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Researchers suggest a technique called 'semantic entropy' may detect hallucinations in LLM AI
  • Snake-oil VC investment-bait.

    If you could determine truth using an algorithm that "measures uncertainty" we could just wrap-up every unanswered question of life, the universe and everything.

    There is no solution to the "hallucination" problem that doesn't involve human-level logical reasoning from a repository of established facts. LLMs do not have this.

  • Populus (1998) & "god games"
  • Magic Carpet (1994) was a really interesting take on the genre, also by Bullfrog. Imagine the god-sim mechanics of Populous combined with a 3D flight-sim/shooter and you get Magic Carpet.

  • Populus (1998) & "god games"
  • Their post is specifically about Populous: The Beginning which came out in 1998 and was the first Populous game to use 3D graphics. It has quite different mechanics than the original Populous games, and you can see the DNA of Black & White emerging, with the concept of having a leader character that has an important role in the gameplay.

  • Justin Timberlake arrested for DWI in the Hamptons
  • From the rules:

    All posts must be news articles.
    

    From the post:

    abcnews.go.com
    

    QED

    Just because the post complies with one rule doesn't mean that it is now exempt from all other rules. I already posted the part of the rules which it violates: "No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed."

    I’m not sure where you went wrong, but maybe take a few minutes before coming in so hot next time

    What does "coming in so hot" mean? Posting something that you disagree with?

  • Justin Timberlake arrested for DWI in the Hamptons
  • This isn’t gossip, the police department confirmed that it happened.

    Do you think that "gossip" means things that aren't true?

    Recent developments about prominent figures are news even if you don’t think it’s newsworthy.

    The rules of this community disagree with you.

  • Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
  • I've been using Firefox since the beginning, before that Mozilla, and before that Netscape Navigator.

    But I think it's finally time to switch to Librewolf.

    I don't want digital advertising of any kind, even if my privacy is "preserved" through fancy data-laundering.

  • Linux really has come a long way
  • That’s kind of true, but MacOS and Mac OSX are 2 different things

    Then Windows 3.0 and Windows 11 are two different things, so by that metric you can't include Windows either.

  • Linux really has come a long way
  • all the way from 1991 to 2024, I think the only other OS that has managed that is Windows

    It's easy to forget about MacOS when it only has 15% desktop market share.

    Operating systems that started before 1991 that are still in active development (had a release in the last 12 months):

    • Multics (1969-)
    • MVS (1974-) via OS/390 (1995-) -> z/OS (2001-)
    • VMS (1977) via OpenVMS (1992-)
    • BSD (1978-) via 386BSD -> FreeBSD, NetBSD -> OpenBSD
    • HP-UX (1982-)
    • SunOS (1982-1994) via Solaris (1992-)
    • MacOS (1984-)
    • AIX (1986-)
    • RISC OS (1987-)

    Almost made it:

    • Minix (1987-2017)
    • Genera (1982-2021)
    • AmigaOS (1985-2021)
    • NeXTSTEP (1987-1997) via GNUStep (1993-2021)
    • IBM i (1988-2022)
    • SpartaDOS (1988-2022)
  • Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
  • Even though the research commissioned by consultancy Engprax could be seen as a thinly veiled plug for Impact Engineering methodology

    Oh I see, it's because we have a new buzzword. How much do I have to pay to become an Impact Master?

  • Vladimir Kramnik admits to VIOLATING Fair Play Policy

    Description: "Featured is a playthrough of a blitz chess game between Rodrigo Vasquez and Vladimir Kramnik from an Early Titled Tuesday event which was held on October 17th, 2023. Kramnik recently admitted, via a YouTube comment on this topic of fair play surrounding him, that he played several tournaments under someone else’s chess\.com account. This act violates chess\.com’s Fair Play Policy. Kramnik played under Denis Khismatullin’s account, “Krakozia”. I share reasons why this is a violation of fair play policy, how a player can be negatively impacted because of it, and provide Kramnik’s YouTube comments where he attempts to explain it all."

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    Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4912712

    > Most people know at this point that when searching for a popular software package to download, you should be very careful to avoid clicking on any of the search ads that appear, as this has become an extremely common vector for distributing malware to unsuspecting users. > > If you thought that you could identify these malicious ads by checking the URL below the ad to see if it directs to the legitimate site, think again! Malware advertisers have found a way to use Google's Ad platform to fake the URL shown with the ad to make it appear like a legitimate ad for the product when in fact, clicking the ad will redirect to an attacker controlled site serving malware. > > Don't click on search ads or, even better, use an ad-blocker so that you never see them in the first place! > > !

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    Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads

    Most people know at this point that when searching for a popular software package to download, you should be very careful to avoid clicking on any of the search ads that appear, as this has become an extremely common vector for distributing malware to unsuspecting users.

    If you thought that you could identify these malicious ads by checking the URL below the ad to see if it directs to the legitimate site, think again! Malware advertisers have found a way to use Google's Ad platform to fake the URL shown with the ad to make it appear like a legitimate ad for the product when in fact, clicking the ad will redirect to an attacker controlled site serving malware.

    Don't click on search ads or, even better, use an ad-blocker so that you never see them in the first place!

    !

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    Free Download Manager site redirected Linux users to malware for years

    A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information-stealing malware.

    The malware used in this campaign establishes a reverse shell to a C2 server and installs a Bash stealer that collects user data and account credentials.

    Kaspersky discovered the potential supply chain compromise case while investigating suspicious domains, finding that the campaign has been underway for over three years.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml drspod @lemmy.ml
    [SOLVED] My previous post does not appear in the (local) community that I posted it to

    [SOLVED]: The issue was caused by having "Show read posts" unticked in Settings. This will hide your own posts from you!

    I recently made a post[1] to this community about a bug that I experienced and reported.

    The post does not appear in the New feed for /c/lemmy_support nor does it appear in my user profile under Posts [2].

    However the post does have 3 replies (from users on multiple different instances) which means that other users can see it across the fediverse, so it's not a federation issue. (Also, my account and the community are both hosted on the same instance - lemmy.ml).

    I was not subscribed to /c/lemmy_support at the time I made that post, but I am subscribed now to see if that affects my visibility of this post.

    Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding how lemmy works?

    Interestingly, if I view my profile while logged out, it does show the posts that I made, but when logged in it shows zero posts in my profile.

    [1] https://lemmy.ml/post/1394597

    [2] !

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