⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@festal once again, this applies to machine learning systems and to large language models. Older forms of #AI – inference systems using knowledge bases constructed by systematically interviewing human experts ('Expert Systems') do not suffer from these problems.

@GossiTheDog I’m personally not very happy with this post because despite its length, the only new information is that there was a bug in the server-side pre-validator as well as in the driver (could it be literally the same parsing code in both cases?)

if you have a crash with this much impact, I expect to see some chapter-and-verse citations of exactly how the crash occurred and exactly how it’s being patched. There is a footnote that they’ll add More Information Later, We Promise, so I think it’s important we don’t all forget to follow up on that

A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

Defcon is such a weird feeling for me, it's like two separate major life events. My first Defcon was the first time I ever booked a vacation with my own money, so I got to go from sharing budget accommodation with my family, to staying in 5 star hotels. Then my second defcon was when I went from living with my parents to being fully independent, thanks to getting arrested and forced to live in the US indefinitely.

@revk Whilst a person might have 'caused' it their error should have been no more than an 'oops do that again' internally.

People make mistakes... I've done it dozens of times. It should be impossible for an untested file to not only be rolled out to prod but pushed directly to prod on multiple critical networks.

Does anyone know what happened to internet access in Turkmenistan from the 11th to the 19th of July 2024?
We saw roughly a 75% reduction in requests to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com over that period.
Traffic looks to have returned now (possibly at a higher level).
Curious...Could be a scraper or something I guess. Not a lot of traffic.
#Turkmenistan #WebStats #Censorship (maybe)

Breaking: Trump refuses to accept the results of the presidential withdrawal, will continue to campaign against Biden.

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.

@shadowsminder @w7voa how about the bbc?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e5xpdzkd8o

Both outlets have Washington correspondents.

Twitter may have been taken over by nazi's but that's not reflective of all the users still on there.

I'm sorry but CrowdStrike's "technical details" post is well below the expected standard in our field. What kind of logic error was it? More importantly, what was your QA process like? Why did CI not catch it? Why was there not a staged rollout? These are the absolute basics that should be expected.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/

Would any UK folks be interested in picking up a complete real robots magazine collection + kit? My dad is doing a bit of house clearance and was wondering if I knew anyone who would be interested