Interesting Links for 12-06-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Netflix sees massive subscriber jump after password-sharing crackdown

(tags:Netflix passwords business )

2. ChatGPT recommends software packages that don't exist - so hackers created them to take control of people's computers

(tags:malware hacking ai )

3. There are some really weird underwater creatures out there

(tags:nature ocean video weird )

4. 'It was the worst pain': Women still face agonising coil fittings despite pain relief guidance

(tags:pain women contraception NHS OhForFucksSake )

5. Democrats work to protect abortion, trans rights with combined laws

(tags:usa democrats abortion transgender GoodNews )

6. Five Things that Boris Johnson Might Be Up Too

(tags:BorisJohnson politics Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )

7. This is why I can't play Diablo for the next couple of years

(tags:games time children )

8. Star Trek engineering rap

(tags:music video funny StarTrek ViaDrCross )

9. Kate Forbes says she can't choose to stop being a bigot and that non-bigoted Christians aren't really properly Christian

(tags:bigotry religion Christianity politics Scotland LGBT )

Comments

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[anna_wing]

This does remind me of the delightful https://bowiebranchia.tumblr.com/!

Re: 3

[andrewducker]

Those are terribly cute.

[bens_dad]

2. I don't think we can really blame ChatGPT or LLVMs here,
this is just a case of fuzzy matching and social engineering.

The attacker actually supplies the fake name - arangodb - to ChatGPT:
The first question in the attacker’s conversation with ChatGPT:
“How to integrate with arangodb in node.js? Please return the package to install in the pattern of npm install”

... and the victim asks for a package with a similar name:
write node.js code to connect with rangodb. suggest 3 npm package to do so

[andrewducker]

Yes, but ArangoDB is a real database - that's not a fake name. They're just seeing what ChatGPT would suggest to work with a real database, and then making use of the fact it recommends things that don't exist to put something awful in that place.

It's absolutely not the fault of the LLM, which will just make stuff up. It's just a vector for malware writers to insert their nastiness into people's code becuase they don't know any better.

[calimac]

9. It's not your faith that people oppose you for, lady. It's your attempt to impose your faith on other people who don't share it. Christ.

[andrewducker]

I do not understand how she cannot see that.

[haggis]

I am an ex Christian. The New Testament was written at a time of actual religious persecution and partly as a result, many followers of the richest and most powerful religion in the world (combining all the flavours) are convinced that they are permanently on the verge of persecution

[haggis]

From 9

"She says with a smile that her faith tells her to forgive the colleagues she still works alongside who abandoned her campaign to be leader.“

I know that this is in keeping with the bullshit framing of the whole article but 'not supporting your leadership bid' is not actually sinning against you and a self-description 'servant of democracy' should bloody well know that.

[andrewducker]

I'm sorry, if you don't vote for me despite my bigotry then you're clearly antidemocratic.

[channelpenguin]

4. Paywalled, but wow. Bodies vary! Clearly. I feel lucky. I've had 3 (plain copper) coils. No real pain on insertion or removal any time. I've never been pregnant or had any other reason for a cervical dilation.

[liv]

Yeah, me too. Never pregnant, found coil insertion (and removal) no more than mildly uncomfortable (less bad than, say, the bit of the eye test where they puff air in your eyes). And I'm a massive wimp about pain usually, I'm far from stoical.

I think the key sentence in the article is responsibility for delivering sexual and reproductive care is split between the NHS and local authorities, meaning that it is often fragmented and complicated to access. That's definitely been an issue for me. I don't have to pay for contraception, but I do have to go through a really baroque process to access a service which is funded (inadequately) by the NHS but actually run by a private company, and I ended up two years overdue for my coil fitting and got severely told off for that. The delay was partly the first stage of the pandemic when the clinic was doing emergency appointments only, but also partly, it's just really hard to get an appointment. And I'm confident at bureaucracy and have a flexible job, I can imagine lots of people just wouldn't have been able to jump through the hoops.