Though it's probably the best way for now, I don't think it will last. Just like there's a market for 'mouse jigglers' to keep online status in the workplace... there will be automations for sale that will take GenAI output as input, and mimic all the natural mistakes and progress a human would make in writing a document.
Funny! I made a mouse jiggler (actual hardware mouse with switch to enable/disable) 10 years ago and there was no market! I even had a full unproductivity suite, like software to send slack messages at a later time and a chair with a motor that would randomly spin it around to make people think you just stepped out.
It’s just a regular office chair, you press a button then get up and walk away. It will then wait between 4-38 minutes before turning at least 100 degrees. If you press the button X times, it would shutdown after X hours. It really works (as in people tend to remember the last position of the chair) if you leave a sweater or jacket or something on the back.
This reminded me of a hack/cheat someone implemented for a video game called Rust (Rust is a multiplayer survival FPS where players can build bases). The game has code locks on doors, 0000-9999. What the person did was isolate the network packet sending one attempt at the code lock, and the using networking tools and a bit of automation, sent a stream of all possible permutations towards the server. Apparently people who were in the vicinity of a person employing this cheat heard a steady stream of beeps (each attempt did a short beep noise), and then inevitably the combination was found and the lock was cracked... if I recall correctly it took less than 6 minutes for it to go through all attempts and gain access to another player's base, and their treasures. After the developers heard of it, they implemented rate limiting and a small amount of 'shock' damage to the player to resolve the issue.
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“No, again, we provide all the information that’s needed to safely fly our airplanes,” he answered.
Bartiromo pressed: But was that information available to the pilots? “Yeah, that’s part of the training manual, it’s an existing procedure,” Muilenburg said.
“Oh, I see,” she said. But in fact, MCAS wasn’t in the manual, unless you counted the glossary, which defined the term but didn’t explain what the software did.
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A safety critical feature that can down a plane if not disabled in time... tucked away in a glossary.
The documentary 'Downfall: The Case Against Boeing' goes into great detail about the whole ordeal.
I still can't believe this policy by Apple. Google and other developers have to literally change their software in order to be able to publish it on appstore.
They are going great lengths to prevent dynamically changing apps.
Also this is one way they can enforce itp and variants on webviews so from their pov, it makes sense I suppose.
Firefox on iOS has the switch accessible easily. Bottom right (hamburger menu) > enable night mode. It has a couple bugs but works fine 95% of the time.
A lot of questions came to mind when I read this bit of the article,
"If you want to find a particular item in a list with N items classically, you need to check all N items—N evaluations—because the item you are searching for could be the last in the list. (If you are sure that the item is in the list, the correct number of evaluations is N-1, but this does not matter much here.) This means searching through an unsorted database with N entries takes—classically—N steps. However, with Grover’s quantum algorithm—which can be viewed as a quantum random walk—it takes √(N) steps. It allows for the same quadric speedup as the quantum random walk. For large databases—lists with big N— this can mean a lot fewer evaluations."
As odd as quantum computers are, I couldn't figure out how you could evaluate static values in a database that were never evaluated... the answer was, it can't.
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm)
"The database is not represented explicitly. Instead, an oracle is invoked to evaluate an item by its index. Reading a full data-base item by item and converting it into such a representation may take a lot longer than Grover's search."
In essence, you need a completely new database with quantum capable representations. Even with this trade-off, I could imagine 'big data' adapting this type of workflow once quantum computers become viable.
The demo is fun, and I got some very groovy results. However, the UI is very difficult to navigate, even for a demo. In all computer engineering schools, there should be compulsory UI design class.
It's not so much why someone would choose this over that, as it is what attack vectors are added to which surface. Why wouldn't a bad actor be willing to jump back into a leaky sandbox?
Because you may of had zero access rather than some, for example a web dev who wouldn't click on an .exe but would open an .html file without a second thought. More access isn't necessarily always the end goal either.
