Archive for October, 2024
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17
LLM are just statistic text generators which depend on the texts they have been trained which and alleviating this usually makes things worse: [Wayback/Archive] AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature
Related:
Of course these issues are not limited to natural language LLM: artificial computer language LLM are also full of training issues that are likely very hard to resolve. What if covert organisations succeed poisoning LLM platforms with malicious code?
Via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17
Interesting series of tweets about what to harden your application for in a reply to [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “On a scale of 1-8, how pessimistic is your code? “Write code to provision a Google Chrome Extension for an end users Mac.”” which I saved to [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App (actually the scale is 1-9):
Extensions are stored in a 32 letter directory in the user profile in the Extensions directory.
i.e.
/Users/kris/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/<32letters>
- The User has set up their Mac so that their home directory is not in /Users.
- The User has set up their Mac so that the home directory name is different from their login user name.
- The User has multiple user profiles in Chrome, so that the path is not
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default, but some other profile directory.
- The target profile is not “
Default“.
- The target name is not a directory, but a symlink to some interesting system config file or directory instead.
- The target name already exists, and is a file, not a directory.
- The target name is a file, and has permissions set to
000 (chmod a-rwx).
- The file has an ACL that denies deletion to the user.
$ chmod +a "$USER deny delete" <32chars>
- The file has been
chflags‘ed to schg (immutable; irrevocable, unless the machine is rebooted to single user mode).
The above idea was for Chrome Extensions, so the below links are relevant, but it could be extended to any installer use case.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
[Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Myths has great debunks.
Quite a few of them are phrased with a web perspective in mind. That’s just because of prevalence. These myths are there on native platforms (mobile, Windows, MacOS and Linux) as well and can be debunked in the same way.
Similar myths are even there for real life: accessibility of buildings, signage, streets, you name it are just that and can be debunked with common sense.
An inclusive society actually is cheaper than a exclusive one, as it benefits everyone. The same holds for your software.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Learn Accessibility | web.dev
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Awareness on X: “When you make the pitch for accessibility, be prepared for pushback. There are several myths and misconceptions, so it’s good to be aware of what they are and how to dispel them.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Awareness on X: “”Learn Accessibility” is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
A while ago I downloaded some internal tooling that required vcredist140.dll (and related DLLs).
From the name you cannot see if that is a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) dependency so you often have to trial and error to figure out which one you need.
I adopted some winget package install command-lines with package IDs current at the time of writing this blog post; similar should be available at the time of publication:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/14
A long time ago I wrote about How To Fix Missing Hibernation Option On Windows 10.
Back then I needed to enable it (using powercfg.exe /hibernate on or disable using powercfg.exe /hibernate off), but I forgot about how to query this setting.
[Wayback/Archive] windows check if hibernation is enabled – Google Search gives me a result which is somewhat workable, but hopefully some day I find a better solution than in [Wayback/Archive] How to see from commandline (!!!) if hibernation is on or off? – Windows 10 Forums:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 