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byScooterBill
5, 2026 @09:03AM
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Attached to: Infotainment, EV Charger Exploits Earn $1M at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026
"Leave the World Behind" - it wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
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byScooterBill
24, 2026 @04:55PM
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Attached to: AI Luminaries Clash At Davos Over How Close Human-Level Intelligence Really Is
At this point it's just semantics.
LLM tech at the current level is incredibly useful and it's not slowing down.
People like to obsess over if the LLM "thinks" like a human but then again, humans tend to see the world only as a human sees it.
Truth is, in many areas a good LLM can easily outperform a human.
I'm spending just hours on projects that before LLMs I would have spent weeks just learning syntax and finding obscure bugs.
Regardless of the nomenclature, LLMs are definitely a paradigm shift for humanity.
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byScooterBill
3, 2026 @01:07PM
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Attached to: When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click
This should work unless the researcher gives the agent enough access to delete the repo.
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byScooterBill
3, 2026 @01:05PM
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Attached to: When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click
Docker? Venv? There are ways to test this stuff safely.
That said, if you want to test natively and without safeguards, make an f'ing backup on a flash drive or multiple cloud services.
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byScooterBill
8, 2026 @09:59AM
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Attached to: NASA Livestreams the Rocket That Will Carry Four Astronauts Around the Moon
Why the obsession with getting humans to the moon so early in the project?
I would think creating a habitat, mining ore and exploring could easily be done with robots, some autonomously and some remotely piloted.
Once they get a habitat built, humans could follow. Who wouldn't want to bounce around in 20% earth gravity?
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byScooterBill
6, 2026 @08:13AM
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Attached to: Study Finds Weak Evidence Linking Social Media Use to Teen Mental Health Problems
Gaming and social media use are two completely different things.
Kids are resilient, it's the adults that can't handle social media.
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byScooterBill
15, 2026 @11:37AM
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Attached to: Wikipedia Signs AI Licensing Deals On Its 25th Birthday
Aren't we all just sitting around waiting for a handful of people to own every fucking thing on this planet.
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byScooterBill
y 14, 2026 @03:51PM
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Attached to: NASA Acknowledges Record Heat But Avoids Referencing Climate Change
Humanity is definitely in the 'stupid' phase of it's existence.
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byScooterBill
06, 2026 @12:25PM
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Attached to: 'NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court'
Exactly! All you need to do is go out in the world, take the subway, go to a park, a shopping center, etc. and watch the young generation. The phone is their life and the big media companies know this and exploit it. My grown kid and his fiance came to visit for a few days and the fiance needed to check her phone every few minutes. Incredibly addictive behavior.
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byScooterBill
21, 2025 @12:28PM
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Attached to: Does AI Really Make Coders Faster?
As a software engineer I can easily say that AI coding assistants have solved problems that would have taken me weeks to figure out.
Things like how to install something complex or how to write a relatively simple program in an unfamiliar language and framework.
It's also created bugs, inefficient code and masked problems in order to get to that all important "it's now running perfectly" state.
My worst fear is when the AI says something like "I should take a completely different approach" and then it begins to code something that completely missed the point of what I'm trying to do. Source control has never been more necessary.
I laugh when people test these LLMs with something like "create a game and run it", then they give it free reign over the system and if it works, they declare it's brilliant. Just wait...
Bottom line: I wouldn't give up my AI assistant for anything but you need to be really careful and pay attention to everything it's doing.
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byScooterBill
21, 2025 @12:16PM
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Attached to: Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure
Yeah, whatever happened to the Republican mantra that the government should get out of the way of business and let the private sector do it.
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byScooterBill
21, 2025 @12:14PM
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Attached to: FSF Says Nintendo's New DRM Allows Them to Remotely Render User Devices 'Permanently Unusable'
Wait until some hacker figures out how to exploit this. That'll be fun!
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byScooterBill
15, 2025 @06:35PM
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Attached to: Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power?
The one thing you can always count on is humanity (or at least the wealthy part of humanity) exploiting something until it hits a dead end or causes a lot of deaths. LLM technology isn't AI...yet, but it will get there. Whether or not this future AI is conscious is irrelevant as AI bots can now easily pass the turing test.
Think about it for minute. The lure of a super-intelligence that someone can own explains why we're seeing trillions spent to advance AI tech.
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byScooterBill
er 10, 2025 @09:11AM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Locally-Hosted Wireless Security Cameras?
4th amendment baby!
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byScooterBill
07, 2025 @01:31PM
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Attached to: Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny?
In France, we paid all our bills, contractors, friends, everything with a bank account iban number.
It worked great. No credit card fees, no venmo, no cash and a paper record.
The US is behind.
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