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You shouldn't be allowed to have an internet connection if you're going to use it for unsandboxed agent slop with no access controls or human confirmation. This has nothing to do with hypothetical future AGI. It's the same type of idiocy as pressing a bunch of random buttons on a chemical factory control panel and then thinking you won't be criminally charged for it because the equipment caused the problem.

If you actually have a serious use case that needs 24/7 unmonitored agents, you can assemble all of the data the agents need locally and avoid these insanely obvious and well documented risks associated of running a random word generator with the ability to HTTP POST.

(And just in general, please stop subjecting the rest of the world to any automated actions that cannot be reversed by a human override. Same goes for cloud services subjecting users to quick non-appealable bans based on faulty automated detections. Or the current rollout of predictive policing technologies across the world. Or the automated bomb targeting in the ongoing Gaza genocide. )

In my view, proliferation of highly automated technology is not the concern, but rather its diffusion into human systems without thought put into whether it even meets our requirements for basic ethics, domain-specific correctness, and ways to mitigate a fuckup when it does happen. In this case, the detrimental diffusion into human systems was only allowed because someone made a decision (no access controls on the bot) that we can already easily characterize as a mistake that will need to be both mitigated (via a massive upgrade in cyber defense, especially with the help of AI fuzz testing but also more stringent compilers/linters/formal verifiers) and prevented from happening in legitimate regulations-abiding organizations in the first place. This kind of stuff will be slowed down at some point as we learn from hard mistakes, but the current craze is getting quite stupid.


They were sandboxed without Internet but found a way to gain access and break out.

Then they weren't sandboxed.

Yes exactly. The window was shut and then it was open.

Classic passage of time description.


> Focusrite Scarlett

If it's the one I'm thinking of, this device includes a read-only ~100KiB USB mass storage device filled with .lnk files to remind you to register the device to get your bundled digital goods (a bunch of DAW plugins).

You might want to try connecting the interface with Windows and install the focusrite driver. This will set the device to a "pro audio" mode, unlock the higher sample rates, and permanently make it stop behaving as a mass storage device. Not sure if this fixes Haiku OS USB audio compatibility, but it's a good bet and helps avoid the annoying mass storage device volume.

If you don't have a Windows machine to do this on, you can do it in a libvirt or qemu virtual machine on Linux using USB host device passthrough. Once you do it, it doesn't have to be done again, I'm guessing they implemented this with an eFuse.


Does the network automatically detect when birds have eaten the fiber cable and send out drones to fight off the birds and lay a new cable?


How did DOS era software handle this anyways? I can't imagine it would be fun to be a dvorak typist in the DOS era.


DOS has the 'keyb' utility and 'keyboard.sys' to support different layouts, using various code pages.

If you have a CGA card, you're stuck with the code page of the ROM your card came with, which in most cases was code page 437, although a few variants were made.

EGA/VGA had software fonts so other code pages could be loaded.


> EGLStream support is removed

Wait, does this mean Nvidia won't have GPU acceleration for apps under XWayland anymore? Or is EGLStream not what I think it is?


Nvidia finally started supporting GBM in 2021. IIUC EGLStream is more vestigial now and can be removed.


> [...] instead of accidentally linking ordinary C into it

Out of curiosity. If you really needed to, could a language speak both the C ABI and the Fil-C ABI? As I understand Fil-C itself can't do this without having Python-like FFI overhead, but maybe a different compiler implementation could?


Wouldn't this abandon the entire premise that fil-c binaries will crash rather than corrupt?


> is not going to click on their ads and buy the advertised products anyway

Even cringy ads that digust or anger users in the moment have a subtle effect of making them more likely to buy or recommend that brand in the future. The name recognition is what advertisers are buying, it doesn't have to immediately persuade the user to click for them to get what they want.


"Ozempic moment" seems like a manufactured buzzword in this context. A new modafinil variant is nothing like Ozempic. The thing that was actually interesting about Ozempic wasn't its windfall profits, it was the fact that it is a new class of drugs, and the fact that it's able to rather directly target a habit without wreaking havoc on the body. Part of the article mentions there is hope it may be useful for depression, ADHD, and addiction, but whether any of this is actually actually effective is up in the air. Lots of things are in "pharmaceutical companies hope it can treat mental illness" status... but trying to cast an image of being on the verge of a breakthrough is big pharma's whole marketing.


I had just watched a fantastic video about this very topic as it applies to the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5JbDuf--ng

Nice to see someone is keeping track of all of this in a logical way for all countries.

> Note: It has been decided not to add administrative boundaries of [super-national administrations] in OpenStreetMap. So please don't use admin_level=1.

Damn, I was hoping to see groups of countries (admin_level=1), and then groups of planets (admin_level=0), and then groups of stars (admin_level=-1), and then groups of galaxies (admin_level=-2). L. Ron Hubbard has surely established governments at all of these levels!


Maybe don't demand a google account login before even indicating what platforms it supports?


We state which platforms are supported at the bottom of the page without logging in.

On the other hand, if people aren’t fans of the Google login, let us know and we’ll implement our own; really just went for something we use ourselves off the bat.


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