gender dysphoria has social, psychological, and neurobiological components. not every trans person experiences dysphoria along all of these axes. but before transitioning, I did along all three, for over a decade. even if the first disappeared in a "utopian" society, the latter two would still exist

they're all into mind altering drugs. so, they should go on progesterone too

This word invokes the same feelings as a slur does, for me,

This is how I learned. Very good news

And even if that doesn't happen, these still have lowered the bar enough that "You need to update your software the day it comes out" is even more urgent.

(Plus, we are at war. That's a big reason too)

The number of people who can go from "new patch" to "working exploit before normies update their phone" increases.

This is not surprising! And even as an 'AI-skeptic', it's plausible this can lower the floor to allow even someone illiterate to get and use a reverse engineered exploit

Eg; when Apple or Google release a security patch for a serious CVE, at that point, maybe a few dozen people know what it is.

But the diff is also a map that lets those rare people with time and expertise to reverse engineer the exploit patched out.

With the time and expertise floor lowered, ...

Of things LLMs can Actually Do, they make exploits and scripts way more accessible to the average person. Eg I think anyone could use mitmproxy, but you have to know about it and understand it roughly.

Mythos hype notwithstanding, LLMs lower the floor for so many cybersecurity-related tasks

We've had fuzzing for decades and NNs for it for a decade. We've also had impunity-by-default for catastrophic security breaches. The general public doesn't appreciate the degree to which the world is replete with low-hanging vulnerability fruit!

Even without trying to be snarky, "autotypo" has served a very succinct way to explain "I did not catch how my phone mangled this word from correct to incorrect as I typed it. Please reinterpret with this word in its place"

Not at all, I do this all the time. This is also how I construct many Mastodon / BlueSky replies. Long response -> distill to 300 characters.

(This one notwithstanding, 300 characters is plenty to express this idea)

I think writing is a tool of thinking and there are many things where it makes sense to think through but not publish. I've written tons of documents like this

first impressions of the Lego smart brick, before I do any actual tearing down: wow, I forgot how good they are at working with plastic. the injecton molding remains impeccable, at least for this specific piece (I know about their recent QC issues elsewhere)

(I love IRC and mailing lists but IRC is full of a Type of Guy who sincerely does not understand why someone would be on Discord)

Why do kids use Discord and not IRC? Don't they know IRC is just as good?

*If you don't need images, videos, emojis, reactions, threads, profiles, avatars, voice, video. Just choose a client (but not that one), self host a bouncer (and not that one), and memorize all these fucking / commands,

amazing scientists push the brink of human exploration as we know it and it's a sidepiece to Swalwell. c'mon, man

I can finally exhale whew

Possibly text suggestions? Been awhile since I was on Android but I remember seeing this a few years ago and having to dig into my settings to fix it

Something you might find very funny coming from the AI world is that FP4 is a real datatype they're using.

Admittedly it works! But also lol

nooo you're so blurry

*To add on to this, "accessing notification history stored in the files" is (as we see in the story) something we see in practice, while I haven't seen a recent case of bypassing firmware to read deleted blocks in a modern phone. Turning off notifications is still a smart measure

Using Discord is increasingly such a humiliating experience. Someone at the C-suite has got to be getting off as the percentage sawdust approaches 99% and users keep coming back for more

They have all the same ethical considerations, and then some. We already know they're bad. They're extractive, exploitative, environmentally disastrous, and bad for you.

I don't use any of these personally, but the anti-AI people generally have a blindspot here.

Nearly everyone is addicted to AI!

Most social media feeds today are AI generated, using a Transformer architecture, which is what powers the LLMs of the day.

If you're using Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Spotify recommendations, X's For You Feed, BlueSky's default discover, etc. then you're using generative AI.

I would bet there is still an internal log. (Even if deleted on clear, those blocks would still exist until explicitly rewritten; flash is tricky.)

Not common knowledge, but it was known iOS stores notifications internally, there have been jailbreak tools to access them too.

Android stores a user-accessible notification history and you would want to disable Signal notifications for the same reason.

This is if you are concerned at all about someone who is not you having access to your phone.

good reminder to change your signal notification settings

I am also a huge huge "explore loot grind craft" hater but I simply loved BotW and TotK. I think it's fun if you only play one of those games a decade

Congratulations :)

Hey I'll take it