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n3wjack

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hardcore electronic music loving/producing geek software developing scuba diver :: knows how to :quit vim
tries to boost the fun stuff on the fedi

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FrazzledBrynn , to random
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jesus christ that fish was massive

n3wjack ,
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@loren @FrazzledBrynn Looks like a pike indeed.

loren , to random
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in case you ever need help telling what kind of drum and bass someone is talking about i made this handy little chart!

n3wjack ,
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@loren TIL there is a fish named drum.
Is it tasty?

pluralistic , to random
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Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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n3wjack ,
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@pluralistic Wow, this is bad.

"Our findings revealed that several large companies either use or recommend this package in their repositories. For instance, instructions for installing this package can be found in the README of a repository dedicated to research conducted by Alibaba"

Recommend the dummy package? Like WTF.
Check your dependencies FFS.

rbreich , to random
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Now, I’m no culture maven. But even I know that picking fights and trying to take down Taylor Swift is not going to end well for MAGA.

n3wjack ,
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@rbreich I don't know what happened but...

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