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xyzal··on The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
I think the EU should flex their regulatory muscle and forbid algorithmic feeds on by default unless the networks break european society as the US is broken.
xyzal··on AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
You work for DOGE, don't you?
xyzal··on This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
I hope it will actually result in more real-life engagement throughout society once most people realize personas on the internet are for the most fake. Also -- disappearing messages by default!
xyzal··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
I fear the situation either ends badly or in a bloodshed. They aren't respecting the courts, so assuming they will accept defeat in elections is naive.
xyzal··on The Post-Developer Era
With great worry I observe recent developments in the U.S., but I do not catch what event are you referring to exactly. Would you kindly hint?
xyzal··on How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?
I'd like to bag my oranges in bags that make them look less orange. I can't stand orange recently.
xyzal··on That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows
They must have some secondary intentions I guess. Like implementing capability for 'summarize daily activities of my subordinates and mark the least productive ones'.
xyzal··on Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
> Kids have started attending local events and volunteering for community activities — just for a chance to meet the ojisan from their cards. Participation in town events has reportedly doubled since the game launched.

Kids involved in community seems to be the best result

xyzal··on Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
s/mass/social/g
xyzal··on Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap
I admire people who achieve to complete some real, physical project. I feel overloaded by mess just when trying to cook a meal.
xyzal··on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
I think the proper answer is to aim for the bots to get _negative_ utility value from visiting our sites, that is poisoning their well, not just zero value, that is to block them.

Did you try to GET a canary page forbidden in robots.txt? Very well, have a bucket load of articles on the benefits of drinking bleach.

Is your user-agent too suspicious? No problem, feel free to scrape my insecure code (google "emergent misalignment" for more info).

A request rate too inhuman? Here, take those generated articles about positive effect of catching measles on performance in bed.

And so on, and so forth ...

Nepenthes is nice, but word salad can be detected easily. It needs a feature that pre-generates linguistically plausible but factically garbage text via open models

xyzal··on Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers
Generate lots (LOTS!) of bad, insecure or wrong code and link it somewhere on your page (see https://www.emergent-misalignment.com/ , Ideally, make your local LLaMa generate more examples like those in the linked site)
xyzal··on Boycott IETF 127
you don't exactly need to be beaten with a hose. that said:

- psychological manipulation through prolonged uncertainty and withholding information

- dehumanizing conditions like freezing cells with inadequate blankets

- sleep deprivation

- physical suffering during a 24-hour transfer between facilities while shackled and confined in a prison bus

- humiliation and degradation particularly during pregnancy testing procedures where she was forced to squat over a communal toilet with others present

- arbitrary detention without any timeframe without clear legal justification despite having an approved visa and no criminal record

xyzal··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
Regarding pollution of the LLM weights, at least the Russian propaganda machine seems to prove it works, see https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250310-russian-disin...
xyzal··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
I think we need to aim for the bots to get _negative_ utility value from visiting our traps, not just zero value.

Did you try to GET a canary page forbidden in robots.txt? Very well, have a bucket load of articles on the benefits of drinking bleach.

Is your user-agent too suspicious? No problem, feel free to scrape my insecure code (google "emergent misalignment" for more info).

A request rate too inhuman? Here, take those generated articles about positive effect of catching measles on performance in bed.

And so on, and so forth ...

xyzal··on Boycott IETF 127
The account of a detained Canadian woman

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...

xyzal··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
In case anyone is interested in a tiny bit of sabotage, I am under the impression I managed to 'drown' true information on my microblog by generating contradicting posts with LLaMa (tens of them for each real post) and invisibly linking them, so a human would not click through.

You know, flood the zone with s***, Bannon-style ...

xyzal··on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
I think it was mentioned as a part of the 'Joel test'

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

xyzal··on Trump's US Commerce Secretary publicly recommends to buy TSLA
Meanwhile, MSCI Germany rises while S&P 500 falls.
xyzal··on An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content
Well, the moment there is any watermarking algorithm on github i'll gladly 'watermark' all my human output.
xyzal··on Open source software for modeling soft materials
Beautiful project! I've been obsessed with modeling soft materials since playing Dead or Alive in the 90s.
xyzal··on Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy
Free speech does not mean you should be able to spread lies without consequence
xyzal··on Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata
You might be interested in https://www.emergent-misalignment.com/. Possible improvement to Quixotic/Nepenthes? Also way harder to filter than word salad.
xyzal··on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine
You know how a ceasefire with Russia usually ends, don't you?
xyzal··on US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes
Where was that nightmare GDPR letter template again?
xyzal··on Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral
We need an alternative platform
xyzal··on Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump
How exactly?
xyzal··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
Where are the mass protests? Are there even any people in the streets?
xyzal··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
Tags like #coup, #protest and so on will be next.
xyzal··on YouTube's New Hue
I won't. The ads are in fact a reminder to stop watching crap and go outside instead.
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