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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> as anonymous digital currency and use cryptographic penalties like slashing Or make it so that tokens cannot be tested except by spending/burning them, which would significantly reduce (but not eliminate) a black market because it
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Try hovering your mouse over the logos, which highlights the logo, a corresponding dot and a green ellipsoid. That said, it's a mess because (on a big desktop window): 1. Grok's grey-dot is presumably lost beneath its own logo,
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> What they say vs what they do -- We asked each model which way it leans, then compared the answer to where it actually measured. I think we should conceptualize this as: 1. How does the implicit fictional character in the chat-story de
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I think it's purely chart-crime, because it strongly depends on window/display size and cascading layout quirks. It's chaotic, and at certain sizes Grok is the least affected. The logos have a constant-size even when the
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The printer thing seems pretty unrelated It's a simple example of how the arcane telemetry they demand is actually far more dangerous to you than it first appears. This is incredibly common when it comes to security and privacy is
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
At least in a desktop context, you can get by with just a separate drive to boot-to.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Counter-example: The relative levels of "military adventurism", which is already has a synonym for exploration right in the name. "Exploring" with the military means means starting wars you didn't really need to sta
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Links sent in plaintext over the network. :(
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> spyware The privacy-destroying "telemetry" continues to transmute from a theoretical problem to a realistic concern too. For example, many printers puts forensic marks onto pages identifying their serial number, while MS&#x2F
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> Fink typically doesn’t deal with vault toilets in Wyoming’s state and national parks, but he knows what horrors can lurk at their depths. This man was lucky he wasn’t down there deeper or longer, he said. In terms of fears, I still rem
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
That could be abused the other way against well-intentioned humans. Simply let someone accumulate PRs at a not-abusive rate, and then once enough exist falsely report them all in a day. > banned from all PR submissions So then the person
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Frankly, I'm kinda scared about a negative-trust future. Compared to the 90's, not only are the financial pressures for scams/fraud/astroturfing rather extreme, but the cost of running lots of complicated lies is droppin
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
*squints* So you're suggesting that HN auto-removed the phrase "Hundreds of" and then made the "Per" lowercased? I don't submit enough to judge whether it's HN, or the submitter, or it was accurate and t
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Mirror: https://archive.ph/NaK7K
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> Paul Graham's submarine essay To save a few clicks: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html > [The] PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional m
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> To form state-level militia. Right, to expand on that a bit: 1. When the Second Amendment was written, there was already an active legal framework of "well-regulated militias" through the Articles of Confederation. [0] Every
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Nowadays your printer puts secret markings into everything, and Microsoft and Apple can link those to your account and IP address.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
The longer things stay vague, the more I become concerned that this may be a scenario that is so common that it has an enduring meme [0], where: 1. The person claims that a broad swathe of facially reasonable and views are being rejected
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Quibble: I think you're conflating "remove winner-takes-all" with "less spoiler effect". The first implies (some of) the second, but not vice-versa. For example, ranked-choice voting would reduce the spoiler effect
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Plus even if it were conserved--in the sense that all our relatives have settled on the same winning-strategy with little variation--there's still a naturalistic fallacy waiting in there. Does the popularity of cancers as one ages me
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Either way, I'd just caution that the empire-ness of a country's military or diplomatic reach doesn't necessarily tell us what to expect in terms of its internal hellhole-ness of authoritarianism.
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> I can't even provide examples [of Americans cheering on temporary safety over essential liberty] I've seen other people critiquing it over the years, perhaps it has something to do with other aspects of the delivery or messag
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Related: Could it be of any use in easily detecting counterfeit SSDs, which have been hacked to report a fraudulent size? Sure, you can test by completely filling the drive with predictable (to you, not to a counterfeiter) data and then ver
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Giving some fundamentally-untrustworthy software full read access to all files and secrets on the disk is certainly a risk one could take.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> run sudo commands With respect to the dangers of privilege escalation, a useful list of common commands which are difficult to invoke safely with elevated permissions: https://gtfobins.org/ > The project collects le
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My mistake, I may have fallen for an impostor site when trying to find an approachable source, unfortunately the edit-window has closed. Originally the comment was Windows/Microsoft-centric, and then I thought I'd better broaden i
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
That is a real problem but for an unreal situation. Nobody is advocating that we combine (A) a child-safe browser with (B) a completely unlocked device in every other way. When I buy/configure a device which prevents Little Timmy from
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Right, recycling a comment on the benefits of "website reports, the device parents bought blocks": _____________ 1. Most of the dollar costs of making it all happen will be paid by the people who actually need/use the feature
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I'd also caution that Reddit can and will destroy a 10+ year account (erasing all submissions and comments) for no discernible reason with a quite-literally-broken appeals process.
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> If we pool all of its recommendations together — treating the vendor as one giant hiring process — we don’t find adverse impact. If we look at each position separately, as would be typical in an evaluation of adverse impact, then we ex

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