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I knew someone must have thought of the 40k connection

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kagis

Ahhh.

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Luce_Spinoza

Luce Spinoza is the Interrogator for the Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor Lord, Erasmus Crowl.

The Jia Tan xz backdoor attack did get flagged by some automated analysis tools -- they had to get the analysis tools modified so that it would pass -- and that was a pretty sophisticated attack. The people running the testing didn't catch it, trusted the Jia Tan group that it was a false positive that needed to be fixed, but it was still putting up warning lights.

More sophisticated attackers will probably replicate their own code analysis environments mirroring those they know of online, make a checklist of running what code analysis tools they can run against locally prior to making the code visible, tweak it until it passes -- but I think that it definitely raises the bar.

Could have some analysis tools that aren't made public but run against important public code repositories specifically to try to make this more difficult.

I'd just follow Five Thirty Eight's liveblog if I wanted live coverage.

https://abcnews.go.com/538/live-updates/election-results-2024/?id=115468646

Did a good job last presidential election, and it's more-technically-informed than most coverage.

I'd have a concubine of twinks if social media didn't exist

...

I'm...not sure how that would work.

A harem of twinks, maybe?

She’d eagerly looked forward to cooking meals in France beforehand, but Joanna says that she had trouble finding quality produce to cook.

“You go to the supermarket, and the produce is terrible,” she says. “You pick up a piece of celery and it falls over. It’s so limp. So old and so horrible. Who would eat this?”

Also: the couple has struggled to make friends, McIsaac-Kierklo has not yet mastered the language (or learned much of it)

“I honestly don’t think we could have put in any more effort to acclimatize to the French way of life,” adds Joanna, who describes their experience as “a nightmare.”

Don't give up, lady. Try and bond with them by talking smack about French produce loudly and clearly in English. You'll get through sooner or later. Even the French will eventually give in to determined gregariousness.

Honestly who is using AI generation for anything but that?

Stop by !imageai@sh.itjust.works!

You've only got one liver! Make it last!

“Let me ask you this,” he said. “What was the moment we can point to that nuclear technology was invented? I’ve never met a person who can isolate the moment where nuclear technology became known to man. German scientists in the 1930s? Really? Name the date?”

“It’s very clear to me that these [nuclear weapons] are demonic,” Carlson added.

Oppenheimer won seven Oscars last year, too.

checks civitai.com for dedicated models for generating Luce images

Pony Diffusion-based:

https://civitai.com/models/899565/luce

https://civitai.com/models/902213/luce-of-jubilee-2025

https://civitai.com/models/899944/luce-vatican-mascot

https://civitai.com/models/900249/luce-vaticans-mascot-pony

https://civitai.com/models/906648/yet-another-luce-or-jubilee-2025-or-pdxl-lora

https://civitai.com/models/904198/luce-jubilee-2025

https://civitai.com/models/911707/luce-mascot-of-the-2025-jubilee

https://civitai.com/models/903063/luce-jubilee-2025

Stable Diffusion-based:

https://civitai.com/models/903228/characterluce-or-2025noob075orsdxl

Flux-based:

https://civitai.com/models/899486/luce-vaticans-mascot-flux

https://civitai.com/models/903005/luce-catholic-church-mascot-flux

https://civitai.com/models/902214/luce-jubilee-2025-mascot-for-flux

https://civitai.com/models/30052/paseerpaseer-characters-package

Hmm.

While none of these models were explicitly tagged NSFW that I noticed, and don't bill themselves with NSFW images, Pony Diffusion is trained on NSFW images and thus brings that knowledge to derived models. It can understand Danbooru tags, which include a fair number of sexual acts, sexual poses, fetish clothing, sex toys, and suchlike.

I'd also assume that if Luce catches on, general models not specifically intended for generating images of Luce will also learn what Luce looks like as images containing Luce make their way into their training corpuses; that would presumably include NSFW general models.

EDIT: No, I take it back. This Pony-Diffusion-based model, this, and this one do use NSFW images in their example image list if one cycles through the whole list of images. It may have been hidden before, as I was checking the site anonymously, and I believe the civitai default is to hide NSFW content. Also, this model has some suspiciously well-endowed Luce images in its example image list, and this model doesn't have nudity in its example images, but does have Luce flipping the viewer the bird in an example image, which I imagine is probably sacrilegious.

Five Thirty Eight's part of ABC News. Nate Silver isn't really a news source as such, but given that he originally founded Five Thirty Eight and is a pretty well-known forecaster, I think that bundling up his essentially-identical results with Five Thirty Eight's is a good idea, as his model had been tending to give Trump slightly-more-favorable results than Five Thirty Eight's in the last couple of weeks. With all the information they'll get in, both have the race about as close to being a dead heat as possible.

These numbers are a slight improvement for Harris, as both models had given a very small edge to Trump over the past several days.

I'll second a couple of other things that people have mentioned, like SmarterEveryDay and CGP Grey.

Hmm. What would I consistently watch new material on?

• MontemayorChannel

General-audience military history. It's not especially flashy, and you'll see typos and such, but it consistently shows maps, which is somewhere that I think a lot of military history stuff falls over. And the guy has read the material for the stuff he covers, at least the stuff that I'm reasonably familiar with. There are much larger military history channels out there, and much blingier ones, but I'd rate this well for actually helping someone accurately understand the material covered. He does a good job of highlighting what I think decent books on the subject matter consider the important, salient bits. I'd say that he's probably reading -- and understanding -- the major recommended books on a battle prior to doing a video on it. I'd recommend his videos on battles over any commercial documentaries that I've seen.

There are other military history channels that I do watch, but I think that of them, that's probably the one I'd recommend being worthwhile as a watch the most.

Drachinifel -- does naval history, especially gun-era stuff and British stuff -- but while Drachinifel is pretty prolific, I wouldn't rank his output as highly; he's basically taking some high-level stuff from a quick read and putting it in video format. He's not doing all that much reading per video. But he's got a lot of stuff.

The Operations Room also favors maps, but I feel like they tend to pull more of their material from personal accounts from individuals than I'd like.

Kings And Generals has covered a lot of different conflicts, is flashier, also puts stuff on maps, but I've definitely seen stuff on there that I'd call erroneous. I'd watch something from them due to the scope of their material, but take it with a grain of salt.

Hmm.

I don't really follow channels much, repeatedly intentionally come back to anyone. Like, to have a Web analogy, there are websites out there that I like, but very few to which I'd subscribe to an RSS feed, because even for places that have good content, I rarely want to watch a high proportion of anything that they've done.

I can't think of anyone that does software that I'd recommend watching (or, honestly, in general, video for that). I haven't been all that blown away by video for international affairs stuff, not to the point that I'd explicitly recommend someone.

• theslowmoguys does a lot of well-filmed very slow motion stuff. I wouldn't go back to see something just because they've put it out, but they've got some of the better slow-motion footage of different things that I've seen. Fun watch.

• Oh, forgottenweapons. This is pretty well-known in the firearms world, so it's probably not a huge surprise to people who are interested in firearms. It originally focused on unusual firearms mechanisms, but I think that they've done a video on darn near every firearm out there now, so it's kind of a nice place to get a video overview from an informed person of most firearms, short bit history, highlights unusual mechanisms of the thing. I definitely would not go out and try to watch through this whole thing unless you are some kind of absolutely rabid firearms mechanism person, but it consistently has good-quality, informed material. There's a !forgottenweapons@lemmy.world community on the Threadiverse.

• PerunAU is also probably pretty well-known. Guy in defense economics, good for a level-headed, high-level look at the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Shows a series of Powerpoint slides. If he comes out with a new video, I'd watch it; he generally doesn't waste viewer time, and insofar as my knowledge extends, the information he puts out is pretty solid. I don't have the knowledge to evaluate the validity of his opinions, but he's pretty good at explicitly stating that something is or is not his opinion. There's been a lot of people making a lot of videos on the conflict, and I think that he's one of the more-worthwhile people to pay attention to.

I feel kinda bad to heavily list military- or weapons- related stuff, as I certainly watch plenty of other stuff on YouTube, but honestly, while I watch other material, most of the cases where I think I'd watch new material from a particular individual falls into those categories. Like, there are channels spanning a wide range of things, that have put out great content, that I think is interesting, but they also put out a whole lot of other stuff that I'm not interested in. I might recommend a particular video, but not the whole channel.

EDIT:

• primitivetechnology9550. Guy goes out into the woods with nothing but his shorts and just using what's available, constructs a "technology tree", starting with something like a stone axe and moving up to iron production and increasingly-sophisticated structures. Pretty well-known, but I've enjoyed every video I've ever seen on there.

I don't think that that's a counter to the specific attack described in the article:

The malicious packages have names that are similar to legitimate ones for the Puppeteer and Bignum.js code libraries and for various libraries for working with cryptocurrency.

That'd be a counter if you have some known-good version of a package and are worried about updates containing malicious software.

But in the described attack, they're not trying to push malicious software into legitimate packages. They're hoping that a dev will accidentally use the wrong package (which presumably is malicious from the get-go).