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by bri3d 9mo ago
The issue with this is that the entire architecture trades energy consumption on the eNodeB side for the handset side. One could make a cell phone where one handset was the eNB and one the handset (and, contrary to the parent post’s claim,
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by bri3d 9mo ago
> this is different than the stuff that was out 15 years ago This stuff was out at least 10-15 years ago. It’s different from the ancient local ntlm hash cracking everyone used to get admin in high school, yes, but it’s not a novel techn
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by bri3d 9mo ago
net-ntlmv1 rainbow tables have been around forever too though, the same attack documented in this blog post has been hosted as a web service at https://crack.sh/netntlm/ for 10+ years
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Project Zero has been around for 8 years before the Mandiant acquisition.
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by bri3d 9mo ago
We agree, I think these are the more valid concerns than the "they are operating a data warehouse with all of the data in the entire universe" conspiracy theory that seems popular. I certainly think that Palantir has ethical issue
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by bri3d 9mo ago
> They sell data derived from the data. Do they? I don't think they even do this, either. I have really strong knowledge of this from ~10 years ago and weak knowledge from more recently. I'm happy to be proven wrong but my unde
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Right, and what I’m saying is that to the best of my knowledge, Palantir don’t sell data at all, which is the fundamental misunderstanding people seem to have about them.
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by bri3d 9mo ago
> The big legal loophole is that the government needs a particularized warrant (per the 4th Amendment) to ask for any user data, but if the government buys commercial data, well, there's no warrant needed. Right; but as far as I kno
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by bri3d 9mo ago
I'm not trying to make an ethical judgement here; personally, I think there is certainly a reckoning to be had given the role ICE have taken on, and I don't think that "we just make the platform" excuses culpability. How
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by bri3d 9mo ago
In what way? I'm genuinely curious; I would describe an engineer who is provided to build a customer product alongside a customer as either a "contractor" or a "consultant," depending mostly on their employer. A sec
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by bri3d 9mo ago
How is Palantir a loophole? I see this theory a lot (sometimes to justify their valuation, sometimes as a moral judgement, sometimes as an alarmist concern) but I genuinely don't see how this line of thought works in any of these dimen
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by bri3d 9mo ago
This is my understanding of Palantir too: it's a consultancy with a map, a graph database, and some "AI" nonsense. They sell expensive "forward deployed engineers" (aka, consultants) to customize this map and graph
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by bri3d 9mo ago
I don’t think this is true. Palantir are fundamentally a consultancy with a graph database and a map. They sell expensive “forward deployed engineer” consulting services to integrate things with their graph database and map. As far as I kno
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by bri3d 9mo ago
For a truck you rent in an at least semi-urban area by the hour it’s never mattered for me, it’s always covered all of the “I live in a city but need a pickup truck” cases like picking up landscaping materials, appliances, large furniture,
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by bri3d 9mo ago
I have thoroughly audited Home Depot truck contracts many times and don't believe this to be true. Do you have a source? I have never seen "secret" fine print beyond the agreement which is embedded badly in https:/&#x2F
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by bri3d 9mo ago
This looks like it was the output of running a Starlink app log through an LLM. The data is interesting but I don't think it supports the conclusions. I'm also interested in whatever LLM was used not being able to use Google to de
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by bri3d 9mo ago
While we're doing anecdotes, I don't actually hate my 2025 Dell 16 Premium at all, and it looks like they fixed most of my quibbles with the new XPS 16. Figuring out which laptop to get was horrible because of their completely ine
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by bri3d 9mo ago
> afaik, manufactures can set obd2 codes outside the mandatory codes, but still compatible with the protocol. No, and I think this misunderstanding drives a misunderstanding of the economic factors. There is no universal automotive diagn
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Did you miss the > Making software that's usable by independent shops and consumers costs money sentence before “calling BS”? > The black market on stolen parts isn't affected by this. Cars have more parts than a catalyst, a
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by bri3d 9mo ago
This isn’t even true; Starlink can use the local starlink constellation for positioning and the option is available in the customer facing configuration specifically for GPS denied areas (since about two years ago), where it’s been used for
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Sure, but the reasons programming requires proprietary software accessible only to the dealer via some kind of online access are depressing: laziness, greed, and crime. Making software that's usable by independent shops and consumers c
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Unmetered electric service based on "trust me bro" is actually the default (at least in the US) for a huge variety of devices, like streetlights, cell towers mounted to electric poles, public irrigation systems, etc etc. Almost ev
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Congratulations, you have invented AMD Instinct, except without the $100 part!
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by bri3d 9mo ago
They're not really "open-sourcing" anything in the sense that I would think about it. As far as I can tell they're doing two things: * Removing cloud-server dependency from the app. * Publishing API documentation for the
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Yes, you're right and that's what I discuss in the last paragraph of my comment. And, yes, E-cores are rough descendants of some processors that were sometimes called Atom. Using Intel marketing names is fraught with peril, though
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by bri3d 9mo ago
The 32 core / die AMD products are almost certainly Zen 6c, which is the same "idea" as Intel E-Cores albeit way less crappy. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-zen-6-epyc-ve... EDIT: ac
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by bri3d 9mo ago
> I suspect that specifically car / aircraft / spacecraft computers receive regular updates, and these updates change the smallest part they can. In the space I am very familiar with, automotive, this is not true for code chang
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by bri3d 9mo ago
Do you have access to Google? VAMT proxy activation is airgapped in the exact same way the “old” telephone way was; VAMT acts as the server that you used to call on the phone. It trades one token for another. You side channel the tokens acr
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by bri3d 9mo ago
I don’t think these devices represent a demand in the same way at all. Secure boot firmware is another “demand” here that’s not really a demand. All of these things, generally speaking, run unified, trusted applications, so there is no need
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by bri3d 10mo ago
VAMT proxy activation, or full fledged volume licensing with KMS

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