Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

New blog post: Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/5/prompt-injection-jailbreaking/

AI stuff

Going to start a podcast called 'This Had Nobel Buzz' where I just tell stories about cool science and then end with "Well, she didn't get it because she was a woman", "because he was from India" or "because on a random day he emptied his bank account and was never heard from again."

the train is cancelled
the train is uncancelled
the train is cancelled back
the next train is delayed by 3 min
by 5 min
by 15 min
oh its not going via stockport
its delayed 30 min more
its now going via stockport again

what the ever living motherfucking shit is this

For the last time:

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

Please stop screaming into the abyss we’re not insured for that

Hello to the two young boys I saw from the train who had clearly biked out to the middle of a field so they could look at contraband reading material in peace

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, WINE/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, WINE plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning WINE system— #win32isthestablelinuxabi

@edsu I considered making a joke about DoD attempts to push Ada as a safe language in the 80s but that was going to be even more niche so I kept it on the work slack.

https://www.isdh.ch/fr

OpenAI unveiled its video generation model Sora two weeks ago. The technical report emphatically suggests that video generation models like Sora are world simulators. Are they? What does that even mean? I'm taking a deep dive into these questions in a new blog post (link below).

PyCon Namibia is starting to announce speakers 🤩
If you can make it, you should give a try.

I'm happy as a DSF Board Member to support the event 💚

Cc @PyConNA

#django

CHALLENGE: Stop mistaking normal human aging for generational shifts

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Impossible

From @arstechnica: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112015436380149850

I teach using mob programming. But the pandemic forced us all to be remote. Here's what I tried, how it worked, and what I changed going forward. https://qualitycoding.org/remote-mob-programming/

you ever think about relationships in terms of control theory?

let's say your process variable is how desired you are. you put the setpoint to "somewhat". if the value of the process variable is consistently stuck at 0 and you have an integrator in the feedback loop, it amplifies the error essentially unbounded, commanding you to do more and more extreme things until you get to "as extreme as allowed by your principles", or, if you're already suicidal, just "as extreme as you can imagine"

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Dear developers: Please stop using random valid domains in your examples or documentation, there are dedicated domain names and IP ranges for that.

For domain names for example use: example.com

Reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.5

For IP address ranges for example use: 203.0.113.0/24
or
2001:DB8::/32

Reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5737#section-3 [IPv4] or https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3849#section-4 [IPv6]

Thanks!
The infrastructure people.

it's so bizarre to me that Remington, a manufacturer of typewriters to me, is much more well known in the US as a manufacturer of small arms https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IVt8g5FhKGY

Surveillance capitalism made in Switzerland by #Invenda:

“The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, "Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe," displayed after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine.”

Are any Swiss journalists making inquiries into this?

@arstechnica article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/vending-machine-error-reveals-secret-face-image-database-of-college-students/