cobbzilla

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by cobbzilla 8d ago
Not OP, but it’s not incompatible that dark-energy expansion (and ultimate big rip event) in a child universe correlates to the same process as black hole evaporation (and final event) for the originating black hole, if the “black hole univ
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by cobbzilla 8d ago
can “penumbras and emanations” compete with hallucinations?
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by cobbzilla 9d ago
POSIWID decades of reasonable, consistently applied housing policy led to the creation of islands of wealth, surrounded by oceans of poverty. ergo, this is the purpose. this is how the people there want to live. I left many years ago when
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by cobbzilla 9d ago
Someone tried to build the extra chair but the endless required studies and legal challenges from existing chair-sitters bankrupted the would-be chair builder. Also the chair, if actually built, would be so expensive that one legged guy can
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
whoa yeah that is weird then
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
I stand corrected. If it’s truly only the signatures and zero other identifying info, then yes you’re as secure as the underlying algorithm. I think they implied there are multiple device-originated signatures for different parts of the dat
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
sure but if you can tie “this person” to “this one photo”, then for any photo, Apple can (again, theoretically) identify all photos by that person. it’s one step removed from identity. fwiw i think this is an unambiguous improvement over cu
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
Apple gets the device-signed image and replaces with a PCC signature to preserve anonymity. > The final reference image is instead signed by Apple’s signing service, after validation by PCC. So, if compelled, Apple could theoretically te
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
Evolution Control Committee had some wild stuff too in a similar vein. Totally not on Spotify, sooooo many copyright issues. a good album— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarhythm_Nation
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
I think it’s not a great illustration; the map looks like mercator so the shortest path would be curved and closer to the green path anyway. the red line is not “as the crow flies”. It would be more fair to show deviation from the actual (g
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
You can’t MITM your clients unless you root-cert them. The clients are independently attesting to DD, you can’t spoof it unless you’re the client. The B2B provider can’t do this without MITM attack. Any “legitimate” partner doing this is in
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by cobbzilla 11d ago
Ships passing in the night. I’m not disagreeing with any of this, and yall still miss the point. I understand that individuals can make purchases with the DD API. People who want to buy things without seeing ads can always do that. Very few
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by cobbzilla 11d ago
Whose DD API key is being used? This is not an anonymous access scenario. The DD API client is tied to some company, the behavior is detectable, they are banned. Or do you give out KVMs to all your customers and say “place your DD orders w
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by cobbzilla 11d ago
> You're talking about extinction, not social media or phone addiction. Not saying you’re wrong but if I wanted to cultivate a mass hysteria as cover for a regulatory capture power play, this is exactly what I’d want everyone to bel
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by cobbzilla 11d ago
for the company/account placing DD orders via CLI, instant ban hammer. you don’t seem to understand, sure clients can block ads. servers can also refuse to proceed unless a provable step is taken, and that’s linked to your DD integrati
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by cobbzilla 11d ago
No, I mean the dd server can deny completion of the transaction unless the client has provably seen the offer content. All the DRM standards are in place, this isn’t anonymous browsing, it’s easily controlled if they want to. They could als
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by cobbzilla 11d ago
If they want to be really mean they can insist the client send some signed hash that proves the user saw the offers, it can’t be faked if you don’t control the client.
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by cobbzilla 12d ago
further research indicates some do exist: - equilateral triangle is the simple case - some figure eight configurations - some configurations that act like two nested binary systems there might be others. fascinating stuff.
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by cobbzilla 12d ago
It’s my understanding that most 3-body orbits are unstable; minor random perturbations will set them adrift. Are there any 3-body orbits with a natural resonance that maintains the shape of the orbits? If so, how large of a disturbance can
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by cobbzilla 13d ago
They’re running a Wuhan for AI. They are actively and negligently researching misalignment. The breach is a basic tort, or at least a DMCA violation. Damages should be recoverable with lawsuits.
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by cobbzilla 14d ago
It’s much more of a poison to some of our primate relatives. iirc the genes that facilitate alcohol metabolism evolved in great apes millions of years before homo sapiens, and we inherited them; we’ve been boozing long before we were even h
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by cobbzilla 15d ago
This seems overly pedantic and ripe for a sarcastic retort, which I am struggling mightily to suppress.
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by cobbzilla 15d ago
> unlimited IOPS I think this is marketroid for “we don’t limit them” not a statement about physics
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by cobbzilla 16d ago
Stripe connects directly to Visa/MC, there’s nothing “behind them” in terms of some other card processor API they’re wrapping. Stripe is a credit and debit card processor (and also a card issuer). They are NOT a bank, but do control so
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by cobbzilla 16d ago
please define fully general superintelligence & current state of alignment is this a tautology?
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by cobbzilla 17d ago
> Yes, but importantly not by Meta themselves. Don’t they save backups to Meta? Even if not, they can read whatever’s (unencrypted) on your phone if they really want to.
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by cobbzilla 17d ago
Forgive me, I don’t generally ascribe positive connotations to the phrase. It’s about as funny as wearing an “I’m with Stupid” T-shirt.
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by cobbzilla 18d ago
Sorry but whenever I hear the name of this tech I visualize the stereotypical “dumb person” saying “hurr, durr” nonsense words
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by cobbzilla 18d ago
blackout shades go a long way, but if you’ve got huge bay windows that’s probably too much. If it’s close to good, and you need a little more brightness, there are newer screens that reflect much more light. more reflective = pricier, but t
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by cobbzilla 18d ago
Factory reset?

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