A1kmm

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by A1kmm 4d ago
And the real threats are mostly economic and environmental - the concentration of the means of production in the hands of few who use it to exploit us all, and a surge in energy usage accelerating climate change. Even the sci-fi scenario as
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by A1kmm 4d ago
Note that many countries who have socialised healthcare and/or accident compensation also collect taxes or levies for higher risk activities as part of the base to pay for it all. For example, all Australian states and New Zealand have
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by A1kmm 5d ago
It probably also so Google doesn't statistically detect the action rate is too low and suspend the customer of the bot farm from getting paid.
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by A1kmm 16d ago
It looks like the original speech to the jury that won this case is published online here: https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-imp... - definitely worth a read.
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by A1kmm 17d ago
The problem is that the scrapers are not sophisticated enough to use things like cgit and Git Forges efficiently (e.g. by git clone), while still being sophisticated enough to bypass widespread controls they are implemented to bypass. An au
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by A1kmm 19d ago
> No. With dummy messages you are guaranteed that traffic analysis will not be possible. I don't think that's true. There are two possibilities: If you're proposing that dummy messages are in addition to normal messages, t
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by A1kmm 1mo ago
Ironically given the purported theme of the 'digitalescapetools.com' site, it's behind Cloudflare, and with settings that initially blocked my from accessing it with latest Firefox on Linux (in i3 with a vertically split scre
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by A1kmm 1mo ago
Or an unauthorised access / exceeds access to a computer system prosecution in at least one jurisdiction somewhere around the world. If the owner of the system has a 'no ads' policy and a security mechanism to prevent ad serv
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by A1kmm 2mo ago
So reflecting on that, I think the core assumption that didn't pan out is that the memory / CPU ratio will grow because we'll need more memory, hence requiring CPUs to address more than 16 EiB of data (16 EiB = 16384 PiB = 16
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by A1kmm 2mo ago
> All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are failing. Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half, not only amongst projects we have been asked to participate in, but even within projects that we have obser
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by A1kmm 2mo ago
I wonder how much of this is driven by confounding variables they haven't accounted for. They do factor in shift work as a categorical variable, and employment status as a categorical variable not taking into account occupation. But pr
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by A1kmm 2mo ago
The European Council (heads of states) sets the agenda, the European Commission (delegates from each state) writes the laws, and the MEPs (elected by the public) decide whether or not to accept the laws. The Council decided Chat Control was
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by A1kmm 2mo ago
A bubble just means it is overvalued beyond it's true fundamentals due to speculation on speculation. The underlying asset can still have value, just less than the market price. Consider Cisco. On the 31st of March, 2000, it was valued
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by A1kmm 3mo ago
I think it's a more useful analysis to add a second dimension than to try to project everything onto 'left' and 'right' (in the style of the . Axis 1 - civil & political rights: In favour of broad social & p
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by A1kmm 4mo ago
I think regulating the retention and processing of information is entirely feasible even in circumstances where the information is initially available for a different purpose. This is in fact the legal status quo in Europe as well as many n
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by A1kmm 5mo ago
The article doesn't really explain well how this is spying. So companies A & B (A=TSMC, B=Tokyo Electron) are in a customer-supplier relationship. Employee B1 of B asks Employees A1 & A2 of A ask for information about how B&#x2
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by A1kmm 6mo ago
It's based on what Donald Trump (or any other US president, should it come to that) says, not on any evidence or ground truth beyond that. The are motives for lying on this - for a start, if a president knows definitively they're
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by A1kmm 6mo ago
I think the registered trademark is Transport Tycoon not TTD. The public may have called it TTD, but I'm not sure they used it in trade (IANAL, not legal advice). And I don't think the OpenTTD devs call it "Open Transport Tyc
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by A1kmm 6mo ago
Yes Transformer models are non-deterministic, but it is absolutely not true that they can't generalise (the equivalent of interpolation and extrapolation in linear regression, just with a lot more parameters and training). For example,
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by A1kmm 7mo ago
It seems if you refer to it as a riddle, and ask it to work step-by-step, ChatGPT with o3-mini comes to the right conclusion sometimes but not consistently. If you don't describe it as a riddle, the same model doesn't seem to ofte
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by A1kmm 7mo ago
In a free-market approach to drug development, if the expected loss of attempting to develop as drug is negative, and the cost isn't too high, then there is an incentive to develop that. The best public policy outcome in such an approa
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by A1kmm 7mo ago
But she mentioned: 1) it isn't in DNS only /etc/hosts and 2) they are making a connection to it. So they'd need to get the IP address to connect to from somewhere as well.
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by A1kmm 8mo ago
They just need more bits of entropy - going from IPv4 to IPv6 involved quadrupling it, but this transition is much more minor. They could just go to 6 characters for now, and go to 7 later.
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by A1kmm 9mo ago
The concept of 'positive rights' (i.e. rights that are not just that the state doesn't do something to you, but affirmative rights to something happening) has a long history, and such rights are affirmed by treaties ratified
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by A1kmm 9mo ago
In many versions of road rules (I don't know about California), having four vehicles stopped at an intersection without one of the four lanes having priority creates a dining philosophers deadlock, where all four vehicles are giving wa
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by A1kmm 9mo ago
I think it's Jon Postel who was the original source of the principle (it's often called Postel's Law). https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc761#section-2.10 is an example dating back to 1980.
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by A1kmm 9mo ago
I believe ethanol is not actually often given as an antidote for methanol poisoning in modern times. It does work as a competitive inhibitor of alcohol dehydrogenase (i.e. occupying the enzyme to convert ethanol to acetaldehyde, slowing the
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by A1kmm 9mo ago
If the intent is to stop it being used for a business, that's inherently at odds with part of the OSI's definition: "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For exa
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by A1kmm 10mo ago
It might be easier to block by ASN rather than hard-coding IP ranges. Something as simple as this in cron every 24 hours will help (adjust the ASNs in the bzgrep to your taste - and couple with occasional persistence so you don't get h
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by A1kmm 11mo ago
One thing here doesn't seem right. I thought the whole thread that this was about them negotiating down how much the executor of a deceased estate would pay to one hospital making claims against it. But the thread included things like:

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