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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Security isn’t binary, it’s about layers and probabilities. A truth frequently abused to excuse obviously bad practices. > A client that attests play integrity is less likely to be an attacker than one that isn’t. A comfortable, yet
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by Hizonner 2y ago
If your app can be manipulated to your disadvantage by the user, then you are putting undue trust in client-side software, and you need to rearchitect your service. Or, sure, you can stick with your lazy, slipshod design and try to paper
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> basic features like cloud backup/restore Cloud backup/restore work fine (well, kind of fine; they should stop with the stupid restrictive list of supported backends). They just don't happen to support Google's clo
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by Hizonner 2y ago
App developers are going along with it because many of the third-party ROMs so insolently take the view that a user's device should serve the user.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
No, they're shutting down activities intended to gather intelligence on people who are actively attacking them, and/or disrupt those attacks. If you want to think military, suppose somebody's been shelling my assets, so I ret
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> My take from reading the more neutral guardian article is that the Americans don't see russia as a threat, ... in spite of the many continuing active attacks coming out of Russia. Credibly with state support. As part of a longstan
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by Hizonner 2y ago
"Standing down from all planning" is one action the same way "launching all the nukes" is one action.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Welp, they stopped being open source, then. From the OSD: 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict
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by Hizonner 2y ago
So I'm actually kind of lost here. As I understand it, your theory is that the anticipation of SESTA/FOSTA caused there to be more professional porn and less amateur porn on Pornhub, which in turn caused a "race to the botto
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by Hizonner 2y ago
You didn't measure the changes in the actual content.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
They literally just represent clusters in a learned embedding vector space that's not necessarily well understood, but is believed to map words or phrases with similar meanings to vectors that point in similar directions in a high-dime
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by Hizonner 2y ago
My leading guess would be that Pornhub made some technical change to what titles were allowed or promoted, for who-knows-what reason. One possible guess would be that they simply started to promote titles with more descriptors, or more unco
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Sorry, no, incest is not intrinsically violent the way rape and torture are.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
If those dramatic clusters are real (as opposed to t-SNE artifacts or whatever), then there have to have been large step changes in 2010 and 2017 (and not much directional change in the other years). Just saying "SEO" doesn&#x27
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by Hizonner 2y ago
It's an "innovation" coin, not a "judgement" coin or a "profitability" coin. For some reason, people get the idea that innovation comes from executive management. It doesn't. Popularization may. Comme
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Robin Hanson has the superpower of making everybody who reads him stupider.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Most of the world switched to phonetic scripts a long time ago. That's be because they're strictly superior to pictograms. Icons are optional . Text is required . Sorry if you have to translate it.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Unlike in most countries they're just not a thing here. Probably because the bills are still available. People don't change without some kind of reason. I did live in the US until 2007, and I do think that, if you are going
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I'd like to request some comment replies from anybody who keeps up the downvoting on this one. I've found that every time I post something complaining about a "science journalist", or a "tech journalist", not h
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Because as inflation continues, there's a risk of all those quarters in your pocket collapsing into a black hole? And the dollar bills crumbling to dust? Admittedly, I haven't really used coins (or bills) on a day to day basis for
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Um, bullshit. Apple II: Very similar to contemporary products. Interesting improvements added by Wozniak. Lisa: Stolen from Xerox (and made worse). Jobs' contribution: cosmetics, mostly. Mac: Oops, the Lisa was too good. Next: A somewh
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> comes from a type of agricultural waste known as furan Where do they get these people?
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Google Chrome has been disabled.
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> Wouldn't this just put these companies in awkward position explaining to each nation that operating in that nation means they to follow each of their conflicting laws? That's actually kind of the point. It gives them a reason
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Oh, say maybe the UK having a law that lets it demand that a cloud provider actively modify its systems to defeat any cryptography, or other technical measures, if those measures prevent any data the UK may choose to demand from being deliv
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Based on what exactly? Missing capabilities that probably won't be achievable purely with LLMs or similar: + Long-term learning (not just context hacks) from live experience, including deciding what it needs to learn and choosin
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by Hizonner 2y ago
OK, substitute your favorite overlord in what I said and it's still the same.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
What? LLMs aren't going to be AGI, or at least I'd be really surprised if anything that was basically an LLM got to AGI. LLMs may be components of AGI, but even a "reasoning" LLM isn't going to be AGI. Not even
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I swear like a your-favorite-stereotype. When my kid was maybe 4, I told her "I don't care if you talk like I do, but people will give you trouble for it". Probably with more detail than that; it's been years now. She fu
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I assure you that I don't wish for some of the outcomes I think are reasonably likely. ... and in general I think you're mistaking me for somebody who's spent a lot less time on these issues.

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