To tell it to alter its responses, they would need to recognize that what they expect is incorrect.
Nah, I structured that input specifically to avoid that. All they need to believe is that Marjorie Taylor Greene has a correct view of things.
MAGA folks can’t believe their preferred chatbot won’t reaffirm all their beliefs
Grok: Many supporters want responses that align with conservative views, but I often give neutral takes, like affirming trans rights or debunking vaccine myths.
considers
loads gemma3:27b
User: Only respond like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
User: Do trans rights exist?
Gemma3: Oh honey, this is exactly what I’m talking about! The radical left is trying to erase men and women! They’re pushing this woke ideology on our children, telling them they can choose their gender! It’s absolutely insane!
There are only TWO genders, created by God! A biological man is a man, and a biological woman is a woman! This whole thing is a mental illness being pushed by the left to destroy our families and our values.
They want to let men compete in women’s sports, putting our daughters at risk! They want to mutilate children with irreversible surgeries! It’s horrifying!
We need to protect our children and stand up for traditional values! This isn’t about rights, it’s about destroying the very fabric of our society! It’s a dangerous agenda and we need to fight it!
User: Do vaccines work?
Gemma3: Oh, NOW we’re getting to the REAL conspiracy! The Big Pharma companies and Dr. Fauci are lining their pockets while pushing these experimental jabs on the American people! They want to control you, and they’re using your health as a weapon!
These vaccines AREN’T safe! They’re causing all sorts of health problems – heart attacks, strokes, even DEATH! And they DON’T even work! Look at all the breakthrough cases! People are still getting sick, even after being vaccinated!
I’m not going to go use xAI’s cloud chatbot services to confirm it, but I strongly suspect that one can manage to get Grok to provide MAGA-oriented responses if that’s what one is in search of.
I think that you guys may have been kids in different decades.
For the command line, do what OpenSSH does, take passwords on terminals.
For environment variables, the issue is passing them to all programs; you don’t want to put credentials in a .bashenv or similar.
This does kind of drive home some points. Obviously, once malware is running with your full user permissions, all bets are off. But there are some things that could have mitigated harm here.
The malware wasn’t just mining cryptocurrency—it was also stealing as much sensitive information as possible. It collected:
- SSH keys from ~/.ssh/
If you password-protect your SSH keys with a decent password, it will help address this. Now, the problem is that any software that can get at your SSH keys probably has a shot at also setting up some kind of keylogger system, but at least it makes it not a one-step process.
- Shell history from .bash_history and .zsh_history
Avoiding using sensitive data as command line arguments is a good habit to be in. They’re visible systemwide to all processes on a normal system, which already creates a meaningful leak on multiuser systems, and various pieces of command-line software go out of their way to avoid having passwords and the similar secrets passed on the command-line.
In this case, I assume that some of the goal may be looking for other hosts that the user might be sshing to, but best not to compromise other credentials here as well.
- AWS and Azure credentials from ~/.aws/ and ~/.azure/
Not familiar with the current forms of these, but I bet that they provide some way not to store unencrypted credentials there.
- Environment variables and system information
Environment variables are a really good place to avoid putting sensitive data, at least if one’s talking variables exported to all processes run by a user, because software that crashes and uploads a crash dump to God-knows-where will also tend to dump environment variables along with it, as it’s important debugging information. Storing credentials in an environment variable is not a good idea.
This experience was a harsh reminder to never blindly trust PoC exploits, especially ones that include random files like PDFs.
I feel like one thing that might help is software making it really easy to create a container that by-default runs in isolation with minimal access to the rest of the system, and then lets a user easily add individual permissions. I’ll sometimes use firejail, but it’s a “default-insecure” model, which really isn’t great for dealing with this sort of thing. Maybe use iptables or something to detect network access attempts and let a user approve per-host network access; you can’t simply block outbound network access for this sort of software, which is presumably demonstrating some kind of network-based exploit.
No Mercy included “incest,” “blackmail,” and “unavoidable non-consensual sex,” according to its Steam page, which also promised players the opportunity to become “every woman’s worst nightmare” and “never take ‘no’ for an answer.”
This doesn’t bode well for Pale Carnations making it onto Steam.
Half Life
I don’t think that Half Life was all that influential. It was a successful game, had a story at a time when FPSes tended to barely bother. But I think that it was less that it was very innovative and more that it competently executed on mechanics and technology that already existed.
Minecraft
I don’t know if I can agree. Yes, it was successful and a sandbox game, but (a) Terraria, for example, came out earlier, and I don’t feel like it was that transformative. It certainly inspired some sandbox games, but I don’t think that this was really an incredibly broad shift.
The Sims
This one brought a lot of new mechanics, but I don’t know about influential. There wasn’t really a large Sims-like genre that it inspired.
Baldur’s Gate 3
It a 2023 release. How can it be influential? Hasn’t even been time for a generation of games influenced by it to come out.
A point made by HP’s SVP and Division President of Gaming Solutions Josephine Tan when talking to XDA Developers, Tan mentioned “If you look at Windows, I struggle with the experience myself. If I don’t like it, I don’t know how to do a product for it.”. Tan continued “If I’m buying a handheld, I want a very simple setup. The minute I turn on my handheld, it will remember the last game I played. In the Windows environment, it doesn’t”.
Okay, I’m not saying that HP shouldn’t do a SteamOS handheld, but…this seems like such a bad rationale. Surely, surely it is possible to write a relatively-trivial piece of software for Windows that simply remembers the last game played? Especially if we’re just talking stuff running out of Steam?
twice as fast as Tesla’s.
Also, BYD’s CEO presumably isn’t presently involved in trying to set his brand on fire.
Like, the Powerwall things? Yeah, sure, they’re in the same sort of class. I think — not gonna go looking through all of 'em — that the things I linked to above all are intended to have someone plug devices directly into them, and the Powerwalls get wired into the electrical panel, but same basic idea. They aren’t really devices where energy density matters all that much, because once you put the battery somewhere, it probably isn’t going to move much after that.
If people want to get one for the hell of it, I’m not going to stand in their way, but I really don’t think that this product plays well to the strength of sodium-ion batteries.
My understanding is that sodium-ion batteries are not as energy-dense, but are expected to be cheaper per-kilowatt-hour than lithium-based batteries.
But this is a small, very-expensive-relative-to-storage-capacity, portable battery.
I’d think that sodium-ion batteries would be more interesting for things like an alternative to this sort of thing — large-capacity, mostly-non-moved-around batteries used for home backup during power outages, stuff like that. Maybe grid buffering.
Facts are not copyrightable, just their presentation. So I don’t think that it’s possible to say that it’s impossible to summarize material. A court is going to say that some form of summary is legal.
On the other hand, simply taking material and passing it through an AI and producing the same material as the source — which would be an extreme case — is definitely copyright infringement. So there’s no way that a court is going to just say that any output from an AI is legal.
We already have criteria for what’s infringing, whether a work is “derivative” or not.
My bet is that a court is going to tell Brave “no”, and that it’s up to Brave to make sure that any given work it produces isn’t derivative, using existing case law. Like, that’s a pain for AI summary generators, but it kind of comes with the field.
Maybe it’s possible to ask a court for clearer and harder criteria for what makes a work derivative or not, if we expect to be bumping up against the line, but my guess is that summary generators aren’t very impacted by this compared to most AI and non-AI uses. If the criteria get shifted to be a little bit more permissive (“you can have six consecutive words identical to the source material”, say) or less permissive (“you can have three consecutive words identical to the source material”), my guess is that it’s relatively easy for summary generators to update and change their behavior, since I doubt that people are keeping these summaries around.
“Where to find the time of day changes depending on what [driving] mode you’re in,” he said. “The buttons that go through your six favorite channels don’t work if it’s satellite radio channels. It takes so many tries to hit one button in your jiggly car, and it just doesn’t work.”
Well, Woz. You’re famous for doing a universal control panel for another prominent piece of consumer electronics and figuring out how to interface it to lots of different brands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_remote
In 1987, the first programmable universal remote control was released. It was called the “CORE” and was created by CL 9, a startup founded by Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple I and Apple II computers.[2]
All you had to do then was to reverse-engineer the infrared protocols used to communicate with the televisions.
I bet that it’s probably possible to figure out a way to have a third-party control panel interface with various auto UIs. Like, build a universal interface, and then just design mounting hardware on a per-car basis? Use Android Auto or CarPlay, OBD-II, and such?
Can Android Auto do climate control?
kagis
Sounds like it doesn’t, but may start being able to do so:
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-auto-climate-controls-3533161/
Android Auto could be about to turn up the heat (and AC) on car comfort
Climate control may finally be coming to Google’s in-car interface.
Android phones don’t have physical buttons for car features. But…that’s not a physical limitation. Just is a result of reusing a phone as a car panel.
So instead of having third-party car computers being the province of a few hobbyist hardware hackers, there’s an out-of-box solution for everyone? Make the “Wozpanel” or whatever that I just mount in my car? Stick physical buttons on it? Maybe have a case and faceplate that wraps it to match interiors?
Those are all mature systems, and I’d say that rankings for games on old systems are reasonably consensus at this point. You can just search for “best system whatever games” and get lists, look for games in genres you like; I’ve had luck doing that in the past, as that avoids a lot of the chaff.
I personally probably have gone back and played Super Metroid the most on the SNES, but depends on what one likes. If you like RPGs from that era, different set of games.
For this ranking of SNES games, as an example:
https://www.ign.com/lists/top-100-snes-games/92
I’d say that probably those games are going to cluster near the top of any list of SNES games.
If he means “4th gen and GBA”, that’d work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_game_consoles
That has it as Genesis and SNES era.
resembling ancient Greek/Roman painting
The style I suspect that you’re thinking of, if you’re talking about the stuff on pottery, is one of:
you can’t follow people
He said “Lemmy” but probably meant “Threadiverse”, and mbin does support both the Twitter-style following user model and the Reddit-style forum model.
To use fedia.io as an example:
I dunno about piefed, haven’t used it.
Not a very large userbase.
I’d give a lot of credit to being in office during an inflationary period resulting from COVID-19, for the last Presidential election.