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One of the memos, about Altman, begins with a list headed “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . .” The first item is “Lying.” [New Yorker, 2026]

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il y a 12 joursdiscuss

No one ever leaves the kgb

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

007: Die Another Day has it as a main plot point.

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il y a 26 joursdiscuss

I have two observations to make here.

1. It seems that most of the evil here is concentrated among the liberal right and liberal left. Both far right AfD types and the left are against this.

2. A lot of positions, when clarified, just want to keep the (bad) status quo of CC1.0, while opposing 2.0, which was the much more totalitarian one. This also includes the crucial shadow rapporteurs.

This is still not good, but unless I've understood something very wrongly here, this isn't the same as just pushing the worst version of chat control 2.0 through.

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> My iPhone is ready to use in under 1/2 second, while my laptop always takes at least a few seconds to wake up, and then there's a bunch of stuff going on that distracts me. The iPhone is a simple appliance that I use without a second thought, but my laptop feels like a complex machine that causes me to pause and consider if it's worth the effort right now.

Funny how it's become completely the opposite nowadays.

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Yeah I think you're right. My ESL is pushing through, I guess.

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Knowledge often does not produce competence, especially in the applicable market. I work on the system administration side of things, and I have encountered many output-competent developers that were immeasurably stupid, but very little incompetent ones with tons of cryptic knowledge and intuitive understanding of the systems they worked on.

It seems to me that knowledge doesn't always imply competence, but the lack of knowledge often very well explains incompetence. And, since the LLM is replacing the competence part without imprinting any knowledge on the one that wields it, it generates a lot of competent imbeciles that pass interviews and appear as though they not only do things, but know things as well. And once you reach that critical mass, sheeeeesh

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I think there are two distinct type of "touristy" experience.

1. Culturally important experiences lean towards the prescriptive side. You enter, you are observing or being challenged in something, and it leaves an imprint on you. It is usually a bit discomforting in an exciting way that transforms a part of you in a infinitesimally small, but distinct and permanent way.

2. The unimportant experience is the conforming one, where zero friction is the preferred method of interaction, but it is universally loved in the way high-fructose corn syrup is; it's an economically sound decision to at least try and profit from it.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

It really looks like they are trying hard to scale a system that is simply explained away by a simpler model... From TFA:

  The switching behavior they see could just be an electron hopping on and off a quantum dot, perhaps one formed incidentally by part of the wirelike region, Legg says. “This is exactly what you could get from a quantum dot.”

I won't pretend I have a deep understanding of any of this, so the only parameters I can judge is the consensus of people that do, and these people aren't too happy about the claims being made.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Why would it not be? Microslop doesn't need to make such a backdoor, but it's still a lot more convenient to make one generic backdoor than many signed ones.

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The likes of them are Christian in the same way the third reich was. Adopting the dogmatic mechanisms of control while discarding everything standing in their way towards achieving their goals. There is a reason why the NSDAP had much better standing with Protestants than Catholics and this should be reexamined or at least referred to as similar figures reemerge nowadays.

(not to excuse the Catholic church's crimes either, especially the brutal crimes of the NDH in WW2, and the Franco regime)

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

This may be the most important war that us consumers have to win this century. Most of our liberties will depend on it in the future, not in some spiritual or principled way, but in the "means of production" kind of way.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

They can clone NFC tags, if the phone hardware, drivers and software permits. It really depends on how smart the chip inside the smartphone is and how locked down its drivers are. I still keep around a Galaxy S3 because its reader does not complain when writing to UID fields of a NFC tag. Saved a lot of friends exorbitant second keyfob landlord fees.

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This resonated with me especially since the 9-5 maxxing of modern society constantly discriminates against working members of society. My post office is open so sparingly that I have to find an unemployed friend or my grandmother to pick up my packages sometimes. Same story with health services, banking or any store that isn't a huge grocery store.

I could get inflammatory and say that functional members of society are being discriminated against in this way, or flip it around, stating that any disadvantage that requires you interacting with public services is systemically pushing you away from meaningful employment.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Linux+LUKS enables FIDO2, which uses sha256, meets the requirements of "never leaves the device" and keeps it on a separate device, on a separate secure element.

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I will still hold the decision to link the biggest possible target on every server against the biggest, most privileged daemon on every server, as not very smart indeed.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

OpenBSD exposes pledge() and unveil(), which allow programs to only access things they declare they need. So, even if the running SSH process gets exploited, it can't do anything the user it's running as can't do. sshd afaik runs as a root process which after authentication forks into another process, running as the target user.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

"Nothing to see here, please disperse"

But for real now, people asking health-related questions is a huge trigger for AI safety measures. Does it only care about the vaccine part, or does it care about the hantavirus part? Maybe ask about the virus in general first, then ask about development...

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Bluetooth has, especially with the adoption of the BLE standard, wholly transformed from this PAN link you only turned on to take fone calls, transfer a file or attach a modem to your computer into an always-on nightmare that incessantly beacons even when there is no need to do so at any time.

The whole pivot around covert work is strange, though. What kind of "covert work" involves a taser and/or a bodycam on the person anyway? Wouldn't the mere physical presence of a bodycam (an Axon bodycam no less) signal something's off?

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I really enjoy how the fast-tracked improvement of open source design software like KiCad, OpenSCAD and FreeCAD have enabled people to share products of their work in a way that does not necessarily need to benefit a walled garden software provider. 20 years ago they'd have to be Altium components or something...

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