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Amnesty says Pakistan spying on millions through phone-tapping, firewall(reuters.com)
20 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|3 comments
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
> Pakistan's spy agencies can monitor at least 4 million mobile phones at a time through its Lawful Intercept Management System (LIMS), while a firewall known as WMS 2.0 that inspects internet traffic can block 2 million acti
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
Currently working fine for me in Pakistan. Btw, you can run https://api.webprobe.org/scan/ in a spare tab in the background and it will periodically check the status of such websites and update the NetBlocks status.
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
https://x.com/netblocks/status/1963507222685573522 > ℹ Note: Multiple online services including Google Search and YouTube are currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
HN post on the Grok Coding AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559
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Musk's xAI sues engineer for allegedly taking secrets to OpenAI(reuters.com)
13 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|2 comments
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
court filing: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gdvzbjjjzvw/... > The new lawsuit said Li began working as an engineer for xAI last year, where he helped train and develop Grok. The com
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
I live in Pakistan and two years back we had this exact same problem, (election interference) and frankly, you just try to scrape through solutions, but without an answerable government, there is little you can do. We tried things like Prot
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
BlueSky and Mastodon are as relevant and useful as Blogger.com; Threads meanwhile has leeched itself to Instagram and somehow existing. There is no point in creating an account there, even the Elon Haters have gone back, they keep the BSky
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
Results, please attempt the test before checking the results: https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ai-vs-autho...
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Differentiating between AI and a human author using flash fiction(mark---lawrence.blogspot.com)
1 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|2 comments
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
> Below are 8 pieces of flash fiction, all of them ~350 words. All of them were written to the prompt: "write a piece of fiction based on 'a demon'" - for the AI there were additional very brief suggestions con
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
You forgot Cowboy Neal, you insensitive clod!
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
just checked, my last comment was in 2014... damn
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Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed(thehill.com)
8 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|2 comments
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
> We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes. > These students were not cynical, but adaptive. In a campus
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
i thought people in the west used these things called seedboxes? basically computers in low risk countries like romania etc, download the torrent there, then copy the file over or something like that.
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
as a pakistani natively bilingual in urdu and english, it's doubly annoying, because it doesn't have urdu, it has hindi. While the languages are very similar but still different enough to get annoying and confusing. So it tries to
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
> Tax wealth Are you saying that Denmark, a nordic socialist country, has not taxed wealth enough?
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EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up(twitter.com)
107 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|95 comments
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
Arnaud Bertrand (creator of HouseTrip (sold to TripAdvisor)) explains in a twitter post that: ____ > At first, when I created the company and before Airbnb was even a thing, I used to pitch the company to the media and the general
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
> Ms. Stapleton decided to do some digging. She reviewed her professor’s slide presentations and discovered other telltale signs of A.I.: distorted text, photos of office workers with extraneous body parts and egregious misspellin
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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren't Happy About It(nytimes.com)
2 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|3 comments
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India asks X/Twitter to ban 8k accounts(twitter.com)
7 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|1 comments
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
from the tweet: > X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees.
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
france confirms at least one rafale is down, acc to cnn[1], not sure about others. [1]: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/india-pakistan-attac...
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
Mr Smith's previous technological solution: > Brad communicated to me through a device called the Tobii made by Dynavox, a company that specializes in computing systems for people with illnesses and disabilities. It used infrared ey
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Mr. Smith Gets a Neuralink Brain Implant [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ryzvonusef 1y ago|2 comments
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by ryzvonusef 1y ago
> The Core Memory team spent months filming with Brad Smith, the third patient to receive Neuralink's brain-computer interface implant. Smith has suffered from ALS for several years and agreed to be part of Neuralink's clinical
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by ryzvonusef 2y ago
reminds me of the BPS Space youtube channel, he makes rockets too: https://www.youtube.com/@BPSspace https://bps.space/pages/about

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