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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023
  • And if the site is hacked, they can get a lot of information about how the passkeys

    I don’t like passkeys, but this is not a real worry, unless the service you are using is ran by idiots. I mean to say that knowing how passkeys are generated is typically not helpful in guessing your passkey. There are more interesting questions where security fumbles, like is your data encrypted on the provider side & is that encryption tied to your passkey or not, often not, since they want to mine your data.

  • Just use a botnet and start throwing probable keys at it and you’re likely to get a few.

    This is not plausible, would take billions+ years to stumble upon just one with a botnet that has all online PCs on Earth utilized.

    Remote attestation is the real problem with where passkeys are going.

  • I don’t know about other normal people, but I’m certainly actively maintaining my own vibecoded apps as long as it’s affordable to do so. By that I mean they give me the niche functionality I want & new features are not added anymore, but if a pillow or pyqt update breaks my app, I may figure out how to fix it even on my own.

  • Understanding how things work a little will make using Ai assistance much more reliable. If you have 0 knowledge & you are just pasting terminal commands without comprehending anything even a little bit is not really tenable long term, but I suppose if you plan to reinstall annually, it could be okay, given a mistake doesn’t wipe your drive.

  • Awful use of ChatGPT, yes. Though in a perfect world where intentional bias could not exist, then it could be good for people that are lazy to do their own research to summarize the life, past policy decisions & promises of the candidates in an easily digestible form. In that hypothetical world could be better than still going to the polls without knowing anything, like so many people do.

    I actually asked ChatGPT out of curiosity about James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton & it cherry picked things that were really said by KP, but are bullshit from a republican. Then again looking at Talarico’s side makes me waver if there is intentional bias at all, but overall it still feels like both candidates are shown in a relatively good light, with KP obviously gaining more.

    Just the fact that ChatGPT and other LLMs are resistant to say bad things about politicians in general makes the results inherently biased & potentially very damaging.

  • There are several ways, but they are all quite involved. Reading the comments Helix’s comment seems the easiest, given that VirtualBox can really use raw disks, which I have not heard of before. To this I wish to add, if this method works you don’t need to worry about drivers. The linux kernel has all the drivers you are likely to need & initrd is taken care of by all the distro installers, so you just need to directly install from the iso normally & not use an automated installer if VirtualBox has such options.

    I don’t have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.

    If you care about Linux it’s worth getting a usb drive, $4 gets you a usable drive in most parts of the world. (8GB is enough)
    If you end up getting one, my suggestion is to make it a ventoy drive, even if you only have one iso file on the drive (which you’ll need to boot in grub2 mode) , you’ll still get the recovery benefit of ventoy, meaning if something* happens to your linux bootloader, ventoy will still be able to boot it up np most of the time.

    *If you have two separate EFI partitions on two disks it’s unlikely that Windows would touch the other, but stranger things have happened.

  • I understand the anti Ai sentiment, but “any way” is quite broad. Yes calling it super intelligence right now is a grift, but saying current frontier models are not better than humans in any respect is just as ridiculous. They are better at reviewing code for example, can make sense of large sections of unintelligible spaghetti like no human can.