Today I learned that Jordan Peterson got his start as a public figure answering questions on Quora 😆
Hi, I'm Anthony and I'm a computer scientist
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads.
From Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-pay-95m-delete-private-conversations-siri-recorded/
I'm not sure I'm convinced Apple is really that much better than the other big tech companies when it comes to this kind of thing. Their reputation is better and they do seem to be better about things like on-device encryption, but then stories like this come out.
This year is a perfect square: 2025 = 45². Most of us reading this at time of posting won't be alive next time that happens since 46² = 2116, 91 years from now. This has been bouncing around the internet but for some reason I felt compelled to record it here!
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further
Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?
So we're going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn't fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.
Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine
Blackstone, Pimco, Carlyle, and BlackRock have so far lent $11 billion to GPU cloud companies — now apparently called “neoclouds” — such as CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Lambda Labs. The loans are collateralized by the neoclouds’ Nvidia GPUs.
Look ma, new asset bubble!
Had to disable support functions because I've received three spammy support emails today. Thanks for that feature @prologic
There is a bug in yarnd
that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like
YOUR_POD/external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://socialmphl.com/story19510368/doujin
and see a legitimate-looking page on YOUR_POD, with an HTTP code 200 (success). From that fake page you can even follow an external feed. Try it yourself, replacing "YOUR_POD" with the URL of any yarnd
pod you know. Try following the feed.
I think URLs like this should return errors. They should not render HTML, nor produce legitimate-looking pages. This mechanism is ripe for DDoS attacks. My pod gets roughly 70,000 hits per day to URLs like this. Many are porn or other types of content I do not want. At this point, if it's not fixed soon I am going to have to shut down my pod. @prologic please have a look.
I stumbled on this today: Open Source Game Clones
This site tries to gather open-source or source-available remakes of great old games in one place.
Hmm, I wonder if I banned too many IPs and caused these issues for myself 😆
twts are taking a very long time to post from yarn
after the latest upgrade. Like a good 60 seconds.