boatswain

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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pedantics fighting pedantics LOL

I think you mean "pedants fighting pedants" :p

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 62 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a cybersecurity guy, it's things like this study, which said:

Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

I absolutely agree that it can't create finished content of any particular value. For my D&D use case, its value is instead as a brainstorming tool; it can churn out enough ideas quickly enough that it's easy for me to find a couple of gems that I can polish up into something usable.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is why my most frequent use of it is brainstorming scenarios for my D&D game: it's really good at making up random bullshit.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 8 points 2 months ago

Growing up I remember hearing that red cars were the most expensive for insurance, as owners of red cars had the highest incidence of speeding and dangerous driving.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Life doesn't adhere to waterfall methodology: we don't have to do one first, and then the other. We can progressively disarm as we're addressing the problems you mentioned..

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

Not the person you're asking, but my general understanding is that different products would be required to be their own companies, so advertising, Android, and Chrome would all be separate businesses.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago

Ah interesting, thanks!

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 13 points 4 months ago

Interesting! Sounds like they may have changed things a few times, or maybe my co-worker's memory has some gaps.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 47 points 4 months ago (5 children)

A coworker of mine has worked with CrowdStrike in the past; I haven't. He said that the releases he was familiar with from them in the past were all staged into groups and customers were encouraged to test internally before applying them; not sure if this is a different product or what, but it seems like a big step backwards of what he's saying is right.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 7 points 4 months ago

I do kind of wish the dogs were so sitting around playing poker instead of eating, though.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 21 points 5 months ago

The tl;dr from the article (which is actually worth a read):

The very short version: Unix PIDs do start at 0! PID 0 just isn’t shown to userspace through traditional APIs. PID 0 starts the kernel, then retires to a quiet life of helping a bit with process scheduling and power management. Also the entire web is mostly wrong about PID 0, because of one sentence on Wikipedia from 16 years ago.

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