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Jiocus commented on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war   insideevs.com/features/75... · Posted by u/rntn
jandrewrogers · 4 months ago
Such a thing exists though usually not called “military-grade” per se. It is more similar to a data diode [0] than a classic firewall but has significant differences from either.

Data streams are converted into a sequence of objects that are required to have and satisfy certain formally verifiable properties as a pre-condition of forwarding. Any data or objects that cannot satisfy formal analysis requirements are dropped. Forwarding policies are only applied to objects that meet the prerequisite of being rigorously analyzable.

This behavior is bidirectional. It applies equally to data egress to mitigate internal threats and accidental data leakage. The internal mechanics can be pretty complicated and they necessarily operate on a store-and-forward basis. The data objects may be “laundered” by the firewall, what you send may not be exactly what the other side receives.

To make this work, the wire protocol, data representation, etc must be designed specifically to allow this kind of rigorous analysis and work well within these constraints. It usually won’t work on a random web stream and the data representation often sacrifices efficiency of storage for efficiency of verification and analysis at runtime.

In reality, virtually no one uses this type of tech outside of defense and intelligence because it won’t let almost any of the standard web stack slop through.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network

Jiocus · 4 months ago
Ah, yes that's true. I had actually forgot about this type of thing (did study infosec at uni)
Jiocus commented on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war   insideevs.com/features/75... · Posted by u/rntn
kersplody · 4 months ago
Jiocus · 4 months ago
Helpful article, thank you!
Jiocus commented on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war   insideevs.com/features/75... · Posted by u/rntn
Jiocus · 4 months ago
The author mentions "military grade firewall", as a must have in a vehicle. Genuine question; What's a military grade firewall?
Jiocus commented on Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy   theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m
Jiocus · a year ago
In the Swedish game magazine Super Play (now defunct) they covered Fable development and the release, but IIRC they advised the reader to take Molyneux's claims with a grain of salt. The final review still made it to 9, or 10 out of 10 I think, but I'd have to check the issue to confirm.

I want to thank my father for giving in and purchasing Fable for me when it hit the shelves. Fable II was my favourite, a fantastic game.

Jiocus commented on Don't ask if AI can make art – ask how AI can be art   theverge.com/2024/9/13/24... · Posted by u/rntn
peterldowns · a year ago
No mention of Holly Herndon or Mat Dryhurst at all? Whoever wrote this completely failed to do their research — more than anyone else I'm aware of, they've been working to explore the possibilities of how working with AI can be considered Art.

Some assorted reading:

- https://x.com/matdryhurst/status/1830554355025477940

- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/holly-herndons...

- https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15858/art-in-the-...

EDIT: didn't mention Archillect either. Extremely low value article.

EDIT2: finished reading, and no mention at all about Section 230 protections despite discussing "tech platforms", and a single reference to "fair use" being referenced in a callout box. Whoever wrote this should be embarassed by how little they say with so many words.

Jiocus · a year ago
I've been giving far too little though about AI and the hype around it (might call me a sceptic), but I feel compelled to defend the article as it gave me some new perspectives, and is undeserving of your, frankly, low quality comment. If it was a flame bait, then I got hooked (sorry HN)

You namedrop three(?) artists and insinuate something about two legal frameworks - but provides no arguments or context why they should've been a natural inclusion in the article or how your critique relates to it.

Is that.. yes, a low value comment.

Jiocus commented on Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models   arxiv.org/abs/2407.21075... · Posted by u/ingve
simonw · a year ago
If you were wondering what they trained it on:

> The AFM pre-training dataset consists of a diverse dataset consists of a diverse and high quality data mixture. This includes data we have licensed from publishers, curated publicly-available or open-sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. We respect the right of webpages to opt out of being crawled by Applebot, using standard robots.txt directives.

The fact that you can opt-out in robots.txt only if you knew to list Applebot months (years?) ago when they started crawling is a little unimpressive.

Jiocus · a year ago
That's why it's possible to have a default deny rule in robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /
And possibly allow-list the ones you accept. This probably won't change the fact that you may allow a vendor at one point in time, only to realise they changed their crawling use case and has been scraping data for AI training for the past 6 months (before they go public about it).

It can be argued that if you are a server operator, you always know which User-agents are making requests to your resources.

Jiocus commented on Do quests, not goals   raptitude.com/2024/08/do-... · Posted by u/zdw
LordNerevar76 · a year ago
Do you happen to have any studies to back this up? It makes sense that parental wealth would be one of the strongest predictors of wealth, but I know of at least one study that has demonstrated that 79% of millionaires did not receive any inheritance from their parents.

Source: https://www.ramseysolutions.com/retirement/the-national-stud...

Jiocus · a year ago
The prediction does not hinge on inheritance (most folks manage to start their own lives, careers and families well before their parents pass), but on the upbringing, milieu and economic as well as social capital available.

"You're likely to stay in the social class you were born into" - is basically what the predictor means.

Jiocus commented on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show   gizmodo.com/your-ai-girlf... · Posted by u/nickthegreek
Jiocus · 2 years ago
"Your girlfriend is just someone else's computer"
Jiocus commented on Season's Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)   publicdomainreview.org/co... · Posted by u/drdee
tuukkah · 2 years ago
Regarding how the tradition lives on in the Finnish version of Santa Claus:

> The Finnish Santa Claus has also been greatly influenced by his American colleague. However, the Finnish Santa Claus visits children in person and gives them presents, whereas the American Santa Claus can only be seen in department stores. These personal visits to children’s homes are the most Finnish aspect of our Santa Claus, and it comes from the St Knut Day’s nuuttipukkis. https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Santa_Claus_tr...

Jiocus · 2 years ago
And the American modern Santa Claus has been greatly influenced by the jovian illustrations by Haddon Sundblom for Coca-Cola advertising (1930s). Haddon himself was a descendant of folks from Åland Islands, Finland, mentioned in the article.

It's where I'm from as well, and as a young kid, me and friends would visit the houses in the village at the date mentioned, and receive candy (or else!). It's very similar to the trick or treat tradition during Halloween.

Jiocus commented on How to Shuffle Songs? (2014)   engineering.atspotify.com... · Posted by u/pablode
rob74 · 2 years ago
Ok, so this article proves that they know how to do it, but they seem to have forgotten over the intervening 9 years - according to some, the shuffle function now prefers similar songs to "keep the vibe", but according to the Spotify support pages, that's a "smart shuffle" feature, and I don't have that because I'm too cheap for the paid plan. Anyway, shuffle should play the songs in a playlist in random order, but make sure to play all the songs (like shuffling a pack of cards and then looking at the cards one by one)! While Spotify's current "shuffle" just seems to pick a random song to play after the current one, with some songs repeating three times while others are never played. Annoying as hell...
Jiocus · 2 years ago
I'm a paying user so I can't speak about the free Spotify experience, but..

Spotify will only repeat a song during shuffle if you also activate repeat. It will also repeat a song if you actually added the song twice or more to said playlist. You can try it out by shuffling a playlist+deactivate repeat then check which songs have been queued from start to finish.

Smart Shuffle -despite the name- is more a playlist function than a shuffle function. It's like the Radio playlists but with the songs interspersed temporarily in your own playlist. Note that these songs were not already in your playlist - so they do not repeat unless you activate repeat.

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