mrexcess

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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Just want to note the emergence of a two-tiered imbalance. Frontier AI providers are stacking the guardrails so high that everyday citizens can't even ask an LLM what boobs are, but simultaneously providing government with AI lacking g
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
>Europe didn't respond https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/danish-mep-tells-trum...
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Little Snitch is commercial. If you want largely similar features (focused on egress), check out LuLu: https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu
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by mrexcess 7mo ago
Looks awesome in many ways. The use of a shared secret instead of PKI limits the real-world applications pretty severely, but adding PKI support doesn't seem too difficult. If the PKI key was only used to establish the session "sh
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
Seriously, this seems like someone in awe of xargs. Maybe its the Bell Labs in me but this is boilerplate stuff.
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
What was it really like working at NeXT? Was there always a sense that you were building what would ideally become Mac OS X, or was that plan held close to the vest? Any cool or memorable Steve Jobs stories? What was with the greyscale debu
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
100% this is just grifting for cheap disclosures and a corpus of techniques
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>The internet has and will always be about increasibg the signal te noise ratio for the user. And my point is that the signal used to primarily originate from peer interactions, not broadcasting. Look at Usenet, AOL's structure, or
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
Odd comparison. Admin cancels on Usenet were focused specifically and totally on individual , service-abusing or commercial "spam". While this is a tool that wipes out comment sections from view entirely.
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
And thus concludes the internet's decades long transition from a peer community of idea exchange ala UseNet to a broadcast messaging medium controlled by elites for their own benefit ala Bari Weiss' CBS. Welcome to the Dead Intern
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>Do these skills actually provide much value? IMO, yes. Gemini et. al. out of the box are good at composing, but are entirely passive. Skills enable you to - easily, with low code/no code - teach your AI to perform active tasks eith
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>the 8/64 in VirusTotal hardly proves that You're using VirusTotal wrong. That means 8 security scan tools out of the 64 in their suite hit on this. That's a pretty strong mal indication.
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
I trust 404 media more than most sources, but I can’t help but reflexively read every story prominently showcasing the FBI’s supposed surveillance gaps as attempted watering hole attacks. The NSA almost certainly has hardware backdoors in A
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
OS-native functionality covers this? On Macs = cmd + shift + 4 On Windows = win + shift + s On Gnome/KDE = shift + printscreen
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
"Actually, it's good when a country imports more than it exports." This claim seems like it warrants at least some qualifying statements. Certainly you'd acknowledge where there are situations in which a trade imbalance
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>Self-driving isn't a sensor problem. It always was, is, and always will be an AI problem. AI + cameras have relevant limitations that LIDAR augmented suites don't. You can paint a photorealistic roadway onto a brick wall and A
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>But in the movie, I really didn't understand the rationale behind what he did to lisa. Jobs was, by the accounts of everyone who knew him, almost singularly focused on doing what he did in the computer industry, by the time Lisa wa
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>Woz invented the consumer personal computer. Definitely had a hand in it. If you want to dime out the singular technical innovation that Woz contributed that really changed everything, IMO it was figuring out how to make the Apple II do
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
Everybody makes mistakes, and this is definitely a huge one to have made, and a sad aspect of his legacy, but if this is all you know about Steve Jobs, you don't know anything about Steve Jobs. He made up with Lisa - to the extent one
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>Jobs fucked over a lot of people Oft repeated, and not untrue, but very incomplete. Jobs also made a lot of people. A lot of fortunes in SilVal only exist because of Steve Jobs. He also virtually single handedly and without much fanfa
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
While I adore Woz - Apple fanboy from way back - it's a bit unusual for an aggregator and discussion site to "embody the spirit" of a guy who says that he hates business and politics, and doesn't like participating in di
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
Has he been markedly wrong about any of these positions that he's staked out over the years, from closed hardware to mobile security?
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
For me it was when Eric Holder, the Attorney General under President Obama, straight-up ignored a Congressional subpoena. Maybe the actual event happened earlier than that, but in that moment I marked "rule of law" as a dead lette
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
"Information wanting to be free" is a concept less rooted in idealism and more in a cynical view of human nature. Even the most closely guarded secrets eventually leak, and as the utility of knowing the secrets increases, the pres
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
I find myself wondering what people would think if we swapped "Israeli" for "Chinese" in your reply. And why this double standard exists in all our minds. Clearly you can't run a country when your elites owe their f
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>It isn't so much as the rest of the world having easy access. It is what the Chinese want the rest of the world to see. If your prosperity depends on using technocracy to deny 1.3 billion people the ability to communicate and share
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>The information is everywhere. For those who know to look for it, sure. For those who do not already know it, discovery is increasingly challenged by the deliberately obscurant curators of the information space, who are oddly tightly an
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
>I just don't think you're paying attention Alternate explanation: they are paying intense attention... to the palms that are pressed desperately against their eye sockets as they attempt to See No Evil.
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by mrexcess 8mo ago
No different than any other war, the powers that be line up to psy op the public to support it. Interesting to see who the players are that are willing to amplify this overt propaganda. Sadly, looks like HN is front and center, right along
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by mrexcess 9mo ago
From my understanding of the Buddhist process described here, the ritual often begins days or weeks before death, and includes exclusive consumption of substances like plant tars that dramatically reduce the presence of gut bacteria, and th

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