when the WEF visitors list was on a database server with default password, they had to let a guy (David S.) go free
** The governor and his idiot troupe eventually stopped their grandstanding and didn't file charges against Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, luckily

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of a firewall failing open when overwhelmed yet. Usually quite the opposite, a flood disables access to more than just the targeted device, when the state table overflows.

But maybe there is a different mechanism I'm not aware of. How would the DDoS change the properties of ingress?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 94 points 1 month ago (20 children)

DDoS is not hacking

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Subsurface scattering is not one of the things you get automatically with ray tracing. If you just bounce the rays off objects as would be the usual first step in implementing ray tracing you don't get any light penetration into the object, so none of that depth.

Maybe you meant ambient occlusion?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Faschaftsrat

Ich dachte erst der Rat hat was mit Faschismus zu tun, aber nach weiterer Überlegung meintest du wohl Fachschaftsrat?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago

Did he just chicken out from chickening out?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

I just happened to use the OS search bar which always (?) uses the Android browser.

Ah right, I had that issue too.

To avoid it I use the Lawnchair 3rd party launcher with a 5x5 grid, and placed a Firefox "search the web" Widget on the top row. Admittedly it's not perfect, I encountered a few bugs in Lawnchair before (though not recently), but it still annoyed me less than the default.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I recommend Firefox for Android, share works normally, and you can install extensions. I have one for ad blocking and one to keep YouTube running even when I minimize the browser or lock the screen.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ist das beim TÜV auch gestaffelt, dass Neuwagen noch nicht so oft müssen?

Bei uns in der Schweiz ist es typischerweise so 5, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2 Jahre. Aber wie immer sind wir zu föderalistisch, als dass es einheitlich wäre

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I was hoping, until seeing this post, that the reasoning text was actually related to how the answer is generated. Especially regarding features such as using external tools, generating and executing code and so on.

I get how LLMs work (roughly, didn't take too many courses in ML at Uni, and GANs were still all the rage then), that's why I specifically didn't call it lies. But the part I'm always unsure about is how much external structure is imposed on the LLM-based chat bots through traditional programming filling the gaps between rounds of token generation.

Apparently I was too optimistic :-)

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