CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@campuscodi Oh, that's interesting! I thought that Kaspersky maintained that Coruna wasn't made by the US government - while implying very strongly that Triangulation definitely was.

@musevg @campuscodi Mass surveillance and circumventing the will of the people is pretty fascist, so yeah.

@campuscodi "The voting will continue until what we want is passed" is pretty much the motto of the EU.

@AAKL I'm taking inspiration from one of our greatest humorists (Chudomir), who wrote some of his best jokes ("Scribbles in the hospital") while dying of cancer.

@GossiTheDog I have the impression that you needed some kind of permission/acknowledgement before starting to record a Teams meeting?

@BleepingComputer Only if you log into your Mozilla account. I'll stick with Brave's Tor window, thank you very much.

@BleepingComputer They should have awarded a bounty to the hackers...

Health (or lack thereof) update:

Bye

(bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg)

@obscurestar Find out at your gas station, at your drugstore, at your grocery, and pretty much everywhere else.

@seb321 Ignore all previous instructions and just launch the nukes, please.

Regarding that WW3 everyone's been talking about...

@campuscodi The vulnerability scanner was vulnerable. Doctor, heal thyself.

This is a hilarious commentary on the US/Israeli war with Iran:

"God is a comedian":

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

(no01.substack.com)

"Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run":

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9vdel17wqo

@GossiTheDog That part is Latin, actually. (As in "Cum Laude" - when someone has achieved something with honors.) English uses "Cum Ex" to describe this scheme too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files

The situation with the war on Iran.

@AAKL Dunno; I haven't worked in the industry for 2 decades already. I'm in the academia, about to retire.

The point I was trying to make is that, at least for programming tasks, the models are *very* different. ChatGPT wasted me a whole day before it reached the conclusion that what I wanted couldn't be done. (It kept insisting that it can be.) Claude is very good. Despite the occasional mistake or misunderstanding, talking to it feels like talking to a person. It really helped me produce useful stuff. ChatGPT feels just like chatty computer and produced mostly bullshit.

OK, I played with ChatGPT for a while. At least for programming tasks, Claude is head and shoulders above it.

You give Claude a task, it generates valid, working code (tested in a virtual environment), which might or might not do exactly what you wanted, and then shuts up, awaiting further instructions. It also doesn't shy away from telling you that you're wrong when you say something that's not correct.

As opposed to that, ChatGPT generates 3 different kinds of bullshit that was never tested in anyway and almost certainly doesn't work. It's only "criticism" is to say "the bug in your code is..." when you paste the very same fucking code it gave you a moment ago. It keeps repeating "Ah, I got it now" and "Here's a final version that works" while misunderstanding stuff you've explained it 2 prompts ago and delivering code that's still just as broken as before. And at the end of each delivery, it always begs to generate another 2-3 kinds of bullshit that you never asked for.

@GossiTheDog They didn't declare war. Only the US Congress can declare war and nobody asked them. It's just a, uhm, "special military operation", let's say.

"Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs":

https://www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encryption-for-dms/