you can have a TOTP variant which has the browser display a challenge string & QR code, authenticator generates a 5-6 digit response. include more entropy in the response if you want to do away with the password entirely.

passkeys are trash, I would never opt for dedicated hardware (or a cloud service) and using them with a password manager is extremely messy when you want the password manager to be properly isolated from the rest of your system.

I always assumed the people buying those crypto gadgets were idiots.

also, if Apple falls to a supply chain attack like this where their laptops are backdoored crypto theft will be problem number #10.

there will also likely always be more. in the limit in order to get an edge your model would start to infer insider information. for example, it's common knowledge by now that satellite imagery is used to measure car numbers in parking lots, that's a proxy for insider information.

so it's not even so much the model as it is the data.

even being able to forecast weather better than publicly available methods can be leveraged to gain a significant edge.

for some reason too many people assume it will go on forever. humans aren't perfect, humans have variance. AI systems will nestle in the variance. the same applies to any camera (and lossy compression) you put forward.

even in the event that perfection exists, an AI generator and a discriminator can asymptotically approach it. and it assumes there will be no variance, which isn't realistic (even lossless video has sensor variance).

    > there isn't a whole lot of knowledge about how to use them in the training datasets

I don't use Ghidra but IDA Pro MCP works extremely well for me for all manner of tasks. for example, some software likes to call home for license checking (and I wish to run it with networking denied to it). it no longer does.

now all you need is IDA or Ghidra MCP, a binary and some vague sloppy instructions.

some more recent models even started instrumenting a running binary (when possible) to enumerate the protocol without being explicitly instructed to, which is even better.

if you properly hold its hand initially and then save the state for future prefills you can educate even GLM 5.2 to be pretty much everything you need.

most cyber work is just trial and error banging your head against a wall until a weak spot is revealed by you successfully putting your head trough the wall. you can offshore this work to an LLM.

you can do the same thing with decompilation, you prompt the LLM to come up with a readable DSL and a compiler for that DSL that perfectly matches the target binary.

when you want a machine to reason about the prompt and generate a structured output not using an actual LLM makes no sense. I have been doing it since the first chain of thought open models became available.

perhaps there may be a way to get a Jev-type model to think for a very specific number of steps to gain control over its latency, if so that would be the next step. truncating LLM thinking like this does not work well, and its thinking isn't efficient anyway.

just get an LLM to think and then force it to output a specific json with prefill post-think.

make sure to include good conditioning text in the prompt with examples of exactly what the output should be like. you don't want dissonance in the probabilities on the prefill.

growing up I always assumed that everyone would grasp some aspect of game theory intuitively, I still remember the day I found out game theory was a thing - it was like finding out that someone successfully systematized common sense.

most people take the things people say as if they were worth considering. signals without cost are only useful as knowledge of what the signaler wants fools to believe.

I expect the solution they will settle on is to form a department for interacting with technology like this, who understand its outputs are not edicts.

you can't really expect any meaningful police reforms (such as liability and insurance) because anyone who is in any position to enact them is perfectly fine with dumb muscle that holds a monopoly on violence and is deferential to them. in fact the public disliking the police is an ideal outcome for those decision makers as it gives them more leverage over the police.

Trump was an idiot who made himself an easy target for nobodies with no strategic bones in their body to go after him. note that his guilt or lack thereof is irrelevant, what matters is that legal action was initiated against a past president. this one action doomed the republic just like it did the previous Roman one.

also if you look at how the two factions separate from each other decade by decade (there used to be overlap, almost none now) it's obvious that there will be no reconciliation.

it's a musical chairs game at this point, whoever is in power when the democratic facade cracks will be able to seize power and transition into whatever single party state follows.

    > acts on the molecular, cellular

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_inheritance

basically, the genes do not generally contain blueprints but rather processes utilizing existing cellular machinery. a "mutation" can occur in a machine which will allow a propagating difference.

and there is nothing special about populations. it's merely the only way to observe most changes. gene frequencies in gene pools.

people have a hard time grasping this concept for some reason.

my favorite example to illustrate this is the trait of being poisonous. if evolution cared about species and then every single one would be poisonous and all predators would have to hyper specialize in prey (arms race between a particular poison and its resistance). it's precisely because it's so difficult to elicit a benefit from this strategy for the lineage that it's so rare. almost always a mutation in coloration has to happen to set the lineage apart from the others first. and then the lineage has to survive the disadvantage long enough.

if your intention is to have enough compressed ram such that you never reach the limit (compression ratios are usually around 3 with zstd) you can allocate over 100% of your ram in zram. then have 100% of your ram as a swap partition for hibernation. this works extremely well but should you exhaust your zram swap serious problems may begin.

zswap will be using your SSD and putting wear on it and also imposing latency spikes on old page access, only makes sense if you are certain your swap usage may spike too high in my opinion.

GPS jamming is for recievers.

if it's an active frequency hopping radar can you react in time to ruin its image?

can a ground based laser track it well enough to dazzle its optical sensors?

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