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by ronsor 5mo ago
Would love to see more devs tanking their reputations with this.
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by ronsor 5mo ago
I don't think the EU ever had control of Big Tech to lose. Tech companies like Ireland as a tax haven among other reasons. They would just as quickly leave if the benefits evaporated entirely.
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by ronsor 5mo ago
They're already in smartphones.
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by ronsor 5mo ago
> I do think the tech industry would be wise to do more outreach and less sneering, though. Freakouts about AI (which ultimately is what this is) aren't "rational" but they're eminently "reasonable". A lot o
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by ronsor 5mo ago
This article doesn't quite thread the needle. First it reports regular AI poll statistics, none of which support the thesis alone. > The findings make stark reading: eight in 10 boys (85 per cent) have had a conversation with a chat
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Can't be worse than COBOL
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by ronsor 5mo ago
> Companies such as Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of civil servants and academics working on European tech regulation with a senate committee investigating “tech censorship” or “jawboning”, news magazine Vrij Nederland reporte
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by ronsor 5mo ago
You don't need to parse the strings in reverse. That's for printing integers, not parsing . Roughly: int stdin_atoi() { int i = 0; while (1) { int c = getchar(); if (c >= '0' &
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Excessive "consequences" don't encourage "better behavior," they incentivize more secrecy. And eventually the knowledge gets out anyway and someone who doesn't care does more damage that's harder to clean
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by ronsor 5mo ago
You just described one of the key conflict points of the Industrial Revolution...
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Usually the TPM is part of the CPU itself nowadays, so you're mostly trusting Intel or AMD.
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Have they tried using remotely hosted servers instead?
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by ronsor 5mo ago
True. But also most malware delivery now doesn't trigger it because malware developers have gotten craftier. If you're unscrupulous, it's not a concern.
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Android has a lot of hardening and sandboxing that desktop Linux doesn't (and won't for UX reasons).
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Banks are private companies. The Federal Reserve is partially private.
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Yeah, this is going to turn into another malware vector, isn't it?
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by ronsor 5mo ago
... LLMs cannot reliably provide citations. If you ask for citations, and the model did not use a web search tool, then whatever "citations" you receive are unreliable. Please do not trust these models to be honest. Just because t
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by ronsor 5mo ago
Royalties for inference are unrealistic in a way that even royalties for training aren't. The LLaMA models were released openly. Copies exist everywhere in the world. You aren't going to be able to charge someone for running `llam
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by ronsor 5mo ago
I don't know why people are up in arms about this. No one is mad about the port of Notepad++ to macOS. No one is mad that someone said "I ported Notepad++ to macOS." The problem is the branding and delivery conveys the impres
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by ronsor 6mo ago
Doesn't make them any more rational
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by ronsor 6mo ago
Realistically domestic US politicians have no reason to care about EU regulations
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by ronsor 6mo ago
This is a thinly veiled extortion racket and any competent system would fine them into bankruptcy.
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by ronsor 6mo ago
HN refocuses around every hype cycle. At one point it was JavaScript frameworks, and then cryptocurrency, and then even NFTs for a bit.
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by ronsor 6mo ago
It's just redundant. The author surely knows but typed "fake honeypot" like how everyone else types "ATM machine."
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by ronsor 6mo ago
It makes sure people don't forget about the vulnerabilities, at least
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by ronsor 6mo ago
There's an angle everyone misses. Mandatory age surveillance everywhere is only going to result in massive, normalized ID fraud. You thought fake and stolen IDs were a problem before? You haven't seen anything yet. And half of it
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by ronsor 6mo ago
> unblockable "system message" This is a "flash SMS" message: https://nickvsnetworking.com/flash-sms-messages/
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by ronsor 6mo ago
You can strip down Linux significantly as well: no multi-user, no extra syscalls, no FS support beyond initramfs/tmpfs, etc.
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by ronsor 6mo ago
Wasn't it Dell or HP that did this? IIRC it was FreeDOS-on-QEMU-on-X11-on-Linux.
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by ronsor 6mo ago
All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.

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