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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Attach a generator to him and the AI datacenter energy needs are solved. Even better, the more trash that AI produces the more energy is generated.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
I think the "limited budget" mechanic should be scrapped - instead make the budget unlimited but rank the submissions based on the lowest budget.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Anna's Archive recently tested that successfully.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
They can just ignore it and get away with it: https://noyb.eu/en/microsofts-xandr-grants-gdpr-rights-rate-... The "success" of GDPR is greatly overstated here. In practice, breaching it is the winning strateg
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
SSH without proper key management offers marginal benefits compared to telnet.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
A prepaid SIM or burner phone can still be purchased no? I believe the CC requirement can be bypassed if you create your Apple ID from trying to "purchase" a free app (or for the accounts that do require payment, I wonder if a gif
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Alternatively, use them pseudonymously? There's little reason any of these companies need to know your real identity. This will both reduce the likelihood of ICE finding your account from a real-life interaction, as well as reduce the
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
VirusTotal is completely useless for this though? You need enough people to be pwned by that particular piece of malware for it to be flagged as dangerous, by which point the attackers would've already repacked it so it doesn't ma
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
To be fair, computers are slow if you intentionally rent slow & overpriced ones from really poor-value vendors like cloud providers. For people who started their career in this madness they might be genuinely unaware of how fast moder
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Tech bros and VCs need to eat, that's how.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Isn’t it just serving static content and the content fitting in RAM? If so your laptop can serve it just fine even.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Even if let's say lawful intercept is done away with and calls are end-to-end encrypted, the telco would still be in control of key management and distribution... and if those clowns can't secure lawful intercept, why do you think
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Corporate security is beyond merely making sure software itself is secure. Phishing for example requires no security vulnerabilities, and is one of the primary initial attack vectors into a company. You need proper training and the right
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Defense in depth and multiple layers of security should ideally protect against zero-days; see the Swiss cheese model of accidents for an example; most aviation accidents are rarely caused by a single factor but an improbable combination of
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> have you considered moving or having at least an alternative Not who you're responding to, but my 2 cents: for a popular open-source project reliant on community contributions there is really no alternative. It's similar to s
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
The purpose of cybersecurity products and companies is not to sell security . It's to sell the illusion of security to (often incompetent) execs - which is perfectly fine because the market doesn't actually punish security brea
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> How they haven't been sued into bankruptcy is something I'll never understand. Isn't most off-the-shelf software effectively always supplied without any kind of warranty? What grounds would the lawsuit have?
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
I think the problem is the legacy Unix-style concept of shared libraries and how anything touching native code is deeply intertwined with the OS itself.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
I find that security, architecture, etc is exactly the kind of skill that takes 10-15 years to hone. Every boot camp, training provider, educational foundation, etc has an incentive to find a shortcut and we're yet to see one. A "
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
80k is 6.6k/month. That’s pre-tax, but for the benefit of the doubt let’s go with this figure instead of the post-tax. Have you seen the prices of stuff nowadays? Whether energy, cars, technology or rent? 6.6k doesn’t go far at all any
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
The bad actors here are the social media platforms who host and promote divisive content since it generates more engagement thus ad revenue. Those are very much in reach of law enforcement and regulations can be passed to forbid such engage
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
50% tax is absolutely not typical in the US as far as I know unless you can provide sources? I thought it was around 30% thanks to all the various schemes and deductions one can use? I live in Bulgaria. My effective tax rate here is around
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
“Decent” in the form of hopefully not dying while you’re on the waiting list. And bankruptcy is only a problem when you actually have significant assets, something not easy to acquire in western EU countries. If you’re the average under-30
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Only if you can’t fly to a neutral low-tax country and enjoy low tax and not being sent to war. But you do you, I do me. (And of course, if they don’t have a problem with stealing over half of the fruits of your labor, do you really think
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
You hire the junior developer because you can get them to learn your codebase and business domain at a discount, and then reap their productivity as they turn senior. You don’t get that with an LLM since it only operates on whatever is in i
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
An LLM isn’t (yet?) capable of remembering a long-term representation of the codebase. Neither is it capable of remembering a long-term representation of the business domain. AGENTS.md can help somewhat but even those still need to be maint
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
With social media encouraging and promoting divisive bullshit it’s really not hard for a hostile power to influence local groups to do their bidding. Social media should be the main target of all these defense groups, but sadly politicians
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Anyone can fly a quadcopter though? You can buy one right now for a couple hundred bucks off Amazon (and strap explosives to it if you wanted to). If anything, the fact we’re not seeing random drones carrying explosives and diving into grou
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
LLMs could be a good option to navigating this sludge. Fight fire with fire. Another option is work smarter (not harder, because nothing I do is anywhere near “hard work”) to get into a position where you can tell them to get fucked. Don’t
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
If you’re repeatedly prompting, I will defer to my usual retort when it comes to LLM coding: programming is about translating unclear requirements in a verbose (English) language into a terse (programming) language. It’s generally much fast

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