bornfreddy

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by bornfreddy 3mo ago
It can be done so that it looks like a series of "oopsie" bugs. China (the same as US) has used spycraft extensively in the past.
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by bornfreddy 3mo ago
> Using a Chinese LLM will not put a Marxist under your bed. Interesting tangent - it might be taught to introduce stealthy backdoors in your company though. Maybe even across multiple PRs where each session puts a small chink in the arm
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by bornfreddy 3mo ago
> ...many pages simply do not work properly with it,... Using Google's websites much, are we? FF works great everywhere except there. I think the official term for the bugs on these pages is "oops"... I use FF everywhere e
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by bornfreddy 3mo ago
The big gotcha is what one understands under the word "use". If I want to USE it as a basis for my business where I sell routers with the GPL software, there are some tiny restrictions regarding that, as Linksys learned [0]. [0]
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by bornfreddy 3mo ago
> Let’s keep notes in @20260704-reverse-engineer-foo-motor.qmd Curious - why like this? I usually tell it to write down the analysis once all is clear, so I'm wondering if your approach is better.
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by bornfreddy 3mo ago
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
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by bornfreddy 3mo ago
Absolutely not. Go read e.g. GPL license before spreading such falsehoods.
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
Nah, I think this is Google's way of pushing against those who value privacy. Firefox? With uBO? No cookies? Not fetching Google fonts? Must be a bot for sure. /s
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
With openweights? Yes. It might halucinate a backdoor somewhere ( not that you can trust any model about that), but it will still work.
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
I know that running this locally is prohibitively expensive (for now), but what kind of cost would I be looking at if I wanted to rent the hardware and run the model by myself?
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
5-10 minutes? I'm sold. Any link you can share? I'm saying this as someone who has learned about CORS protections many times, implemented the solutions with care they deserved, but forgot most of it soon after - each time. So I&#x
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
Interesting... I wanted to prove you wrong but it looks like you are right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
Just had 10 rounds of busses, motorcycles and fire hydrants with Google before I decided I don't actually want to see that page so much. So Cloudflare is unfortunately not the only offender here.
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
Only 7 out of 1800 cancelled, according to the article.
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
I didn't try telling to be concise and stop pampering me yet (but good idea, tomorrow), however I found that instead of me writing agent instructions, it works much better if I tell claude to write instructions for itself. I do check i
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
Then this is not the same situation, I agree. That sucks. I hope you find a company that shares (and rewards) your values.
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
This might not describe you, but I've met quite a few people who made similar claims. The problem usually wasn't that their counterparty didn't want to hear the truth. More commonly, the problem was that these persons assumed
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
Interesting question, it looks like they are / will be brushelss: > Group will gradually embed new technological improvements from 2024 on its EESM: stator hairpin, glued motor stack, *brushless* and hollow rotor shafts. [0] https:
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
That's actually a great idea! Easier to setup and use than VM (hello ssh), safer than docker, and still pretty cheap. Thank you for the idea!
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
> My pet peeve with the NY Times online is that there's no escaping the upsell screen after logging on. I know this is not your point, and you should not be forced to do this, but uBlock Origin has a very nice filter which can hide
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by bornfreddy 4mo ago
Sorry for late reply, just noticed your post. We are talking about different threat models. I trust Google not to hack my phone, but I don't trust them not to spy on me. So yes, running a Google binary blob in privileged mode occasion
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
High revenue and profit are not relevant - employees cost money, so if company feels it could do without them, the layoffs happen. Low revenue and loss would be another reason for layoffs too, of course.
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
> There is no privacy advantage by using MicroG compared to Google play services. You still connect to there service all the same giving privileged access to your device. ...assuming you are connected all the time, or at least that the s
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
You are missing the point. MicroG allows me to disable it when I want to, and push notifications still work when I (rarely) need to enable it. It's not about security, it is about privacy. While MicroG in theory could bypass NetGuard
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
Great experiment, hilarious! It would be interesting to see how 2 separate Claudes (or GPTs, or...) would behave - would they develop similar personalities?
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
It's not about Stainless, it's about Anthropic.
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
No Google Maps or Android Auto on my phones, so I don't care much about privileged access - they have none anyway. No, microG is definitely not talking to Google all the time, NetGuard would warn me if it did. I would assume it is not
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
Page won't open, but archive.is has it: https://archive.is/bfPZc
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
That privileged plug in /e/os makes push notifications work, and you can enable just those and leave Android Auto, G Play Store and whatnot disabled. Not much privacy risk - I think? On the other hand, while GOS is running Google
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by bornfreddy 5mo ago
I guess this is very similar to what happened to demo scene, in some way. The limits are what makes these problems interesting, and once we have better machines / tools, the incredible skill is no longer prerequisite, making everything

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