foobiekr

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by foobiekr 4mo ago
Being able to punish and control others, especially sexual exploitation, is a huge part of the draw. You need lots of slaves for that.
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by foobiekr 4mo ago
There's also the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" by Sonya Dorman in the first Dangerous Visions which is like this, in a way.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
Are you familiar with Elon Musk's endless, repeated and obvious lies for the last decade?
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
A shocking number of the neocloud teams have exactly one skill set: raising money. A few of them also have locked in power agreements. Almost none of them have the expertise to build anything. Some of them are even outsourcing that to geeze
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
No. xAI is buying Nvidia, not using Tesla chips.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
Are you implying that it might be exploited by unethical tech bros looking to build data sets?
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
Anyone who would voluntarily work for Musk when he went obviously has things going on that aren't great.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
The tech companies will just use face recognition, tracing, gait recognition, unique properties (like scratches) etc. etc. for the same purpose, same way they pioneered browser fingerprinting.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
Attacks in general are all rare in practice in the grand scheme of the internet. So?
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
It’s html. Which is code that your browser executes. Millions of routers are compromised. BGP attacks happen. Anything http stands out as an interesting target for injection. This position is foolish. It’s not a major ask to enable https.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
>I guarantee you're not getting "all kinds of MITM injections" on this block of text You actually can’t guarantee anything of the sort. BGP hijacks are real.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
The film is very much better than the book. The sequel books, however, are not good. At all.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
? can you expand?
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
You could attach an H-19 to an H-8 and play advent on H-DOS. The first computer I ever used. I was so young I didn't know how to spell "bird." Hard sectored drives!
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
A lot of people suspected that most programs were absurdly redundant and for a very long time. The real issue is that the languages do not really allow for producing code that can be easily shared. Some of the functional languages do, but m
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
I don't disagree with that, but my point is that Rust will not really solve vulnerabilities.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
I am looking at the results of a mass vulnerability scan as I type this. Half of the bugs in one case are in fact (binary) parser errors for hand-written parsers. These really should not exist in any language - but in C it's particular
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
I’m so confused. At least in tech all the big companies I work with are hiring in Poland because it is about the same as India after losses around fake hiring and the quality averages better. It is absolutely a huge offshoring target at lea
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
My wife makes extensive use of inkstitch and loves it.
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by foobiekr 5mo ago
This. The fact that the ai projects have to spin so hard should be tipping people off. But for some reason it doesn’t.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
Agriculture is used to grow _food_.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
Explicitly and openly not acting in good faith.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
It is well known at the companies that I've worked for that there is no good faith at all in the process and it's basically ritual to justify the application. Since they are clearly violating the law, how can I report this?
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
Heavily funded startups have terrible track records in reality. The only cases where it seems to have worked is when the money was used to undermine the market dynamics by nuking competition via severe underpricing.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
These are not equivalent.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
Millennials are by far the most FOMO/social media addicted generation there is. I have watched so many of them blow up their lives over stupid shit they saw online.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
You can ban social media for people under 16 without having age verification at the OS level. These things are not related. Age verification is not a technical problem.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
It wasn't "the early days." It was true until the 1970s when the evangelicals pivoted and started to get power.
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
There are problems with cigarettes, yes. However, these problems exist for children _and_ adults. A reasonable way to tackle this issue would be to make cigarettes safer for everyone, not just to exclude kids. These problems are not solved
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by foobiekr 6mo ago
The problem is that it really is the 14-21 group that where it has the most (and increasing) influence. They should have banned it for under 18.

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