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by kyboren 2y ago
> The goal of any advertising service is to match people with relevant ads The goal of any advertising service is fully automated population-scale digital pimping, with an extremely sophisticated matchmaking service (backed by all that d
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by kyboren 2y ago
"Challenge accepted." - Donald Trump
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by kyboren 2y ago
> How do you think Canada should react? As a friendly porcupine. > Appeasing bullies does. not. work. This isn't a schoolyard bully situation. This is something like an Odysseus vs. Polyphemus situation. It calls for wit and guil
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by kyboren 2y ago
Let's be clear, hoes: Those nice things I give you don't come for free. So I'm putting your ass on the street. Bitch, where's my money? - Jeff Bezos
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by kyboren 2y ago
> Chrome is developed by the same company whose core business is to collect as much data about me as possible. Let's be more precise: Google's core business is pimping you out to any John who wants to mindfuck you, and selling
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by kyboren 2y ago
> loads of nooks and crannies of SAT encodings that gave invaluable speedups in specific contexts This is such an incredibly important observation it bears repeating. You're also not the first to make it (e.g. "If the final go
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by kyboren 2y ago
AFAIK Y Combinator does no business in the EU and HN is hosted in a US data center. Under which legal theory does EU law apply here?
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by kyboren 2y ago
It's digital pimping. Google are fully-automated, mass-scale digital pimps. They pimp your eyeballs out to Johns who pay for the privilege of mindfucking you, with the help of an extremely sophisticated matchmaking and realtime auction
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by kyboren 2y ago
I don't have citations on hand, but it's commonly held that NSA fixed the S-boxes in IBM's "Lucifer" cipher design for DES to improve its resistance to (then publicly-unknown) differential cryptanalysis. Of course t
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by kyboren 2y ago
These tech companies have gotten very comfortable pimping out their users to advertisers. They already believe they own your ass; if they perceive some benefit to it, why would they not just rape users directly? And whatcha gonna do abo
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by kyboren 2y ago
And before you ask "who decides who goes up and who goes down?", that would not be necessary. It could easily be accomplished by a computer, and the computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual
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by kyboren 2y ago
"More than you can afford, pal--NVidia."
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by kyboren 3y ago
"Loser, loner, McDonald's--worker". Fast food work has long been denigrated as a low-pay dirty job predominantly staffed by teenagers and under-skilled under-privileged workers who lack better job opportunities. In the Califo
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by kyboren 3y ago
The law[0] stipulates in §1474(c)(2) that '"fast food restaurant" shall not include an establishment that on September 15, 2023, operates a bakery that produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread [...]'. So i
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by kyboren 3y ago
Suggested reading in honor of Ross Anderson's passing
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Robbing the bank with a theorem prover (2005) [pdf](cl.cam.ac.uk)
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by kyboren 3y ago
I don't have any experience with Synopsys's system here, and I don't want to fill out a contact form to download their whitepaper, but I have some experience with information flow tracking. > Any simulator capable of secur
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by kyboren 3y ago
Publicly-funded infrastructure must accept public money. This increasing trend towards exclusively accepting electronic payment with private money: - unjustly enriches the payments cartel - excludes unbanked people, privacy-conscious people
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by kyboren 3y ago
This is bullshit. It's a ploy to further under-staff the screening area and even further discourage people from exercising their right to a manual screening procedure that does not involve a full-body scan. I insist on a manual opt-out
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by kyboren 3y ago
The Commerce Department, and the "deep state" in general, have made increasingly clear that--like the CCP--they view dominance in cutting-edge semiconductors as a national security imperative. Note that this extends far beyond pol
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by kyboren 3y ago
Absolutely. Here's my proposal: - Prohibit all Federal employees from bringing a personal cellular radio to work. - Build many parking structures for DC Federal employees across the region. - Assign each employee a particular parking s
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by kyboren 3y ago
What about NVidia?
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by kyboren 3y ago
Only to the extent that I have read earlier reporting about Patternz, and that I have long been aware of the harm and national security risk that RTB poses and shouting about it whenever I can. Usually I get downvoted or ignored, like this
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by kyboren 3y ago
I do not have a link for Facebook, and I did not claim that Patternz was slurping data from Facebook specifically. But here's a couple links for Google: https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/star
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by kyboren 3y ago
Actually, they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_bidding Modern programmatic advertising enables each user to be pimped out to whichever manipulator is willing to pay the most. In just a few dozen millisecond
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by kyboren 3y ago
> Product sales are not the aim. The people are what is sold. Exactly. The business model of companies like Facebook can IMO best be described as "fully automated digital pimping".
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by kyboren 3y ago
Not prediction , predication : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predication_(computer_architec... By avoiding conditional branches and essentially masking out some instructions, you can avoid stalls and mis-predictions
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by kyboren 3y ago
If the HPSCI version passes, it will be legal (and presumably, automatic) to target any non-citizen or permanent resident traveling to the US and search "one end foreign" 702 data on them. Of course, if they're traveling to t
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by kyboren 3y ago
I've been wondering about this for a while now: Does F@H actually still have a real purpose, or is it purely a vanity project at this point? My lay impression is that AlphaFold (and now AlphaFold v2) solves the same problem F@H solves,
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by kyboren 3y ago
I disagree. One of California's big problems is exactly all the fucking around with taxes and spending in propositions amending the constitution with formulaic mandates. Particularly notable offenders include Proposition 98 distorting

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