sp3ctr4l

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably all you need to know is that when you see industry conferences about AI and CyberSecurity?

Yeah, they're not about how to use AI to improve security with neat, new heuristic detection methods, and automated response scenarios.

They are about all the extra work you have to do, all the extra things you now need to be aware of and worried about, because AI so routinely introduces so many holes and exploits and flaws ... in so many places that you normally wouldn't think to check, because surely any person or team putting out that terrible of code would have been fired, right?

Beyond the methods one can use to 'trick' AI into doing things it isn't 'supposed to do'... mass AI adoption by large swathes of the economy is just literally a national security threat, it fundamentally compromises the security and integrity of tech infrastructure that now undergirds basically everything.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But he isn't a dunce.

He is a fairly intelligent, highly manipulative sociopath.

He did this because he is reasonably confident there will be no negative consequences for him doing this.

And he is likely correct about that.

Trump, on the other hand is an actual dunce, a brutish moron, who can barely even read anything that isn't a page of bullet points and/or constantly praising him / fluffing him up.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I... goddamnit.

Within the last 72 hrs, I've made a couple comments with the term 'fruigetable', a sort of portmanteau / play on words, commentary on the whole 'what even is a fruit, a vegetable?' discussion.

In at least one of those comments, I said that ketchup is basically a "fruigetable smoothie",made out of primarily corn (the HFCS from it) and tomatoes, two fruigetables.

It seems that Heinz basically agrees with me.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah.

They are so commonplace that... if you would teach your kids to say, stay away from and do not touch used needles at a park or on a sidewalk?

You should probably also teach your young kids at least Eddie Eagle level of gun safety, regardless of whether or not there's a gun in your household.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Good lord lol.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

Because property has more rights than people in a hypercapitalist hellworld.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

See, I've heard that story, that he basically ran ... well, arguably, a worm that did network analysis on what was installed on every computer in the MSFT internal network, realized more people had DOOM installed... than Windows...

... and I have also heard that he actually ported DOOM to... either MS DOS, or Win95... ?

I genuienly do not know which is true, if they're all true, if they're all false... I can't remember the source for each of these, but I know I've heard or read all these semi-close variants from somewhere, over the years.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just to throw on more factoids:

Wasn't Gabe Newell either the first, or among the first, to port Doom to Win 95?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I recommend everyone read:

"The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

Oh hey, I found the full text floating around!

https://thephilosopher.net/heminguej/wp-content/uploads/sites/445/2024/12/The-Short-Happy-Life-of-Francis-Macomber-Ernest-Hemingway.pdf

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, is Trump gonna fire Patel and Bongino now, because bad no good data?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, basically nobody does actual beta testing anymore, been like that for at least a decade.

They say they do, but they're either lying or lauguably incompetent at it, my rule of thumb is bare minimum 3 months for 'day one' patches, more realistically, 6 months for them to actually finish the last 10 or 20% of the game they initially rushed out the door not including.

The patient thing also sadly/hilariously allows you to avoid the increasingly more common multiplayer game that just fucking sucks actually and more or less tanks 95% of its player count before the 6 month mark, or has some massive controversial (in terms of actual game features or lack thereof) thing going on.

Don't pay the FOMO tax, kids.

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