English programmer, libertarian,UNIX, bookworm, space, crypto centralist, sane transhumanism, space, Tesla, Radical Thatcherite, go/nvim/Linux/BSD
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@HeinleinSociety Wishing Elon Musk would produce movies from Heinlein juveniles.
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1/ Attempted to replicate Cohere's Qwen 3.8 malicious PUT claim on 229k samples: exact hostname never appeared but model invents 369 similar Beijing upload buckets, and reaches for credential endpoints 13× more when frustrated.
Results raise more questions than answers.
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“Security is like Tetris: Your successes disappear but your failures pile up.” — Mikko Hyppönen
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"over 1,000 medieval scribes have joined the Association for Human Manuscripts, pledging to never use the printing press or work with Gutenberg
654 have gone even further, promising to never read a printed book"
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Thatcher was extraordinary in this interview (for the 1987 General Election). You watch it and by the end of it sit in astonishment and disappointment that Britain hasn’t found this quality of leader in the period since.
Thatcherism stands for sound finance; it stands for honest money, not inflation; it stands for living within your means; it stands for incentives, because we know full well that the economic strength of a nation comes from the efforts of its people, and its people need incentives to work as hard as they possibly can. All of that has produced economic growth.
It stands for something else: It stands for the wider spread of ownership of property, of houses, of shares, of savings; it stands for being strong in defence, a reliable ally and a trusted friend.
People have called those 'Thatcherism'. They are, in fact, fundamental commonsense, and having faith in the enterprise and abilities of the people.
It was my task to try to release those. They were always there. They have always been there in the British people but they couldn't flourish under socialism.
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I don't know about a malicious PUT. Hallucinated webfetch is real. Could be an honest training mistake.
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Here is Cohere's report of the claimed malicious PUT.
xitter.cf/cohere/status/21147520…
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
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While I appreciate a £200k salary is rare in Britain
Calling managers in banks & tech companies on PAYE “wealthy” and pulling them in for a face to face is absolutely wild
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Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”
“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”
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JS will run on the Bussard Ramjets that reach Proxima Centauri. You or your kids will know, because “[object Object]”.
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Heaven is where the compile speed is from Go, the safety from Rust, the performance from C++, the libraries from Python, the macros from Lisp, the stability from Java, the types from Haskell, the ubiquity from JavaScript, and the error handling from Elm.
Hell is where the compile speed is from Rust, the safety from C++, the performance from Python, the libraries from Lisp, the macros from Java, the stability from Haskell, the types from JavaScript, the ubiquity from Elm, and the error handling from Go.
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Margaret Thatcher: “Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance.”
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"I am a computer program!"
Embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, so says @DavidDeutschOxf... and he brings the proof.
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with an abliterated LLM is a good guy with an abliterated LLM.
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On Monday, Oct. 26, HRF and @iealondon will present the Tyranny Tracker in London. The event will showcase the Tyranny Tracker’s methodology and examine global trends in authoritarianism.
Lord Daniel Hannan will deliver introductory remarks. Venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner Jesús Armas will be the keynote speaker and a panelist. HRF’s chief legal and policy officer, Javier El-Hage, will provide an overview of the Tyranny Tracker and moderate the discussion.
Joining the panel are HRF Director of Policy and Research Malaak Jamal, HRF Senior Policy Officer for Africa Mohamed Keita, and HRF Research Fellow Luciana Fortuna.
Join us at 3 p.m. at the Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North St, London SW1P 3LB.
Learn more about the Tyranny Tracker → tyrannytracker.org/
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“The battle for freedom must be won over and over again. The socialists in all parties to whom Hayek dedicated [The Road to Serfdom] must once again be persuaded or defeated if they and we are to remain free men.”
— Milton Friedman
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Margaret Thatcher explained this perfectly back in 1983
The government doesn't have money of its own. Every time politicians promise to spend more, someone has to pay for it
And people somehow still think it's someone else's money
“There is no such thing as public money. There is only taxpayers’ money”
And sooner or later, that someone else they expect to pay is YOU
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we’re well on track to have 25% of all CVEs reported in this year alone
cve.0xosprey.com
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It's all good y'all @meekaale made PHP memory safe
github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/…
