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New comment by usbpoet in "Singles Are Sick of Dating Apps. But There Are 2.5M on Raya's Waitlist"

usbpoet — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:33:26 +0000

Paywalled article, and archive.is doesn't work on WSJ. :(

New comment by usbpoet in "Can AI weaponize new CVEs in under 15 minutes?"

usbpoet — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:28:02 +0000

At first glance this seems kind of scary, but if it relies on already-reported CVEs, then doesn't that defeat the purpose of using it to breach a vulnerability? AFAIK, CVEs are only disclosed publicly after they've been patched. I could be wrong though.

New comment by usbpoet in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

usbpoet — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:24:17 +0000

I don't think I've ever actually seen Anubis once. Always interesting to see what's going on in parts of the internet you aren't frequenting.

New comment by usbpoet in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

usbpoet — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:41:44 +0000

What's the purpose of the green square, anyways? Why not just have a regular camera feed?

New comment by usbpoet in "AI Is Not a Dev"

usbpoet — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:17:41 +0000

Most of my personal beef with AI comes from the way that it's being framed as an end-all tool for everything, despite the fact that it really can only do a small subset of things right now. It's horrid at math, it's wrong about basic information given to it; I've had it give me code that just used a library that doesn't exist (granted, it only did this once).

It's a very new, shiny hammer, but a hammer isn't going to be able to carve a hole into wood. I look forward to it being regulated and finding a real, approachable niche for it to work into.