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If current-generation LLM-based chatbots can drive people to commit crimes or even take their own lives, what do you suppose Neuralink would do to people?

The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants

Once again blocked from using a website I've used regularly for years because of "unusual activity" from "your IP". After passing a captcha, no less.

Somehow bot-detecting algorithms have been degrading over time.

This is a troubling trend because people who aren't using the anointed access points of the internet struggle more and more to connect and interact. Large entities like CloudFlare choke off more and more avenues of access in the name of "security", enforcing digital checkpoints without any accountability to anyone.

#dev #tech #web #bot #DarkPattern #security #infosec #cybersecurity #checkpoint

Fat Cat Software recently asked for our help updating the PowerPhotos icon for Liquid Glass. We had a blast revisiting the charming little bot! Let us know if you need help with your app’s icon.

#IconDesign #LiquidGlass #dev #mac

In 2025 the web has more security checkpoints than an American airport.

#tech #dev #web #internet #SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #security

A web site just blocked me because I solved one of those sliding jigsaw puzzle captchas too quickly.

#tech #dev #web #captcha #cybersecurity #infosec #SecurityTheater #DarkPatterns

Did any #Go developers need code to get a zero value of a struct but without knowing the layout of the struct itself?

The only thing I could come up with was:

func zero[T any](v T) T {
z := &v
zz := reflect.ValueOf(z).Elem()
zz.Set(reflect.Zero(reflect.TypeOf(v)))
return *z
}

And see here an example of usage: https://go.dev/play/p/Aqzc_nRzOcP

I needed it in order to get zero copies of random structs so I could test that some marshal/unmarshal functionality is a bijection.

Is this a decent way to do it? Are there alternatives?

#golang #dev