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by anonym29 11mo ago
Firebase, GMS (Google Mobile Services). The Alphabet Corporation is part of many security and privacy conscious users' threat model, and these users aren't generally thrilled about leaking even limited message metadata like timing
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by anonym29 11mo ago
>What database? The local database used by Signal to organize every message, every contact, every profile photo, every attachment, every group, basically every dynamic piece of data you interact with in the app. Signal is basically a UI
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by anonym29 11mo ago
States are responsible for orders of magnitude more innocent human deaths than every "terrorist" group in human history combined.
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by anonym29 11mo ago
>America also has a party that always runs on the idea of small government and restoring rights to the people. Every time they get power, they do the exact opposite. You seem to be confused. The Libertarian Party never gets any power. Th
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Care to engage more substantially than this, or are you just repeating the argument that because UPF is imperfectly defined, that means UPF as a category is absolutely worthless and therefore we should dismiss all precautionary options surr
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by anonym29 11mo ago
1. The idea that UPFs being poorly defined == UPF is a meaningless designation has always sounded like absurd whataboutism that stops real progress to me. Surely you don't mean to suggest that just because UPFs aren't perfectly de
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by anonym29 11mo ago
I have never understood why, in these discussions, nobody brings up other specialized silicon providers like Groq, SambaNova, or my personal favorite, Cerebras. Cerebras CS-3 specs: • 4 trillion transistors • 900,000 AI cores • 125 petafl
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Is including a json schema validator and running the output through the validator against the input prompt, such that you can detect when the output doesn't match the schema, and optionally retry until it does match (possibly with a ma
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Even with a flawed messenger pointing the wrong tools at the wrong target, isn't "avoiding ultraprocessed foods, seed oils, pesticides, and fluoride" still fundamentally a step in the right direction, compared to previous pol
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by anonym29 11mo ago
"New thing bad, old things good" - people throughout all of recorded human history
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Increasingly seems like the French government are the real terrorists.
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Google and Apple were infamously official data providers[1] of the NSA's illegal and unconstitutional (as ruled by a federal judge[2]) warrant-less surveillance program (PRISM[3]) exposed by Edward Snowden. It's safe to assume tha
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Name calling, bullying (forms of systematic harassment) and attempting to instill feelings of social isolation in a target are documented techniques employed by intelligence agencies in both online and offline discourse manipulation /
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by anonym29 11mo ago
@dang, can we establish a rule that NSA apologists should not be doxxing HN members for the sin of advocating against the NSA's preferred narratives and worldview? Deliberate personal breaches of privacy against HN members as a respons
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by anonym29 11mo ago
The stated research goals are not necessarily the same as the strategic funding motivations. The DoD clearly recognized packet-switching's survivability and dynamic routing potential when the US Air Force funded the invention of networ
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by anonym29 11mo ago
ARPANET was literally invented during the cold war for the specific and explicit purpose of networked communications resilience for government and military in the event major networking hubs went offline due to one or more successful nuclea
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by anonym29 11mo ago
That's awesome. I'm glad your friend is able to benefit from community-provided solutions to a real problem that many people have, even in ways perhaps not originally envisioned by the authors of Dark Reader. Your friend's pr
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Yes. There's a reason that https://darkreader.org/ has 10 million+ installs while no inverse extensions even exist to my knowledge. The entire web is already light-mode first and much of it, including your site (no off
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Dark mode already isn't the default option across a vast majority of the entire internet. There are easily 10x if not 100x as many sites that only support their default of light mode as those that even offer built-in support for dark m
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by anonym29 11mo ago
This is the privileged majority punching down at minority, not unlike an abled person whining about the existence of accessibility options, or a native-born American complaining about government forms also having a Spanish section after the
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by anonym29 11mo ago
As someone who's lived in 10 different units/houses across 6 different US states, who values decent connectivity, Xfinity or Charter/Spectrum being the only gigabit-speed wired home internet service providers is an instant, n
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by anonym29 11mo ago
https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router Anthropic's API is not your only choice for a Claude Code workflow.
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by anonym29 11mo ago
>You explicitly abdicated that responsibility to the council/governing organisation to do it on your behalf. I did not, and never would if given the choice. I had no choice in my citizenship, and would renounce it if given the optio
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by anonym29 11mo ago
When lobf posed the question "can you name a single example of a police department, union, or office paying out a settlement? Has it ever happened?", I read that as a rhetorical question that was meant to point out that an overwhe
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by anonym29 11mo ago
>Models should not have memorised whether animals are kosher to eat or not. Agreed. Humans do not perform rote memorization for all possibilities of rules-based classifications like "kosher or not kosher". >This is informati
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by anonym29 11mo ago
It'll come right after James Clapper faces charges for perjuring himself while under oath in public testimony to Ron Wyden about the unconstitutional PRISM program. Our government will investigate itself and find itself innocent of all
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Unfortunately, law enforcement often isn't subject to US law in practice, only in theory. And even on those few occasions where they are held to account for crimes against the public, the settlement is paid out with the public's o
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Lol. Windows already is malware. Anyone who's running Windows is fundamentally fine with not being in control of what's happening on the computer they're using. Upvoted anyway. People should be aware of the ancillary risks of
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by anonym29 11mo ago
"optional, experimental off-by-default service" is Microsoft-ese for "1-2 years away from being always on and unremovable"
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by anonym29 11mo ago
Okay, use emojis in every password, you win, you're right, emojis make your password hack-proof to everyone who isn't the NSA.

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