Which stage of bubble popping are we currently in, that Microsoft feels the need to make em dash easily typeable to give AI slop enthusiasts plausible deniability?
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Hello friend. Digital Forensics/Infosec/Online Privacy 👨💻🕵️ Member of Defcon Switzerland (#DC4131), EFF, Planetary Society. TOR relay operator. Opinions my own.
The on-device LLM model bundled in iOS 18.1 Beta 1 seems to have a data cut-off date some time in 2023, however, for some categories of questions it answers with 2022 or even 2021 data points.
Answering questions is, of course, not what the model was designed for. It’s supposed to rewrite your emails and messages. But, with a special prompt, you can turn it into a very primitive chat bot 🙂
Credits for the discovery of control tokens (extracted from macOS) go to: https://gist.github.com/EvanZhouDev/1a5d3e3705612f56b6aaa09fe862ec47
The USB camera support in iPadOS 17 is pretty sweet. The USB-C thermal camera I got works well, although currently only in FaceTime. Hopefully 3rd party camera apps add support at some point (wouldn’t hold my breath for Camera.app)…
Half of GitHub is struggling to run the 7B #LLaMA model on their desktop GPUs, meanwhile MacBooks can run the 13B model without breaking a sweat thanks to their Unified Memory Architecture.
Code here: https://github.com/jankais3r/LLaMA_MPS
Can’t believe this passed the TestFlight beta review 😅
TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/bJyw9fog
GitHub repo: https://github.com/jankais3r/quake_watch
Thanks to the crypto crash of 2022 one can get very good deals on mining boxes that are no longer profitable. It’s an affordable way to boost the password cracking throughput of your lab. The boxes usually come with purpose-made motherboards that are socketed with Haswell-era Intel CPUs and they max out at 8GB RAM, but that’s more than enough to max out the GPUs with hashcat/JtR.
Copilot is building their brand on the fact that they don’t sell your data, but that’s just a marketing trick since they use 3rd party data aggregators to talk to your bank.
Even when Advanced Data Protection (E2E) is enabled, Apple retains filenames, file sizes and hashes of files/photos in plaintext. They say they do this for deduplication purposes, but obviously it can also be used to link users to known content.