Kazumara

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

Left to right: Shimakaze, Miyuki, Suzutsuki, Shigure, Asashio and Hamakaze from Kantai Collection

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Hm even with DeepSeek being more efficient, wouldn't that just mean the rich corps throw the same amount of hardware at it to achieve a better result?

In the end I'm not convinced this would even reduce hardware demand. It's funny that this of all things deflates part of the bubble.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

Hmm it's difficult to quantify. On workday I spend an average of probably 6-8 hours on a computer with job related tasks. Not really coding most of the time, since we're maintaining and building a network, so it's more configuration, planning, coordination, and documentation work. Some days we're out to actually deploy hardware, or run around and debug stuff, so it's hard to estimate the average screentime.

My free time involves a lot of computer time too, but it is split up into more smaller categories, either on the desktop computer or the smartphone computer. Manga, Games, Youtube, Movies, Anime Series, Lemmy, Pornography, News, Banking and Investments.

In the end I think my job is the biggest unified chunk of time, but that's kind of arbitrary, if I started subdividing it into different tasks maybe gaming would become the biggest chunk.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh that's a flower originally? To me that was only the codename of the Redmi Note 8 Pro Smartphone until now, lol.

PS: It kind of sounds like something the kids could come up if their favourite app blocks "kys", so good nomination for worst possible

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

I respect the dev, hiyohiyo, so much for this. He gave us something so useful, and he likes these characters, and he's not ashamed to make the skinned versions and put them up for download.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, this kinda bothers me with computer security in general. So, the above is really poor design, right? But that emerges from the following:

  • Writing secure code is hard. Writing bug-free code in general is hard, haven’t even solved that one yet, but specifically for security bugs you have someone down the line potentially actively trying to exploit the code.
  • It’s often not very immediately visible to anyone how actually secure code code is. Not to customers, not to people at the company using the code, and sometimes not even to the code’s author. It’s not even very easy to quantify security – I mean, there are attempts to do things like security certification of products, but…they’re all kind of limited.
  • Cost – and thus limitations on time expended and the knowledge base of whoever you have working on the thing – is always going to be present. That’s very much going to be visible to the company. Insecure code is cheaper to write than secure code.

There is nothing wrong with your three points, in general. But I think there are some things in this given case that are very visible weak points before getting into the source code:

  • You should not have connections from the cars to the customer support domain at all. There should be a clear delineation between functions, and a single (redundant if necessary) connection gateway for the cars. This is to keep the attack surface small.

  • Authentication is always server side, passwords and reset-question-answers are the same in that regard. Even writing that code on the client was the wrong place from the start.

  • Resetting a password should involve verifying continued access to the associated email account.

So it seems to me that here the fundamental design was not done securely, far before we get into the hard part of avoiding writing bugs or finding written bugs.

This could have something to do with the existing structures. E.g. the CS platform was an external product and someone bolted on the password reset later in a bad way. The CS department needed to access details on cars during support calls and instead of going though the service that communicates with the cars usually, it was simpler to implement a separate connection to the cars directly. (I'm just guessing of course)

Maybe besides cost, there is also an issue that nobody in the organization has an overall responsibility or the power to enforce a sensible design on the interactions between various systems.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Intent is essential for genocide. Dolus specialis, look it up.

Well yes, it was in the part I copied in the top comment, I didn't overlook it.

If you read the next sentence after your quote I gave the reasoning why I think we don't have to get into it for the analysis of these hypothetical circumstances: Article 2 already doesn't apply for other reasons.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

Maybe you could use them to store gas

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago

I just looked up the voice actor of the character Lest from Aracane yesterday. She chose Eve, kinda like the opposite of Lilith.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That is obviously fake. I don't even detect any real attempt to make it believable.

Bold claims, no detail, perfectly aligned with the biggest fears of what Musk could have done. Even the stupid mention of AI agents and the link to an example in documentation, as if that random stuff was evidence that was congruent with the earlier claims.

Plus they fucked up the internal consistency, despite how short the text is: In the intro our fake protagonist is a former X employee, in the third paragraph from the bottom they are saying "We're currently doing the same thing in Germany".

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I suppose a dozen people is roughly a ton (depending on which people and which definition of ton)

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I hate how in common parlance "algorithm" has become synonymous with "recommender system", when it's so much more basic of a concept. But whenever I used to gripe about it, or inform people of the more specific terminology back on reddit I was downvoted. So thanks to you for bringing it up first.

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