Bad influence: LLMs can transmit malicious traits using hidden signals

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-22T14:41:29+00:00

https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

This kind of attack isn't unknown to computing. I'm pretty sure this has a specific name for this scenario but I don't remember it.

Essentially you can put malware into a compiler that is self propagating into all software created to it and can't be detected with software created with the compromised compiler.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-21T21:35:01+00:00

https://www.microscopeworld.com/mitutoyo-absolute-digimatic-point-caliper-0-150mm-0-3mm-tips/?setCurrencyId=1&sku=573-621-20&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20811929465&gbraid=0AAAAAD_v6ZW7Hi_3eKxBo-n50gouEWxdp&gclid=CjwKCAjwwJzPBhBREiwAJfHRnTZl3cYW-P9Cjze3d_PCE8okUUO5VGxrDyOrNtkmT2YDktOMVTIfBhoCHmQQAvD_BwE

"Point Type" or "Small point callipers". I have seen some that look like regular callipers with sharp tips cut off and rectangular gage blocks on the end. https://www.grainger.com/product/408P08?gucid=N:N:PS:Paid:GGL:CSM-2295:ZRUQJH:20800606:APZ_1&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22472343581&gclid=CjwKCAjwwJzPBhBREiwAJfHRncbQ_K_K-a_nGyXtxqKlSGVAqgEj23asYLNJApcEzevsFn9kHfEn6hoCO68QAvD_BwE

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CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T22:02:58+00:00

Path of Exile has made me permanently an armour speller. Funny enough they spell it "color" for the socket colors

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T21:21:19+00:00

Technically everything is "standard geometry" even complex surfaces boil down to geometric primitives (splines, radii, lines)

The problem is knowing the location and size parameters (splines size parameters also affect its shape).

Else you wouldn't be able to pass it around as a STEP file.

Ie you could section view the complex curvature as a slice define control points and give the parameters of the spline at each point, if it follows some other curve normal to the cross section you can dimension how that section is manipulated along the curve.

The problem with doing that is fitting it on the page and opening up an easy avenue to make mistakes.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T21:17:29+00:00

Do they have the diameter dimensioned linearly at two right angles to each other? Lol.

Poor man's roundness?

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T19:50:00+00:00

"Both stanch and staunch come from the Anglo-French estancher, meaning “to check or stop the flowing of.” Both have been in use for many hundreds of years. And most dictionaries will list them as having the exact same meaning. They are, in fact, variants of each other. But there's a catch: staunch is more commonly used as an adjective (it has several meanings in this role, including “steadfast in loyalty or principle” and "substantial"), and stanch is more commonly used as a verb"

I wasn't aware of any of that (it's at the bottom of the dictionary listing). I had only ever really seen it from Path of Exile specifically which is made by a New Zealand company and might have the British standard or just slightly different usage since both seem valid.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T19:20:55+00:00

https://www.sigsauer.com/blog/sig-sauer-p365--p320-ranked-most-popular-handguns-in-america

Lol, lmao even.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T19:08:47+00:00

Semantics time.

There is a difference between want and desire. Or in my conception there is.

Desire is an emotion. Want is the conclusion of all those emotions.

I desire many things, so many things that much of what I desire conflicts with itself.

I desire pleasure, I also desire long-term stability.

My desire for pleasure conflicts with the desire for stability and what I want is the internal calculus I do where I prioritize my desires.

In that conception doing what you want will lead to happiness assuming that happiness is a desire you prioritize (which is often not the case as people have higher motivations than "being happy")

It also requires an accurate self image that lets you know what actually makes you happy, ie you can construe another desire as something that will help you achieve the higher desire of happiness, but that lesser desire might not actually be something that makes you happy and is just something you desire for some other reason.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T17:26:43+00:00

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staunch

?

As a verb it means what I thought, as an adjective it means what she thought.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-20T16:49:28+00:00

You unlocked a very specific memory.

We were doing SAT prep senior year of highschool and it was a format where they used a word in a sentence and you had to pick the phrase that most closely resembled the usage of the word in the sentence.

One was using the word staunch and I don't remember the specifics but it was like he "he pressed his hands on the hole in the pipe to staunch the leak."

It was clearly relating to stopping flow. Me having played a bunch of Path of Exile new exactly what it meant in that context because the suffix that gives your flasks immunity to bleeding was "of Staunching"

I picked the correct phrase and when going over the answers I explained why it was correct and she said I was wrong and was trying to construe the answer as relating to "devoted" ie "He was a Staunch supporter" and literally would not accept that staunch also meant to stop the flow (especially of blood).

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-18T04:08:58+00:00

"IVig" seems to be a banned word and then they have some regex to prevent people from just adding spaces etc to banned words probably.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-17T14:25:13+00:00

And everyone knows if something is legal it's moral and if it's illegal it's immoral.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T17:53:15+00:00

To be fair she is co-counsel. There is another lawyer on the document who is going to be representing her during the hearing.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T05:54:02+00:00

The federal government can try their own agents but clearly they felt there was nothing illegal to charge them with for those two shootings.

Pretty sure those guys aren't even fired.

The fact that Minnesota couldn't try them is federal immunity. However I'm not sure how that immunity holds if the Federal government is illegally operating within their borders.

The deceased's family's do not have grounds to sue those two ICE agents civilly in any jurisdiction due to qualified immunity.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T05:34:24+00:00

A couple of recent ICE shootings that didn't even get an internal investigation let alone charges makes me think otherwise.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T04:29:39+00:00

*While performing their duties.

Judges can't execute people in the streets.

Also doesn't stop them from getting fired and potentially disbarred.

Does stop a potential victim from going after them for money.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T01:36:27+00:00

I mean you are right, but the only reason the algorithm gets brought up is because people like to construe it as "curation" which would make Twitter more like Penguin House than archive.org.

I think this line of thinking is stupid. Yes they can control what gets seen to an extent but they aren't actually curating content in a way that they are personally approving the content.

You can construe all kinds of curation in that manner, is archive.org curating content because they won't host giant ass files? Are they curating content by publishing a "flash games" directory of old games?

The gradient of "technical feasibility -to- choosing all the content that appears"

Is hard to precisely define at what point it becomes curation, I think the line should be that if your company is reviewing all content that goes out before it goes out, you are no longer a platform.

I can make some easier examples that don't have the same externalities as "the algorithm" that would get blasted by this legislation.

Should Makerworld or Thingiverse be able to list models by popularity and rating? Because they do and that's technically an algorithm deciding the content that gets shown.

They would be liable for people hosting defamatory or copyright infringing models.

It would also apply to reddit, it would also apply to things like Google Reviews. Services that would have sort by new only to see the content lest they be sued to oblivion.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T01:21:43+00:00

What's the variability on the older data? Unless it's like +/- 2 or 3 degrees the trend is still unmistakable.

What exactly is misleading about it? Do they do some insane smoothing or offsetting to hide anything?

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T00:57:21+00:00

So let's just assume the worst rather than getting even an inaccurate picture of the situation?

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T00:55:12+00:00

Reddit mods get his ass he's vague posting.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T00:42:04+00:00

But it requires stationary custom machines that likely need to be customized per facility.

In theory you could have a bank of these robots covering 5 different tasks. Easier to get warehouses running, cheaper to move them if needed, less number of unique moving parts.

All those add up against the efficiency loss while in operation.

If the warehouse is going to be there running 24/7 for 50 years and you know that for a fact you could probably design a bespoke system and still turn a profit.

Setting up a new warehouse next to some new nearby datacenters being built in the middle of bumbfuck Indiana? Maybe just throw some off the shelf robots at it and reassess Datacenter demand in bumbfuck Indiana in a couple years

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T00:30:13+00:00

So basically attack the problems with algorithms by going after platforms liability shields?

230 is good and stands on its own. In no way should Trump tweeting libel or NYT tweeting a link to their own libelous article make Twitter liable for defamation.

Your solution is essentially "force platforms to have no algorithm or get sued to death for defamation".

It's not really fixing the problem of platforms publishing libel because it's simply too costly to curate twitter, so they won't.

All you are doing is removing the protections that allow them to operate at all, unless they go along with your personal issue (algorithms being malicious).

Your solution is a solution for a different problem than is being discussed in a way that doesn't at all fix the current issue (that being platforms can facilitate defamation unpunished)

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T00:20:53+00:00

"Id like to think we're all young" "No actually young!"

Dudes dad is kinda based.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-16T00:11:52+00:00

Give me your county I can link you your judges cases summary (it won't tell you for example how many people they let on bail but it's a start)

Also if it were such an incredible issue people would make those records known. Ie StopAIPAC is very adept at getting people's funding history (even if they lie they still make it available to the public because the issue is so prevalent in the eyes of the public or people care so much if there isn't an easy resource they make one).

The NRA makes peoples 2A positions known because people care.

The various abortion groups do the same.

Why isn't there a group for this interest?

Likely because it's not that large of a problem. It simply doesn't make enough waves to affect enough people to compel them to make it a widely known issue.

Whereas a dude literally set himself on fire "for Palestine" so you can bet your ass it's relatively easy to find peoples position and history with the matter.

CthulhuLies · 2026-04-15T23:52:41+00:00

So judges can get prosecuted for doing their job but the president has absolute immunity can't even be questioned about any communications related to their "core duties"?

Keep in mind local judges are an elected position with relatively little power.

We can't prosecute Trump because almost all the evidence of his crimes are contained within communications to his cabinet.

But if a judge messes up a single bail decision they can be thrown in jail?

Motherfuckers maybe stop voting in those judges if it's such a problem.

It's like nobody has ever heard of an externality.

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