TootSweet @ TootSweet @lemmy.world Posts 35Comments 2,177Joined 2 yr. ago
As drspod said, no, Linux is not invulnerable. For Linux users using legacy BIOS boot or using UEFI but not secure boot, this vulnerability doesn't make anything any more insecure than it was already. But any user, Linux or Windows, who is affected by this vulnerability (which is basically everyone who hasn't revoked permissions to the Microsoft keys in question), if they're using secure boot, no they're not. (That is to say, they can no longer depend on any of the guarantees that secure boot provides until they close the vulnerability.)
"Ribbark, ribbark."
A drug.
Whether it's an important medicine for health and wellbeing or a hard recreational drug can depend greatly on the context.
If I'm understading what I've been able to glean about this just by googling, it looks like the vulnerability is in certain tools that Microsoft has decided to sign with some of its UEFI secure boot keys. It's not a vulnerability in your UEFI firmware itself, except insofar as your UEFI firmware comes already configured to trust Microsoft's certificates. So even though the vulnerability isn't in your UEFI firmware per se, the fix will require revoking trust to keys that are almost definitely pre-installed in your UEFI firmware.
Yeah, ok, it works on my computer.
"Bots" wasn't the first thing that came to mind when I considered what the Bitcoin Cash community might be full of, actually.
But, yes. I'd be not even a little surprised if it was full of bots too.
Does imgur actually work for anybody? I always get a blank gray screen on my phone. (If I'm not too lazy and I don't forget, I might re-check this post on my typey-typey boomer computer later.)
Reddit is better PR for Lemmy than anything we can do. They'll do something stupid again any day here and Lemmy will receive a big influx of users.
If we really wanted to go evangelize, I think it would still be best to wait until Reddit does something that is going to frustrate users.
Wait, is this an interview?
I'd be... uh... a t-rex... because, uh... I'm not afraid to... uh... take initiative?
Nice! Thanks for clarifying that. It definitely puts some of the hypotheses to rest. I imagine some of the people saying it was staged were just too swept up in the AI bubble hype to admit to themselves or others that their Lord and Savior Generative AI could be so dumb as to do that sort of thing without a human faking it.
Sure, but LLMs are also sufficiently prone to spontaneously doing weird stuff like that that it's very believable that it's authentic/organic. And there's definitely Python code in Gemini's training data.
Star Trek used to be better than Star Wars.
Main reason: weekly episodes. You had to wait years to decades for the next Star Wars. But the next Voyager was just next Wednesday, and DS9 was next Thursday. At worst, they were in reruns for the next few months at most.
Hell. Star Trek had Star Wars beat on quantity of movies too.
Now, it's balanced out quite a bit and Star Wars probably has the edge right now on quantity and quality, but not by much, the gap is shrinking, and the situation could reverse pretty quickly.
Oh, also, Roddenberry didn't have the George Lucas syndrome making him want to retroactively ruin the whole franchise he birthed.
I don't think this is Gemini trying to run some of its own code to save facts about the user and whoops displaying the code it was trying to run to the user rather than running it or anything like that. That's not how software works, and not how LLMs work.
More likely somewhere in Gemini's training data, there's one or more code examples (specifically Python code examples, by the looks of it) that have something to do with the user's prompt. The relationship between Python code examples and the user's prompt may well be extremely nonobvious, but there'd have to be something about the prompt that made Gemini hallucinate that.
Source: Am software engineer. Though I don't have any hands-on experience with generative AI to speak of. I do think generative AI is a bullshit hype bubble, though.
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I imagine sabots would do pretty well against graphics cards.
My grocery store carries big shakers, all in the same brand, of (in order from finest to most course/granular) powder, minced, chopped, and flakes, all dried. I wasn't even talking about the jars of not-dried minced.
Though I bought a jar of minced ("wet") onion unintentionally due to a mixup the other day and used that instead and it was pretty good. Made my bread taste very sweet compared to the dried version. But the dried version is also good. (The "minced? madness" comment is just a joke, but I do kindof like the bigger flakes.)
But, yeah. Once it's baked, the result is pretty moist. I do think the dried onions rehydrate during cooking. (I cook my bread in the microwave for about 3 minutes and 40 seconds.)
I... doubt it?
I took the liberty of looking in the developer tools as it failed, and there was a 500 response. The connection to Hulu's servers was all over HTTPS and I didn't get any certificate warning, so unless my ISP managed to get Hulu's private key or got with a corrupt registrar willing to issue a valid replacement certificate, no ISP should be able to change response codes on a man-in-the-middle basis or a redirecting-traffic-to-a-hostile-server basis.
And given how many people have reported issues, I doubt it's specific to any particular ISPs.
Net neutrality being dead is a huge bummer, but I don't think this can be blamed on that.
Here is my recipe for low-carb microwave bread (and, the onion thing is a newer addition since I wrote up that recipe) but there are microwave recipes out there for wheat-flour-based bread. It's surprisingly easy, really.
My recipe also uses baking soda and vinegar rather than yeast or anything. I think the baking soda/vinegar approach is more doable for microwave bread than it is for oven bread because the microwave version usually involves a lot less cooking time than an oven version.
One more note: I think the paper ice cream tub method works better than the stonewear ramekin method. Maybe the microwaves penetrate the paper better or something? Not sure.
Yeah, I guess I can understand the cognitive dissonance making people want to deny everything, but it doesn't seem like there's much room to doubt the veracity of the case against Gaiman. Really, that article has been a long time coming. Anyone paying much attention to Amanda Palmer (Gaiman's ex-wife) has had plenty of clues this was coming, even if the full extent of the sheer depravity of the details weren't publicly known until now.
Also, I haven't read the Vulture article yet, but from what I've heard, it makes it sound like Palmer was complicit. She has also withdrawn from public places/platforms (like from her Patreon) since its publication.