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awkwardpotato commented on Curl to end Bug Bounty program due to overwhelming number of AI submissions github.com/curl/curl-www/... · Posted by u/awkwardpotato

awkwardpotato · a month ago

Context:

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115893072668526438

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115893088600630096

awkwardpotato commented on ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods 404media.co/inside-ices-t... · Posted by u/cmurf

everdrive · a month ago

So this is getting to be pretty real and pretty scary. How many of you have actually considered just not using your mobile phone any longer? Turning it off, only powering it on when you need it, and not bringing it when you leave your home?

Within a lot of our lifetimes, this was the norm. Are these devices so useful that put up with carrying a tracking / listening device on us at all time?

awkwardpotato · a month ago

FYI, powering off your iPhone does not prevent it from being tracked. It continues to broadcast a low-power Bluetooth signal other Apple devices will relay to iCloud.

"Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even when it's offline, in power reserve mode, and after power off"

Settings > Apple Account > Find My > Find My iPhone

awkwardpotato commented on Linux is good now pcgamer.com/software/linu... · Posted by u/Vinnl

gloomyday · a month ago

The only game I tried on Steam that didn't work was Slave Zero, a game from the 90s. Unfortunately, I still have to use Windows for VR games. It is too troublesome on Linux (at least for the Meta Quest 2).

awkwardpotato · a month ago

VR on Linux is probably going to be the main reason the Steam Frame is going to be a day one pre-order for me

awkwardpotato commented on Responses from LLMs are not facts stopcitingai.com/... · Posted by u/xd1936

Mistletoe · 3 months ago

Gemini cites its sources all the time.

https://gemini.google.com/app/6da2be1502b764f1

LLMs used to be awful, but lately I find them just as good as Wikipedia, which is to say very very good. Sometimes they hallucinate no doubt, but in general it's as good as a google search for me.

awkwardpotato · 3 months ago

Do you check these sources? I find Gemini and, especially, Google Search AI to regularly cite sources that does not say what it claims to says. For example, (not an actual example but along these lines), "Can Google Sheets do x feature" and it replies "Yup" and links to an Excel YouTube tutorial as its source

awkwardpotato commented on Carmack on Operating Systems (1997) rmitz.org/carmack.on.oper... · Posted by u/bigyabai

Havoc · 4 months ago

That must be the first “essay” I read by him. I just recall tweets and interviews

Sounds like the weighs and considers everything very carefully

awkwardpotato · 4 months ago

Carmack also used to have some really insightful articles on AltDevBlog. I recently read his one on functional programming and thought it was very well thought out.

This site had nice re-uploads for the some of the articles. You can maybe google around and find more

[0] http://sevangelatos.com/tag/john-carmack/

awkwardpotato commented on IRS open sources its fact graph github.com/IRS-Public/fac... · Posted by u/ronbenton

hedayet · 4 months ago

I can totally see the minds running TurboTax spending a lot of money to make this happen.

awkwardpotato · 4 months ago

Intuit spent $3.8 million on lobbying against Direct File in 2023, HR Block another $3 million. In total, the tax prep industry has spent $93 million lobbying against the Free File program since 2003 (through 2023, couldn't find a more recent source).

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02/turbotax-maker-intu...

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