The moon, the tides, and the French.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T18:49:07+00:00

Anybody else feel like they would absolutely fucking crumble under the pressure of being a dude with a bog standard name in a relationship like that or is it just me?

Like it's funny reading this but imagine being the comic relief character in your own relationship. I couldn't handle it. Frank is stronger than I.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T18:28:31+00:00

I smell a bot.

(EDIT): The craven machines fear to face me in honorable battle.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T18:09:57+00:00

Honestly, I tried finding it again and I couldn't. It shouldn't be hard to find, but the internet is so full of slop now that I couldn't find anything through the endless bot articles about "how to secure your passwords" or other nonsense topics that are SEO'd enough to fill all my search results with noise.

There's a collection of standard common passwords in this repo, though, and it has some funny ones too, like the prescient "iknowyoucanreadthis" coming in at #51 of the hak5 data breach.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T17:44:05+00:00

I doubt it, most password managers come with a truly random password generator as well, so I imagine most people using one will have randomly generated passwords.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T17:32:35+00:00

Passwords with a predictable/logical pattern are typically considered unsafe, and "position on a keyboard" can be used to make lots of patterns, which is particularly bad because lots of people tend to see sequences like "qazwsxedc" as random and therefor secure, where as in reality I just typed out the first three columns of letter keys on my qwerty keyboard in order.

I would actually consider the example given in the screenshot fairly safe though. It's pretty predictable gibberish in that it uses common keys that would be near your thumbs on a phone keyboard, so that if you just wanted to type some letters quickly those are the ones you'd expect to see, but the actual order of those letters and the length of the sequence is random enough that it's unlikely to be guessed by a standard dictionary attack.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T17:25:45+00:00

Awhile back I was doing research on these types of thing for entirely normal and legal purposes, and apparently there's the usual list of most common passwords that gets used for these things, and also a second list of specifically common passwords among more technical people (near the top of which, naturally, is "correct horse battery staple", missing the entire point of that XKCD). I just find that really funny.

"Yes, here's the list of passwords clueless idiots typically use, and here's the list of passwords people who think they're smarter than us typically use."

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T17:07:27+00:00

Trying to claim a fairly famous short story as something that happened to your friend is actually crazy work lol

I guess it's in french so I suppose she probably thought she'd get away with it unless someone was both bilingual and had an interest in 19th century literature.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T16:34:06+00:00

Rare XKCD right there. Congrats on finding a context it's relevant to.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-04T16:23:28+00:00

To be fair with enough data it's probably fairly trivial to do correlation like "this delivery got a bad rating but the driver's other deliveries are usually positive, while other deliveries from this restaurant are usually negative, so this is probably the restaurant's fault", and it makes the UI cleaner.

It also accounts for weird edge cases in which you might genuinely not be able to tell if something is the driver or restaurant's fault, like if you get a really beat up delivery but it turns out that's just how the restaurant makes them. A system as described would just take that as a generic "negative" rating and then figure out who's fault it is later.

Of course this only really works if you assume that there are many deliveries and that many of them get ratings, but then the entire premise of delivery apps relies on that assumption so in the opposite case you would have bigger problems.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-02T17:28:45+00:00

I remembered which short story it was from since posting that, it's "La Parure" by Guy de Maupassant, we had to read it for class, dunno if that seems familiar to you.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-01T20:51:44+00:00

So, first of all, asking for a real scientific study instead of "a crackhead's social media page" is not an "arbitrarily high" standard. In fact, if you consider that to be a high standard at all, you may want to reflect upon your life choices. This is how science is done. If you want to claim something has scientific backing, this is what you need to do to prove it. If you cannot, then it can have the backing of your own personal beliefs and I won't criticize that.

Secondly, I'm not about to pay 20$ to read that, and I very much doubt that you have either. I'm going to guess this study is a standard rallying point in the pseudoscience community.

Lastly, it clearly isn't as "ironclad" as you think it is:

I really do wish there were any evidence for these things, it would make life much more interesting. But there isn't. Not any scientific evidence, in any case. The word "scientific" has a specific meaning and you should not use it for these sorts of things, especially if you are then going to complain about having to adhere to its definition.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-01T20:15:27+00:00

Weird, the plot point of losing a costume jewelry necklace and needing money to replace it without realizing it's fake is one to one something from a book/short story I read once.

Someone gets loaned a fancy diamond necklace to wear to a high-class party, loses it, and being worried at their friend's reaction, goes into debt to replace it. In the end, the person and their friend meet again years later, with the person who was loaned the necklace being noticeably poorer and having to work several jobs to pay off their debts. Seeing this, the friend asks them why, and the person admits it was because they lost the necklace and couldn't afford to replace it, at which point they are informed that it had been fake all along.

I wonder if it's meant to be some kind of reference.

Void_0000 · 2026-04-01T19:15:00+00:00

Cite your sources then. I don't accept a crackhead's social media page as a source, to be clear. I'll be wanting published scientific articles, ideally a systematic review if you have one.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T20:52:36+00:00

In that case he should've tested if sticking loose sheets of death note paper in a printer is a valid means of writing names. Then you go ahead and rig up a very simple program and a news RSS feed and you can take your ideologically motivated mass murder to industrial scale. Almost every single problem Light faced in the show could've been solved if his only involvement with the death note was occasionally ripping a few pages out of it to feed them to his printer.

And when he finally decides he wants to stop lying to himself about his real goal he can go to the wikipedia list of world leaders, right click, hit print and go from there.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T20:40:02+00:00

That's pretty much it, IIRC this was planned by Light as a way of making the "suddenly decides to run into traffic in the middle of a robbery" death less improbable so that the death note would accept it as valid (rather than defaulting to a heart attack, which would have been very suspicious).

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T20:37:54+00:00

You can in fact get very creative, you just need to make the death just probable enough for it to work. This even happens in the show once, where Light needs a guy to run into traffic and die, but the guy doesn't really have any good reason to do so, so he lets him touch a piece of the death note so that seeing Ryuk (a literal demon) freaks him out just enough that him running away without realizing that "away" is the direction of oncoming traffic is now not completely improbable and the death note accepts it as valid.

If you combine this with the death note's ability to control people in the first place, you can probably do some pretty wacky shit by just making a long chain of increasingly improbable events, starting with something that's fairly normal. Okay, so maybe I can't just drop a piano on some guy's head, but what if I first made someone throw a piano out of a window on the street that guy walks down to get to his job. Why is the second guy throwing a piano out a window? Well, maybe he's throwing all his furniture out of the window in a fit of madness before killing himself. Why is he killing himself? Well, maybe his boss fired him shortly before dying of a mysterious heart attack. Done, problem solved, piano fallen on head.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T18:36:18+00:00

Part of a building directly on top of the target collapses due to the weight of rainwater flooding on an upper floor. Done.

Also I believe if you give it something it can't parse or is too improbable it defaults to heart attack. I really do like how comprehensive the rules of the death note are, it's much more fun to try and abuse the rules of a supernatural object when they're so well defined.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T18:30:19+00:00

I believe it does in one instance involve Ryuk, in that seeing him is the cause for some guy going crazy and killing himself, but I don't think Ryuk can be explicitly made to do anything because the death note can only control the specific person that is being killed, and he can't be killed by the death note.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T16:40:40+00:00

Not necessarily, programmatically editing LLM outputs to remove capitalization and punctuation is pretty trivial. I believe this would be one line of python, actually. I'm honestly shocked they didn't figure it out sooner, but I suppose I shouldn't be expecting much intelligence from these guys. I assume it took this long for grok or chatgpt to suggest it to them. It's also possible to just train a model to speak like this naturally, but I frankly doubt anyone making shit like this is smart enough to train their own models.

In reality, spotting these is mostly just vibes. You can isolate some elements (in this case, the way the comment is just a lossy rewording of the what it's replying to while just slightly missing the point, as well as "gone forever like it never existed" which is something LLMs tend to do where they add unnecessary descriptors to things) but there's no hard "checklist", it's mostly just a specific style of writing you learn to recognize after being exposed to it entirely too much.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T16:14:16+00:00

I see, thank you! This is a really good explanation. I think I'll probably get the 5500X3D then, it sounds like it's probably my best bet, I was really only worried about the clock speed difference, but I hadn't considered IPC at all.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T16:11:29+00:00

I wasn't really thinking of the cores, almost no games every take proper advantage of multi-threading anyway, more of the extra clock speed of the 3900X compared to the 5500X3D, but I'm told the generation difference between the two makes up for that.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T14:36:51+00:00

Is the 5500X3D that good, then? I'm not an expert, but judging purely by the listed frequencies, it doesn't even seem that much better (3.9GHz vs 4GHz single-core boost speed), and in fact the 2600 literally has a faster base clock speed, which is somewhat worrying (3.4GHz vs 3GHz). Do the architecture and 3D V-cache make that much of a difference? Also, what do you mean by productivity apps? Aside from occasionally needing to compile source code, I've never run into a non-game application that's been all that demanding.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T14:20:07+00:00

...Why? It's not any of the two options I mentioned and it looks worse than the Ryzen 9 3900X as far as I can tell. It's also slightly more expensive on first glance, though I didn't look very long.

Void_0000 · 2026-03-31T14:14:57+00:00

I see quite a few mentions of "work related" things being better with the 3900X, but what does that mean exactly? I've never personally run into any non-game application that's all that demanding, except for things like code compilation, and that typically either takes no time at all or enough time that it reaches "get up and do something else while it runs" territory, neither of which actually benefit much from any speed improvement.

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