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by phire 7mo ago
This conviction has nothing to do with uploading AI generated music. The illegal part was using tens-of-thousands of bot accounts to listen to them (and the ads) generating fraudulent revenue for himself. This is just the same old view bott
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by phire 7mo ago
China has Huanjing [0], which is officially for "environmental monitoring", but almost certainly has enough resolution to track large ships (at least the later versions, apparently the early versions had poor resolution) And even
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by phire 7mo ago
I'm very much of the opinion that PS3's linux support massively delayed its exploitation. And not just because it provided a path for homebrew/linux. A lot of the early hacking focused on trying to breach the hypervisor from
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by phire 7mo ago
Not entirely accurate. The PSX's CPU is semi-custom. The core is a reasonably stock R3000 CPU, but the MMU is slightly modified and they attached a custom GTE coprocessor.... I guess you can debate if attaching a co-processor counts as
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by phire 7mo ago
It's not like the games weren't running in 64 bit mode too (on both consoles) They had full access to the 64 bit GPRs. There wasn't anything technically stopping game code from accessing the 64 bit address space by reinterpre
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by phire 7mo ago
No, capturing CO2 from combustion is hard. Ammonia plants might burn methane for heat, but they don't capture its output. The actual Haber–Bosch process for reaction directly spits methane into Hydrogen (which is combined with Nitrogen
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by phire 7mo ago
That's really interesting. Makes me immediately ask two questions: 1. Should we be training models like this from the start? It seems that a model trained with layer loops would be able to take advantage of it better than rearranging
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by phire 7mo ago
That's not really what the ruling said. Though, I suspect this type of "vibe rewrite" does fall afoul of the same issue. But for this type of copyright laundering, it doesn't really matter. The goal isn't really abo
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by phire 8mo ago
It's more like 800,000 But I used number of adults, not total population. Because most children aren't registered sex offenders, or buying expensive furniture.
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by phire 8mo ago
About 0.3% of the adult population is on registries in the US. With 40,000 couch sales, there would be roughly 120 sex offenders would have bought that couch. You can see what I mean about the registries being bloated. Doesn't really n
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by phire 8mo ago
They didn't know who the child was, yet alone the mother. All they had were photos of an unnamed girl being abused.
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by phire 8mo ago
Sex offender registries are just registries. They only work if someone decides to actually do a query. It might prevent them from getting a childcare job, but it doesn't really prevent them from accessing children at all. The registers
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by phire 8mo ago
Such a law will probably allow targeting based on the browser's language (browsers already send a "Accept-Language" field, doxing you with every single http request), or whatever language you have configured a website/ap
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by phire 8mo ago
I think you can get most of the benefit by just banning targeted advertising. Require that every user must be shown the exact same ads (probabilistically). Don't allow any kind of interest or demographic based targeting for paid conten
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by phire 8mo ago
Humans aren't very diligent in the long term. If an LLM does something correctly enough times in a row (or close enough), humans are likely to stop checking its work throughly enough. This isn't exactly a new problem we do it with
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by phire 8mo ago
> You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup Sure you could. Not so much in the 90s; But during 2003/2004, with a 56k modem, an unlimited dialup plan, a second phone line, software to redial when the internet dropped, and
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by phire 8mo ago
Blackmail an Executive? That's a complete overkill. It's so much easier just to "recruit" the direct manager of the firmware engineering team. Convince them it's their patriotic duty to add "tracking dots"
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by phire 8mo ago
I mean, I'd prefer they used some form of renewable energy. But there should be plenty of options once you start actually optimising for the same use-case as space data centres. Many places have very predictable wind (especially off-sh
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by phire 8mo ago
As far as I can tell, Data centres in space only seem viable because their advocates insist on comparing them to standard terrestrial data centres. And nobody ever calls them out on it. Today's data centres are optimised for reliabilit
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by phire 9mo ago
Went to double check what my static IP address was, and noticed the router was displaying it as 198.51.100.48/28 (not my real IP). I don't think the router used to show subnets like that, but it recently got a major firmware updat
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by phire 9mo ago
> In theory you could turn off IPv4 NAT as well but in practice most ISPs will only give you a single address So, I randomly discovered the other day that my ISP has given me a full /28. But I have no idea how to actually configur
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by phire 9mo ago
The firewall on your typical IPv4 router does basically nothing. It just drops all packets that aren’t a response to an active NAT session. If the firewall somehow didn’t exist (not really possible, because NAT and the firewall are implemen
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by phire 9mo ago
I actually avoid most YouTube channels that upload too frequently. Especially with consistent schedules. Even if I'm 100% certain it's not AI slop, it's still a very strong indicator that the videos are some kind of slop.
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by phire 9mo ago
I also notice that people with lots of experience with computers will automatically reboot when they encounter minor issues (have you tried turning it off and on again?). When it then completely falls apart on reboot, they spend several hou
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by phire 9mo ago
It’s not that big when you consider many DC car chargers can deliver 0.25 MW. So ”only” 42 car sized chargers for a massive boat, there are probably some massive Tesla superchargers sites that approach that.
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by phire 9mo ago
Yes, the actual bandwidth of the last-mile analog line was much, much higher. Hence why we eventually got 8mbit ADSL or 24mbit ADSL 2.0+ running across it. Or even 50-300mbit with VDSL in really ideal conditions. Though the actual available
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by phire 10mo ago
Yeah, I’m the same. I default to anyhow unless I need a strong API boundary (like if I’m publishing a library crate) Sure, it’s slightly more error prone than proper enum errors, but it’s so much less friction, and much better than just doi
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by phire 10mo ago
It seems very useful for archiving branches that never got merged. Sometimes I work on a feature, and it doesn’t quite work out for some reason or another. The branch will probably never get merged, but it’s still useful for reference later
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by phire 10mo ago
Yeah, i think the author has been caught out by the fact that there simply isn’t a canonical way to encode h264. JPEG is nice and simple, most encoders will produce (more or less) the same result for any given quality settings. The standard
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by phire 10mo ago
But you use spend much less energy fighting gravity. I’d expect it to have more range underwater than a typical quadcoter has through air. And much longer “flight” time. But I doubt it gains enough to compete with a fixed wing drone using t

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