Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)
The monorail salespeople at Checkmarx have (allegedly) discovered a new exploit for code extruders.
The āattackā, titled āLies in the Loopā, involves taking advantage of human-in-the-loop āāāsafeguardsāāā to create fake dialogue prompts, thus tricking vibe-coders into running malicious code.
Itās interesting to see how many ways they can find to try and brand āLLMs are fundamentally unreliableā as a security vulnerability. Like, theyāre not entirely wrong, but itās also not something that fits into the normal framework around software security. You almost need to treat the LLM as though it were an actual person not because itās anywhere near capable of that but because the way it fits into the broader system is as close as IT has yet come to a direct in-place replacement for a human doing the task. Like, the fundamental āvulnerabilityā here is that everyone who designs and approves these implementations acts like LLMs are simultaneously as capable and independent as an actual person but also have the mechanical reliability and consistency of a normal computer program, when in practice they are neither of those things.
Does Checkmarx have any relation to infamous ring-destroying pro wrestler Cheex? https://prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Staples
If not, perhaps they should seek an endorsement deal!
That would be such a āwe didnt know the dotcom bubble was popping a month laterā move.