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by sneak 3mo ago
No. Lots of people have never heard of FAA702 (which has been well-documented in mass media) much less Carnivore or ECHELON. The default email provider for most people in the west is Gmail.
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by sneak 3mo ago
GPUs aren’t scarce. There is just a lot of demand, so prices have gone up. Anyone can get GPUs right now and build out what they need; it’s just a matter of paying more for them than the next company. I’ve been looking at building a multi
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by sneak 3mo ago
It’s not just HN. The USG has been manufacturing consent for war with China (trade or otherwise) in the US population for decades. Same goes for Iran.
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by sneak 3mo ago
The amount of solar power available to the square area on top of a trailer is negligible compared to the energy required to haul it long distances. Regen braking would probably only be worth it in some limited circumstances.
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by sneak 3mo ago
It works via the same mechanism as an incredible drug called Repatha (generic name evolocumab), but Repatha is quite expensive, requires refrigeration, and must be injected subcutaneously every two weeks. The news here is that this is admi
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by sneak 3mo ago
The APIs for the frontier models via the US hosters do the exact same thing wrt saving the requests and responses for data mining. Let’s not pretend that pervasive surveillance is an eastern thing.
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by sneak 3mo ago
It’s still >$300k for the hardware to run this model locally at anything resembling a reasonable speed. The weights also have not yet been released, though that is scheduled for about a week from now. It’s not actually an open model ye
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by sneak 3mo ago
It says right on it when you enable it: > Dictation sends information like your voice input, contacts, and location to Apple when necessary for processing your requests.
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by sneak 3mo ago
OS-native dictation on iOS requires uploading your address book to Apple on every request, even if you don’t use iCloud. I unfortunately have to leave it disabled for this reason.
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by sneak 3mo ago
State-based regulations on tech are largely irrelevant. See CCPA for an example.
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by sneak 3mo ago
> Right now, there is a LOT of shrill propaganda from the tech bros, who call themselves “privacy advocates,” about how mandatory age checking is the gateway drug to comprehensive identity checks on the entire Internet, and ridiculing t
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by sneak 3mo ago
The article is not about video quality.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Wait until you hear that the chats aren’t end to end encrypted.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Though the primary way of installing Xcode is via MAS (requiring Apple ID login), Xcode can be downloaded from the Apple Developer website without an ADP membership, though you do have to log in to the website with an Apple ID. You don’t h
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by sneak 3mo ago
You still have to open Xcode (to get the certs), and you still have to accept the Xcode EULA. Title is quite misleading if not outright false.
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by sneak 3mo ago
It was easy, via Airdrop, but the CCP doesn’t like people being able to share files in a decentralized manner in groups, and Apple ceases to exist as we know it if they don’t do whatever the CCP wants, so it was nerfed.
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by sneak 3mo ago
> They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen – that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with cardiopulmonary r
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by sneak 3mo ago
With what money? I don't think you have looked at OAI's valuation lately.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Nah I mostly don’t use AGPL software because I consider it nonfree, the same way I don’t use any other source-available nonfree stuff. The issue I have with it is the hypocrisy, not the code. They pretend that it’s free software but it’s j
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by sneak 3mo ago
I don’t use iCloud, so I don’t know.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Supervised devices cannot be backed up and restored to supervised devices. You can only backup/restore to an unsupervised target. If you want supervision, you have to abandon your backup. It sucks.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Yes, and you consent when you enable iCloud.
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by sneak 3mo ago
> What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emai
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by sneak 3mo ago
Don, you’ve got me wrong. I’d love to have a civil discussion with you to clear up your misconceptions. My email and phone number’s in my profile. Do please get in touch.
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by sneak 3mo ago
You’re confused. The author chooses to gift their software to the world when they choose a free software license. Presumably people who choose the AGPL choose it because they believe it is a free software license. Either they should use a
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by sneak 3mo ago
Did we all forget that GitHub’s military-industrial complex owners over at Microsoft made sure to send the “business as usual” signal to the USG when they refused to stop helping ICE violate human rights en masse? This was during the kidnap
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by sneak 3mo ago
Now do Freetype and libtiff/libpng/etc. I have privately wondered for years, pre-AI, why Apple hadn’t paid some engineers to go off and write some comprehensive test suites and then port these to Swift. It would shut down entire
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by sneak 3mo ago
Agree 100%. Almost everything I have written with AI is in Go, and strong typing is really really nice (as is go vet and golangci-lint to keep the generated code in line). I imagine writing plain js or python with it would be much much ris
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by sneak 3mo ago
Running a SaaS does not “fork users away”. You can’t fork a SaaS because services are not software and software are not services.
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by sneak 3mo ago
That’s simply not true, and you know it. Violating my privacy with a EULA is the issue there. It’s ok to put a EULA on software, but to pretend it’s still free software is the dishonest part.

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