Interesting! I’ve definitely seen and noticed this but never looked into it further. The Wikipedia page has an example image that aligns with my experience pretty well.
I get migraines and weird visual auras with them sometimes. I assumed that this phenomenon was related. Didn’t realize I was actually seeing light polarization. These things are often hard to describe and look up. Good to hear that this is likely benign.
Take a sheet of A4 paper. Fold it in half. Fold it in half again. That’s about the size of the Duo inner screen (a little larger actually, A6 is about 13% smaller than the Duo screen).
>> In living beings, consciousness is embodied and can not be reproduced by discrete steps.
Why not, at least in principle? Wouldn’t an exact map of a brain’s neural structure and its electromagnetic and chemical state, combined with inputs mirroring the senses, be able to be automated to produce a digital analog of human thought.
The model is impractical and couldn’t be reproduced today, yes. But what, exactly, is missing?
People have thought they were nearly complete at least for 500 years, probably longer.
When you choose a specific model to represent the brain you are asserting you’ve accounted for everything that generates consciousness (=the lights are on, experiences qualia). This means you’ve solved the hard problem. The hard problem is debated constantly though.
In my view there is absolutely no reason to think a description of reality can be equal to reality. There are probably (in my view that is) aspects of reality, like first person internal experience, that fundamentally can not be described with third party linguistic / symbolic / representational devices.
>>> Think about that: We booted an operating system and then booted another operating system around it, so that the original operating system was now running inside a virtual machine controlled by the second operating system. It’s like leaving your house, walking down the street, and halfway down the block, realizing that you’re now walking inside a movie studio set.
I used to work for Microsoft, and the marketing teams would regularly change the name of products days before big announcements and tradeshows like Build and Ignite.
Of course, they couldn’t tell anyone who needed to know ahead of time, because it was a “PR Moment” and leaks would upset the news media attention.
But the practical effect was that I’d be on the show floor and customers would come up and ask to see “Microsoft Turquoise AI for Haberdashery” and I’d be like “WTF is that??” and they’d say “The thing Satya just announced at the keynote” and I’d be like “employees aren’t allowed in the keynote can you explain what it does” and they would and I’d say, “oh, that’s the old Microsoft Designer for Clothes, I can tell you about that” but then I’d find all the demos I have aren’t relevant anymore because the name has changed and the PMs weren’t given any time to redo them with the new branding, and I can’t give a live demo because the UI has changed completely and I haven’t been trained on it.
I moved from the US to Australia recently, and Amazon isn’t really a thing here. Yes, it exists, and it is heavily marketed, but the range available in the store is at a guess less than 1% of what’s available in the US store. I occasionally go to amazon.com.au to look for things, have the same issue having to wade through irrelevant slop in the search results, find nothing suitable, and leave.
And then I do what it seems most Australians still do — go to a mall, or visit a specialty retailer, or use a specialty retailer’s clunky website and find exactly the thing I need and order it there and get it a few days later.
It’s quite refreshing to go out on the shopping streets or to the malls, and see many people out and about shopping. Likewise, the staff in stores are well-informed and helpful, and make the shopping experience pleasant and efficient.
Amazon is why we can’t have nice shopping experiences in the US.
There appears to be some language confusion in the replies. FYI in Australia “gas” refers to natural gas (used in domestic cooking and some power stations), not gasoline for cars (which is called “petrol” here).
From the Twitter advisory on the issue being referenced here [1]:
>>> To every other developer: we believe this is a sober reality of the new AI paradigm. AI-assisted code review can now find latent bugs at a speed that is outpacing even the industry’s most seasoned experts. If your firmware is open-source or has ever been public, assume it's already being read by attackers and defenders alike.
Kinda turns the “many eyes” principle of OSS on its head, eh?
This flaw would probably be easier to find from the binary: the source itself was misleading, but if you analyized the binary you'd find that there was no access to the hwrng at all (assuming the dead code got eliminated by the compiler) or that the only function that accessed it was never called.
One lesson out of this is that now that AI has made a certain grade of review cheap is that it would be useful to perform security review both against the source code and against the resulting binary.
If the industry most seasoned experts are not using LLMs right now to front-run the discovery of vulnerabilities in the code they are responsible for, they are not experts, but clowns.
>>> To every other developer: we believe this is a sober reality of the new AI paradigm. AI-assisted code review can now find latent bugs at a speed that is outpacing even the industry’s most seasoned experts. If your firmware is open-source or has ever been public, assume it's already being read by attackers and defenders alike.
Kinda turns the “many eyes” principle of OSS on its head, eh?
From my perspective, the bug became shallow because the machine world extended the number of effective eyes. The aphorism applied, but just not fast enough as it took too long to get the right number of eyes.
More people would have been harmed had the bug been in production longer.
One unfortunate aspect is that responsible disclosure would have only saved some people, a responsible disclosure would have lead to a notice to migrate seeds and bad actors would have immediately realized seed generation was the root cause and would have swept many folks before they could even see the notice for themselves and get around to migrating.
That advisory would probably be more helpful if it described what the actual issue is. (I’m thinking maybe some content got lost when the Update at the top was added?)
Yes and it is very unclear to me what are actually the risks...
I am unfamiliar with "coldcard" but can hackers find out which wallet is used for which account? or maybe it can be inferred by analysing the transaction (if any)?
If the hackers do not know which accounts to attack first there is probably no need to panic right now.
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