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SpaceManNabs commented on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published   github.com/nrwl/nx/securi... · Posted by u/longcat
SpaceManNabs · 16 hours ago
so the malware launches AI tools that have wider access than the app is loaded in?

I did not know AI tools could access sensitive directories.

Or is it that AI brute forces access to directories that the malware already had access to but the developer of the malware was not aware of?

Does the inventory.txt get uploaded? There seems to be an outbound connection but I did not see verification that it is the inventory.txt.

SpaceManNabs commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
johnfn · 2 days ago
I naively went onto Gemini in order to try to use the new model and had what I could only describe as the worst conversation I've had with an AI since GPT 3.5[1]. Is this really the model that's on top of the leaderboard right now? This feels about 500 ELO points worse than my typical conversation with GPT 5.

Edit: OK, OK, I actually got it to work, and yes, I admit the results are incredible[2]. I honestly have no idea what happened with Pro 2.5 the first time.

[1]: https://g.co/gemini/share/5767894ee3bc [2]: https://g.co/gemini/share/a48c00eb6089

SpaceManNabs · 2 days ago
sometimes these bots just go awry. i wish you could checkpoint spots in a conversation so you could replay from a that point, maybe with a push in the latent space or a new seed.
SpaceManNabs commented on How to make things slower so they go faster   gojiberries.io/how-to-mak... · Posted by u/neehao
evaXhill · 3 days ago
Good post, bit too “mathy” but makes me think of “Asynchronous computing @Facebook: Driving efficiency and developer productivity at Facebook scale”. Where they touch on capacity optimization (queuing + time shifting), capacity regulation along with user delay tolerance (bc not all jobs, even at the same priority level, are equal)
SpaceManNabs · 3 days ago
I think the issue with the math is that it doesn't read well.

For example, the paragraphs around the paragraph with "compute the exact Poisson tail (or use a Chernoff bound)" and that paragraph itself could be better illustrated with lines of math instead of mostly language.

I think you do need some math if you want to approach this probabilistically, but I agree that might not be the most accessible approach, and a hard threshold calculation is more accessible and maybe just as good.

SpaceManNabs commented on Notion releases offline mode   notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo
photon_garden · 9 days ago
I was a big Notion fan for years and am now solidly in the Obsidian camp.

Speed and local-first was originally the main differentiator, but over time Steph Ango's "file over app" philosophy has become my favorite feature.

Yesterday I used Claude Code to automate some Obsidian cleanup and it was trivial because everything's just a file.

SpaceManNabs · 9 days ago
Never knew people viewed notion and obsidian in the same space.

i usually compare obsidian to joplin... seems like i should be looking more at obsidian because i was considering starting a new wiki in notion.

SpaceManNabs commented on AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers   axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-j... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
grues-dinner · 10 days ago
These are probably the same people who are "surprised" when 100 offshore agency dredgings don't magically do the app 10x faster than 10 expensive onshore workers.

To be fair, the PowerPoint they were shown at that AI Synergies retreat probably was very slick.

SpaceManNabs · 10 days ago
I have tried to digest why this is done. It is not because they believe they are 10x faster.

It is because they think it will 10x their chances of getting a really good engineer for 1/10th as cheap.

At least that is my theory. maybe i am wrong. i try to be charitable.

SpaceManNabs commented on AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers   axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-j... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
klodolph · 10 days ago
Most of my questions are answerable from the support knowledge base.
SpaceManNabs · 10 days ago
If i am calling support, it is probably because I already scoured the resources.

Over the past 3 years of calling support any service or infrastructure (bank, health insurance, doctor, wtv), over like 90% of my requests were things only solvable via customer support or escalation.

I only keep track because I document when I didn't need support into a list of "phone hacks" (like press this sequence of buttons when calling this provider).

Most recently, I went to an urgent care facility a few weekends ago, and they keep submitting claims to the arm, of my insurance, that is officed in a different state instead of my proper state.

SpaceManNabs commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?   blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
anthk · 13 days ago
That's just Germany. Europe is not a country.
SpaceManNabs · 11 days ago
Britain too
SpaceManNabs commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?   blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
badestrand · 13 days ago
Traditional news media and print media are really strong in Germany (and for example Spain).

They also made laws happen that limit how Google can link to news sites to prevent Google News from stealing readers.

And they tried to make Google pay each time a user clicks a link that leads to a German news site.

Also there are surcharges on printers (around $50 or so per piece), laptops etc because you might copy copyright-protected texts with it.

And the German online news websites know they lose a lot of money to adblockers so of course they want to ban them.

SpaceManNabs · 13 days ago
anti free speech stuff like this is why i only bring burner phones into europe.
SpaceManNabs commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults?   asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
SpaceManNabs · 16 days ago
Cause they all read gwern and all eugenics leads into cults because conspiracy adjacent garbo always does.
SpaceManNabs commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act   bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox
ljosifov · 17 days ago
US should slap travel bans on UK politicians travelling to Disney parks and similar in Florida with their families. And/or with their older children visiting NYC. The combined pressure of the wives and their children, will knock sense in their thick skulls quickly. In the sense of - being stupid is not cost free. Atm it's cost free for them, and costly for me.
SpaceManNabs · 17 days ago
The US is moving in the same direction.

u/SpaceManNabs

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