If you use Aurora Store instead of the Play store, you can download APKs. They are a Google Play store proxy.

Or from APKPure https://apkpure.com/the-white-house/gov.whitehouse.app

I was concerned about that too. Often when you tell them not to do something, you were better off not mentioning it in the first place. It's like they get fixated.

Don't think of a pink elephant.

Best way I've found not to think of a pink elephant is to choose to think of a green rabbit. Really focus on the mental image of the green rabbit... and voila, you're not thinking of, what was it again? Eh, not as important as this green rabbit I'm focusing on.

How to translate that to LLM world, though, is a question I don't know the answer to.

P.S. Obviously that won't prevent you from having that first mental flash of a pink elephant prompted by reading the words. The green-rabbit technique is more for not dwelling on thoughts you want to get out of your head. Can't prevent them from flashing in, but can prevent them from sticking around by choosing to focus on something else.

> Best way I've found not to think of a pink elephant is to choose to think of a green rabbit.

Seems easy circumventable: “Don’t think of a green rabbit”. Now the past vividness of that image becomes a hindrance.

The green rabbit, in this case, is a metaphor for something you want to think of, as opposed to the pink elephant you're trying not to think about. Let's say you're trying to get your mind off of some depressing topic (the pink elephant). Instead of thinking "Don't think about the depressing topic, don't think about the depressing topic" which just makes your mind dwell on it, you pick some other topic that you do want to let your mind dwell on. Specifics will vary wildly between people, but you might decide to think about your next hobby project, or the upcoming movie or sports event or concert you're excited about, or a particularly interesting passage in the book you just read which would reward some deep thought. You'd pick something good, positive, or uplifting; something you know will improve your mental health rather than harm it.

If that's the green rabbit in the metaphor, then at no point would "don't think of a green rabbit" be advice you would want to follow.

et.aliens.gov, mexicans.aliens.gov

It can do it all!

> mexicans.aliens.gov

You mean that 2023 "reveal"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37494876

ancient.aliens.gov

A possible collaboration

While the school is paying Thompson Reuters CLEAR for information about where their students supposedly live, CLEAR isn't limiting their data collection to just student families.

They are collecting information about everyone en masse and making up different problems they are "solving". Everyone in the US should realize that this is a story about themselves, not just some family in Chicago.

Bummer. I used to look at this news org favorably, but this product has tarnished their image significantly in my eyes.

I agree with your point, and am only responding to the last sentence.

Starring can be useful to the starer. They are just counted because it is countable. Whether you find the number meaningful remains up to you.

Besides, stars != installs, these days they're a popularity contest at the level of Facebook likes, not a measure of a project's success.

Let's wait for the explorers to return.

The software seems to get into more and more and communicate about what it's doing less and less. That's the crux.

Pondering... Noodling... Some other nonsense...

Is Github an application store? Is npm? apt? yum?

If not, why not? You need age verification before you even create an account.

Is `ls` an application? Is `cat`?

This thing is so broadly-written, the only thing saving you from needing to give you age to your toaster is that it's not a "general-purpose" computing device. Never mind that it can run DOOM...

Do you download `ls` from anything resembling an "app store"?

like apt? or ftp.example.com?

also: what's download? in embedded sphere, flashing a firmware is often reffered to as download. That's an industry standard term.

My partner has a 4a and no such issues. Are you talking about stock Android or something else,

Yeah - Stock Android! We are not in the states, but might have to investigate further if it works for others.

I recognize that screenshot. The office managers just wanted smilies in their Outlook email.

I'm not the commentor, but you could get different results from the same curl command depending on what the server wants to give you at the time. The bash script can make additional curl calls or set up jobs that occur at other times.

I'm sure both of you understand this. I'm guessing it's just semantics.

Right. My point is that you only run it once, so there's only that one chance for a compromise. If you got lucky and talked to the right server and it gave you a good script, which is overwhelmingly probable most of the time, you're in the clear. That doesn't mean it's wise, but the danger is limited. Whereas with these agents, every piece of data they're exposed to is potentially interpreted as instructions.