The bubble was when we were being sold block chain as the solution to every problem. I feel like that bubble ended in 2019 or 2020.
Things that actually benefitted from block chain are still around, of course.
Unrelated side rant: I’m pissed about pogs going away, though. Pogs were fun. I should still be able to buy pogs.
I’m not sure that the image is the only thing AI generated in this one.
I didn’t catch a single novel detail about Perfectl to support the claim that it’s one of the most advanced threats. I’m not saying it’s not just that I didn’t catch in this article why it is.
Maybe it’s there among all the noise and I just missed it.
There’s a lot of the usual stuff. Maybe the novelty is just having it all in one worm? Other worms effectively have the same impact since they usually phone home, anyway, and a human invokes each of those other tools, if able.
TL;DR: Worm targets Bitcoin, but isn’t above using infected open source developer packages (citation missing though - would love to know which packages). Uses usual techniques for usual reasons.
Maybe the novelty is that a bunch of the usual manual steps are maybe being invoked automatically? It’s not clear.
Edit: I also couldn’t find a source for the claim of millions of infected servers. This one feels more like a consulting flier selling to inept CISOs, than Cybersecurity news.
I think you’re agreeing, just in a rude and condescending way.
There’s a lot of ways left to improve, but they’re not as simple as just throwing more data and CPU at the problem, anymore.
Well yeah, thankfully.
Unlikely, but there’s some percedent.
We’ve seen this pattern play out in video games a bunch of times.
Revolutionary new way to do things. It’s cool, but not… You know…fun.
So we give up on it as a dead and and go back to the old ways for awhile.
Then somebody figures out how to (usually hard code) bumpers on the new revolutionary new way, such that it stays fun.
Now the revolutionary new way is the new gold stand and default approach.
For other industries, replace “fun” above with the correct goal for than industry. “Profitable” is one that the AI hucksters are being careful not to say…but “honest”, “correct” and “safe” also come to mind.
We are right before the bit where we all decide it was a bad idea.
Which comes before we figure out hard-coding the bumpers can get us where we wanted, after a lot of work by really smart well paid humans.
I’ve seen industries skip the “all decide it was a bad idea” phase, and go straight to the “hard work by humans to make this fulfill the available promise” phase, but we don’t actually look on track to, today.
Many current investors are convicned that their clever talking puppet is going to do the hard work of engineering the next generation of talking puppet.
I have some faith that we can reach that milestone. I’m familiar enough with the current generation of talking puppet to confidently declare that this won’t be the time it happens.
My incentive in sharing all this is that I like over half of you reading there, and so figure I can give some of you a shot at not falling for this particular “investment phase” which is essentially, in practical terms, a con.
Are you asserting that chatbots are so fundamentally different from LLMs that “oh shit we can’t just throw more CPU and data at this anymore” doesn’t apply to roughly the same degree?
Everyone ignore this comment please. I’m quite human. I have the normal 7 fingers (edit: on each of my three hands!) and everything.
Though, I don’t think that means they won’t get any better. It just means they don’t scale by feeding in more training data.
Agreed. There’s plenty of improvement to be had, but the gravy train of “more CPU or more data == better results” sounds like it’s ending.
You’ve just given a great summary of the history of breaking monopolies, really. History says you are correct. For example, AT&T is still kicking.
I’ve been trying, but it’s tough. Is there a book club or something where we can share tips?
(I’m kidding. Instead I’ve settled for making sure they experience the great movies, books and videogames.)
make me question who bankrolled this research group.
Yeah. This reads a lot like “well known harmful but profitable product not as harmful as previously understood”. I’ve seen that headline a lot of times over the years, and rarely was it honest.
Is there somewhere where people have tried to have this civil discussion that I could look at where it stayed civil?
I find that place can be here, with some liberal blocking of asshats.
I was surprised how much thoughtless angry contrarianess was from the same accounts over and over, once I started blocking them.
Oh good.
I got the 10" Air for around $300, if I recall correctly. It’s $500 now (direct from Boox), so either the price went up or I must have caught a good sale (or both).
Yeah. I love the reMarkable on paper. I was waiting eagerly for the reMarkable to come down in price when I got my Boox.
But I bought a recent model Boox for my significant other that does everything the remarkable claims for about half the price - like $300 instead of $600.
I haven’t checked remarkable’s price lately. I would definitely consider it next time, if it’s a closer price.
Though I’ve had such a good experience with Boox that I might not switch brands for awhile.
But long term I want to be on a device with fully open specifications, so I’ll be watching Inkplate with great interest.
Yeah. When an eInk laptop running Linux hits, I’ll be very happy.
With USB-C to occasionally drive an external display, I think the technology might be close to ready for prime time.
I might get an inkplate 10
Oooh. That is cool. Thanks. I’m not quite ready to give up Android, but I’ll keep an eye on this project.
That’s impressive. I’m glad I don’t have any story to match that. Hopefully they find it hilarious now. Probably no fun at the time.
Yeah. Same here. We learned to mistrust computers very early.
Ooh. I like this a lot.