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JTon··on Implications of AI to schools
Is this how you defeat AI detection? I.e. Generate a report, then manually introduce spelling and/or grammatical errors?
JTon··on Generative AI Hype Peaking
> Yahoo yodel

I wanted to hear this again. Leaving it here for the next person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5FE0x9eY0

JTon··on QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices
> Digital distribution and lock-in are a disaster for historical preservation.

Agreed. This reality slapped me in the face quite hard after I was given an ipad 2 (circa 2011). I figured I'd use it as a couch-side device for spotify. Soon realized nothing worked on it, even with old version apps loaded. Server side shut it down.

JTon··on Welcome to the ad-free internet
Perhaps. But what I described benefits the institutions as well, no?
JTon··on Welcome to the ad-free internet
> That’s also why it takes 2 days to send money to people, in an era of instant communication.

I always assumed anti-fraud had something to do with it. Give the victims time to notice and the institutions the ability to reverse transactions without loss

JTon··on I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate
I've been told that many players buy counterfeits specifically for old school tournaments so they don't put their very expensive pieces at risk to theft or damage. I can't verify this, but it makes a lot of sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
JTon··on I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate
You can get professionally printed proxies [1]. I've been told there's often a "don't ask, don't tell" policy around many unofficial mtg tournaments regarding proxies. It obviously upsets some people, but others see it as requirement for new players to enter legacy format (and keep it alive).

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/bootlegmtg/wiki/index

JTon··on The new Paris métro
I don't know. I heard this narrative a lot more during the trump era, and I rarely hear it now. I have a pet theory that it comes up in popular Canadian culture when a republican is in office and dies down when a democrat is there.
JTon··on Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration
Thanks! So is patching this as simple as not allowing the entire space of X for user prompt? i.e. guaranteeing some amount of X for model owner's instructions
JTon··on Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration
> because all the rules have been pushed out.

Can you unpack this a little please? Is it possible to ELI5 the mechanisms involved that can "push" a rule set out? I would have assumed the rules apply globally/uniformly across the entire prompt

JTon··on Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic
Not 100% sure but I believe Llama [1] is a LLM created by meta. Code Llama is probably one tailored as a coding assistant

[1] https://ai.meta.com/llama/

JTon··on [dead]
Unable to view content on my end. Paywalled
JTon··on The process of making food models. Japanese 73-year-old craftsman [video]
True, but there's a vast time and skill delta in making professional looking menu pics and simply snapping reference photos.
JTon··on We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
In general or for this specific application (linking primary sources)?
JTon··on We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
Agreed except ChatGPT (3.5 at least, haven't tried 4) is unable to provide primary sources for its results. At least when I tried, it just provided hallucinated urls
JTon··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
True but a useless fact. One way to interpret u/seanhunter's comment is to make the comparison between imessage and activex in the known exploit space and then extrapolate into the unknown space assuming equal proportions. Seems reasonable to me.
JTon··on Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke
Thanks for sharing this project. Love the sounds [1]. Unfortunately, the github states the windows version is broken (haven't verified myself). Also, just personal taste, I can see myself getting tied of the bucklespring sound. Klack having different switch sounds seems worth the price alone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21AuWT1lDMc

JTon··on The office is a theatre for work (2019)
I'm not following this at all. This narrative is at odds with the cut-throat capitalist narrative which is also popular to characterize businesses today. I.e. If business administrators could cut labour costs by reducing workforce, they would in a blind of an eye. For knowledge workers, I think the "idle capacity" model is more correct. Basically, demands for output are not constant, they ebb and flow. It's expensive to acquire and train staff, so they retain surplus capacity. It's inefficient, but it's more resilient.
JTon··on B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations
Doubtful. Canada has emergency alert systems in place over AM and FM radio, over Broadcast TV, and over SMS/cellphone. Those are the systems I'm aware of, but there may be more.
JTon··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?
JTon··on Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts
We're very far apart on this issue. I feel like you must not drink socially, so you're not exposed to the milder effects of alcohol. Alcohol enables both social and anti-social behavior. It doesn't have to be black and white.
JTon··on Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts
It's both isn't it. It has to be. Have you ever been to a wedding or convention that is serving? Alcohol absolutely is a social lubricant
JTon··on A curated list of uBlock origin filters
I read a comment on a forum where the user had a job to audit google home voice command and search result alignment. Meaning, did the google home user get what they wanted or not. The forum user made a side comment on how a surprising number of people have horrible diction. Makes me think, maybe low information density is the optimal design for the majority of users.
JTon··on Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping
And Oink before it. But the torch has been passed to the next community, not all has been lost
JTon··on FTX’s balance sheet was bad
I happened to catch the Odd Lots podcast episode where Matt Levine and SBF of FTX were co-guests soon after it first came out [1]. Matt's reactions were priceless. Well worth the listen now, considering FTX blowup

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZYqL79GDXU

JTon··on FTX fiasco sparks billions of dollars of outflows from exchanges
I agree in general. Crypto winter is here and appears to be getting worse. But I also am a frequent listener of Darknet Diaries podcast and basically every shady exchange of money online is facilitated in crypto. So it has a non-zero value.
JTon··on Starlink Aviation
> That's how shit wifi

Seems like you know a bit about this. Could you indulge my curiosity and elaborate why wifi is shit? I assume some combo of DSP bottleneck (i.e. want to keep hw cheap) and maintaining backwards compatibility with older standards?

JTon··on Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans
Southern Europeans who live by the Mediterranean sea. Italians, Spanish, Greeks
JTon··on iPhone 3G frame by Grid review
Friend of mine stood in line and got the iPhone 4 on day 1 of release. I remember being in awe of it. Imo, took years for Samsung and other Android smartphones to catch up visually.

> the Porsche 911 of smartphone

Not a car buff. Would you mind unpacking this analogy?

JTon··on Internet Filtering in Canada: Rogers' NHL Blocking Order
Was curious about ownership stake and it's much larger than I remember. So I stand corrected on that aspect. Looks like BCE and RCI basically co-own the leafs at 37.5% respectively [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Leaf_Sports_%26_Entertai...

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