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by seethishat 3mo ago
To make the corruption more efficient, store the file on a RAID.
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by seethishat 3mo ago
I pay for and use Mullvad VPN. I believe they value everyone's privacy and I believe they are competent technologists. I don't care about politics. I will continue to buy and use Mullvad VPN.
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by seethishat 4mo ago
I wonder, why not use an LSM like Tomoyo, App Armor or SELinux to not allow the AI to read the secrets file? That way you could be certain that it could not be tricked into doing so.
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by seethishat 4mo ago
My main concern is transparency. How do we know that the ruling/governing class is not abusing these monitoring systems and exempting themselves from monitoring? If we are all subject to the same monitoring and there are no exceptions,
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by seethishat 4mo ago
I agree. Hiding from a grizzly bear is a good strategy. But if that fails, you will need pepper spray and maybe a shotgun. Bear Defense Plan: Hide, Non-lethal, Lethal.
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by seethishat 4mo ago
It is OK to talk to them. Just don't lie and don't answer questions. Doing either could land you in jail.
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by seethishat 4mo ago
It's really about personal privacy. Your computer is likely to be stolen and sold. If you don't want others reading your email, viewing your pictures, seeing your tax returns, etc. then you should encrypt the drive. I call this &q
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by seethishat 4mo ago
That conclusion is similar to the concept of 'unconditional security' especially WRT one-time pads. The key must be at least as long as the message itself. Other forms of encryption are based on assumptions and conditions being tr
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by seethishat 4mo ago
This is true. Everything is in a constant state of decline (including our health). Enjoy it while you can.
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by seethishat 4mo ago
My problem is it is an experiment (synthetic nicotine that is socially acceptable) and kids are addicted to it. It's like candy. No one knows or complains because the users are not generating smoke, vapor or spit. They just swallow the
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by seethishat 4mo ago
The newer synthetic nicotine pouches (Zyn, On, Velo) are everywhere in the USA and are being used by kids as young as 13. They are ruining the gut health of an entire generation of kids. Edit: Both boys and girls are dependent on these thin
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by seethishat 4mo ago
Until one of them communicates a threat, then it is a criminal matter.
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by seethishat 5mo ago
They did for awhile, but removed it due to complexity and security issues.
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by seethishat 5mo ago
I run it. Home firewall, office desktops and laptops. It's pretty stable and I'm fairly familiar with it. Really simple if you know Unix. I hope it never goes away, not sure what I would replace it with. Linux is so complicated no
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by seethishat 5mo ago
I'm a long-time Mullvad user. I will continue to buy and use Mullvad VPN services (with my credit card that has my name on it) so long as it is legal to do so in my country. VPNs are not 100% anonymous. They are not meant to be. Instea
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by seethishat 5mo ago
This reminds me of a James Micken's quote from "This World of Ours" in response to security people admonishing users for clicking links in email: "It’s not clear what else there is to do with computers besides clic
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by seethishat 6mo ago
How many cameras do you drive past and walk by to get to the coffee shop ;)
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by seethishat 6mo ago
I saw something very similar a few months ago. It was a web app vibe coded by a surgeon. It worked, but they did not have an index .html file in the root web directory and they would routinely zip up all of the source code which contained a
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by seethishat 6mo ago
A lot of dumb criminals seem to carry smart phones. The irony.
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by seethishat 6mo ago
The major difference, here, is this is intended for multiple users (not one person). Imaging 5,000 users all using the device at the same time. The amount of memory, open file handles, network connections, etc. for many users at once adds u
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by seethishat 7mo ago
We knew 30 years ago that message attachments (mostly email at that time) were a huge security problem. All those binary file types to parse... what could go wrong ;) It's good to see Apple's Lockdown mode having such success by s
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by seethishat 7mo ago
If the main concern is preventing an LLM from taking some action (sending emails, text messages, adding calendar events or making phone calls), can't you just simply not allow the LLM to do that? Don't give it access. It's no
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by seethishat 7mo ago
Don't carry them with you. I'm old and I can tell you from experience... you can live life without holding a cellphone all the time. It's not as hard as you think.
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by seethishat 7mo ago
Some older people don't hear well so they talk louder due to that. It's not that they intend to be loud, it's just they don't hear as well as younger people do. Many vets also having hearing loss due to service related i
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by seethishat 7mo ago
I love OpenBSD for similar reasons, except, I still run it as my primary desktop and on an old Chromebook. It just works. No drama with updates. Upgrade every six months. I'd be lost without it.
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by seethishat 7mo ago
Large well-regarded CS schools still have 'systems' and other traditional CS specializations. I would encourage looking at those programs. Experience is still needed too. You can't just blindly trust AI outputs. So, my advice
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by seethishat 7mo ago
IMO people should eat more fiber. A lot more fiber. It cleans the gut, the liver, absorbs cholesterol, slows insulin response and makes you feel full longer. The microbes in our guts need it to function. Rather than jumping from one fad die
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by seethishat 7mo ago
The issue with strictly enforcing the speed limit on roads is that sometimes, people must speed. They must break the law. Wife giving birth, rushing a wounded person to the ER, speeding to avoid a collision, etc. If we wanted to strictly en
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by seethishat 7mo ago
Abstractions have been happening since the 1970s when ASM was replaced by the C Programming Language. From there we got C++ (look, it actually has a string type that most humans understand!) then we got memory safe managed languages like Go
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by seethishat 7mo ago
I agree. In my experience, no one cares when you are sick. No one. Maybe your mom, but that's it. Using it as an excuse when you make a mistake is even worse. People value responsibility... "Sorry, my bad, won't happen again&

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