Rudywho decided on the name Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there for the taking
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️sweet god help me I just saw
MOV AX ,0x2509
INT 0x21
and thought "ahh, they're setting the vector handler for interrupt 9"
WHY AM I MEMORIZING THE MS-DOS API IN THE CLOSING DAYS OF 2024? I think I need to spend less time reverse engineering old software
Bob DownieHealth benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study
If ever you doubted that #cycling was good for you, doubt no longer!
Health benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study
Background Despite active travel investment increasing, evidence of benefit is often limited to selected health outcomes and a short follow-up period, and cyclists and pedestrians are often analysed together. We aimed to examine prospective associations with multiple health outcomes over 18 years for pedestrians and cyclists separately.Methods The Scottish Longitudinal Study is based on census data, from which we selected 82 297 individuals aged 16–74 years. Individuals were followed-up between 2001 and 2018 through linkage to hospitalisation, death and prescription records. Cox proportional hazard models were used to compare cyclist and pedestrian commuters with non-active commuters for a range of health outcomes, controlling for pre-existing health conditions, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.Results Compared with non-active commuting, cyclist commuting was associated with lower all-cause mortality risk (HR 0.53, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.73), lower risk of any hospitalisation (HR 0.90, 95% CI 0.84 to 0.97), lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) hospitalisation (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.91) and of having a CVD prescription (HR 0.70, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.78), lower risk of cancer mortality (HR 0.49, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.82) and cancer hospitalisation (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.59 to 0.98), and lower risk of having a prescription for mental health problems (HR 0.80, 95% CI 0.73 to 0.89). Pedestrian commuting was associated with lower risk of any hospitalisation (HR 0.91, 95% CI 0.88 to 0.93), lower risk of CVD hospitalisation (HR 0.90, 95% CI 0.84 to 0.96) and of having a CVD prescription (HR 0.90, 95% CI 0.87 to 0.93), and lower risk of a mental health prescription (HR 0.93, 95% CI 0.90 to 0.97).Conclusion Active commuters were less likely to suffer from a range of negative physical and mental health outcomes than non-active commuters. These findings strengthen the evidence for the health benefits of active commuting.
C.So, after being laid off a few months ago, I find myself still looking for work.
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If you know someone looking for such, I'd appreciate you referring them to this.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano"To understand AI algorithms, Vallor argues we should not regard them as minds. “We’ve been trained over a century by science fiction and cultural visions of AI to expect that when it arrives, it’s going to be a machine mind,” she tells me. “But what we have is something quite different in nature, structure, and function.”
Rather, we should imagine AI as a mirror, which doesn’t duplicate the thing it reflects. “When you go into the bathroom to brush your teeth, you know there isn’t a second face looking back at you,” Vallor says. “That’s just a reflection of a face, and it has very different properties. It doesn’t have warmth; it doesn’t have depth.” Similarly, a reflection of a mind is not a mind. AI chatbots and image generators based on large language models are mere mirrors of human performance. “With ChatGPT, the output you see is a reflection of human intelligence, our creative preferences, our coding expertise, our voices—whatever we put in.”
Even experts, Vallor says, get fooled inside this hall of mirrors. Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist who shared this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for his pioneering work in developing the deep-learning techniques that made LLMs possible, at an AI conference in 2024 that “we understand language in much the same way as these large language models.”"
https://nautil.us/ai-is-the-black-mirror-1169121/?utm_source=pocket_shared
Royce WilliamsI just realized that I've been thinking about punitive / settlement reimbursement that come in tiny, awkward forms (like the $7.44 Equifax gift card) ... totally wrong.
I've been trying to figure out how to spend them, like buying something small, or with a split transaction when buying larger totals online. (Places like Amazon make this difficult or impossible, and shipping to Alaska makes it even worse.)
Instead, I should just be ... donating them ... to an org or project that does the opposite of the naughty thing the offender did!
My $7.44 just went to Signal. (EFF would have been a good choice, too!)
My list of FOSS/etc donation possibilities is here:
https://www.techsolvency.com/donating-to-free-software-projects/
IT NewsProtecting 'Funko' Brand, AI-Powered 'BrandShield' Knocks Itch.io Offline After Questionable Registrar Communications - Launched in 2013, itch.io lets users host and sell indie video games online — now ... - https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/12/15/1915222/protecting-funko-brand-ai-powered-brandshield-knocks-itchio-offline-after-questionable-registrar-communications?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Protecting 'Funko' Brand, AI-Powered 'BrandShield' Knocks Itch.io Offline After Questionable Registrar Communications - Slashdot
Launched in 2013, itch.io lets users host and sell indie video games online — now offering more than 200,000 — as well as other digital content like music and comics. But then someone uploaded a page based on a major videogame title, according to Game Rant. And somehow this provoked a ...
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Gary Blosser-sigh- I hate layoffs even when I know why they have to happen. We had to let 3 excellent people go today.
If anyone needs a driven pentester with a couple years of experience, a focused network pentester with a decade of experience, or a GLBA/CIS auditor please let me know and I can send them your way.
If you have questions about them or need a recommendation, DM me. I am more than happy to advocate for them and would hire them back in a heartbeat if I could.
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