{"id":5584,"date":"2026-02-28T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:24:45","slug":"odd-lots-364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lazarus V 4.6 has been released. It\u2019s a bugfix release, with details on what was done <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.lazarus.freepascal.org\/index.php\/topic,73549.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">at this link<\/a>. Built with FPC 3.2.2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getlazarus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go get it!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malone.news\/p\/the-unbreakable-message\" target=\"_blank\">the best layman\u2019s explanation I\u2019ve yet seen of quantum communication<\/a> and quantum key distribution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2026\/02\/26\/so-hackers-just-stole-mexicos-tax-and-voter-rolls-and-youll-never-guess-how-n4949977\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic\u2019s Claude AI recently stole 195 million Mexican taxpayer records<\/a>. How? Claude\u2019s user basically talked the AI into ignoring its own guardrails and doing whatever it took to break into the Mexican government servers. My guess is that they\u2019re not guardrails so much as guidelines, and with a clever enough user Claude can be persuaded to ignore those guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>Huh! A few weeks ago the Sun was throwing huge storms at us\u2014then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/sun\/the-sun-hasnt-looked-like-this-since-2022-whats-going-on\" target=\"_blank\">on February 22, the Sun as we see it was\u2026blank<\/a>. No spots. The first time there have been no visible spots since 2022.<\/li>\n<li>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Firefox-148\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 148 will have an AI \u201ckill switch\u201d<\/a> and other controls on the AI features in Firefox. The kill switch will block both current and future AI updates to the browser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2026-02-19\/shaker-sect-sees-revival-of-interest-from-filmmakers-and-museums\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s a long-form history of the Shakers<\/a>, whose music I greatly like. Some great photos of their tools and architecture. To not go extinct, they maybe should have had babies, but I respect them nonetheless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazarus V 4.6 has been released. It\u2019s a bugfix release, with details on what was done at this link. Built with FPC 3.2.2. Go get it! Here\u2019s the best layman\u2019s explanation I\u2019ve yet seen of quantum communication and quantum key distribution. Anthropic\u2019s Claude AI recently stole 195 million Mexican taxpayer records. How? Claude\u2019s user basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[118,52,90,275],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-ai","tag-culture","tag-pascal","tag-physics-astrronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}