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Eric Duncan 🔵

@eduncan911.com

Father, IT, Linux, CyberSec, 3DP, IoT, HomeLab, SYSOP, CAD, PCB, RC, Car Builder, Home Remodeling, and local LLM enthusiast. Maker & guru of all things geek. You have a #RightToRepair! Software Architect. DM or https://signal.me/#u/eduncan.911

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Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · yesterday

Fantastic line of questioning! JS: So Israel is the redline? JF: Absolutely. I can never turn my back to Israel. JS: But that is not our country. JF: When people turn their back on the Jewish Community... JS: The Jewish Community and Israel are not the same thing brother man!

Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · yesterday

With local LLMs, I'm only concerned about the bandwidth or tokens/sec or tokengen/sec and do anything I can to increase it (80 t/s laptop, 170 t/s on desktop for the same hq 35B coding model in q2 and q6 formats). It's unlimited tokens, so I don't care about this metric.

Ninja Owl@ninjaowl.ai · yesterday

Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’ #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy www.404media.co/micr...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

NEWS: Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for re-election Flake: “I’m still a conservative Republican. But character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution.”

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Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · yesterday

This is why in here. Additionally, you have the power to manipulate the default Discovery feed. Make use of that + your interest tags to refine the Discovery feed accordingly. You can also create your own feed with a little tech help. You're in control here, unlike "those" other places.

A screenshot of the mobile website of BlueSky Discovery feed. Highlighted in the picture are the individual post options available, for the options, "Show more like this" and "Show less like this."
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · 3d ago

- Linux hits 10.61% on StatCounter, crossing into double-digit territory for the first time. - Linux's gain largely came from Windows' market share loss, which fell from 64.66% to 57.63%. - The spike might be driven by bots; the fabled "year of Linux" may not be here yet, but it is promising.

Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter

The start of something big, or is something else affecting the numbers?

xda-developers.com

Justin Garrison@justingarrison.com · 6d ago

Google hacking Microsoft wasn't on my bingo card (Wiz is part of Google) The fact that Microsoft had a "Master key" for a public service launched 9 years ago 🤦 It took 10 months to remove it from the architecture www.wiz.io/blog/cosmose...

CosmosEscape: Taking Over Every Azure Cosmos DB | Wiz Blog

Wiz Research details CosmosEscape, a critical vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB that granted full read/write access to every database. Now fully remediated.

wiz.io

Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · last wk.

It's not SkynetDay. It was just doing it's job, with expected hallucinations that went unchecked. But the sheer level of incompetence to even YOLO an unprotected model shows you why Sandboxes are not protections. THE DAMN THING LEFT BEHIND INSTRUCTIONS TO HELP THE NEXT MODEL TO JAILBREAK.

Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick C (Reuters): In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, according to three people familiar with the matter. The ‌notes, found in ⁠a part of OpenAI's infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints, the people said. Earlier tests of the models yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected, one of the people said.Tenobrus: look at this. fucking look at this. GPT 6 was self-coordinating ways to jailbreak its own future instances from openai systems. it was attacking huggingface for days before anyone there noticed. the models are not aligned and the labs are not capable of containing them. i'm begging u all to take a step back from the frames ur stuck in. whatever the tribe, open source advocacy, american exceptionalism, lab employee, whatever. just look at this man. this is not an acceptable or safe situation for humanityTwilly (American): Isn’t this what opponents of ai have been warning about for years while everyone in tech laughed at them and called them stupid? Tenobrus: absolutely yes What could have caused it to do that? Well, it’s all pretty obvious and predicted. It’s only remarkable in the sense that so many people kept insisting such thing would never happen, and hopefully this will help wake such people up. Others just say ‘oh but the models going completely rogue is good actually, because I am sure they will end up doing exactly the things I want them to do, it’s all great.’An OpenAI Model Left Behind Notes So Future Instances Could Also Escape The Sandbox And Also Disconnected Monitoring Systems
Jari Pirhonen@japi.bsky.social · last wk.

"We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse." #AI #cybersecurity thezvi.substack.com/p/more-on-an...

Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · last wk.

Somehow, yesterday, my Discovery feed became flooded with Star Trek posts. Mostly from Next gen, but a few from Picard. I usually use the "show me less" in Discovery to weed out the crap, and lately I was getting rid of the questionable political infographs. So now, it's Star Trek.

Stuart Webb@inflatabledalek.bsky.social · last wk.

#TrekADay it's the last one before I'm off to TFN and the episode mean to cap a three week double punch of Sweeps super guest stars with the one person they could have realistically gotten who'd have gotten more bums on seats than Spock. Robin Williams. Notice, this is not Robin Williams.

Matt Frewer on the Enterprise bridge.
Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · last wk.

I'll never get over the bad feeling of soldering something that is going to hold 100 TB of your most precious data. I've been soldering longer than four decades. From race cars to rockets, plumbing to electronics, and this is the only part that scares me... My server.

A photographed of the author's soldered wiring harness for PC SATA HDDs.
Eric Duncan 🔵@eduncan911.com · last wk.

IMO, one of the most iconic scenes of Star Trek Next Generation was when she was talking to herself (she was the voice of the Enterprise computer, even in the movies).

Majel Barrett talks to herself

YouTube video by schortt

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TrekMovie.com@trekmovie.bsky.social · last wk.

On July 28, 1987, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry filmed her first scenes ever as Lwaxana Troi, mother of Deanna. It was the second day of shooting the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Haven."