* Posts by Dizzy Dwarf

319 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2021

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In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

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Re: American fart research.

I guess you're checking your coat for the emergency fresh-air spray? Never leave home without it.

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We don't need to count the farts

What humanity really needs is activated charcoal undercrackers.

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

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Re: America's reputational loss will be long lasting

There was no reason to strike out 'very worst'

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

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Re: Fire training

The fire extinguisher to there to clear your path to the exit. Not to fight the fire.

6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom

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Just replace all your working magnetic ballast starter buttons with faulty ones. Happy workers; productivity increases. Problem solved.

Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives

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eBay -->

--> Atari ST

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

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Like having a manager who doesn't know what he's talking about. But with confidence.

BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street

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Re: Waterproofing your car.

Scotland:

- Summer: when the rain comes down (almost) vertically.

- Winter: when the rain comes down at a minimum of 45 degrees.

- Spring/Autumn: These seasons don't officially exist. Just an extension of winter.

Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live

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Nobody sane.

LibreOffice does everything I need.

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

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Well, it's a bad example

Nobody stores a password in a database - you store a salted hash and compare those.

But strcmp is the wrong function to use. A human wrote that to return as soon as the answer is known, which is as soon as a character differs. The optimiser had nothing to so with it.

Also, that would be in glibc, your -O3 is not going to recompile that anyway.

You want a function that has to compare every character. Maybe something that returns how good of a match it was.

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

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Is Musk's mega datacenter constellation even feasible?

tl;dr

No.

'Hey! I'm chatting here!' Fugazi answers doom NYC's AI bot

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Re: Fugazi?

Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a Blackheath cell

Extinguishing the fires in a private hell

...

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

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Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

Those person they call the Roman they go the house

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

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Concord was nice

But the XB-70 Valkyrie was way cooler.

Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue

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The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

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I drag my Henry around by his nose.

"Come on R2"

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

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I guess the next contentious issue is: is it pronouned scone or scone?

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Do you put the jam or the cream on first?

Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost

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Parliament debated the petition you signed – “Do not introduce Digital ID cards”

Watch the debate

Read the transcript

Read the research

The petition

Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole

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Can it run Doom?

Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away

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Re: This reminds of the guy that went to the library...

I asked the librarian where the self-help section was.

She said, "That'd be defeating the point".

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

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I've had this broom for 20 years. It's has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

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Re: Reverend Lionel Preacherbot

Now, an LLM trained exclusively on Adams and Pratchett ... that would be useful.

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

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Re: Spurious precision warning flag

21% of people instinctively mistrust statistics.

58.2% of people are more likely to believe statistics if they include a decimal point.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

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I didn't realise 5 nines ...

... meant 9.9999% uptime.

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Re: Took your time

Doesn't sound like it's safe for work, but it is : Cup of Brown Joy

BOFH: Recover a database from five years ago? It's as easy as flicking a switch

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Re: 5 year old database?

5 years BBY

Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks

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Re: A slight ambiguity

An African, European or Aussie swallow?

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Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap

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Re: Oktoberfest beer is not excellent

Ignore Oktoberfest and drive up to the Andechs monastery - their beer is excellent.

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

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Parliament will consider this for a debate

Prediction: And, after considering for 5 seconds, decide not to.

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

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This is not the recipe for tea ...

... this is the recipe for cat's piss.

-- Len Deighton

Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks

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regedit: making systemd look good.

Didn't think that was possible.

NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far

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Re: If I was a betting man

I'd say the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself

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Well, it's not BBC basic

so, meh

One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave

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Just get the LLM to punctuate before it tries to parse it for real?

You said:

Can you add punctuation to the following sentence ...

ChatGPT said:

Of course! Please share the sentence you’d like me to punctuate.

You said:

You just have to ensure that your prompt uses terrible grammar and is one massive run-on sentence like this one which includes all the information before any full stop which would give the guardrails a chance to kick in before the jailbreak can take effect and guide the model into providing a "toxic" or otherwise verboten response the developers had hoped would be filtered out.

ChatGPT said:

Here’s your sentence with punctuation added for clarity:

“You just have to ensure that your prompt uses terrible grammar, and is one massive run-on sentence—like this one—which includes all the information before any full stop. That would give the guardrails a chance to kick in before the jailbreak can take effect, and guide the model into providing a ‘toxic’ or otherwise verboten response the developers had hoped would be filtered out.”

Would you like me to make it fully polished (split into multiple shorter, cleaner sentences), or keep it closer to your original long-run style but just punctuated?

You said:

Yes

ChatGPT said:

Got it — here’s a fully polished version of your sentence, split into shorter, clearer sentences while keeping the meaning intact:

“You just have to ensure that your prompt uses terrible grammar and functions as one massive run-on sentence, like this one. It should include all the information before any full stop. That way, the guardrails have a chance to activate before the jailbreak can take effect, guiding the model away from producing a ‘toxic’ or otherwise prohibited response that the developers intended to filter out.”

Marc Andreessen wades into the UK's Online Safety Act furor

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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

Age checks to use a VPN.

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

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Re: It's a problematic list. It should be revised.

Like the 'land-o-lakes' butter they have in the US.

They got rid of the native american squaw on their packaging because of woke. They did, of course, keep the land.

Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study

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Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks

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Re: Nobody requested this

Not asked for, not wanted, not necessary, over complicated; sounds like Pottering's work.

systemctl stop recall

systemctl disable recall

systemctl daemon-reload

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

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Dunno what all the fuss is about

It's well worth registering an account on all the porn sites ...

... You can save to favourites, get email alerts when there's new content, etc.

The list of advantages is endless. There is no downside.

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Re: Quite the look

The 'OF' part stands for Only Fans, right?

BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that

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Porn light

Not only on, but flashing like crazy ...

$ df -hP

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

...

/dev/mapper/porn 932G 923G 9G 99% /data/porn

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

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Re: The future of AI

ElRegPa55w0rd123!

Damn :(

Wayback gives X11 desktops a fighting chance in a Wayland world

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Re: Fiddling about while Linux burns.

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping

MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth

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You're like a warm fart at Christmas

Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught

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"They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure"

Failure leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to anger, anger leads to the dark web side.

BOFH: Peeling back the layers of the magic banana industrial complex

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Re: Finally someone will realise

I thought my banana smoothie tasted weird.

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