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You'd have to compromise wikipedia in some way to get invisible text on its pages. The one that was shown to work[1] was a niche answer to a specific question that programmers migh…

Suddenly it’s “copyright infringement” to put dots of ink on white paper.

I am unaware of any statute or constitutional provision that confers rights to AI.

Even if so, in older disputes (see Betamax/VHS), the possibility of verbatim reproduction didn’t stop the technology from being allowed because there were other non-reproduction be…

Even after they decide, it is ok for people to disagree and work to overturn those decisions. You could just be a person that _wants_ a different reality. We have political mechani…

The instructions will have to get more and more sophisticated to work, but the general problem is unsolvable, I think, in the way we do it now. This paper describes a two-agent “so…

You are saying exactly what I said, but making it seem like you don’t agree with me.

Part of reading a document is that in the middle of it, it may ask the reader to do something. That is true for humans too. Sometimes they might not realize that the instructions a…

The intellectual property law that governs ACM articles is copyright law, not patents. I don’t know who controls these (the ACM or the authors) or what rights might have been grant…

I don't know if his final analysis is right or wrong, but if he believes this, he's completely clueless (about this aspect at least). Edit: to be clear, I am talking about Ed’s con…

I think it’s apps that don’t implement the JPEG orientation tag correctly.

Also cash? Scammers will (and do) send a mule to your house to pick up boxes of cash.

I’m sure the source is LinkedIn ultimately. They reference my job and things from there and pretend to have carefully considered my posts (just LLM generated BS)

I am saying that 70 emails would be 70 seconds of time, so not a big deal. I can usually tell from the sender that it won’t be real and it takes just a couple of words to prove tha…

I get about 10 AI generated spam emails a day that get through my spam filter. It takes about 10 seconds to block and mark as spam. I barely read the first three words of each.

It’s been known for decades that you should never put your current directory in your PATH. There are endless opportunities for vulnerabilities then. I learned this in college in th…

For me, it feels like a prompt injection based security nightmare. Literally every file on my mac and every site I browse is potential malware. Edit to add: every email and text me…

Wins for "devices owned", but not necessarily for customers, which depends on the product/service. The OP has said they have fallback to SMS/RCS.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

The threat is that you depend on this library or use the VS Code Extension.

This is great. Now we won’t have to fix y2K36 bugs.

https://loufranco.com

I recently switched to Linux for all development. I still use my Mac for everything else. The main reason was to protect my personal data from possible supply chain issues or LLM a…

I have recently gone all in on Python. Before I decided this, I was using Python for projects where I needed Pandas or numpy. I used React/TypeScript/Node for web applications. But…

When you do regular updates, they are quick. But also, you can timebox it and then back out and plan a harder than expected update. Also, it keeps you in touch with your deps so yo…