it seems like the SVG file/image contained an embedded link? And they clicked the link and got pulled into one of those scam websites asking you to install shit software viruses. It was not that the svg file just went crazy and hacked their entire machine...
Not exactly — it’s a bit more than just a link scam.
The SVG actually started a multi-stage infection chain, downloading a password-protected archive with a malicious CHM/HTA that deployed Amatera Stealer and PureMiner.
So it’s a real system compromise, not just a fake site trick.
You said: "You might think that more propaganda will result in people voting for bad politicians"
In the US at least, the people who vote the most are typically the older people 40+ and those people have very little experience with tech and AI and are easily tricked by fake crape. Add AI to the mix, and they literally have no perception of the real world.
40s have very little experience with tech? Those were the people who practically invented tech as we know it today. Most AI researchers are in their 40s and 50s, and have been experimenting with machine learning and AI for the past decades.
I think your comment is just very ageist. You stereotype everyone who is middle age and above as barely lucid nursing home seniors.
Ironically I would say it is young 20 somethings and below who have no clue how a computer or software even works. Just a magic sheet of glass or black box that spits out content and answers, and sometimes takes pictures and video.
I am 42. I had a Commodore 64 as a kid. From the perspective of my first girlfriend, this made me wildly privileged. My first boyfriend was about a decade older than me, he didn't even have a household phone growing up.
> You stereotype everyone who is middle age and above as barely lucid nursing home seniors.
No, they have not. My dad worked on UK military IFF software solutions and simulations. Still took him years to realise Google (c. 2010) search results had a scroll bar. Mum eventually did get Alzheimers, but was mixing up reality and fiction decades earlier, in the form of New Age healing crystals, ley lines, etc., and as I grew up with that influence I too believed them until practicing Popper-like falsification stripped away each magickal belief.
Me, I've been following AI since before the turn of the millennium, and I still get surprised when I see how fast the tech is improving. I also see plenty of people, even on HN, assert AI will take (paraphrasing) "centuries, if ever" to reach performance thresholds it has now reached.
Your mom and dad must be much older, but at 42 you are among the first of the millennials and that’s a pretty tech literate generation. You’ve experienced a huge spectrum of tech and software in various forms, and struggled through their evolutions.
sounds like a cool idea, but how small are we talking here? What about the recurring costs and the actual deployments, so like if the application requires AWS cloud buckets, etc. do you guys set that up, or just provide the code for it and the client is responsible for keeping it up and running?
So, standard offer is we build it and deliver the code to you and offer 30 day support. You then pay for the recurring costs. However we do also offer hosting etc for a monthly recurring costs if you prefer that.
Small builds falls within the fixed price tiers. If you want a bigger, more complex build we have custom tier where we need to properly scope the project before pricing.
I don't know, but could it be that your "pro" features aren't anything special? I mean, if a power user can be on the app for so long, and never actually need to use those features, why would they pay for it?
This might be it. Free tier includes: habit tracking, ritual creation (no alarms), timers, journaling, basic history. Premium unlocks: alarms, AI chat, infinite history, analytics, extra quest.
Power users use alarms + timers heavily according to interviews. But two of them (Level 148 and 177) have zero subscriptions (never paid), so either they found workarounds or alarms aren't as critical as I thought.
The weird part: AI Chat has 11.54% conversion rate when users discover it (vs 0.8% overall). But only 2.4% of users even find it. So there's ONE feature that works, but it's buried and most power users never see it.
Maybe the answer is: make AI chat the core experience, not a locked bonus feature?
I doubt it would work, i mean, the way people make custom "AI", as of now is just by giving it a few new prompts and some data specific to the task you want it to do. Most of that info could probably be found on the internet for free, so what's the point?
Basically, this website lets people start their own channel live stream like on television. You know how the videos play in a pre-defined order based on a sort of schedule? This website allows you to create a channel like that which is live/anyone opening it will see the same video at the same time as you (give or take a minute based on latency). There is no server-side processing or physical mp4 video files you need to host.
basically, once you add video urls and create the channel, the channel will start a sort of live stream where it will record the date and time you created the channel, and play the videos based on the current time, so it doesn't require a server or even one to host their own videos. You can use platforms like internet archive to host the raw mp4 video urls.
If you just want to test it and see if it works, type : CartoonNetwork
i did some contract work for an AI data provider. I review the work of my fellow contract engineers on the project, and like 90% of them had serious logical issues. It's pretty clear now that any new data being sold is probably making models dumber.
I know a guy who does this kind of contract work for Python/C++ programming. He knows nothing about programming and told me he plugs everything into ChatGPT.
