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CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping. Security is the path least travelled
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Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions. Let the aliens get all the 'authoritative, but wrong' answers about us
It should keep them from coming to investigate
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It should keep them from coming to investigate
ISTR a short story about aliens who picked up one of the Voyager probes, discovered the naked sketches of humans on the data disk, and sent an armada to destroy those perverted creatures who dare expose their bodies to the Universe. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Bad enough they want Skynet here, now they're suggesting SkyNetToGo?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Quote: Microsoft on Friday provided a peek at a comprehensive framework that aims to sort out the Domain Name System (DNS) mess so that it’s better locked down inside Windows networks.
Ars Technica [^]
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All your URL are belong to us!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A new report shows that CISOs find it difficult to communicate threats to the C-suite, which is leaving gaps in the organization’s understanding of cyberrisk. Suddenly, our current situation makes more sense
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where is that vocabulary "management <> nerd <> management" when you need it?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Standardizing review terms avoids miscommunications. todo: Add to-do statement here
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Think of it as Hungarian notation for code review comments.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Shouldn't you just be able to read the comments, kinda like the idea that code should be self documenting? (Which I do not ascribe to in all cases.)
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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In my student days (long ago), I was an intern in a company that was in the process of replacing their medium level (slightly below K&R C) system implementation language with a (proprietary) higher level systems language. The senior developers were eager to adopt it, for one primary reason: It was self documenting, so there was no need to waste time on writing comments.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Just as the initial influx of do-everything large language models (LLMs) have been advancing along with smaller and more specialized AI constructs, the same could happen to Microsoft's coding-specific GitHub Copilot. Coming soon: a Copilot for writing Copilots
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And it began to learn exponentally... 
 
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I can’t see a post about Rust or C++ without comments about Rust replacing C++ If it ain't broke, don't replace it
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We still have VB6 around... haven't we?
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We still have COBOL and Fortran around (latest Standards updates in 2023)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I know... but they are not VB6 
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But if it is ...?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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His entire argument boils down to "there aren't as many Rust developers as C++ developers." His lack of real-world experience (he indicates his youth by saying he was just an intern at Microsoft) shows in this conclusion.
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Take the "Moral Turing Test" yourself to see whether you'd trust "artificial" moral advice. "You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you."
Which isn't really much, is it?
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Quote: ChatGPT A monkey or a donkey shows better moral judgment than a many college undergrad pals in my semester back then
  
FTFH
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Kent Sharkey quoted: whether you'd trust "artificial" moral advice.
I don't trust even most human moral advice.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information. Time to drop the box?
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