Microsoft added AI to MS Paint. W H Y ?
There is a thing in crypto called "ux/acc" which, from what I can fathom, is a new way to avoid thinking about why it isn't being adopted
15 years to realize their UIs might be bad. How many years until they realize UI and system design (including protocols, backend, etc) are inextricably linked?
sometimes I'm trying to decide whether to pay for a bagel with credit or ethereum, and I go with credit because it's got nice bridges, chain abstraction protocols and cross-L2 UX
just about a month since we had the LLM security thread, and now there's some more hilaribad coming out at blackhat
wow, remember when a bunch of random posters came to that security thread to try and gaslight us into thinking the very similar attack described in @dgerard@awful.systems’s blog post wasn’t a security vulnerability? and now it’s a Black Hat talk, aka “you fucked up and now the world knows about it”
"It's kind of funny in a way - if you have a bot that's useful, then it's vulnerable. If it's not vulnerable, it's not useful," Bargury said.
holy fuck that’s damning. LLMs are so worthless on their own that they can’t do anything unless you’ve got everything hooked up to RAG, which is just a wide-open API with access to all your data.
rootkits as a service
Not a sneer, but an interesting article from WaPo (archive link) about the rise/return of "dumb tech", and its link to the backlash against smart tech
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