ruthie_cohen

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by ruthie_cohen 8mo ago
I don’t think you appreciate how many people would die or get seriously unwell if that is how things worked.
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by ruthie_cohen 10mo ago
There’s a diagram here, if this helps: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/SNAP-19C_Moun...
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by ruthie_cohen 10mo ago
Most people would do the same in your situation, we should expect citizens to want to help victims of crime, especially crimes against the person. However I think there’s a significant difference between a single household and a centralised
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by ruthie_cohen 10mo ago
If I was American I would certainly be using this tool as a consideration when moving / buying a new house. I’ve watched a lot of the coverage by Benn Jordan on Flock cameras and their inherent vulnerabilities, and it’s deeply concerni
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by ruthie_cohen 1y ago
The public should be hearing about these failures when they involve an almost entirely opaque nuclear-armed state having their sovereignty violated. It appears that people involved in the operation feel the same. The stakes in a failure lik
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by ruthie_cohen 1y ago
Americans own Defense Intelligence Agency’s leaked classified report contradicts this report and suggests Iran has only been set back by a few months.
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by ruthie_cohen 2y ago
Similarly with Australians and swimming, or Dagestan and combat sports.
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by ruthie_cohen 2y ago
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanc...
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by ruthie_cohen 2y ago
I’d argue his presence is as big now as it was back then, Anduril has been in the news a lot since Russia invaded Ukraine and he was recently profiled by the WSJ.
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
Cristo Grozev from Bellingcat is a reliable source, yes. As are Der Spiegel and 60 minutes.
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
One has to assume that NK is using its most promising students for two things: - Cyber warfare and theft - Furthering its nuclear and missile programs
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
Whey Protein, Casein Protein or Whey Protein Isolate is a more like-for-like replacement for milk than a plant based alternative. There’s also nothing inherently wrong with consuming fat, it’s more than twice the energy per gram compared to
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
I think they’re drawing the right conclusion: LLM’s are still in their infancy and easily mislead with the right prompting, and are still far too prone to hallucination to have applicability in the way some people are trying to implement th
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
If such a capability existed, it would have been made public by now. It would require the complicity of Apple, Samsung, Google et al. There has not been a single shred of evidence produced to support yearslong claims of devices constantly l
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
This is a warning about people accessing smart devices, predominantly voice enabled cameras by using compromised usernames and passwords for the purposes of Swatting. It does not specifically make mention of the devices surreptitiously list
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
There’s a recent Darknet Diaries episode about Predator for anyone interested: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296...
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
If you really want to go down that road: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61290444 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57830767 https://www.npr.org/2022/05/
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
This is an incredibly naive take on an issue that is wide spread in China to the point of it being almost the norm. Confucianism does not lend itself well to crucial infrastructure , you know, things you don’t want to collapse. https:&#x2F
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
For me, it’s partially about being uncomfortable with faceless individuals and companies profiting off information about me in an extremely opaque way. It’s also about feeling that there’s no chain-of-custody regarding that sort of data. It
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
I have to say I cringed when this link turned up on HN. I spend my life trying to get away from News Corp bullshit.
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
There’s zero credible evidence for this
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
Not OP, but off the top of my head: - Vlad Vexler - Reporting from Ukraine - Real Engineering - Mustard - Half as Interesting - Coffeezilla I mean the reality is that YT has high quality content for almost any subject matter you can think o
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
It is done to send a very clear message to anyone else thinking about doing the same thing. Is it disproportionate to the threat? Absolutely. But that’s not why it’s done.
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by ruthie_cohen 3y ago
People who haven’t worked in areas with classified/sensitive information don’t seem to appreciate that once you have the appropriate clearances, you’re considered trustworthy. You are treated as one of the gang, and people will often w
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by ruthie_cohen 4y ago
This isn’t something unique to VICE, the vast majority of MSM utilise click-bait headlines to drive engagement. In defence of VICE, their video arm is still one of the best outlets for drug related content. Their print arm, I could take it
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by ruthie_cohen 4y ago
They’ve since admitted that this occurred 3 times during the Trump administration and once at the start of the Biden administration, but never disclosed it to the public. That makes the ‘accident’ theory impossible to believe.
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by ruthie_cohen 4y ago
Coffeezilla really is miles ahead of the MSM in reporting on this. To such an extent that his video from over a year ago covers the same territory as this article.