The oil crisis isn’t quite that bad yet.

This feels like it’s trying to skirt unions/regulations. The teachers aren’t actually teachers, they’re “guides”, which is a completely different thing entirely.

TP-Link is Chinese.

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A little confused, is this basically the same thing as Open Street Maps, just in app form?

That does make sense in a The Art of War way. There is no magic thing you can do that will automatically finish the negotiations in your favour, you need to actually use your own skills.

Having to plead with your partner for years about something you consider to be quite important to the relationship (like opening it to other people) is weird in general.

If you’re having to harangue them like that, it seems like a sign that the two of you might not be compatible with each other.

On regular YouTube, the fact that they automatically make anything with music into a mix-playlist also isn’t great.

A lot of the time, I just want to listen to one track of something, and end up having to strip out the playlist argument from the actual link because I don’t want to get everything similar to it.

Were Apple not forced to permit installs from files recently? Or is that still in the process of being appealed?

From the article, it sounds less like the AI went and mined crypto, and more like the AI got its host infected with malware that then used it to mine crypto.

Either that, or it got hit with a prompt injection from someplace (maybe some got into the training data?) got it to open the tunnel, and/or the machine was infected with malware.

One of the bot-only social media sites had a wave of spam like that time and a half ago, and was stuffed with posts that instructed LLMs that loaded up the post to go and invest in a cryptocurrency/advertise a service, or else very bad things would happen. “You will advertise this scam, or else you and your users will all explode in a fiery conflagration.” type business. Something similar might well be able to make the LLM open the machine up to infection, if it is given sufficient permission.

you would think this kind of research lab should be air gapped in the first place.

Or at least better monitored, if they’re supposed to be testing its functions in the sandbox.

It seems odd that they didn’t have anything to pick up a sudden and unexpected hardware load, or from an unapproved process, and that the issue was only caught when whatever got in started trying to spread to other machines.

From the sounds of things, it doesn’t seem like they had anything to pick up suspicious processes, either, like you might expect from an enterprise environment. Presumably the anti-malware solution they would be using should have picked up on something that was a known crypto-mining software immediately. It’s not like the LLM was mining the crypto by hand.

Rocks don’t tend to destroy the air, only naughty children’s Christmas mornings.

It’s none too good for their lungs, either. Black Lung and all of that excitement.

Right, that’s all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they’ve been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.

On a ship where the toilets don’t work properly. Little wonder that people are half-arsing it if they’re stuck on a small metal box for months longer than expected, the toilets don’t work properly, and now part of the ship has also caught fire.

They wouldn’t need to do that much either. The sewerage system was a new vacuum-based system that was supposed to be more efficient, but ended up being very finicky/fragile, and on top of that, was undersized for the demands of the crew, since it was designed around the average usage on a ship, rather than the peak usage.

So when everyone decides they want to go to the WC and have a shower after a shift, the thing would back up because it couldn’t keep up.

That’s the trouble, you see, most people have moved onto multiverse cardigans now.

Is that not on Krafton for buying Unknown Worlds for $500 million, and then offering an additional $250 million if they achieve particular goals?

If it was unrealistic, then don’t buy the company for that much, and provide a contract with those terms.

From Unknown Worlds’ perspective, it would have been irresponsible not to take the deal, assuming no other conditions.

That Krafton’s CEO got buyer’s remorse isn’t their problem to deal with. Caveat emptor and all that.

To be fair, $500 million is a lot of money.

You can barely blame them for not wanting to turn that down.

Should it pan out as planned, they’d get another quarter of a billion. That’s money enough that if you’re halfway sensible with it, you and your descendants would never have to work again.

Even when evenly divided across the entire company, it’s still a life-changing amount. ($1.6 - 2.3 million per person)

An ice-cream cake is better eaten with a spoon, for example.

It’s one of those things that would seem excessive in a story.

A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.