Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines Great piece from Andy Baio demonstrating quite how convoluted the usage ethics and backlash against generative AI has become. Will Smith has been accused of using AI to misleadingly inflate the audience sizes of his recent tour. It looks like the audiences were real, but the combined usage of...

Sorry for the title, but since the trend of clickbaity titles is spreading from YouTube and traditional media to the blogosphere, I felt left out and wanted to join the party. Anyway, a post about quitting social media is what I wrote. Not very original, I know, and something I wrote about many times before, but I was catching up with the posts in my RSS reader and I stumbled on a few that were touching on various struggles related to social media, Mastodon setups, and all that stuff....

Checking a YouTube video about Docker (for my Synology, where it’s called Container). Everything today is Docker this Docker that. Turns out it’s kind of like a VM, so I kind of get it. Trying to figure out how to tell the actual path in the YAML file from those virtual ones for configs like timezones, etc.

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I'm experimenting with commentary and formatting! =) The Emacs Carnival blogging theme of elevator pitch seems to have resonated with a lot of people: 18 entries so far, which is perfect timing because there's also a new online book for Emacs beginners. Also, if you're looking for a "Can your text editor do...

Today is gonna be another [Tissot Seastar](https://kevquirk.com/blog/new-watch-day) day, I think. Something tells me that the Selten Salvage Bronze is gonna …

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet The security team from Brave took a look at Comet, the LLM-powered "agentic browser" extension from Perplexity, and unsurprisingly found security holes you can drive a truck through. The vulnerability we’re discussing in this post lies in how Comet processes webpage content: when users ask it to “Summarize this webpage,”...

I don't know why, but the term *"vibe coding"* really pisses me off. I find it utterly stupid.

Mass. mom detained by ICE for 10 days over decades-old minor marijuana charge: When Rosa asked about his wife's medical care, the agent cited HIPAA laws as a barrier to knowing her health issues. Taken aback, Rosa pointed out that doctors can share medical information with ...

Exhibit B. If there's one person who knows a little something about being The Antichrist, it's probably Sweaty Peter Thiel: You are warmly invited to a series of four lectures by Peter Thiel addressing the topic of the biblical Antichrist: Peter is a technology ...