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Yeah so diverging from the gist of the article. The "sponsors" I recently see are more and more leaning towards shady business practices. SerpApi riding on the back of Google, abusing the infra without paying a single penny. They don't build their own index, crawler, classification, abuse and spam handling, but just leech on others who already spent money doing that and maintain the healthy search engine. I am aware that some American judge ruled that it's all okay, it just doesn't made me feel less disgusted.

Then there is this company that provides "customers" access to so-called "residential proxies," that is your home networks, to which they gained access in sneaky ways, essentially forming a large botnet. Then they allow the "customers" to use that your network to illegally scrap content, download who-knows-what using your IP address and making you responsible for that.

Yeah, those are "sponsors" I could certainly trust and recommend. Sure. Shame on you bloggers and youtubers.

You'd want this browser for free, wouldn't you? Have you donated to Mozilla Foundation? So you're bitching because the free product that you don't support finds ways to sustain economically the hordes of developers that are trying to improve it for you.

And no, Chrome never "bought an ad-tech company, collected data on users, and used chrome to push personalized ads, or the addition of anti-features and questionable design choices that force users to hunt for and modify poorly documented settings". NEVER IN THE WORLD. That's why you use it.

> it means that every CVE we publish trigger activities in many security teams all over the world, leading to a significant number of patches and subsequent software updates.

If it's just about that, fix those low priority issues and bundle them along with the next higher-priority fix pack, i.e. "lower than low" -> fix but not release immediately; "medium" or higher -> release with any earlier unreleased "lower than low" fixes.

Seeing how much energy you spent in dismissing the person's report on the "lower than low" vuln in https://hackerone.com/reports/3455037, it'd be easier and faster to just fix it rather than argue...

People do crazy stuff in GoL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NDAZ5g4EuU

> why it needs to show the dialog in dom0

I think it's the "secure screen" that cannot be manipulated by the malware in a VM. I'd expect a password entry dialog to also be handled like that.

Have you already brought your country through laziness and convenience to a state where you are subordinate to Amazon?

Don't you have other e-commerce sites?

It works very well for me. It handles non-English characters and diacritics without issues.

Great news!

Yeah, I have been amazed for an entire life how many tools the IT industry invented during last 50 years to just disguise a database.

OK, in '70s, '80s or '90s when compute and storage resources were limited and every bit counted, specialized formats did make sense.

But nowadays we'd save enormous efforts by just packaging stuff in SQLite databases. Microsoft's proprietary file formats (Office, Power BI etc.), OpenOffice/LibreOffice OpenDocument format, or almost everything else would fit perfectly.

Documents, files, are all data (called "data files", aren't they?), including executables, which as can be seen in this article are also databases.

https://sqlite.org/aff_short.html

https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

> why are they falling so far behind in the AI race?

Are they? They provide AI overview to majority of web searches, and that alone requires enormous resources. Anthropic, OpenAI and others only serves their AI customers. Regarding the power of their model, my own experiences are that it doesn't fall behind. I've done many successful projects already, including quite a big one in Pascal. So no, I don't feel any difference between Gemini and others. I think it's just a long lasting fashion to whine about Google and its services.

So you got information where the bug is, and now you brag that your AI friend found it quickly :joy:

Go find bugs that haven't been yet found, and then brag about them :joy:

Yeah we need more power-thirsty, climate-impacting models, so that the coders can produce trillions of new rubbish code for millions of apps that nobody uses. Or that people can generate rubbish cat pictures riding dogs and rubbish fake movies.

I wonder whether I'll be able to live my nice life to the end like I planned before Altman released his first model, or will it all end in a global disaster soon.

Did you get triggered so much to have to create an account to write that comment? I think of us two it's you who need to relax XD

Those childish comments are so funny. 3 billion people use Facebook regularly, and there are folks that deem themselves superior to all others who claim "I know nobody who uses Facebook". XD

The selection of fonts on this webpage makes it barely readable for many.

An open source model from Nvidia is a free drug to later buy their chips.

I think the captain of that vessel has his ego even bigger than Zuckerberg himself.

I got mine at a super loud music concert a few decades ago, and I worsened it at another concert which wasn't supposed to be as loud as it was. Despite wearing the in-ear hearing protections, it became louder and never went to previous state. So now I am very carefully selecting what I allow others to put in my ears, avoiding big concerts in closed venues altogether.

The high pitch is around 7000-8000 Hz with no single frequency that I can isolate. That means the cilia closest to the entrance got damaged.

So, f*ck you all the "audio engineers" who work around the bad acoustics of a venue merely by increasing volume. I hope you'll get the same suffering as you cause to others.

That's actually a great thing. They should do more of those choices and configuration to better discover how malicious AI technology can be.

I tend not to, because it's an overkill, but this regex nicely sums what needs to be done.

\r\n?|\n

handles all EOL sequences without backtracking. Or write a non-regex equivalent of that.

> not Mythos but some engineer using Mythos

How to tell the public you didn't bother to read the article, or the linked AISI report.

Yeah, today it's "during a UK government cybersecurity evaluation", tomorrow it's going to be hosted in a barn in remote place anywhere in the world, without any supervision, regulations or safety testing.

"We all know how horrible Google search has become."

Say thank you to all the commercial rubbish out there, generic spam, AI agents/chats spawning dozens to hundreds of Google Search requests on every prompt, and on top of that the SerpApi leeches and others.

Shooting the messenger is easy, and gaining attention on the back of Google is certainly still working.

Although it is netizens' fault that search can't find anything sensible in this amount of trash, and that everybody's overflowing search engines with loads of useless requests.

It was fun to read and insightful for me, not too artificial, and not too verbose.

I'm glad my internal AI detector doesn't win over my curiosity to learn.

It will certainly allow you to automate tons of stuff, such as data movement between those various sources, data transformations (ETL/ELT) and even simple data conversions - such as from CSV to Parquet, or from ORC to JSON etc. etc. Happy quacking!

DuckDB, for those who don't know it, has a great extension system, for example it can directly use OLTP databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server; cloud data warehouses/data lakes and big data formats (Iceberg, Delta, Snowflake, Hive, ORC, Parquet, AVRO), other data sources (ODBC), storage (S3), and much much more.

https://duckdb.org/docs/current/core_extensions/overview

https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/list_of_extensions

Andy, go ahead and correct the https://dbdb.io/db/bigquery How did you come to the conclusion that BigQuery's data model is "Document / XML" :joy:

This entry is not only wrong, it's way outdated, therefore misinforming. I'm wondering about the overall quality of this dbdb.io database at large.

You can bring anything to its knees when requesting too much data at once. There's always another bottleneck. Getting all data in a single request is an antipattern to me. Fetching a lot of data unless absolutely necessary with no other option is an antipattern to me. But that of course is relative to a specific purpose.

I think this is why Google hesitated to publish their internal model which was ready long before mindless OpenAI idiots released their first ChatGPT in November 2022.

https://research.google/blog/towards-a-conversational-agent-...