best use of the term "snowball sampling" Dan Lyke / comment 0
We identified four key problems that made this an ineffective method of recruiting participants (see also Hartman 2011). The first was that many people who responded to our messages only wanted to have sex with us.
Via rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social.
They take a long time to get around to the actual sampling method, but... "forty bucks is forty bucks".
That is not the ferry Dan Lyke / comment 0
That is not the ferry...
Renaissance Petaluma Who gets to Dan Lyke / comment 0
Renaissance Petaluma: Who gets to build?
Good to see downtown merchants getting on board with reforming how we permit and approve new construction.
LLM idiocy of the morning Dan Lyke / comment 0
Lan Tian: AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42
dn24, "decentralized network 24", is a large dynamic VPN that people play around in. The entire thing looks like a poorly formed agent coming in to wreak havoc, and a bunch of networking hobbyists deciding to make a game of it, and... hilarity ensues.
Via.
ava's blog: our workplace LLM mass delusion (Via).
McSweeney's: AI Economics for Dummies by Andrew Singleton is only barely distinguishable as satire from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
1. Acquiring one grape costs Alex $2 billion. Alex offers to sell Mike one grape a month for the next 12 months for $1 billion per grape. Alex asks for the full $12 billion up front and provides Mike with one grape for the first month. Alex makes a $10 billion profit this month; his ARR is $120 billion, and his profits are trending up at an infinite rate. The Wall Street Journal’s business editor moves into Alex’s house, having accepted a part-time position as Alex’s human footstool. He never asks to see the books.
BlueSky thread from Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social:
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 Jailbroken to Generate Stack Exploits
Researcher “Pliny the Liberator” defeats Claude Fable 5’s safety classifiers using multi-agent decomposition, Unicode tricks, and narrative framing, leaking the model’s 120,000-character system prompt along the way.
future is going great (with picture) Dan Lyke / comment 0
The future is going great (with picture)
future is going great Dan Lyke / comment 0
The future is going great...
AUR compromise Dan Lyke / comment 0
The Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository) had over 400 packages compromised with malware
There's a thread on the public AUR Mailing List with people reporting packages, where it seems like over 400 packages were hit with the issue. Arch packager Jonathan Grotelüschen mentioned work was ongoing to "reset/delete all malicious commits and ban the accounts".
ifin: 400+ AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit points to Taggart :ifin: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
I'm trying to understand the details of AUR processes for submitting PKGBUILDs. In other words, how exactly did this happen? arojas submitted hundreds of changes to PKGBUILD or related files. And they were just...accepted? What am I missing?
Edit: What I missed was this was pure impersonation. The maintainer is fine, but the process was vulnerable to spoofing.
Microsoft announces way to disable AI in Bing Dan Lyke / comment 0
Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Gives Searchers A Way To Disable AI Copilot Answers
Jordi Ribas, the President, Head of Search at Microsoft, wrote on X about this saying, "We just shipped a preview extension in Bing that lets you toggle AI chat-like features on or off with just one click."
Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice for
Chrome
Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice for Edge
Windows Central: Bing users can now disable AI Copilot search results with this new extension
Installing the Chrome data extension warns that
It can:
Read and change your data on bing.com and www.bing.com
Replace the page you see when opening a new tab
Read your browsing history
Change your search settings to bing.com
I was alerted to this by elilla& com pomba-gira de frente @elilla@transmom.love
AI video shorts Dan Lyke / comment 0
token limited Dan Lyke / comment 0
daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder@mastodon.social
working theory: we get fewer vulnerability reports late in the weeks as the researchers have all run out of tokens by now...
Scalzi has a request Dan Lyke / comment 0
John Scalzi: Please I Beg of You Do Not Use “AI” In Your Business Communications.
The thing is: I’m not special. Every writer and creative person, from the most successful down to the very newest, is inundated with these scam spam emails. Lots of them, every single day. Pretty much every one of us, I assure you, now associates “AI”- generated text with attempted fraud.
AI writing has become the modern day Facebook ad: sure, the product looks intriguing, but you know this particular link is a scam.
San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum Dan Lyke / comment 0
Beth Winegarner: San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum. Including a listing of inmates and prisoners.
Same author: Mission Local: The hidden, painful history of SF’s Magdalen Asylum.
Via.