CircuitSeuss

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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Vet /screen everyone. Cross check personal references, have an onboarding period before introducing new members to anything sensitive, do background checks if you’re concerned about it. There are already experienced community leaders a
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Compliant Technologies’ founder and CEO Jeffrey Niklaus is pretty much exactly the colorful Hollywood arms dealer you would expect to be selling the government taser gloves. 20 year Army retiree who deployed in an impressive number of US im
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Compliant Technologies claims over 700 law enforcement customers. The company also produces shock collars[2] and e-vests “effective for prisoner transport and bring[ing] subjects into compliance during acts of aggression or attempted escape
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
According to the patent [1] The glove emits “210-380 volts, 0.5-1.5 amperes, charge levels of 84-125 microcoulombs, pulse durations between 105-115 microseconds and pulsed electric current at the rate of about 30 pulses per second.” Edit:
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Eagerly waiting to learn in six months that the Trump family has been quietly buying up patents for individual formulations for measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines. Manufactured demand is the best! *for legal reasons, this is conjecture.
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
The product: https://www.complianttechnologies.net/the-glove > may cause or contribute to death or serious injury. - product fact sheet.
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Alternatively, the tech never commoditizes because of the scale of power dynamics at play, and we’re stuck with a few increasingly more wealthy and powerful corporations.
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
I would encourage you to add arrows to your signs/ stickers pointing out the cameras. More impactful when people see (and are unconsensually recorded by) the device first hand. Good work!
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Why not? There have been quite a few copyright cases alleging this behavior that LLMs are not substantially transformative[1]. Note that cases have largely been ruled in the favor of the AI companies, with courts ruling that model output i
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
If you needed another reason to hate low effort vibe coding… “It became clear to me that the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed.” At what point do
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
> This is probably the least bad out of all possible ways to implement age checking. Less bad is still bad. Normalizing a gated, state controlled internet is bad.
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Another state requires identity verification and monitoring in order to use a computer…
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
It’s definitely happening. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories?f%... Don’t mistake prepositioning for “not happening.” As you said: “cyber cold war” means there are a lot of incentives not to reve
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Absolutely! But I don't think that’s the most plausible answer here.
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Or maybe… Things are really fucked right now. I agree that this is an abnormal number of suicides- I don't think anyone is disputing that. I disagree with your suggestion of “housecleaning” though. I would speculate that the answer i
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
I exclusively default to homebrew when looking for software now. If it’s not available on homebrew I prefer manual install from git > the developer’s website > going to the app store.
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
Apparently Anthropic is moving that way: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropic-confirms-plans-...
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
A lot of this will come from co-optimizing hardware and low level machine code for this specific use case… something apple is coincidently very good at. Apple has worked very hard to make unified memory a feasible approach, and the benefits
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
If regex were default…
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by CircuitSeuss 2mo ago
https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containmen...
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
> The over-priced neighborhood is perversely desirable when pricing is the only legal means of discrimination in an increasingly dysfunctional society. Excellent explanation of why, despite the hollowed out middle class, we see a surge o
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
As enshittification continues to accelerate, terms of service/ privacy policies are going from comically draconian to completely insane attempts to preempt both consumer rights and common sense. For now at least, we can still find the
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
So what you’re saying is… the social media platforms/ tech sector needs to take basic measures to make their platforms less exploitative for all users regardless of age? I’m sold. What sort of incentives do you think would be the most
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
What if… we all just agree age verification is bad for everyone and move on?
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
If that were true, wouldn’t we be better served by auditing the finances of these universities and imposing caps on university profits based on operating expenses?
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
Gut feeling here is that this is going to result in significantly lower higher ed enrollment, and therefore a less educated populace. Less federal aid means fewer students can afford our insanely expensive educational system. This will pull
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
I think it’s important to understand that while this is a win, it’s only a small step. > Deere will now be required to make diagnostic and repair tools available to equipment owners and independent repair shops, not only its own network
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
Driver monitoring systems will be required in all 2027 vehicles in the US as well. https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becom...
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by CircuitSeuss 3mo ago
Tangential: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/nuclear-regulatory-c...

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