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  • The Hacker and the Honeypot

    Zero, a notoriously ambitious hacker, had set his sights on a particular server. Rumors swirled in the dark corners of the internet that this server held a treasure trove: a database brimming with user accounts and password hashes. For Zero, breaching it would solidify his legend.

    He spent days, then weeks, launching every exploit he knew. He tried SQL injections, brute-force attacks, phishing attempts, and probing for every conceivable vulnerability. Each time, the server remained unyielding, its digital defenses ironclad. Zero’s fingers flew across his keyboard, lines of code blurring on his multiple screens, but the coveted data remained tantalizingly out of reach.

    Frustration mounted. Sleep became a luxury, and the thrill of the chase turned into a gnawing obsession. Yet, despite his relentless efforts and advanced tools, the server simply wouldn’t yield its secrets.

    Finally, after one last, exhaustive attempt failed, Zero leaned back in his chair, a bitter laugh escaping him. “Forget it,” he muttered to his empty room, “that server is a honeypot anyway! Just a decoy set up to waste a hacker’s time. There’s probably no real data on it at all.”

    Oh, and the lesson. Almost forgot. Err… Don’t be a noob, don’t trust everything you read online, know what you’re hacking… oh bugger this post is going off the rails. I’m sure there’s a good lesson somewhere in there. Buried deep…











  • You could make a great movie about the fluoride prohibition of the 2020s.

    [Opening shot: A dark, rain-slicked cityscape. Neon signs flicker. A child’s toothbrush lies abandoned in a puddle.]

    Narrator (gravelly voice): In a world where fluoride is forbidden…

    [Cut to a sleek black SUV speeding through a checkpoint. Inside, a woman in a lab coat loads a capsule into a hidden compartment behind a false toothpaste tube.]

    Narrator: …one syndicate dares to keep the smiles alive.

    [Cue dramatic music. A warehouse door slams open. Inside: crates of fluoride tablets, glowing faintly blue. Armed guards in dental scrubs patrol the perimeter.]

    Agent Plaque (sternly): “They’re dosing kids in back-alley clinics. We need to shut them down—permanently.”

    [Montage: high-speed chases through suburban cul-de-sacs, a drone crashing into a jungle gym, a slow-motion shot of a fluoride pill flying through the air and landing in a glass of water.]

    The Molar (smirking): “You can take the fluoride out of the pharmacies… but you can’t take the sparkle out of the people.”

    [Cue epic music drop. Explosions. A toothbrush sword fight. A child grinning with unnaturally white teeth.]

    Narrator: This summer… the fight for dental freedom begins.

    FLUORIDE WARS: THE SPARKLE SYNDICATE

    Coming soon to a theater near you. Brush responsibly.


  • Klarna claimed that AI chatbots were handling two-thirds of customer service conversations within their first month of deployment and went on to claim that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents. The problem is that it’s really doing the work of 700 really bad agents, and that quality took a toll.

    I think the problem here was in correctly identifying which tasks are simple enough for a bad customer service AI to handle. Anything more complicated than that should be given to a human.



  • Food science is truly complex, so in order to accurately replicate a recipe, you need to standardize pretty much everything. Currently, there’s plenty of variation and you just compensate by winging it and keeping an eye on the pot a little longer.

    In order to reduce variation, we need to standardize the following:

    • ingredients: The composition of meat and carrots varies a lot.
    • heating methods: An oven set to 200 °C is not exactly 200 ° at every location and all the time.
    • weigh everything: Volumes are complicated and messy.
    • use a timer: This applies to all actions like stirring, heating etc.

    All materials and methods should be accurately documented, because things like the coating or weight of your pan can introduce unwanted variability.



  • Thanks for the in-depth explanation.

    The way I see it, MWI is more of a philosophical idea. As far as I know, it’s impossible to test it, so currently it’s still firmly outside the sphere of science.

    You pointed out some valid reasons why the future of MWI looks shaky, and I’m fine with that. If MWI falls apart, I’ll just move on to the next best thing. I just find MWI intuitively appealing, but I don’t have any strong reasons to believe it or reject it. As you mentioned, MWI doesn’t change the way you would carry out quantum mechanics, so currently it has no practical impact.