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by mystraline 5mo ago
Or, Anduril. All the techbros love them some Lord of the Rings.
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by mystraline 5mo ago
> These systems (and I say this as a graduate of UCLA) have been taken over by parasitic administrators and bureaucracies-on-top-of-bureaucracies that have milked not only the students, but also the taxpayers, completely dry. There is a
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by mystraline 5mo ago
> spent $16.9 million on A.I. Sooooo... A few days of claude code "thinking", for a few hundred people?
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by mystraline 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348578 Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC. This was on HN yesterday. And yeah, these things can find API endpoints or otherwise bypass and do lots of
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Call it spicy autocomplete or whatever, but these LLMs can initiate attacks as well on unknown behalf of the sloperator. Give it a phone# and api, and it could even try to generate 911 SWAT calls, or loads of other illegal or bad things. Th
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by mystraline 5mo ago
This has been true for at least since 2008. The only times Ive gotten promotions was to get hired elsewhere. Better title, more money. Its well known that retention budgets are laughable or nonexistant, and new hire budgets are well stocked
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Its just my desktop running Krasis. 96GB ddr5, 16GB nvidia 5060. Im running qwen-3.5-80B in int4 mode. It uses like 45GB system ram and 11GB g-ram.
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Like hell it isnt. Ive used it to write that terrible one-off powershell or bash script. You know the types: grunt work, boring, and you just need it done. I can ask my local LLM to make it. Its done as fast as it takes to load up a console
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Some people lie about identity when getting mental health. They also direct pay cash, and no insurance. Pilots and US govt cleared people go through hell, or get their permissions revoked if you try to get mental health. So the answer is to
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by mystraline 5mo ago
> Something tells me you're not much of an ethicist. Not at all. Ethicists, in my experience, are hacks that cant actually do, but instead loudly pontificate and deride others who can. They basically run gish gallops and whataboutis
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Exactly. And even worse is that crime itself is firmly rooted in politics. Example: You work at walmart, as a cashier. You drop a $100 bill on the floor and pocket it from the till. You're caught, cops called, and you are arrested. Exa
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Well, if AI has a massive sticker shock attributed, so we should target the high value roles and should save money, right? So im looking at CEO, CTO, CFO, and all the chief-something-officer. If LLMs are that totally amazing at thinking, th
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by mystraline 5mo ago
I vouched for this, because this is just a different closed walled garden. No, no, NO. 'Free in beta' = expect to get rug pulled again and again. The next time Im switching will be to something FLOSS and self-hosted, and not to
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Delaware court upholds voting by companies in small town's election(reuters.com)
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Yandex is great if youre searching for pirated content or for DMCA'd content that ended up on Gitflic.ru Anti-drm tools are a big case in point. And so is Bypass Paywalls Clean Firefox plugin. All of these have been purged from the &qu
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by mystraline 5mo ago
I have writings going back to the 1500's of priests fucking boy children altar boys, cause that's evidently not 'reallllly' a violation of celibacy. The Catholic Church has always had this go on.
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Oh the PS2, as in the one that Sony sabotaged and removed an advertised feature, of OtherOS? They only had a joke of a payout, and no criminal charges? Thats the console youre using as an example??? If we actually had real jurisprudence for
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by mystraline 5mo ago
That was before the public everything-connected internet era. Now, even Nintendo destroys your hardware if you do something they dont like. Like every one of these terrible companies, Im 100% sure that if they could update the NES firmware
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by mystraline 5mo ago
> How long should a hardware and software product be expected to last? Until it dies due to unintentional software or hardware defect. NOT when it is sabotaged by the manufacturer.
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Too bad the Software freedom conservency and FSF dont have harsh punitive measures they push. Else theyd demand a pound of CEO flesh, or push the US gov to ban all imports and sales. Instead, its negotiation and laughable settlements. As so
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by mystraline 5mo ago
I was definitely interested in some sort of comprehensive sensor bundle for my healthcare. But every one of these devices demands some Android/Apple app, and shipping all my health data to basically non-HIPAA data brokers. Id be all ov
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by mystraline 5mo ago
In other words, African governments are even more corrupt shitholes. (Please note: im explicitly saying this about the governments. Not the people. The people, in most/all situations, have little to no power to remove this corruption,
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by mystraline 5mo ago
> Very sad to see the US fall away from the rule of law, into kleptocracy. We've been in this for much longer, but its been unevenly distributed. I seem to remember a certain Biden saying to his billionaire donors "Nothing fund
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by mystraline 5mo ago
If you cant ban or arrest or stop them, then you badmouth and create fake dissent and claim the 'documents are spyware and malware'. And naturally, nanoclaw openclaw etm make it easy-peasy to make instant botfarms. I must have tri
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Not that I like surveillance capitalism but... If a ALPR search was gated by a search warrant, upon probable cause by witness and signed by judge, I would have much less concern. Its still surveillance capitalism, but that at least would be
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Most of the folks I know who were with CISA were purged with the January-March 2025 Doge campaign. 0 notice "we 20 year olds dont understand what you do so fired". A group was working on Diebold voting insecurity, and foreign impl
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Yes, weeks if its cell or GPS. Months or never otherwise.
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by mystraline 5mo ago
> It's all "they're a private company, they can ban anyone they want" right up until they ban someone who promoters of that idea don't like. Then they're suddenly horrible people for being a private company
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by mystraline 5mo ago
> Free speech is fundamentally about the government restricting your speech, not private platforms. A corporate charter is granted at the BEHEST of the People and the Government. They are at best an artificial entity, and should be an ex
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by mystraline 5mo ago
Even spam filters are problematic. At first, its just unsolicited commercial crap. Then its non-corporate allowed unsolicited commercial crap. Then its 'hide commercial crap in posts to deceive'. Then its 'fuck over screen re

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