Humorist2290

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by Humorist2290 11mo ago
> Again, we have moved past hallucinations and errors to more subtle, and often human-like, concerns. From my experience we just get both. The constant risk of some catastrophic hallucination buried in the output, in addition to more sub
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by Humorist2290 11mo ago
It is probably a reference to the report mentioned in this article from September https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-chat-control-false-reports... According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), 99,375 of the 205,
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by Humorist2290 11mo ago
(6) Online child sexual abuse frequently involves the misuse of information society services offered in the Union by providers established in third countries. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the rules laid down in this Regulati
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by Humorist2290 11mo ago
But if you want to outlaw this harmful activity [licensed gambling], you have to find a way to replace 6.4% of Maryland’s budget, which is slightly less than the entire amount the state brings in from corporate taxes. A fraction of
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by Humorist2290 11mo ago
In my opinion, AI-coding is basically gambling. The odds of getting a usable output are way better than piping from /dev/urandom/, but ultimately it's still a probabilistic output of whether what you want is in fact what
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
The president is quoted as saying The White House Ballroom is being privately funded by many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly. Whether that is credible, and whether there is an obligation of financial tra
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
I can't disagree. Modern famine is a tool used to cause harm indiscriminately. It is a testament to the human capacity for cognitive dissonance that so many people can be against the starvation of children yet support politicians respo
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
So focusing on the details of the situation in Gaza is quite awful. The general tone of the comments in this thread, along with basically any public forum I think speaks for the reverberation of human suffering throughout this -- civilians
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
Then Israel severely limiting the amount of food is helping Hamas by artificially, and cruelly, limiting supply. People want to feed their families and will go to great lengths: sell their valuables, harm others, or wait in line at a Gaza H
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
I still don't really understand this story. I know that ICE invaded the factory and detained a few hundred people. They were vanished away and presumably being speedily sent back to Korea. Sure. But every article I've read on this
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
That's exactly my point though. Google, AWS, Meta etc all stand to gain from this. But plenty of middle tier providers are entirely silent even if it poses a potentially existential threat. Some people are going to get rich from this o
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
Sure, but the way this was written it also includes everything from Gmail to root access servers hosted by Hetzner. Gmail has been doing this for years, but (I assume) not Hetzner. If even hosting providers are dragged into this the scale g
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
From Patrick Brewer's analysis [0] it seems like written into the proposal is to enable members of the government to have access to excepted systems, if applied for things like law enforcement or "national security." If I had
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
> Chat Control would make it mandatory for all service providers (text messaging, email, social media, cloud storage, hosting services, etc.) to scan all communications and all files (including end-to-end encrypted ones), in order to sup
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
I mean multiple VPSs for redundancy. Contabo is maybe the cheapest I've seen and it's like 3$ mtl for the smallest?
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
Yeah they can be cheap, but I would definitely recommend having at least 3 for redundancy. If one get shut down or it's IP blacklisted you still hopefully have a backup line to create a replacement.
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
And using another VPN like NordVPN or ProtonVPN is probably in the same category as Mullvad, but worth being cautious. If it's free, you are the product. If you pay, you're still sending your traffic to a publicly (usually) known
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
- Tor. Pros: Reasonably user friendly and easy to get online, strong anonymity, free. Cons: a common target for censorship, not very fast, exit nodes are basically universally distrusted by websites. - Tailscale with Mullvad exit nodes. Pro
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by Humorist2290 1y ago
So "certified" Android devices are phasing out side loading, making Google Play the only way to install an app. This is the norm on iOS, right? And in many jurisdictions, from Russia to Denmark, there is an actively hostile, and r
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by Humorist2290 2y ago
If you're an American and want to vent your frustrations, you could try the US Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121 . You can contact your senator and ask how they are contributing to the safety and prosperity of Americans, or just human
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by Humorist2290 2y ago
Sometimes this is possible, but generally VPNs are illegal (at least that's what I was told) in Russia. The government has become increasingly active in identifying and locking users out of them, and of course users risk being dragged
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Tell HN: Tailscale is giving 451s within Russia
9 points by Humorist2290 2y ago|12 comments
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by Humorist2290 2y ago
I don't doubt it's well validated, and the point of it also is clear. Based on the questions I could appreciate exactly your point -- people with some mixture of traumatic experiences will score higher, people without (or with few
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by Humorist2290 2y ago
Fully agreed. The oversimplification of the scoring system feels deeply wrong.
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by Humorist2290 3y ago
In practice, I imagine it would be in the minority of cases when law enforcement is given a report on someone including this detection "evidence," and for the duration of the investigation the child is placed in protective custody
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by Humorist2290 3y ago
I think, but mostly hope, that this client side scanning initiative will fall apart. Not just because it's an obvious destruction of civil liberties for us in the EU, but also because it's doomed to fail even if implemented. The u
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by Humorist2290 3y ago
~120k base salary with another ~40k equity per annum. EU, mostly in office. 10 years exp. Nominally working 40 hours, but very relaxed and enjoyable. My last post had a much better salary; +50% or so. The working hours were grueling though