lrvick

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by lrvick 2mo ago
I have ignored many cease and desists from powerful entities, for years, with no problems. Call their bluff. They are almost always a baseless fear tactic. If you guys are really going to stay down otherwise because you are worried, transfe
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I did not say it was ready for the average person yet. It took over a hundred years to build our fiat systems and it may take as long to fully replace them. But for technical people that need privacy, the types of people that use tor, it is
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by lrvick 2mo ago
How would you anonymously pay for a VPN or donate to whistleblowers or get cash from an ATM without having to identify yourself? What is your backup plan to pay bills when your bank account is frozen by identity theft (can take months to re
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by lrvick 2mo ago
A security engineer. No shortage of novel risks to fight.
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Here some teachers live in their cars because the salary is not enough to even rent a room a reasonable commute from the school. Not surprised Germany values education a bit higher than us.
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> I also see no evidence that AI programming is a difficult skill that cannot be learned by any intelligent person in much shorter amounts of time than previous professional skills required. I do not think anyone could do the job I do wi
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I want a world where teachers on average make more than software engineers. If we figure that out, everything else will be fine in the long run.
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A $1200 GPU is all a reasonably capable engineer needs for each work stream. The cloud prices are a scam.
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Depends on what you are programming. I have been using it to build things that have never existed before, that I have wanted for over a decade. Experience gives one more imagination.
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That is the second book, but yes. Read Daemon first.
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> I can’t help but think about what an AI-equipped automatically-reverse-engineering worm could do today. Everyone should read Daemon and Freedom, like right now.
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Cortical labs has harnessed human brain cells and trained the neurons to control basic video games. We are fundamentally just a -lot- of those cells trained to do a lot more things with a lot more sensors, which is sobering. We might actual
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We do not actually know what consciousness is, but we know we have it, in spite of our brains also just being a big blob of simple biological weighted functions that react to the hallucination our brains generate from external sensors we ev
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You have your choice of salesforce, google, or discord to interact with them. They even virtue signal with their "crypto means cryptography!" sign without actually promoting tools that let people have control of their own keys. Th
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Agreed. It is simply the one privacy thing they do right.
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Privacy centric cons allow paying cash at the door. That is maybe the one thing Defcon still gets right.
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Ported my old cell phone number to voip so I can access it from a laptop without a cell network.
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While I agree that was the original intention, modern DEFCON is just as corpo but for those that cannot afford blackhat. European hacker cons like CCC are now what DEFCON once was rumored to be long ago.
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Last time I was there the only ways to engage with the community were via slack, google groups, github, or discord. All centralized proprietary surveillance capitalism products, and no decentralized/FOSS options. https://cry
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by lrvick 2mo ago
The "Crypto and Privacy" village at Defcon demands you agree to the privacy policies of Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and Discord to interact with them. It is a disgrace. Defcon stopped caring about privacy, hacker ethos, and dig
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I hope some day border agents ask for my phone, because I have not used one or even had a cell phone plan in over 5 years. Checkmate, assholes.
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And also paid $1m just to be seen next to trump at his inauguration. He will side with whoever he thinks can help him rule the world.
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We can thank the Zuck propaganda machine for that.
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Yeah. I use it to do extensive work on full source bootstrapping, deterministic operating systems, compiler debugging, kernel debugging... all with one tiny go binary without endless NPM deps like pi (which /I/ regard as trash) Wo
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I did all those jobs when Facebook usage was at its peak. It is not crucial to networking, and engagement is plummeting in these walled gardens as content is mostly ragebait, spam, and scams now. I know the breadline well. Worked my way up
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Not even once. There are always alternative ways to solve every problem. The same ways that worked before smartphones usually.
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Use 3.6 27b as a daily driver for months with charmbracelet crush. Gemma 26b-A3b is not even remotely comparable in terms of coding for me. YMMV depending on how you work, what harness you use, etc I suppose.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
So I hit download, and I got a .deb file. Installing a .deb requires root. Okay, a coding agent that wants root access. I know almost no one is good at supply chain security unless it is their core business, 2500 companies hacked this week
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My version of this was getting rid of my smartphone 6 years ago. Creates a forcing function to be in my own head a lot more often, and I feel like this has given me thinking and attention span superpowers.
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No Hypothesis needed. I lived it. I have at various points made a living with various combinations of PC repair, electronics recycling, museum displays, day labor, retail, trucking, telemarketing, street and restaurant entertainment, food s

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