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by p-e-w 29d ago
That’s not what the GP comment said though. They claimed that they are storing everything they can intercept, which is weapons grade horseshit.
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by p-e-w 29d ago
There’s no way a single datacenter costing a couple of billion dollars can store “all Internet traffic the NSA can access”, unless the traffic the NSA can access is a microscopic fraction of the total Internet traffic. Think about it. The I
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by p-e-w 29d ago
That’s not a message activists tend to care about though. In places where speech is dangerous enough for this to matter, there are usually far more immediate threats.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> “Hi, tool author here.” A useful explanation of Burrows-Wheelers transform as used by bzip3 FWIW, the Burrows-Wheelers transform is also used by bzip2, so this isn’t a new feature even though that quote kinda sounds like it is.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Why would they? The worst thing that can realistically happen is a $1-$5 billion fine a few years from now, which they only need to pay a few years after that when they have exhausted their legal remedies. That’s easy to calculate with, and
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> An LLM written thing isn’t doing that, it’s something equivalent to copy/pasting a Wikipedia article. Nonsense. I’m not sure whether this was ever an appropriate description of what LLMs do, but either way, they have obviously mov
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
95% of the top 10% are middle class, because the vast majority of the world’s population are middle or lower class.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
None of the countries you name is even close to SpaceX. Not even close. Their most ambitious prototypes are on par or behind the rocket SpaceX has been flying for a decade commercially.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
It blocks many shady domains, which stops many exploits before they ever reach your browser.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
It absolutely does help, because it blocks hundreds of thousands of shady origins.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Telling you that you have power is one of the ways by which they ensure that you don’t have any power. Elections work the same way.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
The top 10% of the planet aren’t “the rich”, what a gross and incendiary misuse of the term.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Indeed. At this point I’d say that the “green movement” has done more damage to the planet than the fossil fuel industry. The entire Western world (with the exception of France) pretty much stopped building nuclear power plants 40 years ago
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> Germany has its problems, but it's consistently in the top 15 most democratic nations in the world. According to what? Some think tank’s “democracy index”, carefully constructed to preserve the illusion that Western countries are
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
An authoritarian state that exercises oppressive power through legalistic institutions in league with a corporate oligarchy.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
There is no irony. The German government is proto-fascist, and has been for a while, as are several other European governments. Apparently the UK now arrests more people per capita for online speech than China does.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
But it’s in the EU! Which is obviously extremely important for static hosting.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
I don’t see how they could credibly estimate inference costs without knowing the model size.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
It can do some things that JS can’t do, such as invalid pointer writes. But you are correct that this doesn’t automatically imply system access.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Firefox with uBlock Origin. It’s astonishing how many exploits uBO stops before they ever reach your browser engine. It’s the antivirus of the 2020s.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
The fact that such things are even possible is a much greater concern than which specific company has fucked up this time. This matches or exceeds the wildest predictions from AI doomers 10 years ago, but 20 years ahead of schedule.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
They’re pre-IPO. I doubt that they are loving something that could trigger regulatory action that might shave a trillion or so off their market value.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Imagine thinking that everything that happens is some inane conspiracy to sell something.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
There can be no such test because “AGI” is (or has become) a pseudo-philosophical/socio-political concept rather than a scientific one.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Indeed. I’m baffled by the comments here. He predicted that a plateau had been reached multiple times in Spring 2024, and now more than two years have passed and capabilities have exploded since then. He wasn’t being imprecise, he wasn’t
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> It's always at the top of every single firefox thread no matter what is being posted. That’s because this mismanagement has been going on for nearly 10 years now, nothing is being done to address it, and if anything, it seems to b
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
There are a lot of good community forks of Chromium also. And no, a fork of Chromium isn’t “the same as Chrome”.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Firefox has indeed done things that are worse than anything Chrome has done, such as abusing a privileged update channel to push content advertising a TV show to user’s browsers without their knowledge or consent.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
“What do you call a medical student who graduated at the bottom of their class?” “Doctor.”
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
They all converged to looking the same though. An unreadable fantasy font logo at the top, multiple concentric frames, dot lines, l33t speech etc. And I absolutely remember people complaining about slop in such intros even in the 90s, they

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