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by smolder 3y ago
The real question, I think, is autobot or decepticon?
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by smolder 3y ago
I don't own any Apple devices myself and don't even have a MBP through work anymore, but I do have a couple of Apple USB-C cables and a spare laptop charger, still. They conveniently seem to work with every kind of device for any
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by smolder 3y ago
I couldn't care less if tiktok was banned in some way , but the proposed bill that incriminates us for using VPN to access it is absolute garbage.
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by smolder 3y ago
> Often I'll find code written by self styled haxors who omit curly braces and nest ternary operators because they can. That's great but it ends up biting you in the ass. I've worked on codebases where omitting curly brace
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by smolder 3y ago
Ah yes, sorry to assume.
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by smolder 3y ago
> Not sure what you mean Look at the risks a poorer person in the US has to contend with, many of them life-ending expensive, as well as the difficulty of finding places to live that offer decent job markets, services, amenities, and are
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by smolder 3y ago
"Everything's relative" is a really great excuse to ignore scale and nuance, I'll admit.
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by smolder 3y ago
They can be better be proxies for the USG's "Total information awareness"?
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by smolder 3y ago
> I mean, your consumption is on the scale of people’s whole livelihoods. No, and particularly not my "conspicuous consumption" which is what I said. > this “anyone who has more than me is necessarily evil” mentality. That&#
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by smolder 3y ago
You say "they like the lifestyle it brings", but that feels like a euphamism. Cannibalism is a lifestyle some might not want to give up, if they're into that. When your conspicuous consumption is on the scale of peoples'
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by smolder 3y ago
Overclocking was fun, but I'm also glad modern CPUs can precisely control clocks and voltages to make use of what used to be safety margin.
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by smolder 3y ago
Adding video is not a minor erosion on top of recording from a microphone.
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by smolder 3y ago
You can't imagine police departments that buy stingray devices and spy illegally with them to also pay for surveillance data? Anyway for real time tracking, police stations can likely get the feds involved which get that info from your
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by smolder 3y ago
I clicked the link and remain confused. The poem does have in common the term "lest we forget", but apparently nothing else. It's also used in a grammatically correct way in the poem, but not in your post, since it's not
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by smolder 3y ago
I can't imagine willingly introducing any more "smart" devices into my life given the baggage "smart" comes with. We have to cede a little autonomy and privacy to unaccountable central authorities for every new &quo
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by smolder 3y ago
Oh, okay.
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by smolder 3y ago
The word "lest" is meant to come after something else. It means "for fear that" or "or else" or something similar. So it's not clear what you're trying to say. I don't know what "very system
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by smolder 3y ago
> - If it is not justice, at some point the excuse will be to protect the children I don't think this is a very solid maxim. It seems to imply things other than justice can only occur if protecting children is a claimed motive.
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by smolder 3y ago
Data center CPUs are already optimized for power and have huge die areas and cost a lot, just like apple silicon.
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by smolder 3y ago
Best guess is that someone in marketing thinks calling them Tiles will make Intel look better because people won't realize they're just following behind AMD in this respect.
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by smolder 3y ago
I think MS is beyond redeeming and there's little reason to stick with windows at this point.
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by smolder 3y ago
>We're just searching for the prompt that can reliably break these LLMs to show their lack of reasoning What gives you the idea that there's some universal prompt to "break" LLMs? What does a "broken" LLM ev
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by smolder 3y ago
Just because the harm is socialized - spread across a large population - does not mean the harm is diminished or that the crime is victimless. In some ways a crime like this is worse for not harming any particular person directly. First, be
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by smolder 3y ago
I agree in principle, but it can be difficult in practice to vote with your wallet. In the case of movies, once you have a ticket or purchase it or even rent it, they've got your money and have learned the lesson that people will pay,
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by smolder 3y ago
Feigning incompetence is classic passive aggression and always has plausible deniability.
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by smolder 3y ago
MikroTik has come up in their slides before, yes...
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by smolder 3y ago
At a minimum, it's a thing that certain security conscious consumers (cough DoD) were able to get Intel to include a hidden (not typically user accessible) bios flag for disabling most features of the management engine. So they'
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by smolder 3y ago
Attacking machines directly over the network is dangerous for them from the standpoint of detection, though. You can bet that any ME/PSP remote access exploits are used very carefully due to potential detection.
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by smolder 3y ago
I've long (post-snowden?) estimated NSAs capabilities are roughly what you imply. Lots of implementation-specific attacks, plus a collection of stolen/coerced/reversed TLS certs so they can MITM a great deal of web traffic. U
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by smolder 3y ago
Back in the day, you could rent your own games to other people by handing them your cartridge and accepting some money for the loan. The goods were transferrable. Renting is good when it coexists with real ownership.

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