Anonbrit

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by Anonbrit 1mo ago
Search youtube for drivers talking about thus from their personal experiences. There are hundreds of horror stories there to get you started. There have been websites dedicated to collecting such stories, though several have been lawyered t
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by Anonbrit 1mo ago
Why has the stereotype of the coked-out stock trader or ketamine addicted delusional billionaire not held the same place in popular culture? Vagely functional coke heads are very, very common in certain circles
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by Anonbrit 1mo ago
Just about all common psychological medication (by which I mean antidepressants, antipsychotics, ADHD meds, etc) have a pretty weakly measurable effect and effectiveness. If you take them, your symptoms might improve. In some casesthey&#x2
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by Anonbrit 2mo ago
Yet we still have tobacco and vape companies
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by Anonbrit 4mo ago
In the US, there's a government shooting people in the streets, with jackbooted thugs operating with impunity in multiple cities, a leader who's started a war to try to drown our discussion of his pedophile tendencies, the highest
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by Anonbrit 4mo ago
I'd say instead that we value the commons and don't like companies making money by externalising all their problems to the general public. If company Foo leaks my personal data, I suffer, they don't, so without regulation the
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by Anonbrit 4mo ago
For encrypted disks, you've now got high-performance data shuffling between userspace and kernel space - a massive new attack surface
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by Anonbrit 4mo ago
The thing with a jury is that there are motivated experts on both sides explaining the technical details in a (hopefully) easy to understand way, a judge to help ensure fair play, and an appeals process as an escape valve. Where are any of
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by Anonbrit 4mo ago
You have a right under the GDPR to get a copy of all data associated with you PII data. Not just your PII data, but every table where PII is a field, or is transitively joinable. If they can provide somebody else something with your name as
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by Anonbrit 5mo ago
Stock is worth exactly what people will pay for it. Ebay share holders get to vote to accept or reject this deal
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by Anonbrit 5mo ago
Nearly a decade old story now
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by Anonbrit 6mo ago
He can apply to the court for special permission - and probably use ADA to guide permission
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by Anonbrit 6mo ago
It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable
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by Anonbrit 6mo ago
People have been making the same complaint about Dr Who for at least 40 years, couched in the language of the day. Same with Star Trek.
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by Anonbrit 6mo ago
The phrase "the key insight" now sets my teeth on edge due to how often it appears in LLM writing
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by Anonbrit 6mo ago
Nothing unites a group like a common enemy. If it does fall apart into civil war, expect past and random terrorism for years
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by Anonbrit 6mo ago
Was he buying from Ea-nāsir?
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
I don't think any commercial entity can be trusted to break the law on behalf of customers who only pay a small fee each
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
Any chance of pushing it to GitHub? My swift knowledge could be written out on an oversized beer coaster currently, so I'm still collecting useful snippets
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
There are plenty of examples of AI being successfully used to emulated the email / messaging style of a specific individual already known to the target, for spear fishing attacks, and fake video and audio of family members tricking peo
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
Plausible but lacks suggested experiments or predictions. Seems testable in principle though, in both human and animal models
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
Humans also write endless amounts of convincing bullshit, and have done since time immemorial. False papers and faked results have been a growing scourge in academia before LLMs were a thing, and that's just counting the intentional f
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
You have to be careful when you edit comments - you can be seen as editorialising, which can lose you protection against being liable for defamation in some jurisdictions. Probably not a huge issue for a small website, but now risk than I&#
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
Found to be illegal when? 3 decades after they've done their damage?
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
There's plenty of evidence that many people are not making rational and informed decisions due to advertising practices. That is absolutely being forced into things
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
I don't control most of the discord communities I'm in. Some have been going a long time, and every platform migration sheds and shreds members. The 'mild effort' to move an old community to a new platform more often tha
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
Several companies have resisted these court orders successfully. Google can afford a lawyer to go over the order with a fine tooth comb if they wanted to - it's just easier to roll over and let the government rub their belly. Trump has
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
Don't use products from large US tech companies? Apple has a slightly better track record than Google of fighting this stuff, but ultimately if you're using a product from a US tech company then it's likely ICE can get their
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
But that 8% is almost as many prisoners as comparable countries have, total. The lobbying and sometimes outright corruption around private prisons doesn't care if it also feeds people into non-private prisons as long as it also feeds t
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by Anonbrit 7mo ago
I expect to see the USA flying down the ranks this year... seems their whole government and judiciary is for sale, and not even expensive

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