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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • I know you’re looking for more immediate and stable income, but: Are you able to make anything? If you want to try your hand at a business, I’d be glad to help you with the tech stack side of things pro bono. I can get you set up with domain, email, website, and a marketing suite at least; I’ve also started four companies of my own so I can help you with the paperwork and structure stuff for that if you wanted.

    I do this sort of thing entirely via email and video call for SMEs at my day job. It wouldn’t be steady at first and you might have to stop when you find a job… But in the meantime, while you’re looking, it’s work you can make for yourself. And who knows? Maybe it would become enough to sustain you on its own.

    Just spitballing, anyway. Offer’s there 😊 Good luck!






  • I’m not saying the technique is unknown, I’m saying companies building tools like this which are just poorly-trained half-baked LLMs under the hood probably didn’t do enough to catch it. Even if the devs know how with a “traditional” application, even if they had the budget/time/fucks to build those checks (and I do mean beyond a simple regex to match “ignore all previous instructions”), it’s entirely possible there are ways around it awaiting discovery because under the hood it’s an LLM and those are poorly-understood by most people trying to build applications with them.





  • When you tear down next, look for missing board components or any that lean at an angle they’re not supposed to. Canned air has been known to shear poorly-attached caps or whathaveyou clean off the board. Or maybe one of the wires in the 12v cable is broken and it’s delivering power just to most pins… The paperclip test just tells you if the PSU is dead dead, are you able to test with a multimeter instead?

    Buzzing while the power supply is off makes me wonder if there’s literal bugs in it, if it’s buzzing while it’s unplugged. I suppose the buzzing could also be remaining power discharging, if it happens just after it’s been unplugged.