Reminds me of prompt injection: A tool that cannot distinguish between data and instructions.
Readit Newsmeinersbur commented on Do not put code diffs into Git commit messages mas.to/@zekjur/1160223976... · Posted by u/st_goliath
meinersbur commented on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs pdfa.org/a-case-study-in-... · Posted by u/DuffJohnson
> the employee might have found it easier to just flatten the pdf and apply a graphical filter to make the document appear like a scanned document
Is that remotely plausible? I can't imaging faking a scan being easier than just walking down the hall to the copier room.
The time advantage of faking a scan becomes better the more pages you have to scan.
OSS software is also mostly owned by the US. This entire thing of 'replacing' American software with American software under a different commercial model is so silly.
It doesn't matter whether OSS is American (in whatever sense) -- anything that is America-specific (e.g. server addresses) can be patched for a localized European version. The different commercial model does matter: American law does not apply (Cloud Act, National Security Letters, ...)
meinersbur commented on Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux github.com/er-bharat/Win8... · Posted by u/edent
The smooth, tile-based interface of Metro/Modern UI of Windows 8 and the Windows Phone are underrated in my opinion. It was simple, fast, and focused on touch. While I didn't have a touch-based Windows 8 laptop or tablet at the time, I had a Windows Phone, and I enjoyed using it more than any other device I've had since.
Live tiles are nearly universally praised in retrospect, but it might be a case of hindsight bias [1]. The video [2] brings up some problems of the concept and why no other company copied the concept.
meinersbur commented on Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries jaysbrickblog.com/news/br... · Posted by u/makeitdouble
Surely the minifigure patent has expired? The original patent was in 1979 (design patent 253711: https://patents.google.com/patent/USD253711S/en)
Or are they doing a pharma and have repatented a small variation, or the European equivalent is still going?
Or is it actually trademark that is being enforced here?
The patent expired, but the minifigs is also a EU 3D trademark. This is not possible for the brick which (only) serves a technical function, namely to hold on each other. Trademarks do not expire while in use. Another example for a 3D trademark, also in this US, is the Coca Cola bottle.
[1] https://www.chaillot.com/ip-news/validity-of-3d-trademarks-f...
meinersbur commented on US cities pay too much for buses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
Modern MBA videos are like ChatGPT. They sound reasonable when he's talking about something you don't know, but you'll notice him getting basic facts wrong in topics that you're familiar with. For example, he diagnoses the growth of public storage as people from single family homes to apartments in big cities and having no place to store their things, citing that America's urbanization rate has increased. However, the increased urbanization was actually driven by the growth of suburbs and actually, home sizes actually significantly increased during that period.
What is your alternative explanation for why people rent public storage space? Urban growth and growth in suburbs are not mutually exclusive.
meinersbur commented on DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list slugcat.systems/post/25-0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
It seems incredible to me that Microsoft would alter the execution of programs based on the filename of the executable. For all we know, there was another game with the same filename and this game has been caught in the crossfire. This is crazy stuff.
Changing execution behaviour based on filename is common in Linux environments too. Some examples:
1. BusyBox is a single executable that executes different commands based on which symlink was used to call it
2. Bash puts itself into compatibility mode if invoked as "sh"
3. "ping" can be invoked as "ping4" or "ping6"
4. Some of git's subcommands are symlinks back to the main executable
5. Clang switches to C++ mode if invoked as "clang++"
6. AppArmor profiles activate on file paths
From the GitHub issue it becomes clear that blocking happens by the EasyPrivacy blocklist. The blocked URL youtube.com/api/stats/atr is/can also be used for tracking users, this is why some are arguing that it legitimately on that blocklist.
The tracking not malicious. YouTube has a legitimate interest to verify views, e.g. to recommend popular videos to others. If a view counter was increased by just invoking an API, view counts could be manipulated easily. Also see the video [1] from ... 13 years ago ... so it might be slighly outdated. Just slightly.
what do AI companies have more than everyone else? compute
anubis directly incentivises the adversary, at expense of everyone else
it's what you would deploy if you want to exclude everyone else
(conspiracy theorists note that the author worked for an AI firm)
Please don't downvote comments only because you don't like their opinion (reply to them instead). It cannot be that the same opinion is valueable when someone famous write it [1].
> This ticket is rather long and has a lot of irrelevant content regarding this new topic. If I need to bring in a colleague I do not want them to have to wade through all the irrelevant context. If you would like, please open a new issue with regards to how we support middlebox compatibility.
The author turns this into:
> The GitHub issue comment left at the end leads me to believe that they aren't really interested in RFC compliance. There isn't a middleground here or a "different way" of implementing middlebox compatibility. It's either RFC compliant or not. And they're not.
This is a bad-faith interpretation of the maintainer's response. They only asked to open a new, more specific issue report. The maintainer always answered within minutes, which I find quite impressive (even after the author ghosted for months). The author consumed the maintainer's time and shouldn't get the blame for the author's problems.
[1]: https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/issues/9156