ChatGPT and entropy [Italian]
The interaction is in italian, the gist of it is that #ChatGPT while telling me a "tiramisù" recipe forgot to tell me to separate egg yolk and whites and once corrected he instructed me to separate them after eggs have been beaten and mixed with sugar. I think #physics of our universe might pose some issued with that.
Volevo provare ChatGPT, dato che il sito ufficiale era sovraccarico ho utilizzato un bot Telegram bot chiamato gpt3_unlim_chatbot e dopo un paio di domandine facili di riscaldamento ho deciso di entrare in ambito "religioso" e gli ho chiesto quale fosse la ricetta del tiramisù. (argomento che, come per la carbonara, sconsiglio di avere con amici)
Mi sembra che la conversazione prodotta sia piuttosto interessante. 🤣
Lapo
Dimmi una buona ricetta per fare il Tiramisù.
ChatGPTBot
Il Tiramisù è un dolce tradizionale italiano che si prepara con biscotti al caffè, crema al mascarpone, cacao amaro, zucchero e uova. Per prepararlo, inizia con la preparazione della crema al mascarpone: sbatti le uova e unisci lo zucchero, poi unisci il mascarpone e mescola bene fino ad ottenere una crema liscia. Poi, in una terrina, mescola il caffè e il marsala, poi immergi i biscotti nel composto e sistemali in una teglia rettangolare. Distribuisci la crema al mascarpone sopra i biscotti, poi cospargi con il cacao amaro. Metti in frigorifero per almeno due ore. Quando pronto, il Tiramisù è pronto per essere servito. Buon appetito!
Lapo
Forse hai dimenticato che bisogna separare le chiare e montarle a neve.
ChatGPTBot
Ah, giusto! La ricetta del Tiramisù prevede che le uova siano separate, con le chiare montate a neve. Quindi, dopo aver sbattuto le uova e unito lo zucchero, occorre separare i tuorli dalle chiare e montare a neve le ultime. Una volta fatto, aggiungi i tuorli alla crema al mascarpone e mescola bene. Poi procedi come indicato nella ricetta.
Lapo
Il secondo principio della termodinamico mi rende difficoltoso separare le chiare dopo aver sbattuto le uova.
ChatGPTBot
Il secondo principio della termodinamica non ha nulla a che fare con la separazione delle chiare dalle uova sbattute. Si tratta di una questione puramente pratica: quando si sbattono le uova, le chiare e i tuorli si mescolano tra loro, quindi occorre separarli. Tuttavia, una volta che hai separato le chiare dai tuorli, non c'è alcun problema tecnico e puoi procedere con la preparazione del Tiramisù come indicato nella ricetta.
Over on the birdsite, some people have been discovering geometric packing problems, about how small of a bounding shape you can draw around some number of a smaller shape.
(Sometimes the solutions are really beautiful, you see. And sometimes, um. See attached.)
I'd been unable to find this page I remembered about these. Turns out the professor who maintained it retired, so the old links to it broke. But it does still exist! So you too can experience the rollercoaster of erich-friedman.github.io/packi…
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Script to launch a few tmux tabs
#!/bin/sh
awk -F= -vq="'" '{
t=system("tmux new-window -n " q $1 q)
system("tmux send-keys -t " q t q " " q $2 q " C-m")
}' <<EOF # commands can contain ", but avoid '
tab1=echo command on tab 1
tab2=echo command on tab 2
tab3=echo tab 3 ; echo "tab 3 cmd 2"
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I feel like we aren't calling the 2038 problem the "epocholypse" often enough
We should all try harder to make this a thing
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Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
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ah, actually they did have 4096... 36-bit words of writeable core RAM. Weird. Was the Gemini computer *bigger* than the Apollo one ????
The Apollo LVDC is the third computer on the ship that never gets any love cos it just ran the engines and wasn't sexy
I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.
When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.
I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps.
EDIT: Replies tell me that this doesn't function in the UK without a VPN.
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I have been beating this drum for years, at browser companies keep making it *worse*, not better.
An expired cert should, at worst, be like, a yellow warning in the address bar for a month or two. There's *zero* justification for treating a barely expired certificate as a reason not to navigate to a page.
Worse yet is the absolute travesty that is HSTS, which then ensures you can't bypass the error for any reason, even if you understand why it happened.
Here’s what I want from a password manager:
1. Stores my passwords in the caldera of an active volcano.
2. I can access it with a 6-digit PIN from any computer on the Internet.
I don’t understand why this is so hard for the industry to get right.
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Sorry, but it turns out that somebody threw people into a volcano as a PoC for unauthorized access.
(This was for demonstrating that calderas are not to be used as trustworthy storage , since if enough people threw themselves (or others) in, one might be able to retrieve the credential store).
Perhaps a black hole might work better, but I understand there's information leakage there, too, so I dunno.
Ok, I was tired of rumors speculating about which #LastPass fields appear to be encrypted client-side before being sent to LastPass, so I ran some tests of my own.
For a basic "Password" item, here is what I can tell so far.
When saving the item, the following primary fields are transmitted encrypted:
- Name
- Extra (Notes field)
- Username
- Password
- TOTP (not in this screenshot, but did test)
However, I also observed the following fields having a cleartext (hex) version in the payload as well:
- Name
- Username
- URL
- Folder Name (not hex)
So in other words, there is more than just the URL being transmitted to LastPass in the clear, which makes sense because LastPass' Admin console reveals login activity for all users which includes Name, Username, and URL of the login event; so naturally, these things must be transmitted and kept server-side outside of the vault. However, this once again does go against their "zero-knowledge of anything in your vault" marketing...
Screenshots of this test below. I have omitted the encrypted data to prevent revealing enough for a "Known Plaintext Attack" to derive a key, but the relevant pieces are visible.
If I am missing anything here, do let me know.
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He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
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Some of you will know that there are character codes which are magic, For example, 8 is backspace, 9 is tab, 13 is enter/return, 27 is escape.
And then there's 127, which is delete. Why?
Because if you're dealing with punched cards, you need to remove errors. And the only code which will work for cancelling out a column is all holes punched, since you can't un-punch a hole
And 127 in binary is `01111111`.
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Advent of Code 2022
At first, I didn't really understand all the buzz about #AdventOfCode but then I decided to use it as an excuse to (finally?) explore languages I didn't try yet, and thus I decided to do each day in a new language.
Day 1 I did in #Awk, a simple scripting language which is very nice at managing text streams.
Day 2 was #JavaScript and day 3 #Java, this is definitely my comfort zone.
Day 3 was #Python, a language whose syntax I utterly dislike, but it was quite easy to solve.
For day 4 I tried #RustLang, this was so difficult (so much new stuff to learn) but I'm happy enough with the result! (or at least, it looks nice enough to me, not knowing much about the language)
For day 5 I finally used #Scala, a functional language I would like to use and love… but my result is probably THE WORST I did on this adventure so far… I really dislike all those "list updates" (I tried with ArraySeq and other approaches, but to no avail), and I have the feeling that a proper Scala solution could be written in half the lines or even less.
Day 6 I did in #GoLang and while I don't realyl dig the syntax, it was easy enough to write.
… but the one I'm most proud of is day 7 in #LISP, which took an amount of time I'm not proud of (most of today's free hours with the constant feeling that "20 more minutes and I'm done"), but I'm quite happy with the result!
GitHub - lapo-luchini/advent: My Advent of Code solutions
My Advent of Code solutions. Contribute to lapo-luchini/advent development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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https://twitter.com/lukhash/status/1602729716246581251
Loading C64 game directly from glow-in-the-dark vinyl record. The noise is binary audio, computer processes the data fed from the vinyl and the game is loading in real-time. We also created an online scoreboard. Shit can’t get any cooler 🔥Twitter
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Penrose tilings
The infinite nature of Penrose tilings never fails to blow my mind a little bit more, each and every time.
This tiling generator (as advertised in the video) is such a beauty.
aatishb.com/patterncollider/
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Browser JavaScript properties order
You know the proper property order.
It has even been (recently) standardized.
You even print it correctly in the short preview.
Why ruining it all in the long detailed version?
Maybe the object has hundreds of properties and
the user might prefer them sorted, granted.
But please give us choice regarding that.
Add a tiny small icon to change the order,
just like Chrome does to warn the values
might have changed in the meantime.
#Firefox #Chrome #JavaScript #JSON #ES2020
#numberTheory is strange.
jsfiddle.net/lapo/kue9toph/
Still worrying, a lot.
And bad PR in outright denying it, extremely bad PR.
blog.cryptographyengineering.c…
"the fuck do you want?" emoticon incoming
I'm halfway thru the chapters and loving #Eliza so far!
zachtronics.com/eliza/
(originally group id was generated sequentially during import)
github.com/lapo-luchini/tgsqli…
NERV Cannarsi-style
Dopo la lettura dell'articolo di Doc Manhattan sul nuovo adattamento di #Evangelion curato da Cannarsi io e Mauro e Mattia non potevamo esimerci dal produrre quest'immagine.
(English brief: Evangelion was re-dubbed in Italian, and it's so bad)
How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?
How is this system going to avoid being a massive privacy nightmare?
The good news is that Apple claims that their system actually does provide strong privacy, and that it accomplishes this using clever cryptography. But as is typical, they’ve declined to give out the details how they’re going to do it. […] an incomplete technical description that Apple provided to Wired […] provides many hints. Unfortunately, what Apple provided still leaves huge gaps. It’s into those gaps that I’m going to fill in my best guess for what Apple is actually doing.
#security #crypto #policy #backdoor #escrow
Creality Ender 3
I'm really amazing how good is a cheap printer (€217) nowadays, and how easy it was to set it up.
In the first concave prints I had lots of stringing, which I solved as suggested by CHEP.
So, yes, now I own a 118dB whistle and I don't even know why. :P
You can follow my experiments in this Google Photos album:
#3dprint #Creality #Ender3
Hearing passwords
We need to choose either #security or #surveillance.
Fuck surveillance.
Quoting a recent post from Bruce Schneier:
Either everyone gets to spy, or no one gets to spy. And I believe we must choose security over surveillance, and implement a defense-dominant strategy.
3×3RPGs
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#3x3RPGs
#GplusRPG
3 most recent RPGs:
• Polaris
• Kagematsu
• Dogs in the Vineyard
3 favorite RPGs, ever:
• Monsterhearts
• Kagematsu
• Dogs in the Vineyard
3 most want-to-play RPGs:
• Monsterhearts
• Shock: social schience fiction
• Bliss Stage
…and this is but one of the reasons I dislike DRM
Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries. Just another reminder that DRM is hostile towards users.
serious business
in reply to Josh Bressers • • •Josh Bressers
in reply to serious business • • •@ceresbzns The UNIX epoch timestamp 32 bit integer rolls over
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_203…
problem affecting digital systems that store system time as a signed 32-bit integer
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
in reply to serious business • • •time overflow will bring us back to 1970-01-01
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in reply to Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) • • •Signed integer overflow is undefined, but if you're using 2's complement, you'll end up with a negative number quite a bit before 1970-01-01 if negative numbers are interpreted to mean before 1970-01-01.
Stefan Priebsch
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