abalone

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by abalone 2y ago
> The code is being shown to selected individuals deemed suitable and then they're telling me by way of proxy. That is incorrect! The binaries are public and inspectable by anyone. The tools for doing it are bundled right into mac
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by abalone 2y ago
Your concern is the hardware auditors are not trustworthy because Apple hired them? I mean that’s fair but I don’t think the goal here is to offer that level of guarantee. For example their ceremony involves people from 3 other Apple organi
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by abalone 2y ago
PCC is a whole different level. For example, you still have to trust that Google is doing what it says to control access. PCC makes it auditable and verifiable by clients when connecting to a node. You can also audit that the binaries don’t
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by abalone 2y ago
PCC is fundamentally more secure than merely encrypting at rest and auditing access. That still has a variety of attack vectors such as a software bug that leaks data. Apple is unable to access the data even if subpoenaed, for example, and
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by abalone 2y ago
He had my attention until he posted that mind-numbingly generic Ubuntu ad. Most people would tune that out in seconds. I’m kind of glad Apple is putting a touch more flavor in their ads.
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Apple Intelligence waitlist due to PCC rollout
2 points by abalone 2y ago|0 comments
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by abalone 2y ago
I'm not trying to be provocative or a downvote magnet here but does anyone actually have a concrete response to the concerns Frederighi raised about sideloading and privacy / phishing protections three years ago?[1] Isn't it
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by abalone 2y ago
According to the LA Times these devices are “not usually used by fighters, but by ambulance and civil defense crews and administrators affiliated with Hezbollah. The devices are unrestricted and can be sold to anyone, and as such are used b
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by abalone 2y ago
See my source which is based on reporting from inside Israel and the IDF.[1] [1] https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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by abalone 2y ago
You are simply incorrect. “Rate” is a ratio, not an absolute number. But to your point, Israel’s ratio in Gaza was as high as 100 civilians to 1 soldier in the shopping mall (or more accurately, refugee family shelters).
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by abalone 2y ago
Yes. If China detonated several thousand bombs in Idaho civilian locations on the premise they were targeting militias, some of whom fought in Syria and/or against Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, this would absolutely be an act of m
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by abalone 2y ago
They detonated the bombs in supermarkets and homes. It is 100% an accurate description of what happened. If an enemy targeted members of American political parties that have sponsored terrorism and brutal dictatorships, detonating thousands
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by abalone 2y ago
> no bystanders hurt This is incorrect. There are reports of maimed civilians and a murdered child. There is no comprehensive information yet on the ratio of civilians to militants maimed by this attack, and any claims otherwise are pr
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by abalone 2y ago
There is no question that an enemy setting off thousands of small bombs in American supermarkets and homes, maiming unknown numbers of bystanders and killing children, would be designated an act of mass terrorism. Anyone who claimed such ma
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by abalone 2y ago
There is no comprehensive information yet on the ratio of civilians to militants maimed by this attack, and any claims otherwise are propaganda. If an enemy had exploded small remote controlled bombs in American supermarkets and homes targe
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by abalone 2y ago
Many people fail to see this because they have an intact moral core. Conducting a military operation that has a fully predictable rate of civilian casualties is morally equivalent to targeting those civilians. Israel has utilized a rate of
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by abalone 2y ago
> Some of the initial footage shows such a device going off while innocent bystanders remain unharmed. This is anecdotal and misleading. There are reports of civilians maimed including the murder of a child. This is entirely plausible
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by abalone 2y ago
There is no comprehensive information yet on the ratio of civilians to militants maimed by this attack, and any claims otherwise are propaganda. If an enemy had exploded small remote controlled bombs in American supermarkets and homes there
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by abalone 2y ago
Correlation over causation. The study actually notes, “One plausible mechanism is the normalization of mental disorders through increased awareness and receptivity to diagnosis and treatment when having individuals with diagnosis in the sam
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by abalone 2y ago
I see a flaw in the argument. He shifted from saying you'd use a 5 minute access token timeout to querying the DB on every request. There can actually be a big difference between those two scenarios. Some web APIs can be bursty. Even c
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Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems(msn.com)
2 points by abalone 2y ago|1 comments
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by abalone 2y ago
WSJ source: https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-... The muckraking blog For Better Science has been sounding the alarm on this for years. Here's a great investigation into the "paper m
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by abalone 2y ago
The muckraking blog For Better Science has been sounding the alarm on this for years. Here's a great investigation into a "paper mill industry"[1] which apparently this researcher also traced some of the fraudulent papers to.
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by abalone 2y ago
This is great, especially the little diagrams which help illustrate rebasing vs merging, one of the tricker parts of the git learning curve. Having said that I think it could more clearly state the author's typical preferred practice f
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by abalone 2y ago
> As of today, we have zero known instances of abuse Emphasis on known . The whole point of stalking is to hide the device and not get caught. How would a typical victim even discover it? Or even if they figured out they were stalked,
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by abalone 2y ago
I think “intelligent search” is going to build on Siri and Spotlight, adding LLM for things like summaries and suggestions. This should bring a 10x magnitude of improvement and justify hardware upgrades to satiate the RAM and coprocessor th
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by abalone 2y ago
Unlikely; this will likely be focused on on-device search of your personal or other local data and relevant context from the web. This has always been Apple's focus, and the opportunity to 10X this with LLMs is profound. Access to your
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by abalone 2y ago
Siri isn't that slow for me generally, but the responses are relatively primitive compared to GPT. Very likely Siri is lagging GPT based agents due to the high processing cost of LLM queries. Startups can launch with today's GPT a
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by abalone 2y ago
> And we have a strict no-logging policy; we don’t log or store data that can connect you to your online activity, or to any other DuckDuckGo services, such as search. These days the bar for privacy should be higher than "we don&#
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by abalone 3y ago
But if the tax is refunded to rewards recipients then it does not result in net higher prices for them. Granted, some slice of it is kept by the issuers, but it turns out issuers mostly make money on interest not interchange.[1] [1] https:

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