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by mdhb 2y ago
I don’t think this is actually the one I had in mind but it’s an interesting concept all the same. Thanks for the link.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I’m actually in agreement with you here. I think it’s probably reasonable to assume that through some kind of combination of home grown talent and their prolific IP theft programs that they are going to end up with that capability at some p
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by mdhb 2y ago
I’m referring to the wider issue of what’s referred to by the Americans as “ubiquitous technical surveillance” where they came to the kind of upsetting conclusion for them that they had a long time ago lost the ability to even operate in Lo
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by mdhb 2y ago
Ok but what lead you to that particular belief in the first place? Because I can think of a large number of historical scenarios where malicious people get access to certain capabilities and it absolutely does not go well and you do have to
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by mdhb 2y ago
There’s a famous saying in cryptography that says “anyone is capable of building encryption algorithm that they can’t break” which I am absolutely positively sure applies here also. In a world full of sensors where everything is logged in
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by mdhb 2y ago
I don’t know why it’s supposed to be some secret but there is absolutely an effort here from multiple parties to minimise conversation on the topic. We can debate the reasons and logic as to why that might be but to pretend it isn’t happeni
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by mdhb 2y ago
Actual real life clearances take between 6 - 12 months or longer depending on backlogs. These people have zero actual “vetting” but “presidential authority” can just say to give them clearances on the spot which is what happened here. So th
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by mdhb 2y ago
The part where he tries to point to a handful of exceptions to refute the idea that discussions about Musk are getting flagged en mass. It’s really not a difficult bit of text to parse. Edit: I have to reply to the comment below by editing
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by mdhb 2y ago
Don’t tell me with a straight face when you have access to the data more than anyone that these posts aren’t getting flagged en mass. We are all watching it happen.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Just so we are clear that’s now in just the past couple of weeks: - Musk doing a Nazi salute - Two different of these little DOGE dweebs who forgot to scrub Nazi references from their social media profiles. I get this is an uncomfortable re
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by mdhb 2y ago
You are out of your mind if you think files in iCloud are somehow outside the reach of US intel. It’s been publicly used in a bunch of prosecutions at this point.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Collude is such a fucking weird word to describe an alliance.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Meanwhile back in the real world everyone is right now scrambling to figure out how they can decouple from the US tech scene as quickly as possible.
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by mdhb 2y ago
That isn’t going to be anything even close to accurate before the week is over and that is kind of the entire point here.
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by mdhb 2y ago
This is like making the argument against cars because “untrusted drivers” and it’s equally as bad.
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by mdhb 2y ago
This is unfortunately what I mean when I said before that everyone is very aware of that fact and a lot of people are now suddenly very motivated to provide them with a free reality check until they’re able to deal with their oligarchy prob
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by mdhb 2y ago
Just as an example of what I mean here. I genuinely don’t mean to imply this as any kind of threat whatsoever just as a friendly pointer but I don’t think yelling “what are you going to do about it?” In a public forum under an alias attache
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by mdhb 2y ago
This response is again just underscoring why people around the world right now hold such an incredibly and deeply negative view of the country right now. You aren’t going to convince anyone else this is their fault that they should have kno
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by mdhb 2y ago
And realpolitik nobody will ever trust the US again they are going to in a much worse position for the rest of both our lives as a result of this. I don’t think a lot of Americans have any concept of exactly how much the rest of the world h
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by mdhb 2y ago
Agreed on this. It’s the other two parts that go with it that are the problem: 1. You have to allocate that budget towards buying from the US defence industry. You are not going to be allowed to spend that internally. Which arguments aside
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Apple's Lack of Full Site Isolation and iOS Browser Ban Puts Users at Risk(open-web-advocacy.org)
26 points by mdhb 2y ago|6 comments
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by mdhb 2y ago
Seems kind of like a shit system when a tiny fraction of people can control what everyone else sees and they don’t have to provide any sense of justification or even put their names to it. Thats a system ripe for abuse if I’ve ever seen one
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by mdhb 2y ago
And here I am writing custom middleware to fuck with LLMs the moment they try to engage with my websites content.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Shopify’s CEO has been a known weirdo for a long time now.
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GOP bill proposes 20 years in jail for anyone who downloads a Chinese AI models [pdf](hawley.senate.gov)
32 points by mdhb 2y ago|11 comments
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by mdhb 2y ago
It also doesn’t really take into account the fact that this is part of a very deliberate strategy to push through as much crazy shit as quickly as possible. This ongoing partisan takeover of various parts of government for example right now
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by mdhb 2y ago
Or Dart
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by mdhb 2y ago
Isn’t every single one of their M series chips currently vulnerable and non fixable to speculative execution attacks? Thats multiple generations of products now that are fast but fundamentally broken.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I see you haven’t actually used Lit by this comment.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I think you are missing the fact that Dart is actually an incredibly nice language to work with in a way that Go absolutely is not.

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