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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Human beings have been doing much the same for a very long time. If you completely ignore the scale & speed at which LLMs can generate information compared to humans, sure. It seems silly to ignore that, though.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
PBS Space Time has a very good & informative episode covering this. I'll try to dig it up. Most elements are missing some key properties that carbon has. Silicon is the next most-likely element, but it's still missing out on a
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> CCDs I think this is "Charge-Coupled Device"? "an electronic sensor that converts light to digital signals through charges generated by bouncing photons on a thin silicon wafer" Is that correct? Not familiar with
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Reminder that literally every car company has terrible data privacy terms. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article... Subaru, despite being awful with privacy, is actually on the upper end of
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Why is it more plausible than the explanation provided by the company? That's what I'm asking. Especially when you consider the PR downsides of saying your company has been hacked. Maybe there's a history of the company lyi
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> I don't believe it was a cyber attack; I think it's just usage overload. Can you explain what information you're basing this on? Is there a particular reason not to believe them? Typically, from a public relations stand
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by ziddoap 2y ago
It's amazing that (approximately) no one cares about stuff like this. GoDaddy was severely breached several times over several years, yet they still rake in billions of revenue from their millions of customers. Now they have to pay som
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> niece They are first cousins (once removed).
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Why do so many people take illustrative examples literally? I'm sure you can use your imagination to substitute "lunch" and "car" with other examples where the absolute change makes a difference despite the percent
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I'm not very anti-LLM/AI, but this is one of the scarier parts, to me at least. Data that is obscure, not easily fact-checked, and (outside of a handful of people) there's no motivation to fact check it. Incorrect data will
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> I’ll wager more people consume typical media outlets than the CDC’s weekly publications Typical media sources the CDC weekly publications. Well, used to, anyways. Where do you think typical media got their information from?
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by ziddoap 2y ago
From where? When? Baffles me that someone would write something so definitively yet not expand on it in any way at all. Not saying you're wrong (I have no idea), but what a low-effort comment. I'm curious, you seem (or claim, at l
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Because "I can’t consider any job offers for less than 500k (total comp)." is absolutely wild for 99+% of the global population.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> If you don't trust Ledger – how much do you trust your VPN provider? They know both your original IP and what you're doing on the Internet (or at least to which services you're connecting). Well, the big difference (for
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Illustrative examples are illustrative, not literal.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
No...
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by ziddoap 2y ago
We have different definitions of literal, I guess. The first two definitions of "literal" are: "Conforming or limited to the simplest, nonfigurative, or most obvious meaning of a word or words. " "Word for word;
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> RPN "Reverse Polish notation", I think, for people like me who aren't familiar with the acronym.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
The thing that irks me the most is that Patrick Rothfuss used to brag about how he had already completed all three books of the trilogy, and just needed to do editing passes. That was over a decade ago.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> SQLite is the first tool I reach for. Hopefully in whichever particular mode is referenced!
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Is anyone aware of a list of affected models posted anywhere? All 2015+ models? Obviously the ability to pull up account history, previous owners, etc. is applicable to anyone with a Subaru. But I'm curious if location history shows up
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by ziddoap 2y ago
That makes a lot more sense than the literal interpretation. Thanks.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> I'll just keep reiterating that the optimal level of fraud in a large system is almost never zero. I've been trying to think about what you meant since you wrote this earlier in another comment, and I'm having some trou
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by ziddoap 2y ago
The only people that I know do this are "Beg Bounty" "Security Researchers" that are, essentially, attempting to extort people. Even if it would be legally possible (I don't think you can force your 'services&#
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by ziddoap 2y ago
What point are you making by quoting this? I'm not sure why Krebs highlighted it either except as a smear (which he likes to do).
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by ziddoap 2y ago
As far as I remember, those weren't the only drugs sold there, nor was there any rule enforced regarding "personal quantities". Not that it matters, as it was an illustrative example.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Sure, there's obviously a scale. I'm not about to divide 54,432 by 7.6, even though I was taught how to. I'll pull out my phone. On the other end, I'm not going to pull out my phone to figure out I owe you $0.35. I think
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> How are you going to get more anonymous data? All over the place? Your comment history here (and mine!) is full of data. Each piece alone isn't identifying, but there's a good chance that in aggregate it is. If you share tha
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> To put another way, "guy was vaguely near New York on these dates" doesn't narrow down the search parameters by much. That's why I said that this data alone is probably worthless, but can gain value when combined
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Seems pretty handwavy. It has a whole Wikipedia article and everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization#Re-identifica... > Can you describe concretely how this would work? Here's one of th

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