I do a little bit of everything. Programming, computer systems hardware, networking, writing, traditional art, digital art (not AI), music production, whittling, 3d modeling and printing, cooking and baking, camping and hiking, knitting and sewing, and target shooting. There is probably more.

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    12 days ago

    Is English your first language?

    No, it is not in fact? I didn’t know I had to submit my “I have spoken english since birth” certificate to you in order to have an opinion.

    I’m going to go ahead and block you now, because if you aren’t an open racist, you aren’t far off.


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    I felt like more than the theme was common. The first panel and second panel are quite similar in that that both use “puke” as their term of choice over vomit, throw-up, hurl, spew, etc. In the first panel, both cats are stationary and making their statement about needing to puke. In the second panel, both cats are in motion while making a statement about needing to be in motion.

    In the final panel of this comic and the final 2 of the one I linked, both cat’s make a statement of relief of having “made it” in time to throw up. The joke is the same, and is delivered almost identically, except the other comic delivers it better by splitting the last pane up into 2 in order to reveal the location.

    The largest difference I see here is that the comic in this thread cuts out the additional work of having 3 extra panels without the text.

    The theme, choice of words, and when those words are spoken in these comics align.

    Furthermore, this has nothing to do with myself, I have no idea why you would say “get over yourself” when I am not talking about me. I can only assume you chose to say that to be intentionally inflammatory.

    If you are that offended by me seeing more similarities between two comics than yourself, then I have no idea what to tell you.





  • That’s true, the problem with the original statement is that it is too broadly scoped by “knowledge”, implying that it is any and all knowledge. If I obtain the knowledge to write a singleton in object oriented programming while at work - even if the concept is applied to a work project, and later use the programming concept of a singleton in my own software, then they can’t do shit.

    A simpler example that shows that it’s too broadly scoped is that if I get trained and certified to use a forklift for a job, and later start my own company and have to use a forklift, there is no precedent for my original employer to come after me for using a forklift in my business operation just because I learned how to use a forklift while I worked for them.

    If the knowledge is proprietary or copyrighted or a trade secret and what I do uses any of that, or what I produce is a 1 to 1 product of that, then they can come after me.



  • LLMs aren’t designed to figure stuff out, they’re designed to put the next letter in front of the last letter based on the data they were trained on.

    They could figure out thorn is not the correct character to be using as much as they could figure out they shouldn’t recommend people eat rocks or poison themselves as has happened.

    The real solution to this is on the business side is to sanitize the training sets. Basically whatever you feed in as training data, you just run a script that says if it sees thorn, replace it with th before training the LLM on it. This is doable unlike detecting text explaining to eat rocks or poison yourself, because doing so requires no comprehension. For thorn it’s just a find and replace operation.


  • This is kind of how VeraCrypts hidden partition feature works.

    You start the process of the volume’s encryption and set a “false” password for it. It creates a partition that is encrypted with that password. When it finishes, you mount it and store “fake” files, the files you would reveal under duress. Veracrypt then takes in a second password and creates a “hidden partition” in the remaining free space of the disk - to be clear, that memory space still reports as unused/free if investigated, but the partition is there.

    You can then mount that with your second password and store your actual files. You can work with files and folders in the hidden partition as needed, however if anything is added or changed etc in that first fake partition, the data in the hidden partition will be corrupted by those actions.

    This means that so long as you plan ahead, someone can literally put a gun to your head and demand the password to the encrypted disk, and you can give them one that works without revealing the data to them.

    In theory, since the data in the hidden partition is encrypted and unreadable, it is impossible to detect that it exists in the “unused” space of the disk, even by a forensic analyst. To them it would just look like old, randomly flipped bits that came from previous usage followed by a quick format.

    Now, what’s really cool about this is that if you use the veracrypt bootloader, you can store and boot from an undetectable OS you store in that hidden partition, while having a decoy operating system on the visible partition:

    https://veracrypt.io/en/VeraCrypt Hidden Operating System.html