Play stupid games…

Seriously, unsandboxed? Maybe I just don’t understand how Replit works.

“Three and one-half days into building my latest project, I checked my Replit usage: $607.70 in additional charges beyond my $25/month Core plan. And another $200-plus yesterday alone. At this burn rate, I’ll likely be spending $8,000 a month. And you know what? I’m not even mad about it. I’m locked in. But my goal here isn’t to play around. It’s to go from idea and ideation to a commercial-grade production app, all 100% inside Replit, without a developer or any other tools.”

JFC. Hook, line and sinker.

edit: https://farside.link/x.com/jasonlk/status/1945539345328607312 - and then he asks a different AI what it thinks about his AI lying to him? WTF is wrong with this person?

edit2: What a rollercoaster. Read it! Movie material. For the sake of exciting investigative journalism & uncovering deep shit, I forgive Lemkin.

edit3:

“Sure, Gen AI supercharges development, but it also supercharges risk. Two engineers can now churn out the same amount of insecure, unmaintainable code as 50 engineers.”

lol

And just to be clear, nazi tech bros and their cheerleaders are marginally more responsible here, for propagating lie after lie after lie.

None. None at all.

• Google is shitty
• LLMs are shitty

Combine the 2:

Watching Landman or you just familiar with the lingo?

Using special terms wrongly doesn’t mean I’m clueless, cryptobro.

Devil’s advocate says: 5000 ft is probably below groundwater level. But tbh idk. Hell, they could even use spent oil reservoirs.

Apart from the questionable practice of buying CO2 credits (or whatever the practice is called), pumping shit underground does not seem like the best way to save the ecosphere. It could’ve produced energy and/or useful products in various ways but oh no, that would have been too expensive.

This prevents it from being dumped at a waste disposal site, where it would eventually decompose and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

This is the only reason this practice is deemed carbon-emission-friendly. Color me skeptical.

Which you then have to type out every time. Laziness wins: they will be shorter.

The assumption is that the product is for non-savvy users. They might not even understand what you wrote up there.

Autocorrect can help here, but dictionary words are easily brute-forced guessed. And - more importantly - that hypothetical user would have to come up with that idea in the first place. But people who come up with such ideas usually already use password managers anyhow.

I’m pretty sure without some EU member states the compromise reached would have been less … compromisy.

It really depends what the user fills it with. “Clever” solutions like using your daughter’s birthday, or other hard-to-remember-but-easy-to-deduce strings.

It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I’m thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.

The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

I disagree. Using this book will always lead to shorter passwords that are easier to type. That’s the main weakness imo.

Or in other words: it really depends what the user fills it with. It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I’m thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.

My master password is physically present as a mnemonic device, but not available digitally. Anywhere.

Beyond that I really cannot recommend this book: You need to be able & willing to type your passwords out, which means simpler and shorter passwords. I use 99 character complete random ASCII-strings by default. Try typing that in even once.

But there’s a different, unspoken criticism here: don’t store your database on a 3rd party server, a.k.a. “The Cloud”. I use KeepassXC btw. - and my very own “cloud”.

Sadly, cynically, there’s still plenty of even poorer countries, some of which have thrown their lot in with Russia. There’ll be more lies and coercion to attract immigrants.

Still, nice to hear a glimmer of truth from the horse’s mouth.

Tankies laugh about “The West” panicking that Russia would attack a NATO country that’s part of the EU. As if a schoolyard bully would pick the strongest kid for a fight. No, Moldova it is. The playbook is - and has been for years - much the same as with Ukraine, esp. wrt Transnistria.

And if - and only if - we let them succeed with this, they move on to the next (bigger/stronger) target.

My Nokia 701 also has Stereo:

And the sound isn’t too shabby either.

Before Nokia was assimilated and digested by Microsoft, it open sourced the OS

Huh. Did not know.

Symbian’s swansong was the remarkable Nokia 808 PureView. The 808 and other late-model Symbian devices run Nokia Belle which was really quite nice.

I still have a device here that runs that version. A Nokia 701. With AngryBirds games on it. It had an extensive app store. And that wonderful tiny charger connector (but also takes a charge from USB micro).

there was that brief attempt at a revival by Planet Computers but it really didn’t stick

Oh, again I did not know that. I was interested in one of their later devices for a while, a keyboard phone running true Linux iirc.

Helped? As in, they’re not doing it anymore? Color me skeptical. But I’m going to read the article now.

edit: Ok it’s about the specific latest waves of videos justifying the attack on Iran. As if Israel hasn’t been engaging in Russian-style disinformation for decades. With the help of big G and others.

In clear breach of Google’s policies, these ads justify and lionize the attack as a necessary defense of Western civilization, and claim that Israel is carrying out “one of the largest humanitarian missions in the world” in Gaza.

That’s so diametrically opposed to the truth, it’s cynical. I hope Google gets what it deserves for allowing that. Not to speak of Israel.

“Iran’s ballistic missile program isn’t just a threat to Israel, it is a threat to Europe and the Western world,” another, seen by 1.5 million viewers in just three weeks, claims. “Iran is developing missiles with ranges of approximately 4000 km. That places Europe within the regime’s striking distance,” it adds, as graphics show virtually the entire continent turning blood red, signifying a nuclear attack. “This isn’t tomorrow’s threat. It is today’s reality. The threat posed by the Iranian regime must be stopped. Israel does what must be done.”

And this is so vastly exaggerated, it’s fearmongering. It’s “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction” all over again. And even if, why would they want to attack Europe? It makes no sense. We’re not the enemy.

Lars Klingbeil told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that “serious and solution-oriented negotiations” with the US were still necessary, but added that if they fail, the EU would need “decisive counter-measures to protect jobs and businesses in Europe”.

Agreed, but he makes it sound like that’s still in the future. Isn’t the time for the tough response now?

The rhetoric of people like Macron is what tankies refer to when they claim that “The West” is “panicking” over Russia’s “Right to defend itself against the NATO threat” and if “The West” would stop doing that, there’d be peace overnight.

I don’t much like Macron, I don’t know enough about French politics but I’m guessing they have their own military-industrial complex that would benefit…

But seeing the sort of people and politics we’re up against on the world stage, maybe a little posturing is required. Wasn’t Macron the one who responded in kind to Trump’s handshaking play, and came out on top? (edit: not sure he comes out on top but he’s certainly calling Trump’s play)

Oh and one more thing: since Hybrid Warfare is a thing, calls for more military should always be paired with calls for active measure against disinformation campaigns. I hope our dear politicians will soon wake up from their pre-internet slumber.

Exactly. At the very least call his bluff!