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by sennight 5y ago
> But nothing prevents them from changing... While there may not be an immovable obstacle standing between them and a complete recataloging, there are a lot of factors that would strongly disincentivise it. Chief among them being the fac
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> However, that confusing image would almost certainly not also fool Apple's unspecified secondary server-side hashing algorithm, as referenced on page 13 of Apple's Security Threat Model Review... Uh, on what timescale? If you
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So have you never heard of catfishing? Because if you have, then you know it wouldn't be hard to do just what you described - and you're pretending otherwise for some reason.
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The objective of being mindful of the thumbnail is to fool the human reviewer responsible for alerting the police to your target's need for a good swatting - the algorithm has already flagged the image by the time it is presented as a
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> Sure, the probability is lower than getting struck by lightning. I don't think anyone can actually know that, because I don't think statistics are kept on how often these sort of dragnet programs result in civil liberty viola
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Because I delight in delivering bad news, I'll point out that the real takeaway shouldn't be that federal LEOs regularly lie (though, they do) - it is that they are permitted to lie convincingly through handwavy technical means. A
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We are talking about how everyone who gave Apple money now has a potential probable cause vector that they didn't before. Everyone running the software is a suspect by default. Ask black Americans how they feel about setting the bar lo
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So Apple customers go from paying for a status symbol luxury item to paying for the privilege of participating in this, at best, pointless exercise wherein they rely upon the goodwill and competence of Apple's employees to not get them
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> I don't get why 𝚜̶𝚘̶ ̶𝚖̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚢̶ some people think this is an ineffective idea. Because such architectural flaws become absolute train wrecks when scaled. Remember the Clipper Chip? This is like that: cryptographers pointing out fun
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That would be believable if I'd argued that platforms should never delete any video under any circumstance, but I didn't, so it isn't. You did make an interesting accidental admission though: you either somehow believe that c
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You might want to reflect on the way you just compared a legal press conference to gore porn, it makes me think that you're either so strongly gripped by pandemic mania that you honestly think that is a reasonable comparison to draw -
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> Youtube is an entertainment site... That is a self-refuting statement. If Youtube was just an entertainment site: then they wouldn't be deleting legal content, with apparent public interest, provided to them for free.
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And it isn't even mildly disconcerting that your only option is to guess at their rationale because the video was memoryholed?
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> How many radiation hardened CPUs are in use today? Whoosh. A radiation hardened PowerPC 750 operates no differently from a PowerPC 750 you'd find on Ebay. You are effectively saying "Yeah, but how many commercial temperature
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It is one of those problems that is really easy to ignore, until you can't. I was using a cheapo 8051 based logic probe the other day and had a lot of fun dealing with not only jitter of two different oscillators (probe + device under
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> ...ARM processors instead of highly specialized... You've got that backwards: Perseverance is equipped with a RAD750, which is simply a radiation hardened PowerPC 750 - that is about as general purpose as it gets. Ingenuity is equ
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Something weird is definitely going on. I'd normally chalk it up to a powermad hubris that seems to be common among technocrats, but this is the latest example of a corporation voluntarily providing politically motivated non-profits th
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> ...awful internet community called KiwiFarms. The free speech Alamo. It often leads to funny results, like lesbians finding it to be the only place they could complain about some psycho in Canada targeting women operating small busines
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> What exactly seems to be experimental... Gee, I dunno, maybe everything related to the FDA's emergency use authorization?
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> Don’t have to listen to CDC then... heh, yeah - that'll work out great I'm sure. "You don't understand, officer! According to the published research..."
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...aaand one day later the CDC says the direct opposite in order to justify a new mask mandate, citing unreleased but super scary and definitely trustworthy data. https://web.archive.org/web/20210729042140/https:&#
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> This reasoning works only if you believe the society isn’t supposed to help the vulnerable. This reasoning is used to justify horrific acts. Is there no limit? Obviously your line in the sand is beyond compelled experimental vaccinatio
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> 1.8% case fatality rate That looks like a scary number until you look at it by age, then it looks very different. If you were at risk of dying from flu before COVID then your odds got worse, everybody else's risk level is largely
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> It is pretty clear to me that this is equivalent to me as a display guy claiming Microsoft is blocking progress in operating system development... I'd need to have a very low opinion of a "display guy" to believe he was
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lol, I'm already familiar with you. I'm not really interested in generating billable hours for someone who behaves exactly as I'd expect a reputation management rep to. But I am curious to know if your script addresses this l
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IBM has built supercomputers with POWER machines stuffed full of GPUs, in close partnership with Nvidia, for years. I think they might still be the only ones offering systems designed for sustained NVLink bus saturation. So yeah, you could
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They've got a hefty patent portfolio, but I can't think of a recent example of them using it to freeze everyone else out à la eInk. Of course, the barrier to entry into their market is so incredibly high that there would be only a
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The writing has been on the wall for a while when it comes the next major bottleneck. I'm surprised that Intel was able to keep their quad-core game running for as long as they did, but "chiplets" were obviously going to have
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Oh boy, that memory bus... I'll get to that in a second. First, yes, IBM creates IP blocks that they then license. Maybe I'm weird, but I view that as software - and I also heartily dislike IP block shops. What makes matters worse
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If this was the old IBM, back when they had an internal science journal just to keep track of their own accomplishments, I'd say they came up with something like z/TPF[0] - but for AI. But I would be extremely surprised if the new

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