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Workers should unite and tell management to get fucked.

So Bosch is consistently anti-repair, huh. Not surprising

I bought a Pixel 8 and grapheneos says minimum 7 years support. I’m hoping I can not break it for that long and that the battery and everything lasts. I won’t be too upset if I can get 4 years out of it though.

Rayhunter is the way.

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Will robots work for me as well?

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The speed of technological progress tends toward an exponential curve, and Frank Herbert understood and knew this, but wanted to write a serious medieval saga set in the distant future. The Butlerian Jihad was always a plot contrivance to explain why in the thousands of years of intergalactic civilization, human life is still recognizable to us, and still recognizable from their in-story ancestors. But just because AI was treated as an enemy by fictional fascists, doesn’t mean it was good. Fascists are enemies to other fascists. It’s an ideology that is always seeking enemies, and will either invade outwards or purge inwards - but their enemies don’t need to be ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ they only need to be ‘other.’ It can both be true that a technocratic class using thinking machines would have dominated the human race, and the force that prevented their rule is a theofascist eugenic autocracy. The theme Herbert I think would have appreciated his readers noticing is that there is no real difference between a crushing totalitarian dictatorship under an inhuman technocratic class, and a crushing totalitarian dictatorship under a charismatic leader and a religious cult.

Appearances, preconceptions, stereotypes… are shortcuts used to deal with complex issues. Since VCs don’t really care about 90% of the startups, they only need to weed out the worst ideas, in the quickest way possible. Story time: When I was 20, I had some job interviews lined up, so a family friend helped me pick a decent looking suit and robe that weren’t too expensive. Got offered 3 different jobs in a single week

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37214923 ::: spoiler Table of Contents. Database: The influence of Big Tech. How Big Tech’s “Invisible Hand” Reaches Latin American Regulators. How Big Tech Killed Brazil’s “Fake News Bill”. The battle Big Tech won to weaken a regulation that sought to protect children’s mental health. The Revolving Door Minister. The Argentina’s Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) attempted to collect taxes from large technology companies, but Alberto Fernandez’s administration exonerated Mercado Libre. In the Shadows, a Former President Builds a Career Representing Tech Companies. Zero Sanctions in Ecuador Due to a Weak Personal Data Protection Law. Not Released in English Yet: Content removal from platforms accounts for 40% of lawsuits against tech companies in Brazil. The right is filling gaps in Congress with a flood of bills to regulate the internet. Father of the chairwoman of the AI ​​commission in Congress signs agreement with Google for use of technology. ::: An investigation into how Big Tech has influenced the avoidance of regulations seeking to mitigate its negative effects on societies and politics. Led by the Brazilian media outlet Agência Pública and CLIP in partnership with 15 organizations.

As long as you can re-disable it after playing the game… I know, all background processes get impacted during gameplay, but that was the case already. The popup can explain the tradeoff, and who’s to blame (game dev).

Its why I have a Yubikey, the 2FA can be direct request of the device plugged in, or the OTP codes it generates. Being a separate hardware key means its not tied to my phone ID, or under a company “device wipe permissions” required

I know this sounds condescending but isn’t this more of a reading comprehension / media literacy problem than an AI problem? These people apparently believe whatever an LLM tells them and, critically, only realised they were being goaded when they asked a different LLM. Sounds like the problem is between keyboard and monitor, no? If you can’t critically evaluate information being sent your way, no matter who from, you’re at risk of delusion. We see it all around us, really AI only accelerates the proces.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37138319 Full Report: “Shadows of Control”. ::: spoiler Investigation Partners Paper Trail Media; DER STANDARD; Follow the Money; The Globe and Mail; Justice For Myanmar; InterSecLab; The Tor Project. ::: The investigation exposes how Pakistani authorities have obtained technology from foreign companies, through a covert global supply chain of sophisticated surveillance and censorship tools, particularly the new firewall (the Web Monitoring System [WMS 2.0]) and a Lawful Intercept Management System (LIMS). The report documents how the WMS firewall has evolved over time, initially using technology supplied by Canadian company Sandvine (now AppLogic Networks). Following Sandvine’s divestment in 2023, new technology from China-based Geedge Networks, utilising hardware and software components supplied by Niagara Networks from the U.S. and Thales from France, were used to create a new version of the firewall. The Lawful Intercept Management System (LIMS) uses technology from the German company, Utimaco, through an Emirati company called Datafusion.

Yeah I wonder if it could get darknets from the dark nasty garbage dumps they are now into a more mainstream privacy-conscious network. Basically, what they were always meant to be but only the really dark people used it and scared everyone else off.

Well, my main concern is the characterization of this as “piracy.” It’s not like image generating AIs are reproducing their actual films, right? Sure, it could be used to produce similar artwork to comics or stills or something, but it’s not gonna recreate the substance of the media. Yet, that’s how they’ve chosen to classify it, and I worry that it could set a precedent that could be used to sort of sidestep fair use protections.

Short for Rachel? Ray-tch. Rachel, but without the “el.”

This is just one of the many far reaching effects of the disinformation age we are headed into. It would not surprise me if, in the future (assuming humanity survives our climate crisis), this period of time will be contrasted with the middle ages as periods of great loss of human knowledge. For what it’s worth, a lot of what the article is bringing up isn’t particularly new. Fake studies are nothing new, but the scope of them will definitely increase. While it is manpower intensive, this is easily solved by peer review. In fact, perhaps ironically, AI could be used to do a first-pass review before and summarize what seems like it was AI created versus human created and send that along to a human. Corporation funded studies designed to get around regulation or to promote their product, on the other hand, is something we’ve been dealing with for quite some time and an issue we haven’t really solved as a society. Anyone who works in science knows how to spot these from a mile away because they’re nearly always published in tiny journals (low citation score) which either don’t do peer review or have shady guidelines. The richer companies have the money to simply run 40 or 50 studies concurrently and toss the data from every one that doesn’t have the outcome they’re looking for (in essence repeatedly rolling a d20 until they get a 20) which allows them to get their findings into a bigger journal because it’s all done above board. Some larger publishing journals have created guidelines to try and fight this, but ultimately you need meta-analyses and other researchers to disprove what’s going on, and that’s fairly costly. Also, as an aside- this belongs in the science community more than tech in my opinion.

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It is if you just truncate! No one should do this, as I don’t recall the last time I saw such a textbook example of “rounding error” meaning “we fucked up while rounding.”