But not before harvesting a bunch of personal info.
No one ever gets to be a Nazi "ironically" - pretend to be a Nazi, and you're a Nazi. He could agree with me on a dozen issues, and he'd still be a Nazi (and it might make me question that much agreement). Seems awfully convenient all these recent forays into Linux and talking about degoogling - almost like after years of keeping a lower profile, he and his team are trying really hard to rehabilitate his public image.
This isn't YouTuber "drama" - this is a guy who repeatedly engaged in very public examples of bigotry and parroting Nazi symbols and salutes. So yeah - we do in fact know.
I setup my new account on a new instance a bit ago but want to stick it out to the end on this one!
If it's malware, it - by definition - is going to need to run a privileged executable. That's the "ware" in "malware". The LLM is just explaining the specific method they're attempting to use - which again should be obvious both by the nature of the actions it's requesting from the user as well as the specific text it's asking to be run. It explicitly says it doesn't know anything about the executable that's being run, so it really isn't offering anything particularly useful or actionable - just wasting resources.
<clutches pearls> Making a scene?! Oh no! Have I shattered the fragile Lemmy decorum with my boorish behavior? How dreadful!
Listen, if you want to believe an LLM has anything useful to say about the malware you're presented with on dodgy sites, go for it.
And I'll be free to think you're a prime example for why we should start requiring a "drivers license" to get on a computer. To each their own.
"Chill out you"
Fucking priceless. The LLM didn't explain anything beyond what was obvious from just looking at it. It was trying to get you to run a privileged executable. The LLM doesn't have a clue what the executable does, and even admits that. So why bother asking it?
Let's take the tech out of it. You're at a restaurant and you're given a beverage in a glass, but you can see the glass is dirty with food residue. Do you have to consult an LLM to know not to drink out of it? Does it matter what sort of food residue it is? Of course not.
I swear people's critical thinking skills are non-existent or in complete atrophy these days. The only thing of potential interest is the executable itself and if you're posting this question, I'm not sure any explanation or details would mean anything to you.
Okay but pretty much any malware is going to follow those same steps - they're what makes it malware. The LLM doesn't "prove" anything - it's not examining the executable, it's not setting up a VM and doing deep packet analysis to see how the malware operates. It's just parroting back the fact this is malware with details seeded from the prompt. This is like yelling into a canyon and "proving" someone is stuck in the canyon and yelling because you heard an echo.
No one should be using an LLM as a security backstop. It's only going to catch the things that have already been seen before, and the minute a bad actor introduces something the least bit novel in the attack, the LLM is confidently going to say it isn't malware because it hasn't seen it before. A simple web search would have turned up essentially the same information and used only a small fraction of the resources.
Or you can just know that if some rando site is asking you to run cmd and powershell as some sort of authentication scheme, you're about to get your shit fucked up. The specifics literally don't matter, this is behavior no legit site would request you to do.
You needed an LLM to figure out this was malware?! Sweet jesus, we're well and truly fucked.
Or you could just do the thing yourself with less effort and less wasted resources. The true Turing test is knowing when something doesn't need fucking AI to do.
This article is a few years old but Brazil and Vietnam have very high numbers of pirated software https://kommandotech.com/statistics/software-piracy-statistics/
Brazil was fifth and Vietnam was 9th. And unlike many of the other countries on the list, they lack robust network operation infrastructures of built-up corporations or governments.
May just be a coincidence, but if I was a nation or other bad actor looking to create a ready botnet, seems like flooding markets with cracked but compromised copies of software (especially Windows) would be an easy way to accomplish that.
As an atheist, I've never found a bit of comfort in any part of the Bible, but Psalm 109 has been strangely resonant with me since November.
"When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few; and let another take his office… "
Can't imagine why…
I picked up a set of 10" x 10" tempered glass cutting boards and have been really happy with them. Dishwasher safe, non-porous, easy to handwash and easy to use. This was after years of using every other material. And no, my knives are fine.
I think you're confusing social media and late stage capitalism. Social media hasn't done anything to anyone, capitalism has used social media to further its own ends.
Not sure, but your description reminds me of Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/
And found the show I was thinking of: Far Out Space Nuts https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072499/
I love the wording of this headline as it kinda sounds like they oopsied a rocket into space, like it was a Sid & Marty Krofft tv show from the 70s.
Original 'Blade' fans are also 'baffled' by delay in Marvel's movie reboot.
A little primer for anyone inexperienced in watching election returns from someone who has been following them far too closely for far too many years:
- Don't be worried when initial returns for a state show big percentages towards Republicans. Rural communities tend to lean conservative and because of the relatively low populations, those counties tend to report results quicker than the suburbs and cities. This is not some conspiracy causing the "numbers to change" as Trump claimed in 2020, this is just low population areas reporting results before higher population areas.
- News channels will be showing you tons of state maps broken down by counties as results come in and it's going to be very disheartening if you don't realize that most of those red counties have much, much lower populations than urban and suburban areas. In an ideal world, they would show state totals with counties sized by population, as that would make this issue much more evident.
- We almost certainly won't know who the winner is in the presidential election on the night of November 5. It's likely going to take awhile, so don't go in with the expectation that we'll finally be able to put the chaos behind us immediately. The GOP will likely continue to work to disenfranchise voters for weeks after the election, and we have to hope the courts don't let them steal the election. It's why it's so important everyone votes and the margin is as large as it can be.
- If you have access to results from 2020 and 2016 (usually available via the state government's website), you can make some educated guesses about how things will ultimately turnout by looking at the turnout and results from some of those rural counties and comparing to previous years. For example, if some rural county went 73% for Trump in 2020 and had record turnout, and this year he's only getting 60% and turnout is lower, chances are Trump is going to have a bad night. For smaller, more local races, results in a single precinct can be a bellwether for an entire election - not because a candidate won it, but by the size of the margin of victory.
- Following along with #3, don't stay up all night trying to get the returns. As I said, this is going to take awhile, and it's important to pace yourself or else you'll drive yourself crazy. Hopefully you've already taken the most important action you can by casting a ballot, so you've done what you can.
He's pushing spurious claims of illegal voters while facing prosecution over his own "illegal" election scheme.
> Musk has returned to a set of ideas he’s been preoccupied with for much of the year: the threat of voter fraud, the necessity of voter ID laws, and his persistent concern that “non-citizens” will somehow vote. The timing of this push to build outrage over alleged illegal election activity might strike some observers as ironic, given that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office has just sued Musk for running his own “illegal…scheme” to entice conservative leaning voters with the prospect of cash.
4 reasons why you’re better off ignoring it.
> On average, the D less R margin in the early vote mispredicted the final Clinton/Trump margin by 14 points! Pollsters get yelled at when their polls are off by even 3 points, and anything more than that is considered an absolute disaster. Imagine if a poll was off by 14 points: no one would ever listen to it again! And yet we get the same frankly amateurish analysis of the early vote in every election.
America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.
> America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.
The failed candidate couldn’t even interfere in the election right.
> “If you go to Payless, or go wherever, it says sample and you usually can take a sample,” Savage said, according to Fox59. “So that is the way I took it. I thought they were fake fucking ballots.” > >Speaking with Fox59, Savage claimed that he was an elected official and that he was “just trying to fight for our country.” (Savage, a businessman, came sixth out of eight candidates in the Republican primary.) > > Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said that Savage’s act was a deliberate attempt to “undermine our election process.”
Recent video purportedly showing a man destroying ballots marked for Trump is a disinformation campaign, say officials
> Recent video purportedly showing a man destroying ballots marked for Trump is a disinformation campaign, say officials > > Russian actors were behind a viral video falsely showing mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in the swing state of Pennsylvania, US officials said on Friday, amid heightened alert over foreign influence operations targeting the upcoming election. > > The video, which garnered millions of views on platforms such as the Elon Musk-owned X, purports to show a man sorting through mail-in ballots from the state’s Bucks county and ripping up those cast for the former president.
Donald Trump just got a big boost from a shady new super PAC.
> A shady new super PAC named for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg just spent nearly $20 million on efforts to help Donald Trump appear more moderate on abortion, but the group won’t reveal where its money comes from until after the election. > > The pro-Trump RBG PAC (a massive insult to the late justice, who hated Trump) is attempting to use the liberal justice’s legacy to try and boost Trump ahead of the election. Its website even features photos of Ginsberg and the former president, captioned “Great Minds Think Alike.”
Americans’ opinions on immigration are more complicated than any one question can capture.
> This spring, an eye-opening poll from Axios suggested what once seemed unthinkable: Four in 10 Democrats were open to the idea of the US government deporting undocumented immigrants en masse. Though that share of support might seem high, other polls conducted since have found something similar, suggesting Americans at large are open to harsher, more Trumpian immigration policies. > > And yet, as attention-grabbing as some of the headlines on support for mass deportations have been (and as Donald Trump and his allies continue to talk about his plans for such), those polls may not accurately capture the mood of the American electorate. Support for a policy of mass deportation, while superficially high, rests on two related complications: substantial confusion among voters about what it might actually entail, as well as a generalized desire to do something — anything — on immigration, which polls frequently report to be among Americans’ top issues. > > That disconnect is because standalone polls and headlines do very little to capture the complexity of many Americans’ feelings about immigration, which often include simultaneous, and apparently contradictory, support for more immigrant-friendly policies alongside draconian ones. The real answer, more specific polling by firms like Pew Research Center suggests, lies somewhere in the middle: A good share of voters, it seems, are fine with increasing deportations. Some might even want the kind of operation Trump is floating. But many also want exceptions and protections for specific groups of immigrants who have been living in the US for a while, or have other ties to the country.
I guess that's at least a little better, but goddamn I still don't understand it.
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
> When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
Allegation references LinkedIn post saying 100 party staffers were headed to US to campaign for Harris
> Citing the American revolution while misspelling “Britian”, Donald Trump’s campaign has filed an extraordinary complaint against the UK’s Labour party for what it claims is “interference” in the US presidential election.
> "The intelligence community assesses that Russian influence actors created and amplified content alleging inappropriate activity committed by the Democratic vice presidential candidate during his earlier career," an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday. > > "Vladimir Putin wants Donald Trump to win because he knows Trump will roll over and give him anything he wants. We condemn in the strongest terms any effort by foreign actors to interfere in U.S. elections," said Morgan Finkelstein, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign.
Despite status pages not showing any issues, I'm seeing serious lag in federation I think. Checked both on mobile (Voyager for iOS and web) and when compared to viewing via web on other instances (namely Lemmy.world), posts and comments for the last day seem to be missing?
The Republican presidential candidate ridiculously claimed that Biden is "trying to hold" Bibi back, as the Israeli prime minister continued to ruthlessly bomb Lebanon and Gaza.
“He’s doing a good job,” Trump saidabout the Israeli leader. “Biden is trying to hold him back, just so you understand, Biden is more superior to the VP. He’s trying to hold him back, and he probably should be doing the opposite, actually. I’m glad that Netanyahu decided to do what he had to do, but it’s moving along pretty good.”
It's unclear what happened to the anonymous X poster pushing baseless charges.
> The now-missing account, which posted under the name Docnetyoutube, has a documented history of promoting fake stories. But even with his profile gone, the seeds of the lie had already been sown and spread across the conspiracy ecosystem, driven by right-wing activists and self-styled conservative journalists.
From 2023 until September 2024, the Republican National Committee and affiliates have filed or are involved in 72 cases – and what stands out is their subject matter
> “The underlying claims in the suits are based on totally unreliable data, shoddy methodology, and basically the claims are garbage,” said Ben Berwick, a lawyer at the non-profit group Protect Democracy. “They are also, in this case, brought by election deniers, in an attempt to spread a false narrative to mislead the public and undermine confidence in elections.
I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. Fo...
> I’m torn. Both Galadriel and Sauron say the other is a threat to Middle-earth. One has to be wrong, so whom am I to trust? Should I trust the Dark Lord who attempted to topple the White City of Gondor, dominate all life, and attempt to stay in power for eternity? Or do I trust the Elf Queen representing the coalition of Men and Elves who defeated Sauron when he tried to enslave the Free Peoples… but could maybe do more meet-and-greets?
“Fake news”-style misinformation is only a fraction of what deceives voters. Fighting misinformation will require holding political elites and mainstream media accountable
> Platforms can also respond to misleading content that does not violate official policies using community-based moderation that adds context to misleading posts (like X’s Community Notes and YouTube’s new crowdsourced note program). Larger platform changes such as ranking content based on quality, rather than engagement, might hit at the root of the problem rather being than a Band-Aid fix.
*Statistically* biased, we mean. A guide to house effects in the Silver Bulletin model.
Edit: had no idea “poll” was such a four letter word, especially when talking about them in the abstract. Anyone want to chime in on the downvotes? Is it just “all polls are bad” or is it Nate Silver? Honestly had no idea talking about poll weighting would be so unpopular.
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Since there’s always a lot of interest in the validity of polls, I found this to be interesting. It’s Nate Silver’s explanation of how they do weighting of polls when aggregating based on the pollsters track record. He makes it clear that the bias is often a result of the methodology and not necessarily a “thumb on the scale” and how the pollster executes a poll can introduce bias - and how they account for that.
Many folks have issues with Nate, but he’s at least very transparent in how they account for bias based on previous performance, not just the poll source. So while you may disagree with his decisions, you can at least look at his numbers and know how they got there.
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