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by themafia 6mo ago
Try running your own SMTP server for a while. Gmail holds what appears to be monopoly power and uses it quite readily. Even ISPs with "free" customer email addresses aren't nearly as onerous as google is.
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by themafia 6mo ago
I've had a few sales reps do this for products they're trying to sell us. In front of me, they've opened their laptop, with no password, then used some remote access solution to access another customers equipment, and th
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by themafia 6mo ago
> In the past, exploiting an application required a highly skilled hacker with years of experience and a significant investment of time to find and exploit vulnerabilities. The reality is that humans don’t have the time, attention, or pa
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by themafia 6mo ago
Why would you run segments of your profitable business through a chat? It's just as large of a vulnerability.
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by themafia 6mo ago
From the very beginning I've been extremely uneasy letting a corporation have access to my "chat like" interactions over a long period of time with their product. I think it's insanely foolish to use these tools in these
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by themafia 6mo ago
> The real solution: fight fire with fire Which works if you assume that AI can find 100% of your bugs. It can't. So this is a complete waste of your time and will hide actual bugs behind a layer of confidence _and_ obscurity. You&
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by themafia 6mo ago
Flock can alert when any specific car drives by. No warrant is required to use this feature. So, I won't follow you, but when you _do_ leave, I'm going to call some people to let them know that happened. Still cool?
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by themafia 6mo ago
Just make quotas illegal. Make enforcing them a felony for command staff. Lock up body worn camera videos so they can't be used for "performance review." That footage belongs to the public, for legal purposes, it shouldn
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by themafia 6mo ago
Would you mind if I parked near your house, such that every morning, when you drove past, I could follow you. To work, to the store, to the gym, you know, wherever. Then on the way home I'll park where I left off. If anyone as
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by themafia 6mo ago
It depends on the scope of the mission. If you're going to commercialize long term space travel then you're going to want some form of artificial gravity. If you build a better toilet you need a better pooper to use it. And they
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by themafia 6mo ago
As a citizen with a gun I can shoot you before the police arrive.
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by themafia 6mo ago
I invite you to examine the construction of a shotgun shell. Good luck banning that in any meaningful form.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> oppressive and short-sighted. Which usually means "we're willing to ignore short term damage to get long term results for our political patrons."
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by themafia 6mo ago
The article is about sports leagues. I assume you're not as fungible with your choices there? Or at least, you'd agree, it isn't for the majority of the actual audience in question. See old school satellite piracy for a c
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by themafia 6mo ago
DRM is completely ineffective. It simply increases the cost of "piracy," as well as legitimate actions like home backup, to about $200 USD. The worse they make it for legitimate users the more likely they are to just buy the ne
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by themafia 6mo ago
> how stupid the world can be This isn't stupidity. It's corruption.
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by themafia 6mo ago
The pirates still exist. The legitimate users are punished. Might as well abandon the law.
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by themafia 6mo ago
These laws get complicated quickly. There's a specific ALPR law in the CA civil code which seems to carve out several exceptions for a business like Flock: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayTex
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by themafia 6mo ago
The back button itself feels overloaded. There's "go to previous state" and then there's "go to previous origin." In an ideal world when I doubleclick on the back button what I mean is: "get me off of t
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by themafia 6mo ago
> Did you use the web back in 1995? I'm still not over the loss of Gopher.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> go out on a limb and agree with Terrence Tao Is AI his specialty? > I think the dude is well known in the math community, or something I believe this is called "appeal to authority." Which is why, instead of disagreeing
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by themafia 6mo ago
> but it’s just not good enough in most NFS systems. NFS is just an interface. At the end of the day it's on top of an FS. It's entirely possible and sometimes done in practice to replicate the underlying store served by NFS.
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by themafia 6mo ago
There are several high value prizes for mathematical research. Let me know when an "AI" has earned one of them. Otherwise: > When Ryu asked ChatGPT, “it kept giving me incorrect proofs,” [...] he would check its answers, kee
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by themafia 6mo ago
There should be a medal we can give out to people who do anyways.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> and today’s large trucks are so computerized that they operate almost like airplanes Nonsense. Almost no vehicle even comes with anything like this installed. Some carriers will add driver monitoring computers, and they will emit to
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by themafia 6mo ago
> is so incredibly high that I hope nobody is sincerely asking an LLM for this information Google trumps the search results with it's LLM box. There's only one reason to do that. They know their audience is not engaging in di
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by themafia 6mo ago
> And yet, the public conversation around them has been quiet to the point of being strange. These events aren't new or novel anymore. The fact that the news does or does not report on something is indicative of editorial prerogati
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by themafia 6mo ago
> They also build secondary LLMs which double-check that the core LLM is not telling people how to build pipe bombs Such a fear mongering position. You can learn to build pipe bombs already. Take any chemical reaction that produces gas
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by themafia 6mo ago
Personally I think Gauss gets a little more credit than he strictly deserves.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Step 1: Sell at a loss. Step 2: Panic. Step 3: Destroy product.

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