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AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250k downloads in the first 5 days(venturebeat.com)
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by jgilias 3y ago
Oh man… PDP-11. It’s scary to ponder how much critical infrastructure runs on obsolete systems that a vanishingly small number of people understand.
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Yes, and the inhabitants of this new tropical Earth will do recreational dives to see the ruins of the places where the vast majority of people live now.
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Googled around a bit. I’m old enough to read Russian, so found info on runet. It was commissioned in 1962 and was active until 1982.
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by jgilias 3y ago
Not really. Context is important, I think. So I’m talking about Latvia specifically. Just after regaining independence we had to rebuild any military capability from scratch. So a kind of a citizen paramilitary national guard was formed ca
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Yes and no. The basic flight path would not change, but it does get affected by weather conditions and such. So the drill would be that they get the weather data and other inputs, and would need to provide the guidance set up parameters. He
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by jgilias 3y ago
Time for more stories then. I have a family friend who’s old enough to have served in the Soviet military. The guy is a sharp dude who had really good grades in math. So when he was drafted he was directly enlisted into the ‘rocket force’ a
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by jgilias 3y ago
I don’t really know. The context is that as a kid I went to a kind of a military training after school activity. That sounds super weird, I know, but it was fun, got to learn the basic military training. Anyway, we had a summer camp for a w
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But that’s not really surprising. There’s a lot of targets in the Baltics. But the reason is that the Soviets put a lot of military objects there because it’s just closer to the potential frontline, as well as targets further west. I’m just
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by jgilias 3y ago
This is pretty fascinating when living in an ex-USSR country. There’s a target between two major cities in the forest at a non-descript village. I know what’s there though. In the Soviet times there used to be a large facility hosting hundr
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by jgilias 3y ago
I’m confused. Why do they say in their FAQ that peer-to-peer payments only appear as such, and actually need to go through a payment provider? https://taler.net/en/faq.html
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by jgilias 3y ago
From looking at the GNU Taler FAQ[1], making “p2p” payments still needs to go through the exchange, and the exchanges need to be independently audited to ensure compliance. Ok. So, privacy? Given that the system ultimately relies on central
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by jgilias 3y ago
Oh, it has an app? Never occurred to me to look for one.
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by jgilias 3y ago
Thank you for the chart! A bit unfair that you’re getting downvoted, it’s not your fault that the yield curve inversion is unfolding, and that this historically has been a strong leading indicator of a recession.
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This needs to happen worldwide though. And if that’s the case I have a hunch that the value of my investments might just be the least of my concerns.
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Ok, austerity bad, but the alternative isn't better. Either way it's the 'little man' who ends up paying through the nose. The article mentions how war time economy is evidence how the society can do whatever it wants, a
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by jgilias 3y ago
Oh, but then you don’t have anything to worry about. As far as I understand nothing will change in the US regarding App Store policies. It’s just the EU where this would apply.
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by jgilias 3y ago
Well then, don’t use DJI stuff. I’m pretty sure Apple will keep positioning their App Store as the official authorized way to get software for iDevices. I’m also pretty sure that there’s going to be huge inertia there and most of the apps a
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by jgilias 3y ago
This is on the same shelf as when they tried to convince EU that iPhone is not in fact a phone, so their ask about using a standardized charger doesn’t apply. A friend got one of them new notPhone with a USB C charging port a week ago. Some
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by jgilias 3y ago
And insiders found ways to enrich themselves even while working with the onerous process. Remember the SPAC craze? Another example of where the honest people get penalized with a heavy process in the name of zero fraud.
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by jgilias 3y ago
I’d rather be an exponential one then!
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I’m also pretty perplexed regarding who are these people who come up with these ideas. Like, how and where did they grow up? Appeared out of thin air with absolutely zero street smarts? I don’t think I knew anyone so removed from reality wh
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by jgilias 3y ago
“One doesn’t just” forget things like that. It’s aviation we’re talking about, not toy cars. This absolutely must not happen, and there should be processes in place to make sure it doesn’t. It doesn’t actually matter if it’s an engineering
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by jgilias 3y ago
Historically, automation has always made society richer and better off as a result. There are two guys outside of my window at this very moment getting rid of a huge pile of dirt. One is in an excavator, the other in a truck. There’s a bunc
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by jgilias 3y ago
Do you have any sources for this? And also, what’s wrong with absorbing iron? Increased oxidation or something?
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by jgilias 3y ago
What? How does the monkey not know the deadline is fake?
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Well, but the cases he mentions are really not “just not being thoughtful”. I’m old enough to remember that Python 2 in fact had “print <string>”, and I think also “exit”. Exactly because once upon a time Guido thought about what woul
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by jgilias 3y ago
Such a weird rant. Yes, some tools do some things, but not others. Making tools do everything for everyone just bloats them to unmaintainable messes. And it’s a special kind of entitlement to believe that the way _I_ imagine things must be
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by jgilias 3y ago
Reading the headline I totally expected it to be about LLMs.
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To me the most interesting part of it, as well as a note to self, is how quickly scammers have adopted AI for targeted voice cloning, deep fakes, and as a tool in their scams in general. Can’t trust anything these days.

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