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I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by mensetmanusman »

Yondle wrote: post #327
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #233

This article is so interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has that feel for me. Maybe that shouldn’t bother me? Like, maybe the author would never have had time to write this otherwise, and I would never have learned about his experience. But I can't help wishing he'd just written about it himself. Maybe that's unreasonable--I shouldn't expect people to do extra work for fr…

Your comment was so validating, I was getting such weird vibes and felt it was so dumbly written given the contention was actually good advice. Consequently, the author tarnished his reputation for me personally from the very beginning.

It’s easy to ask an llm to change writing styles though… this is what the dead internet feels like.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by acdha »

strbean wrote: post #254
CjHuber wrote: post #188

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It’s not like there aren‘t dozens of companies with real funding that try to „tokenize real estate“. I mean if that’s a good idea idk, but that means there IS real money to be made working at such companies.

Eh, it would be nice if there was a public title database in the US. Ideally government administered, but if we can't have that then maybe a distributed ledger would do the trick. It's hilarious that title searches and title insurance exist. And even more ridiculous that there is just no way, period, to actually verify that a would-be landlord is actually authorized to lease you a place to live.

> Ideally government administered, but if we can't have that then maybe a distributed ledger would do the trick.

The problem is that it has to be government administered because otherwise you’re constantly stuck with the risk that what you see won’t survive a legal challenge. This is a constant problem for ledgers because the sales pitch is about being “trust less” or distributed in some sense that everyone can participate, but making them work is an exercise in picking which third-parties you trust to settle disputes. For the most important things, that usually means the government unless part of their authority has been delegated to a private entity.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by lovegrenoble »

Fokamul wrote: post #288

1. If you're opening URLs in your browser in your OS? You will get hacked eventually. It only depends on how valuable target you are, to be targeted with Chrome/Firefox 0day. 2. If it's Russian name -> always think BS or malware, easy as that. 3. Linkedin was and still is the best tool for phishing/spear-phishing, malware spreading. Mind-boggling it is still used, even by IT pros.

It's an Ukrainian name

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Post by tombert »

c0nsumer wrote: post #285
cddotdotslash wrote: post #252

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It’s incredibly annoying to read. So many super short sentences with the “not just X. Also Y” format. Little hooks like “The attack vector?” “Not fancy security tools. Not expensive antivirus software. Just asking my coding assistant…” I actually feel like AI articles are becoming easier to spot. Maybe we’re all just collectively noticing the patterns.

I'm regularly asked by coworkers why I don't run my writing through AI tools to clean it up and instead spend a time iterating over it, re-reading, perhaps with a basic spell checker and maybe grammar check. That's because, from what I've seen to date, it'd take away my voice. And my voice -- the style in which I write -- is my value. It's the same as with art... Yes, AI tools can produce passable art, but it feels s…

I agree. I use Grammarly for finding outright mistakes (spelling and the like, or a misplaced comma or something), but I don't listen to any of the suggestions for writing.

I feel like when I try writing through Grammarly, it feels mechanical and really homogeneous. It's not "bad" exactly, but it sort of lacks anything interesting about it.

I dunno. I'm hardly some master writer, but I think I'm ok at writing things that interesting to read, and I feel Grammarly takes that away.

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Post by tombert »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #328
ACCount37 wrote: post #326

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Far better at catching some types of mistakes. Word only has this many hardcoded rules past the basic grammar. LLMs operate on semantics, and pick up on errors like "the sentence is grammatically correct, but uses an obviously wrong term, given the context".

That's not the kind of thing I'd trust to a language model: I'd expect it to persuade me to change something correct to something incorrect more often than it catches a genuine error. But ymmv, I suppose.

I have definitely seen Grammarly make suggestions that are actually wrong, but I think it's generally pretty ok, and it does seem to make fewer mistakes than I normally do.

Sometimes I use incorrect grammar on purpose for rhetorical purposes, but usually I want the obvious mistakes to be cleaned up. I don't listen to it for any of its stylistic changes.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by scoodah »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #233

This article is so interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has that feel for me. Maybe that shouldn’t bother me? Like, maybe the author would never have had time to write this otherwise, and I would never have learned about his experience. But I can't help wishing he'd just written about it himself. Maybe that's unreasonable--I shouldn't expect people to do extra work for fr…

Very obvious writing style but also the bullet points that restate the same thing in slightly different ways as well as the weirdly worded “full server privileges” and “full nodejs privileges”.

Like… yes running a process is going to have whatever privileges your user has by default. But I’ve never once heard someone say “full server privileges” or “full nodejs privileges”…. It’s just random that is not necessarily wrong but not really right either.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by baubino »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #233

This article is so interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has that feel for me. Maybe that shouldn’t bother me? Like, maybe the author would never have had time to write this otherwise, and I would never have learned about his experience. But I can't help wishing he'd just written about it himself. Maybe that's unreasonable--I shouldn't expect people to do extra work for fr…

The sentence structure is too consistent across the whole piece, like they all have the same number of syllables, almost none start with a subject, and they are all very short. It is robotic in its consistency. Even if it’s not AI, it’s bad writing.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by kenjackson »

tempestn wrote: post #283
DavidDodda wrote: post #173

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no, that was me. i did not setup a watch script or anything to see how long the link was up for. but when I first tried it, it was active, and when I tried it the next day around the same time, it was gone.

FYI in case you decide to write without the AI more, "setup" and "checkout" are nouns. If you're using them as verbs, they are two words, "set up" and "check out". You can remember which is which based on whether it would make sense to put another word between them, ie. "set it up" or "check something out", vs "the setup of the document" or "a fresh checkout of this branch".

Is this generally a way to determine when to split a compound word?
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