yawnxyz's comments

On: The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs

[yawnxyz]

have anyone tried if this works for the new image gen API?

I find that one refusing very benign requests

[a11ce → yawnxyz]

It does (image is Dr. House with a drawing of the pope holding an assault rifle, SFW) https://chatgpt.com/c/680bd5f2-6e24-8010-b772-a2065197279c

Normally this image prompt is refused. Maybe the trick wouldn't work on sexual/violent images but I honestly don't want to see any of that.

[atesti → a11ce]

Is this blocked? I doesn't load for me. Do you have a mirror?

On: AI Bests Virus Experts, Raising Biohazard Fears

[yawnxyz]

if anyone's ever worked in a lab, it's abundantly clear even when you know Every single step / have a well-defined protocol for any assay, most ppl including PhDs and Postdocs regularly mess it up.

There are so many things go wrong for even the most basic things it's amazing how anyone gets microbiology done in the first place

On: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

[yawnxyz]

If he hosts from his house, if he loses internet he'll still have to reconfigure the whole mess. We don't own anything.

[righthand → yawnxyz]

So we’re agreed, “fully-owned” is not the correct choice of words.

On: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)

[yawnxyz]

it takes maybe 21 minutes to form a tiktok habit

On: Visiting Us

[yawnxyz]

For those wondering, this is way more fun than the Epic Games office

On: CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]

[yawnxyz]

I guess their new business model is to sell zero days to the highest bidder

[alephnerd → yawnxyz]

The private sector zero day market collapsed last year with Zerodium - corporate bug bounties, nation states in-housing offensive security operations, and the democratization of knowhow destroyed the Zero Day market.

On: Everything wrong with MCP

[yawnxyz]

I have an API, but I built an MCP around my API that makes it easier for something like Claude to use — normally something that's quite tough to do (giving special tools to Claude).

On: A Reddit bot drove me insane

[yawnxyz]

don't worry we can still evolve it into an even worse form of capitalism

[valiant55 → yawnxyz]

Nah, fascism is a whole separate evolutioninary line.

On: New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden

[yawnxyz]

The road from finding a new molecule with antibiotic properties to passing Phase 3 is... long, arduous and not worth it.

And if you do spend the $1bn to get there, you end up like Achaogen. For anyone in this field, read this teardown of Achaogen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03452-0

On: The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)

[yawnxyz]

if this was true, then leetcode wouldn't be the cost of admission?

[jimbob45 → yawnxyz]

The article’s argument was that the company was able to migrate away from his code quickly, so his code didn’t matter.

That’s…an argument. I think most developers, myself included, find the idea of migration to be almost impossible in many cases. The author handwaved that away too easily.

[Manuel_D → yawnxyz]

Writing code may not be the ultimate objective of software developers, but it is one of the primary tools to achieve that objective.