Time flies when you're having fun. Measure spiders when you're not.
Lots of people have been having fun with DeepSeek, a fascinating new AI from China. Whilst many have been probing its censorship – try asking about Tianamen Square 1989, some have been managing to bypass its output filters by requesting the output in forms such as like leetspeak or similar encodings. Input and output filtering
“To set, or not to set: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous password rules,Or to take arms against a sea of hackers,And by opposing, end them? To change, to forget—No more; and by a forget to say we endThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThe
How long can a name be? How short can an email address be? All around us, IT systems have built-in assumptions and limitations. To be clear, they always have had limits, either explicitly chosen, or ones beyond which the system tends to fail in unpredictable ways. However, now that so many facets of our lives