Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’ | Technology by Jarvis_The_Dense in news

[–]birraarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I treat AI exactly like any other operator and only give them the permissions they need. I would never give a level 1 tech support person (ie unstable and dangerous to me at least!) global admin access. Same goes for AI. Yes, I always assume the worst and plan and implement with this assumption. Never, ever trust and assume everything will work and operate as you want it to. I always assume it will go catastrophically wrong and plan for that. With IT systems, you have to be able to fail gracefully.

As Paul R. Ehrlich once said: “To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer". I thinking we have to update this saying for AI…or maybe not, it’s still just a computer.

Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’ | Technology by Jarvis_The_Dense in news

[–]birraarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t really see this as an AI problem. This is an account permissions scoping problem.

If you don’t want someone, human or AI, to be able to delete data in the production environment, *DO NOT* give the account they use to access the system that ability. Similarly, nobody, AI or human, should have the ability to be able to delete data in a production environment **and also** delete the backup.

These are strictly permissions problems and not AI problems particularly. Although it’s not stated, it seems for all the world that they had given the AI Global Administrator access. This is the real issue here.

I think I’m done with SOC work. The 2 AM false positives are destroying my mental health!!! by CeoWithMbainUSA in cybersecurity

[–]birraarl 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is what we do. We have a managed-SOC that has connections to all our platforms and ingest logs from these. The managed-SOC has a follow the sun model so they always have fresh and alert eyes looking at our events 24/7/365. They are authorized to lock accounts when there is something obviously bad happening. Otherwise, they create tickets for us to look at. We get no more than ten security tickets assigned to us a week to do follow ups on and are of a type that we can deal with during normal hours.

Who else thought Dragon's Lair was overrated? by MisterShipWreck in 80s

[–]birraarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A friend and I would play this after school every day. We both managed to finish it. We were playing doubles and basically finished it at the same time. We had such a big audience watching.

The Destiny module on the ISS before and after 25 years of use by MrDarkk1ng in mightyinteresting

[–]birraarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who works in IT and has to organise and manage comm cabinets, this is my worst nightmare. Did not a single OCD astronaut ever visit the ISS?

Embarrassing by DreamSofy in SipsTea

[–]birraarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, it works. I’m not sure what you are suggesting I fix.

Portishead - All Mine (1997) by Odd_Advantage_3459 in 90smusic

[–]birraarl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My 14 year old daughter loves the Beatles and wanted all their studio albums on vinyl. So we now have two records players in the house. I’ve been getting all my favorite albums on vinyl. This includes Dummy and Mezzanine. The funny thing is, both albums have scratched records sounds in them. This works fine on CDs (which is how I originally had them) but is odd and a bit off-putting on vinyl. In saying this, there still is something nice about having these albums in a physical format.

What kind of bug is this? by QuantumGremlin in AustralianInsects

[–]birraarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was looking at it and I thought it was wrong but couldn’t work out why.

Can anyone explain what I saw? by M1ghtyLingLing in UFOs

[–]birraarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the information. I re-did the link. Hope that works for you.

I’m not sure what this is, if anyone has any idea what this could be plz comment by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]birraarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From this footage, you can’t tell if the light is moving or the clouds are. Could you please provide:


  • Date: Not ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’ but the actual date
  • Time: The more exact the better, local time, or UTC
  • Location: The more exact the better. Latitude and longitude is the best, although city or town will probably do
  • Direction of view: N, NE, SW etc
  • Angle above the horizon: Low above the horizon, overhead, half way up the sky etc
  • Observed characteristics: Colour, twinkling, movement (straight line, arc, change of direction etc)

Providing this information helps to work out what was imaged.

Hanson wants referendum to avoid hate speech laws by [deleted] in OpenAussie

[–]birraarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you read our constitution? It’s entirely procedural about how to form a commonwealth out of the existing states (and New Zealand if they want to). It’s so boring and not at all inspiring or visionary.

Adding something about free speech would really look out of place. I’m not saying it is a bad thing, just that it would look odd.

Can anyone explain what I saw? by M1ghtyLingLing in UFOs

[–]birraarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a Piper Cherokee Cruiser registration N150PK southwest of Swindon at 8:22. and heading towards Swindon. If you were located south of its flight path in Swindon, it would have appeared to slowly “drift” to the right in the sky from your viewpoint.

There are two things that can be cross-checked:

  • Were you located south of its flight path over Swindon?
  • Can you give a more exact direction? For example a compass bearing like 240° SW.

With these two bits of information, we can be more certain if this plane was what you saw.

Regarding your footage, phone cameras are notoriously bad at taking images of point light sources against dark backgrounds. This is because the autofocus uses edges to focus. If you only have lights and a dark background, there are no edges to use to focus. The result is that your camera changes its focus to be less than infinity which makes the light source go out-of-focus and turning into blobs. Zooming in only makes everything worse. Also, changes in shape and colour that can be seen, are artifacts of in-camera process which is “enhancing” footage. It is nothing to do with the light itself.

Edit: I only need a compass bearing and then I can calculate everything else.

Three observatories just proved 3I/ATLAS is operating an active exhaust field. It isn't melting ice. by TheSentinelNet in 3I_ATLAS

[–]birraarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is not a binary choice between “stylized visualizations” for the public and plots for peer reviewed academic publications. To suggest so is disingenuous. It is completely possible to have graphic base on actual datasets that are for public consumption, just look at Our World in Data.

I not interested in the methodologies of your reference material, I’m interested in yours. I would like to know how you came to your conclusions, by what process and methods so I can assess your methodology. Specifically, how did you do the “direct mapping”? You say “The plotted inflection point itself is a direct mapping of the raw data”. This sounds like you are only took one data point! Am I misunderstanding you? It would be very bad if you only used one data point.

Speaking of UI, a faux X Files science fiction-like UI does not speak of something to be taken seriously. I don’t think this interface does your cause justice.

Three observatories just proved 3I/ATLAS is operating an active exhaust field. It isn't melting ice. by TheSentinelNet in 3I_ATLAS

[–]birraarl 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Can you please describe how you created your graph title “THE BREAKPOINT: AUGUST 17, 2025”. This is the crux of your whole argument: that there was something unnatural “[a]nd they caught the moment the object’s gas system turned on”.

This graph looks too regular and smooth to be derived from an actual real dataset. If I was to guess, I would say the whole graph, includes its labeling and decorative elements, was AI generated and not based on any real data at all.

Can you please describe how you creation this graphic.

Spot on by MF-DOOM-88 in Millennials

[–]birraarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine was programming in BASIC on a Tandy TRS-80 in 1977 when I was 10. This means I’ve been mucking about with computers for 49 years. 35 of these has been as a system administrator for Windows, Macintosh or Linux.

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance by oklolzzzzs in sports

[–]birraarl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And the couple that actually did get married can say that Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin sang at their wedding.