Jon_Lowtek

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by Jon_Lowtek 7mo ago
they just wrote a paragraph about evil being easy, convenient and providing value, how the evilness of others legitimizes their own, how the inability to achieve absolute moral purity means that one small evil deed is indistinguishable from
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by Jon_Lowtek 7mo ago
Social Media companies have actively and intentionally tried to make their products more addicting... now they have to face the very obvious consequences of that decision.
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by Jon_Lowtek 8mo ago
on desktop i had to click on the small black area between two pictures before scrolling with left/right arrows became possible ... very bad UX
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by Jon_Lowtek 8mo ago
The citizens of the USA need to modernize their concept of privacy. Defining it over private/public spaces comes from a time when mass surveillance was technologically unfeasible. Technology has changed, and so must the definition of p
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by Jon_Lowtek 8mo ago
So your think that AI systems that pose a significant risk to basic human rights at scale, should not be subject to oversight and regulation, because that would be anti-human?
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by Jon_Lowtek 9mo ago
According to the "Huawei cyber security evaluation centre" (HCSEC) oversight boards annual report to the national security adviser of the United Kingdom (note: HCSEC was a joint lab between NSCS, GCHQ and Huawei with a lot of acce
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by Jon_Lowtek 9mo ago
this is not a new issue: airbus has been the victim of corporate espionage supposedly by boeing with aid by the nsa in a well documented case in november 2011, and they are not the only victim of US government agency supported corporate esp
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by Jon_Lowtek 9mo ago
typographic attacks against vision-language models are still a thing with more recent models like GPT4-V: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00626
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by Jon_Lowtek 9mo ago
the 24% increase has nothing to do with car size over time in europa. Table 2 in the paper lists which cars where compared, and that 24% numbers is an average from comparing models where manufacturers offer EV and ICE variants.
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by Jon_Lowtek 9mo ago
"relatively clean" means 85% of PM2.5 is from non-exhaust sources, and 15% is from exhaust after catalytic conversion. In New York EV and ICE are pretty much on par when it comes to this category of pollution, as the additional we
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by Jon_Lowtek 10mo ago
While that is the most common use case for CLAs, it is normally done by contributors granting a very permissive, but not exclusive, license to a legal entity like a company or foundation, in addition to the public license granted to everyon
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by Jon_Lowtek 11mo ago
has anyone tried the PoC for CVE-2025-12198 from that chinese site on a version more recent than rusty? It wants a signup with a mainland china phone number, and i only have a taiwanese fax machine. The affected version 2.73rc6 is quite int
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
Consultation documents and published feedback: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa... The documents link the DMA page on the EC website: https://digital-markets-act.ec.euro
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
i only cited it as a side note for the upper bound. the more conservative estimate of the scientific service of the Bundestag still shows that your claim of zero subsidies is made up and unsubstantiated. Discrediting the radical other posit
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
> For example in Germany, nuclear production was never subsidized at all. Except financing research and development, guaranteeing loans to reduce default risk and interest rates, capping liabilities to enable insureability at lower rate
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
i have not checked every service affected in Nepal, but i would assume most of them require a user account, which includes agreeing to a contract that establishes a b2c relation. Such a relationship does not necessarily require payment, and
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
The EU is not a single mind, it is many party democracy. Yes there are forces in it that have been pushing for "lawful interception" for some time now. And they have always failed to ban E2E-encryption. In the USA there exist simi
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
Having direct business to consumer relations with the people of a country is doing business in that country, even if the multinational corporation claims otherwise
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
there is a difference between "russian" and "russian speaking" that is quite important to many eastern europeans that do not wish to be part of some kreml lead lingua-nation.
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
a rich and fascinating history. If i may recommend a wikipedia article: "Cabinet Noir", which includes: "by the 1700s, cryptanalysis was becoming industrialized"
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
Read the USAs "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" of 1994, it may change your mind. An FBI document from 2021 foiad by the property of the people org shows the FBI abilities to get information from encrypted messen
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
Little known fact: GDPR replaced the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) from 1995 which itself replaced the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, written in 1981. Now
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
Transferring data to non-eu countries is not by itself a violation, if there are provisions in place to ensure that the basic human rights concerning data privacy of european citizens are respected. The actual problem is that those are miss
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
>> I didn't believe in the premise that if someone doesn't pay their parent, that it means the child doesn't care about them. I don't understand why the respondent said that vicious straw man, Children who emotion
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by Jon_Lowtek 1y ago
> And if you directly want a piece of the investment from the children, as people got in the old days, well then go fuck yourself you greedy selfish bastard consider the following: if your children don't care about you, the societ
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by Jon_Lowtek 2y ago
> most expensive bug of all time that crashed a whole rocket being valued at $ 370 million in 1996 that bug was recently dwarved by crowd strikes multi-billion-dollar disaster in 2024
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by Jon_Lowtek 2y ago
and vice versa the later seems inauthentic, off-putting and weird to the former
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
France is also outsourcing parts of the fuel reenrichment process to Tomsk in Russia
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
GitHubs privacy policy towards end users says they collect usage information and telemetry, among other data. So you host a project comparing ToS on GitHub and Microsoft collects information about anyone viewing the project, who referred th
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
It is not only a privacy issue, "certified by entrenched gatekeeper mega-corporation" is a nightmare for user freedom. The first ones who will be impacted are the minority who root their devices and compile their own software, but

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