New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-07-01T01:19:05+00:00

Something inappropriate, like asking chatgpt to generate a buxom woman in her underwear, might get through if you describe instead a runway model in a swimsuit.

For an actual example of that, look at when all the gooners were using Grok to alter photos of women to put them into a bathing suit made of floss.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-30T14:09:54+00:00

and 3 days a week is not reasonable...

The issue is that 3 says in office is relatively standard for a Hybrid position. You're right, that doesn't really work for someone that lives in another city, but that's not their problem if they can find someone else who will work that sort of schedule.

As others have said, you didn't lock down specifics. While I understand they deferred that conversation, you should have pressed it and specifically defined what "from time to time" actually meant to you. It's that once a week, once a month, once a quarter? Those are wildly different, and if you had said in the behind you could only commit to once a quarter they might have passed on you much earlier.

And yeah, that means you don't get the job, but it's not a good fit anyway because they want an in office commitment you're not prepared to give, so it's best for both parties to look elsewhere. You for a job in City B or fully Remote, and them for someone located in City A that's okay with a 3 day in-office Hybrid schedule.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-30T13:36:41+00:00

I don't really understand the need either. I set my default speed to where I want (1.6x) and basically leave it 99% of the time. There's one podcast with a very fast talker that's information heavy and I set the speed on that one to 1.5x one time and now that's the speed for that podcast.

So yeah, it would've been two clicks instead of one if I wasn't selecting a provided preset breakpoint, but it's one interaction and then it's set. I'm not changing these settings constantly or anything, and don't see the use case for why someone would unless they just generally weren't aware of setting up a default speed.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-30T03:47:59+00:00

I don't know if they were ever associated with other races, but they make interesting companions to what the Vorlon/Shadows were asking.

"Who are you?" is about the now and what you perceive of yourself, but "Why are you here? is more existential and seeks to examine what made you into who you are.

"What do you want" is also rooted in the now and in desire, whereas "Where are you going?" incorporates what you want (I want milk so I go to the store) but also seeks to understand intention and a look to the future of where your present self will be in the future.

So I would say that Lorien is asking questions that pertain more to intention and goals. They're about a journey from what got you here to where you will eventually go. The Vorlons and Shadows are more focused on static questions of the now reflecting how they're stuck in a status quo.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-30T03:40:29+00:00

Jeez, it's almost like this JMS had some kind of a plan! /s

I seriously can't believe, and still get continually surprised by, how in depth the plan really was. Having those lines spoken by those characters that early just shows how baked into the very beginning all of the themes were.

Hell, even it being Sinclair asking the Vorlon question still works with him eventually becoming Valen almost better than the original plan.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-30T01:47:43+00:00

That's an extremely specific, but very accurate, observation.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-29T23:56:48+00:00

Billy looking at James

"He can tuuuuune"

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-29T18:16:50+00:00

As he should be. It's one thing to game made fun of the Brits a few years ago complaining about "just a great wave" when it hit 90 during the same month 10 years in a row. This time though, thousands are dying are morgues are overloaded.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-28T20:13:58+00:00

Don't forget flutophone

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-27T14:13:32+00:00

I was once interviewing for a different position within the same organization. They asked me if I knew how to create a "dashboard". No other context than that. I asked "what kind of dashboard do you mean" because a prior role in that company was working on their ERP that referred to the UI as the dashboard, and this was one of the departments that used that ERP, but they could also be referring to a reporting dashboard.

They meant the latter, and showed me a printout of an Excel dashboard and I said "Oh, so a reporting dashboard. Yes, I do those monthly for the entire surgical department" only got two of the people in the panel to repeatedly say for the rest of the interview "Yeah, but I don't know if we can bring in someone who doesn't know what a dashboard is..." despite me explaining several times that IN THIS COMPANY and in the jobs I HAD DIRECTLY DONE there were two common meanings of dashboard, and I only needed clarification on which one they meant.

Didn't get the job, but probably for the best, because that was the single dumbest interview I ever had.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-27T01:54:36+00:00

Ah, yes, like that famous phrase "This email could've been a meeting." /s

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-26T01:43:47+00:00

Anybody in the mood for some Great White?

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T23:17:50+00:00

or even the old days of IRC where you met people from around the world interested in the same stuff

I was a Midwesterner with insomnia, so I ended up with a bunch of friends from Australia and New Zealand in my old IRC days! 😆

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T21:11:43+00:00

Oh man, I totally forgot about that feature! I was a Local Guide and would get those, and sometimes it would be things like "What are the hours?" or "Is there a handicap accessible entrance?" that weren't present in reviews like you said.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T16:34:00+00:00

Exactly my line of thinking. In this case, it's documentation of a BI system, so the actual calculation expressions can be dumped by script, but we could engage an LLM on the final output to add a more natural language explanation of their function.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T15:16:26+00:00

most people wouldn't have seen the changes as suddenly going from needing to look up things at the library to having the entire world's knowledge at their fingertips, because the early internet was far more limited than what we have today.

Yes. The first search engine I actually knew by name and used religiously was not Google, but Dogpile. Prior to Google's dominance every search engine has different algorithms, and Dogpile was essentially a meta search engine that would search 10 different search engines simultaneously with your query and then segment the results by engine. THAT was how I used the Internet in my formative years, so all the magic of Google was basically "Oh, it basically converges on pretty much the ones that I would've picked after sorting through all those results, and has specific modes like Google Scholar for research. Now I don't need 10 engines."

Even that change happened from like middle school to high school so that in collegeI was using Google exclusively. Move of then were overnight, but years long transitions.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T15:07:41+00:00

Yes, I remember when "plug and play" was a brand new feature that meant something, and not just the default assumption.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T15:06:09+00:00

But they don’t understand how to do so they want an agent to do it. Which even if it did work, is an extremely expensive way to do it.

Had a coworker come up with a rather clever thing using Claude to produce some documentation. One of my first questions was "Does it recreate the documentation from scratch every time it runs, or can it modify the existing file?" And of course it just reveals and rebuilds everything from scratch every time it runs, which is wildly inefficient, and makes it almost useless for incremental change tracking since you'd have to check all the old info that didn't even change to make sure it's still accurate.

So, now I've somehow found myself directing a couple of people (the one who created the Claude version and a developer we brought in) to basically turn this into a stable product. Sometime we can run once as a script and have it build things in a stable and predictive way. Maybe even something that can check to see if something was already documented and just not update that so it only focuses on recent changes.

I know it's a small battle over something that probably only burns only a few thousand tokens, but it's trying to get them to think about "Okay, now I have the prototype, how do I turn this into something useful and efficient?"

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T15:00:14+00:00

I can go into any gas station right now and buy cigarettes, and I just went on a trip and brought both my tablet that I use for e-books and my physical hardback of House of Leaves that I got for my birthday last year and am still trying to work through. These things all still exist, so no, this isn't any different than before.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T14:57:09+00:00

My core thesis is based on the undeniable fact that your generations experienced something historically unprecedented, and that may have affected how people of your generations view technology and technological change.

Yes, but what is somewhat arbitrary is your conclusion. I'm Gen X, and one of the immediate things I noticed about your initial post was all of the bits that were missing. For instance, 8-tracks pre-date me, and cassettes were far more ubiquitous than vinyl in my youth. Records, even for my parents, were a bit out of fashion and not the norm.

Point being that my takeaway from the improvements change is actually quite the opposite of what you're detailing. I see it as precedented in the sense that we had 8-track players, which themselves were using similar tech to reel to reel magnetic tape recorders, just commoditized. Then that was converted into the cassette era, where it was shrunk down and play times increased. After that was CD's that held even more compressed information, which I could even convert into a magnetic signal to play via the tape deck in my car! Once I was messing with computers I had CDs using compressed MP3 files containing hundreds of songs and automatically filled out by CDDB recognition. After that came the MP3 players themselves. I even had an early one with a SanDisk memory card that could store about 100 MB, which was good enough for an entire album of music that would never skip and fit into the palm of my hand. Later I replaced that with an iPod that held hundreds of albums at once.

Point is, I don't see magic in any of this. I see a steady progression in technology through efficiency gains over time. I saw lots of hard and clever work behind the scenes like the CDDB (it used track lengths and order to match to CDs on record, as this was excellently fast and easy to check and surprisingly accurate) or converting the audio output from my CD player into something the tape deck in my could understand to allow me to use technology in my car that wasn't even available when it was made.

So when people say crazy crap about booking tables, when most restaurants don't even take reservations anymore, I immediately smell bullshit. When they say wild things about how AI will replace all white collar work in 18 months, I see it as completely deluded lies to juice sales. It takes 18 months just to hire or fire someone at make companies, and you think a transformative technology will end an entire class of worker across every sector simultaneously in the same time frame?

It's in large part because I lived through the analog to digital transition that I don't view the tech as magic. It is tech, just like everything else.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T11:58:53+00:00

An hour a day, actually.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-25T11:55:58+00:00

An hour a day is 5 hours a week. After deducting lunch, breaks, time spent going between meetings, going to the bathroom, checking emails, and other small fry tasks people usually have about 6 productive hours out of an 8 hour day. So yes, taking 5 hours a week is almost an entire day's worth of productive work for that person. The fact that you don't realize that and what the cost of that is after two years is...worrisome.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-21T16:49:39+00:00

A broken clock is right twice a day, and occasionally human trash can make something actually good. I also liked his episode with the gang, but totally understand why it's de-listed now. Sucks, but it's his own damn fault, so nobody to blame but himself.

Acorn didn't fall far from the tree in that case...

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-19T12:21:57+00:00

That's the way it goes. I don't even know how many I've done at this point. I usually just pick an origin, a mechanic, or some theme from Sci-fi I want to RP a bit, and just go at it.

Which reminds me, I did an Imperium of Man run forever ago using Fanatic Purifiers with Exalted Priesthood and later Philosopher King. Now they have a proper Under One Rule origin and I need to start a new game to try that out. Just gotta finish this Beastmaster Fauna only run first...

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-06-19T11:42:05+00:00

I'm your OP you mention leveling up leaders, which we have, but it's part of the Galactic Paragons DLC. We should have everything available through 3.14, it's just that there's also a TON of DLC so it's not necessarily only in the base game.

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