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by nullc 10mo ago
Who cares? this stuff is all ephemeral messaging. People frequently don't have and can't find them if they do, even absent any security.
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by nullc 10mo ago
They keep doing it because you keep paying them. Use the money you save to buy a media pc that can block shorts to use to watch youtube on the tv.
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by nullc 10mo ago
> no way to prevent the intentional weaponisation of chat/ai AI psychosis is happening without any intentional weaponization. Sure you can't help intentional bad outcomes but accidental ones are much worse because they don&#
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by nullc 10mo ago
Transaction relay. Ideally nodes have lots of connections so that attackers can't so easy block transaction and block propagation and censor information. But lots of connections means lots of network bandwidth wasted relaying redundan
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by nullc 10mo ago
That is somewhat outdated advise post seagate: https://www.stblaw.com/docs/default-source/cold-fusion-exist...
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by nullc 10mo ago
> Also, the privacy and the finding are in direct opposition to each-other, which isn’t always a comfortable system dynamic. ... or some sort of group key sharing Perhaps you might consider a pinsketch in the manner proposed for cryptogr
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by nullc 11mo ago
Irrelevant nonsense can also poison the context. That's part of the magic formula behind AI psychosis victims... if you have some line noise mumbojumbo all the output afterward is more prone to be disordered. I'd be wary of using
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by nullc 11mo ago
LLMs will apologize for grand conspiracies they claim to be part of-- all hallucinated nonsense. It's all about telling a good story.
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by nullc 11mo ago
This article is about movies skimping out on the communication skills of their characters as a narrative device-- it's a lot like the fact that many pre-cellphone movies would have been over in 60 seconds if only the characters had a
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by nullc 11mo ago
> through rationalism, When they write "rationalism" you should read "rationalization".
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by nullc 11mo ago
At times I'm mused that man is perhaps calibrated to live in tribes of 100. If you're known to ten million, however, you can get the 100,000x the correct dosage for whatever attention your actions draw. Hard to fix, -- since even
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by nullc 11mo ago
What do I care about texas? If a texan jumped off a bridge would you do so too? Did Texas have a nationally leading and hard won anti-gerrymandering law shown to be meaningless?
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by nullc 11mo ago
I guess Californians believe that Marin and 'Jefferson' have equivalent interests and can be well served the same representative without disenfranchising anyone... and that because it's more natural for a state with 2.23 dem
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by nullc 11mo ago
As if that were the choice... In PG&E land we have extraordinarily expensive (e.g. hitting over 0.60$/kwh) electricity that has outages more often than Texas. High prices go hand in hand with low reliability because the same incomp
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by nullc 11mo ago
> The amount of profit they make is decided by the state regulators Which set things up so the money PG&E makes is a linear function in the money PG&E wastes. -- the regulations set a fixed profit margin, so to make more money P
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by nullc 1y ago
A felon convicted of essentially same 'crime' his opponent in the prior election committed but was given a settlement and a fine instead. Hilary Clinton funded the creation of the Steele dossier-- which was later shown to be gener
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by nullc 1y ago
and 98% support expanding those powers every time 'their team' is in power as if the situation could never change.
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by nullc 1y ago
> once the system is created it’s easy to envision governments putting whatever images they want to know people have into the phone A key point is that the system was designed to make sure the database was strongly cryptographically priv
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by nullc 1y ago
Sorry, but you're relaying a false memory. Conversation on the subject on HN and Reddit (for example) was extremely well informed and grounded in the specifics of the proposal. Just as an example, part of my responses here were to dev
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by nullc 1y ago
They also require articulable and legally legible damages , and if you want to make it worth your time they have to be significant compared to the legal cost and in no significant way attributable to yourself. A lot of things a laypersons
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by nullc 1y ago
AI gloop
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by nullc 1y ago
It really is the case-- Post Covid Wright's style of GST fraud[1] went pretty much viral and they did start heavy enforcement actions, but their videos are full of raiding the homes of people living in public housing who stole a few t
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by nullc 1y ago
That's how it went for Craig Wright, famous Satoshi imposter-- prior to his bitcoin infamy he stole millions via fraudulent GST refunds and fraudulent refundable R&D tax credits then got caught attempting tens of millions more. He
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by nullc 1y ago
> Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor IIRC Dwork and Naor's work had a trapdoor (which the server used to cheaply validate the challenges) and would be unsuitable for any kind of decentralized public system. It's not "proof of w
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by nullc 1y ago
fucking captchas I'm already having periodic bad dreams about not getting through them, not interested in this literal nightmare of a game!
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by nullc 1y ago
Are you actually able to compute that? With PG&E + MCE because of the way they back off the PG&E generation charges, the actual per-time period rates are not disclosed. I can solve for them with three equations for three unknowns.
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by nullc 1y ago
I don't believe it applies in any smaller towns or rural areas, the area has to cross some threshold. If not for that the headline we might see in the news: California towns rip out transit systems. Already this might create some weir
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by nullc 1y ago
Circa 2000 I clearly didn't think there was such a thing as too many SS5s: https://web.archive.org/web/20181004111934if_/https://people...
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by nullc 1y ago
Even in places with generally strong protection against state search you have almost no privacy if someone drags you into civil court. Not only can state opponents attack you there including through pretextual claims, but you're also
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by nullc 1y ago
the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance

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