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by protimewaster 7mo ago
I'm also skeptical that it's impossible to get an LLM to reproduce some code verbatim. Google had that paper a while back about getting diffusion models to spit out images that were essentially raw training data, and I wouldn&#x27
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
There was a security auditing firm that came out a few days later claiming they'd found a chip, similar to the one Bloomberg described, during a security audit. It's still nothing concrete, though. Their CEO basically said that th
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
There also was a CEO of a hardware security company that came out and said that his firm had found an implanted chip during an audit. IIRC, he was convinced that it was very unlikely to be limited to Supermicro hardware.
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
It depends on what you consider confirmed. It was kind of corroborated, at least. There was a CEO of a hardware security firm that came forward after the original article. He claimed that his firm had actually found a hardware implant on a
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
They did dumb things like limit memory availability in dev mode, though. Also they require a government ID to enable dev mode (but at least the quit charging $100 for it!). And they made it so you can't enable dev mode on consoles that
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
I'm confused about that. I was pretty sure that Google's policy was that, while they'll delete inactive accounts, the addresses don't become available for use. I thought those addresses were basically dead. But at least
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
My thinking is that it's very unlikely the people actually responsible for implementing it were the same as the ones in court arguing it would be easily reversible. From a strictly technical standpoint, if your boss says "Make thi
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
While ridiculous, from a technical standpoint, it's not hard to see how this scenario arises. On the one hand, there was probably pressure to implement the tariffs as quickly as possible. Consequently, there likely wasn't much eff
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
> But the risk of a bunch of litigation isn't a ban, right? Funny enough, I've known some people over the years who have explicitly viewed litigation as a reasonable alternative to regulation. Their logic was that we should jus
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
It just doesn't seem super well written. It presents a story from 2018 as if it's the impetus for the decline, and then talks about a decade long decline. If it's been declining for a decade, how is a decision from 8 years ag
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
> Samsung had waterproof phones before Apple, and they still had replaceable batteries and, gasp a headphone jack. Also, Apple (and I assume others) were building stuff with non-replaceable batteries before they were building stuff that
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
> As far as I understand the person behind archive.today might face jail time if they are found out. You shouldn't be surprised that people lash out when you threaten their life. One of the really strange things about all of this is
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
I don't understand how that's a retort against the claim that they've "been left in the dust on autonomous driving". Are you contending that autonomous driving is the only reason that Tesla owners would like their c
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
I feel like the "that's just a few coffees" metric is getting out of hand. By this metric, my current work laptop, purchased used from a local used reseller, was "a few coffees". Also, I'm surprised how often o
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
> That's why you still have 20 year old Mac Minis still running as home servers etc. I often see statements like this made as if it's an exceptional characteristic of Macs. I've found that almost all computer hardware I bu
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
I honestly don't know if this is sarcasm or not, but I would think, just based on the fact that 96% of users are free users, they shouldn't try too hard to piss them off.
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
I imagine they're willing to accept them a different way. That email doesn't even specifically ask for the forms to be emailed. It just says to "send them over". Also, I'd argue there are ways to make it reasonably
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
> FLOSS Fund refused to follow the regulatory requirements to continue funding projects through Github, and Github dropped them as a funding source. The email they sent to Pocketbase (posted elsewhere in the thread) makes it sound like t
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
Isn't this the standard Apple approach? Analysis of data sent by iOS shows the same types of behaviors.
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
> Because a phone running an unknown OS is significantly more dangerous than a phone that hasn't received security updates for years. I'm not convinced this is generally true, at least as can be detected by an app. Back when I
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
All good points. Thanks for that! I'm not an Android developer, but I was thinking they could use something like the android.os.Build.VERSION.SECURITY_PATCH call to get the security patch level. Maybe that's not sufficient for tha
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
Meanwhile, it's probably A-OK for the app to run on a phone that hasn't received security updates for 5 years. I don't get it. If they're worried about liability, why not check the security patch level and refuse to run
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
You don't necessarily need a lib, though. Especially if you're interested in a use case where you can store data in a go bag, safe deposit box, etc., it seems like having individual tapes would be preferable. Individual used drive
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
My understanding is that the thing that makes M-Disc DVDs special is that they don't use organic dyes in the recording. Blu-ray discs, with the exception of the weird LTH ones, by default don't use organic dyes. Consequently, the
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
Another thing to keep in mind is that, for many unethical people, there's a limit to their unethical approaches. A lot of them might be willing to lie to get a promotion but wouldn't be willing to, e.g., lie to put someone to deat
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
One of the things that really confounds me about Discord is that so many groups will just keep coming back, even after they're booted, like they're in an abusive relationship. I used to follow some of the console homebrew / p
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
I simply don't agree with that, either. It just seems like journalism to me. No details were reported that would reasonably be expected to compromise anyone's safety. Why should it be disallowed to investigate the ownership of a w
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
> Doxing very often consists of nothing more than collecting data from a bunch of public sources I simply don't agree that this looks like doxing. No addresses or even any private information were reported. It's just a Google u
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
Because none of the names are real and they were all already posted publicly previously. This is covered in the article.
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by protimewaster 8mo ago
I assume this is an exaggeration? Another poster says they have good luck with headscale on two networks of 400 devices.

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