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by mentalgear 4mo ago
The report states they are not bombing military targets, so you can't explain the numbers away just by saying Hamas may recruit children. > Israeli forces continued to use high-payload munitions and weapons with wide-area effects i
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
This is really sickening - if North Korea or any other less connected country did this, you would quickly see their national (tech) companies being sanctioned by the west. I never understood how a country like Israel, given the history of i
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
> we completely miss out on what's happening in our own local area. Exactly, and the local layer is actually were we as normal people have the most power of participation, opportunity to find consensus and act together for the overa
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Very compelling read on how common people cooperatives were always the only counterweight to the ruling class - and how the elites constantly tried to polarise the common people to take power from them. > The Middle Ages, the Industrial
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
No one commenting on the fact that oAI is releasing a Claude Mythos-class model - with apparent 0 restrictions or concerns by the US government, while Anthropic's (their competitor) model has been pulled weeks prior by the administrati
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Being able to run any windows productivity app on any other OS would be a game changer ! Did you investigate this?
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
It would of course be a functioning state's responsibility to plan urban/city development and economic incentives to move there. Regarding the ownership vs renter housing debate: I think Singapore may be an excellent example of a
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
The funny thing is: with FOSS you know what's going on attack-wise as they are transparent , but there must be huge upheaval in the closed source (e.g. MS) software that is just kept quiet by stock-price-chasing executives.
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
> Pass laws requiring companies that use third party age or ID verification to take full legal culpability for that data. If any of the data is leaked they must pay each party $1 million dollars regardless of how or why the data was leak
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Indeed, the diff: These previous big tech companies where fighting their neo-liberal agenda against a liberal government, now there's an autocratic fascist one fighting a liberal company.
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Yes, you'd think that. There are historical precedents of high-civilisation collapse (in South America) and Europe (French Revolution). Sometimes people rise up and something better arises from it. Sometimes they don't, but the ta
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
As usual, the repo ( https://github.com/momo5502/sogen ) should be the HN link. On first look of the linked talk/demo, the German guy behind the project seems of legit DRM-background expertise.
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
It's the standard privatisation playbook, also used with the NHS: first, politicians (often Conservatives) underfund and fracture a world-class public system (e.g. healthcare). Then, once it's struggling, their private-equity and
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Exactly, I always find it ridiculous how the suits, any layer of mid-managment to executives, are so eager on AI 'outsourcing' everything, but they themselves think the 'outsourcing' (if it really works) would stop just
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
One of the engines of collapse of Rome was the corrupt financial elite extending to the government that designed rules to extract maximum wealth for the elites, ignoring the long-term health of the economy. By the end, the government was es
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Another entry in the 'Black' villain line, along with BlackStone, BlackRock, BlackWater etc ... really makes you think the world is run by a thinly veiled cult of evil comic style villains.
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
To all investigative Journalists: Thank you for your hard work, and for being an inspiration and beacon of hope in these dark techno-feudalistic times.
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
I was expecting this was a tool to help people who couldn't distinguish sounds in a noisy environment to train their ears. But its for musical training. (which may or may not help?)
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> Mondragon, the Basque worker cooperative network founded by a Catholic priest after the Spanish Civil War, employs 90,000 people and is one of Spain's largest companies, spanning industrial equipment and grocery retail. Internally
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
This is exactly what deeply scares me: even IF we get our technical cyber defences fortified within the next months, in a year from now the models will be so good in social engineering that they will be able to extract any information they
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
And openAI's discounts are not enforcing that it is a quality product.
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
I haven't used OpenAI for months since them supporting the warmongers officially, and I have to say not only don't I miss them - I barely think about them expect for their "please come back" emails from my account I have
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
> Top U.S. officials often take extra care when traveling to Israel, sometimes using burner phones and computers and taking extreme caution when speaking in hotel rooms during official trips, the current and former U.S. officials and exp
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Here's my big fear: Even IF (and that's a BIG if) we get all critical vulnerabilities fixed in tech (before adversarial/state-actors turn up with open attack models) - we still have (in at least a year) models that will be so
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Been using DDG now for years since I noticed a few years back already that its search results were at least equal, if not superior, to G00$le.
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This proves (again) one think for sure: The "Big x" Consulting Firms were always BS - and now them generating all their work themselves using LLMs just profs that their 'clients' can just skip their Million Dollar fees a
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Reeks of a Management trying not to assign CVE labels to obvious vulnerabilities, so that in the public Windows doesn't come across as the security swiss chess nightmare that it is.
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'who controls technology' should be the result of 'what do [they] want to use it for', e.g the motivation. It should be put in the hands of the most trustworthy, transparent institution that can validate it works for all
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by mentalgear 4mo ago
Never would have thought that I would defer to matters of Tech, let alone 'AI' policies, to the pope, but here we are: I have to say the 'Magnifica Humanitas' are a pristine work of meditation on AI's power, impact

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