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901.
by nullc 2y ago
I thought he was way better pre-covid-- at least showed empathy for differing views, acknowledged some tradeoffs, etc. He turned very one dimensional during covid and never recovered.
902.
by nullc 2y ago
> If it were really 'any' in the philosophical sense, cash would be outlawed. The state doesn't have unlimited power, so no. What you expect to see where cash is being banned outright is a slow erosion of less common uses
903.
by nullc 2y ago
But it's not the "folks" that are the factor, generally. The mechanisms of many major social media platforms actively amplify the worst aspects of the worst people, while suppressing the best parts of the best. Someone put t
904.
by nullc 2y ago
This is presumably also why even on local models which have been lobotomized for "safety" you can usually escape it by just beginning the agent's response. "Of course, you can get the maximum number of babies into a wood
905.
by nullc 2y ago
I would personally have chalked that up as usability-- because there are facilities for secure file transfer between computers, but I get the argument. Particularly since the common tools like SCP give way too much access unless you go thro
906.
by nullc 2y ago
It's my impression that geeks are prigs at a higher rate than society as a whole, but their priggishness is generally directed in random directions which makes it harmless and even quaint or endearing. Surely you've experienced th
907.
by nullc 2y ago
The only serious alternative to Qubes from a security perspective is to use multiple computers. That alternative presumably has better security, but also generally worse usability (particularly if you're going to be mobile! -- two lapt
908.
by nullc 2y ago
It looks basically identical to fedora with XFCE, plus the window borders being different colors to indicate different VMs and some toolbar icons for VM management.
909.
by nullc 2y ago
I am a Qubes user for a couple years now, and I wish I'd switched to it years earlier. Basically every criticism you hear is about correct-- principally worse graphics performance and battery life. But the performance issues for me wer
910.
by nullc 2y ago
I've seen the existence of chatham house rules events abused pretty heavily by bullshitters as an excuse for asserting things but then refusing to substantiate them.
911.
by nullc 2y ago
It works much better when you already know what you're doing-- so you can ask for exactly the right thing, spot the LLMs errors, and know what you need to do to fix them rather than iterating forever with the hallucinating machine. I c
912.
by nullc 2y ago
There are some idiotic banks now using "voice verification" such that capturing your voice may be of value to fraudsters. Unfortunately it's generally impossible to get your bank to stop using insecure authentication mechanis
913.
by nullc 2y ago
The FTC estimates overseas internet/telephone scammers stole an estimate $122 billion dollars from Americans in 2022, virtually all of it in traditional banking. Have any data to suggest that these 'crypto' attacks are within
914.
by nullc 2y ago
I'm afraid I'm still mystified and suspect we must be talking past each other, ... But, in any case, I'm grateful you took your time to try teaching me something.
915.
by nullc 2y ago
I do wonder how we're talking past each other. Usually when I use an SMT solver I'm interested in finding a satisfying solution. Breaking up the problem on some variable the solver would search across multiple processors can imp
916.
by nullc 2y ago
It may well be that for some worst case instances of SAT/SMT that there is no parallel algorithm to solve them faster than a sequential algorithm unless P==NP. But most people who are not complexity theorists (or perhaps cryptographers
917.
by nullc 2y ago
That's patently false. For example, you can fix some variables on different instances, and run the solve with those variables fixed. This doesn't result in really good work distribution, but it's a toy example.
918.
by nullc 2y ago
Any suggestions for a good parallel open source SMT solver? It seems to me like contests are full of documentation-less entries that are setup to just run the contests and may or may not be generally usable.
919.
by nullc 2y ago
Someone going after "high value" targets can just buy the data commercially.
920.
by nullc 2y ago
The real 'data breach' was that they had the data in the first place. The hacker is likely less of a threat to me than many of the parties they sold the data to before.
921.
by nullc 2y ago
The quality of the platform lives or dies on the quality of these decisions. If dang's choices are too bad, this site will die. The situation is somewhat different between a niche community and a borderline monopoly. But it's al
922.
by nullc 2y ago
You sort of made your own counterpoint by giving a list of statistics that are far from objectively measurable and whose result and meaning depends a lot on the details of what exactly you're measuring and how. Take inflation for examp
923.
by nullc 2y ago
Way too little memory. :(
924.
by nullc 2y ago
Depends on where you are. Some places have adopted fad curriculum for reading that results in illiteracy. https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
925.
by nullc 2y ago
Facebook is doing a public service here by being overt. Anyone else would just quietly take your face and those of your contacts and use it to generate an endless stream of faces which are unambiguously not you, yet compellingly familiar. .
926.
by nullc 2y ago
In the future you'll create a new email account only to receive 200,000 phishing messages per second. At that point, you'll close the account because its completely useless and thus be protected from phishing. :P
927.
by nullc 2y ago
> Screenshots may not suffice. You would need witnesses and statements or documents to prove it. Speaking from my own experience, Fortunately in UK civil courts are less aggressive than the US courts on laying foundation for evidence.
928.
by nullc 2y ago
> But around here I would not be afraid to go myself for a simple case That's naive. You wouldn't be afraid to suffer 100k in costs up front just to deal with a completely meritless case? ... and if the litigant is aggressive
929.
by nullc 2y ago
In the US subpoena are extremely overpowered, unfortunately. Often the respondent has little to no legal standing to resist the subpoena and they're issued without meaningful supervision of a competent court. Most providers won't
930.
by nullc 2y ago
Someone I know who was in a similar position went through a similar effort to you only to find out once they were represented that cloudflare had handed over they and their readers data in advance of the deadline.

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