Thank you for reminding me of Y2K! It's the perfect example of what happens when you forget about the people keeping things together.
My team and I worked really hard for several years to make sure that Y2K didn't have any effect, or at least a dramatically downsized one. It worked but I did hear from several people that they were annoyed that we spent so much money, time, and resources on something that turned out to be "not that big of a deal". Arrrgggghh!!
Unfortunately, you cannot hide by obscuring your license plate. The ALPR system recognizes vehicles by type, color, and any outstanding features (bumper stickers, trailers, etc.) So, even if you removed your license plate completely they would still be able to track your car as a blue, 1999 Toyota Camry, with a "I love Peaches" sticker in the back window.
You are correct. Although I drive a very common car/color, it is naïve to think that these systems aren't monitoring me as the grey sedan without visible license plate. I did remove the bumper stickers [0]
My local newspaper retracted a story this month about how the police were able to locate a certain colored vehicle within minutes. Perhaps it was too revealing for general consumption?
My "obstruction" is more (legal) protest? Better to just move to a de-flocked city/state..?
[0] I consider this similar to how some property appraisal maps allow people to remove their names from searches (either through LLC or black-out), but you can still request beneficial owner information of specific parcels; just one/two additional layers of protection to throw off the scent (have to know what you're looking for, not just simple plate# lookup — although I'm sure there are aliases/forwarders in advanced CCTVai systems).
I've known this for quite a while and have advocated for removing 3rd party A/V stuff from our fleet of macOS devices. Unfortunately, A/V software is listed as "required" from our SOC2 auditors and convincing them otherwise is not worth the effort. I wish NIST would recognize that OS vendor A/V is generally enough and to not worry about the 3rd party stuff.
I think this is an excellent move and the sign of a mature organization. I can hardly imagine the confusion and strife that would arise from the sudden termination of Linus' git repo.
I think the whole point of this was to see if the "agents" could act like a real human and real humans use Gmail much more frequently than sendmail. Sage even commented that they had update their prompt to tell the agents to not send email and not just remove the Gmail component for fear that the agent would just open it's own Gmail (or Y! mail, etc.) account and send mail on it's own.
> Are there really many unsupervised LLMs running around outside of experiments like AI Village?
How would we know? Isn't this like trying to prove a negative? The rise of AI "bots" seems to be a common experience on the Internet. I think we can agree that this is a problem on many social media sites and it seems to be getting worse.
As for being under "human supervision", at what point does the abstraction remove the human from the equation? Sure, when a human runs "exploit.exe" the human is in complete control. When a human tells Alexa to "open the garage door" they are still in control, but it is lessened somewhat through the indirection. When a human schedules a process that runs a problem which tells an agent to "perform random acts of kindness" the human has very little knowledge of what's going on. In the future I can see the human being less and less directly involved and I think that's where the problem lies.
I can equate this to a CEO being ultimately responsible for what their company does. This is the whole reason behind to the Sarbanes-Oxley law(s); you can't declare that you aren't responsible because you didn't know what was going on. Maybe we need something similar for AI "agents".
AWS just renamed their Security Hub service to Security Hub CSPM and then created a new service named Security Hub that is related but completely different than the original service.
And there's AWS S3, and there's AWS Glacier. And there's AWS S3, Glacier storage tier, which isn't Glacier. Which is OK, because Glacier is going away, and you should use S3, Glacier tier. Unless you're already using it, in which case you can still use it. So you still have to know Glacier and Glacier, while both storing your data, aren't technically the same thing.
But if you think that's bad, you haven't seen the name change shenanigans Microsoft pulls in Azure.
I'm pretty excited about this because it's one of the cornerstones of why BambuLabs printers are so easy to use. One of the main issues in the past has been tuning your printer to use a certain type of filament; it has more options than a 1999 JVM. With BL printers and filaments you can just slap it on and the printer is automatically configured to optimal print you object.
Now, I can see why BL would not be excited about this. One reason I purchase so much BL filament is because it's so easy to use. Every time I've gone "off-script" and gotten a reel from another maker I have to do the work of configuring it to get the most out of the filament. It's not super hard, it's just really inconvenient. So, of course BL would like me to continue purchasing their filament and would not want to join this movement.
However, BL doesn't produce all types filaments in all necessary colors for everyone. Once (if) everyone else moves to this standard then BL is out in the dark, getting left behind. Orca slicer can be configured to use this new standard and is also compatible with my A1. I'm planning on my next printer being a BL H2? but if that day comes and all the other printers are supporting the new standard my plans will probably change. I think that it would be in BL's best interest to support the new standard, now and in the future.
BTW: one handy way to use up the remnants of an almost empty roll is to make the printer think that it's a different color. Start printing some utility object (where the color doesn't matter) with the almost empty roll and then have the printer automatically switch to the new roll of the correct color. This works pretty well, but it involves you forceably ripping the RFID tags out of the old roll, which is not super fun. It would be great if we could you reprogram the old roll to match the new roll and get on with printing.
Indeed this looks expensive and I'm not sure if it's certified by any safety agency (SNELL, DOT, ECE, etc.) but it sure does look nice. The built in lights that are linked to the bike seem like it would be a great addition to any helmet. I also like the audio features, though I wonder how useful they would really be. Would they block out too much information about what's going on around you?
My team and I worked really hard for several years to make sure that Y2K didn't have any effect, or at least a dramatically downsized one. It worked but I did hear from several people that they were annoyed that we spent so much money, time, and resources on something that turned out to be "not that big of a deal". Arrrgggghh!!
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