crimsoneer

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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, Black Cube is an actual private intelligence firm that sells spy services [1], while Palantir is a software firm that sells software (even if that software is used by intelligence, gov, etc). You can go s
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
yeah, that's the approach I've taken. I quite liked the idea of giving it full delegated perms on my email account and calendar (eg, dig out that email and reply back to them for me) but the risk profile is just too high, and forw
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Honestly, I installed Hermes Agent last weekend, and while there isn't any "killer use case", the combination of "your little assistant agent on it's own machine" and good messaging integration is really quite
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Guardian doing clickbaity headline specifically to infuriate their readers, I am shoketh
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
What's he done that's so evil...?
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Yup, the fact UV just installed geopandas out of the box with no issues blew my mind.
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Eurgh, I do not want to ever touch Poetry or pyenv again, thank you very much.
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Reminder that everyone should be playing Solium Infernum with their friends
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Alternatively, because nuclear power still works at night.
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Yup, precisely this. Doing something bad is rarely a rational commitment and cost of benefits. Likelihood and celerity of getting caught seem to be the driving factors.
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
For anybody else in this position, would heavily plug the djangonauts program
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Is there any evidence Palantir is doing any of this? Doesn't really seem like their wheelhouse?
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Indeed, assume this is the reply in question: https://blog.palantir.com/korrektur-wie-das-online-magazin-d...
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
they most definitely do not, and especially not on-prem, national security systems like are being discussed here. They sell software. https://www.palantir.com/palantir-is-still-not-a-data-compan...
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, this is a very profitable company that has spent 20-ish years working with intelligence agencies from a bunch of different countries, I find it hard to believe they'd just casually commit some incred
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
They most definitely won't spend time on military bases though, whereas Palantir devs will essentially live there.
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
“Palantir does not need to own the data or even have stewardship. They can extract, transform and exploit the metadata to build their own rich picture.” Sorry, but this is full on into conspiracy theory here. Are we seriously arguing that P
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
This is like suggesting no business should ever borrow to invest.
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
Someone has played the new Deus Ex games
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
It's not actually building many datacenters there right? It's just incorporated there.
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by crimsoneer 7mo ago
yeah, Readwise is bloody great. Turns out if you want good software, it can help to pay for it.
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
Use mattermost/zulip, and start contributing to the software you need. This isn't hard. Software isn't bestowed from the ai intelligence in the heavens, it's built by people.
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
I don't really understand why ICE would have a Persona OPenAI connection...?
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
Is this actually a thing that is true?
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
My hot take: go to https://www.zsa.io and buy either the Voyager or Moonlander. They're both excellent, well built, offer integrated training, and you won't have to worry about anything else.
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
But this one isn't a trick question either right... it's just basic maths, and a quirk of how our brain works that means plenty of people don't engage the part of their brain that goes "I should stop and think this throu
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
I mean, the flipside is that we have been tricking humans with this sort of thing for generations. We've all seen a hundred variations on "A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much doe
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
Scientists are just random dudes (though some of them have been given a fancy hat by a university, which is a recognised mark of accomplishment).
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
They won a public government tender..? I presume other people also bid and it wasn't as cheap/convincing? Would you feel this suspicious of the contract if it was using Databricks or Snowflake?
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by crimsoneer 8mo ago
They have a whole website to answer all these questions, and there's a fair bit on youtube etc? Honestly, I'm not sure why "what if we had a consistently available tech stack and data model" is that far fetched an idea t

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