Reposted by kaoudisMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19hI recommend returning your marked ballot in a local dropbox rather than via USPS if your jurisdiction has those option. (This requires that you be present in your home area; dropboxes from other counties won’t generally ensure you ballot will be received and counted). 020
Reposted by kaoudisDan Wallach @dwallach.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026Way back in April, a team mostly from UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego wrote a really fun paper: "Your Agent is Mine: Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain". I only just bumped into it today; here's why it's cool. The gist is that a whole lot of infrastructure that […]discuss.systemsOriginal post on discuss.systems 001
Reposted by kaoudisNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you're at all familiar with the housing politics of Santa Cruz as recently as 5-10 years ago, this is astonishing. Never let anyone tell you that a NIMBY-controlled city can't change. lookout.co/a-housing-bo... 2848
Reposted by kaoudisSophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026"but AI is good at math now!" Yeah, you know who else is good, arguably even a lot better at math? Humans. Volume in proved statements isn't going to get you the type of complexity theory shattering results that you'd need to break public key cryptography. Yes AI is advancing at fast speeds […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 104
Reposted by kaoudisJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is not just an AI problem but a general tech/private equity management vibe problem we began to encounter when those guys moved into Hollywood due to either money or streaming dominance. Small top-heavy staffs who don't go to set don't make future show runners. 540397
Reposted by kaoudistjhowse @tj.howse.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026I love getting my phone out to find it's been having a fun pocket adventure. Wifi hotspot and torch are on. Brightness on max. Language set to Croatian. 2117
Reposted by kaoudisAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works. 19810215
Reposted by kaoudiselle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 09/10/20261 week later: openai faces allegations of plagiarizing hundreds of mathematiciansflipboard.com 002
Reposted by kaoudisEleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Abstraction is the original sin of technology. It's essential to do anything and we have taught two generations to treat abstractions as real, but not what's beneath the ones they use nor the implications of this lie, and we wonder why no one can see the impact the lie has on their work and world. 208
Reposted by kaoudisHrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Things I've seen that needed to be spelled out to LLMs or that I have personally needed to spell out: - "Do not under any circumstances write your own JSON parser." - "Do not write your own PEG parser." - "Do not write your own CSV parser" - "Use the coroutine context, do not roll your own." - […]hachyderm.ioOriginal post on hachyderm.io 101
kaoudis @kaoudis.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026I love doing laundry. The fact I am putting a combo of powders and liquids in a machine that whirrs around the dirty clothes and them coming out completely clean again, and then putting the wet things in another machine that whirrs them around with hot air and then I get clothes as good as new […]discuss.systemsOriginal post on discuss.systems 106
Reposted by kaoudisTyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026A beautiful, angry, and important post by @anildash about how a whole generation has been brainwashed into censoring themselves. I like the actionable recommendations at the end, though I’m missing “take a big stick, and beat the billionaires to death with it.”mastodon.scot 109
kaoudis @kaoudis.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Today the ticket queue won. But I plan to kick its ass more thoroughly tomorrow 000
kaoudis @kaoudis.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026The ground squirrel or whatever ate my tomato plants and left the tomatoes 🙈 I am gonna start putting chewing gum in its tunnels like my grandma did, if it eats ONE MORE plant 000