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by afpx 5d ago
but the pigeon doesn't have the benefit of using bayesian priors nor collaboration
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by afpx 5d ago
Some people are just better pattern matchers
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by afpx 6d ago
The innovation was what Jeff Han demoed at the TED talk in 2006
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by afpx 6d ago
The mac tahoe weather system daemon is also sus
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by afpx 7d ago
Bare minimum means I want it to boot have have input and display
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by afpx 10d ago
No, really you can't disable all of the services with SIP disabled, at least not the latest Tahoe. Maybe there's a better tool than launchctl, but I don't know what that is. Plus, you disable one, and it crashes and you have
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by afpx 10d ago
If you’ve ever tried to lock down a mac and dealt with the 100s of system services, you’d know why. I like the hardware and base os, but I have no idea what those services are doing. Many are undocumented. A lot can’t be disabled, even wit
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by afpx 12d ago
I understand. Different people have different thresholds for trust. Unfortunately, I have lived in DC for a long time. Long enough to know the basics of how espionage works. And, appealing to authority is very effective. Humans love authori
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by afpx 12d ago
No source code? No thanks but no thanks. There also seems to be a lot of ‘privacy’ tools popping up on github lately. It’s a good time to be wary of any if you don’t trust the author 100%. It’s like when HIV emerged in the 80s - the disco d
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by afpx 14d ago
Tangential question: how do you actually find and hire people? I have a decent amount of disposable income [1], and I often want to pay people to help with things I’m not particularly skilled at. The problem is that I have no idea how to re
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by afpx 17d ago
Also true at the macro level. Human civilization and infrastructure resembles slime mold from space. Also, apparently the cosmic web: https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/03/cosmic-web/
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by afpx 20d ago
This acquisition and the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouter are puzzling. Both HF and OR, from a technological standpoint, don't appear to have much IP that cannot be easily replicated. I wonder how much it's worth to Nvidia just to
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by afpx 22d ago
Yes!
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by afpx 22d ago
Too easy to destroy if they're outside of population centers - soon they'll be building them under hospitals and orphanages
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by afpx 22d ago
Wait til you find out what the GIA[1] did with other forms of cultural expression and education - like motion pictures, music, television, and academia [1]: Global Intelligence Agency - because we know that they have deep reach into every n
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by afpx 25d ago
Wait, you mean there's a place in the world where people with merit, effort, and capability thrive?
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by afpx 25d ago
Yeah, that doesn't fly with most Americans. Sounds a lot like the Sacklers - welp, can't ban pain meds, so might as well just addict as many as we can to opiods and take as much money as we can before they die I wouldn't be s
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by afpx 25d ago
I'm sure everyone here understands that. But, there's a difference between a company that puts morality and ethics first vs. one that abandons it altogether or even encourages its opposition. I've worked for all three types,
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by afpx 26d ago
I'm just stating that not everyone is reading the most popular million books. And, there are many, many millions of books in the long tail. A few years ago, after running into this issue several times, I looked into the economics of it
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by afpx 26d ago
archive.org is an incredible blessing that I never really respected enough until the last few years. I have bookmarks going back to the 90s, and for some reason, starting in 2015 or so, sites just started disappearing. I estimate at least 2
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by afpx 26d ago
I think you may be greatly underestimating the long tail. Several times a year I read sources that reference older books that I can't find online. When I am able to locate them, they often cost at least several hundred dollars, sometim
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DNS-based Tracking Evasion (2021)(arxiv.org)
2 points by afpx 28d ago|0 comments
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by afpx 1mo ago
Why should the fruits of our labor be taken to pay for some rando’s job training? If they actually had any potential, they wouldn’t need job training and certainly wouldn’t need average people to pay for it. I’ll think of the poor researche
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by afpx 1mo ago
There are too may bad scientists, and I don't want to fund them. When the sciences became status-oriented, group-think and profit-seeking became the norm. This administration is trash, but I'm still tired of paying taxes to fund j
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by afpx 1mo ago
They should be incentivizing researchers who have histories of publishing research that has been independently replicated. Way too much fraud going on that’s seeping into the real world.
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by afpx 1mo ago
It just may be that they've been pulled from duty. I haven't looked into those scientists in particular, but a few years ago I did some OSINT on others that had funerals. I was surprised to find a couple of them living in other co
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by afpx 1mo ago
When a powerful group removes "Don't be evil" from their code of conduct it's pretty clear where things are headed. Reminds me of when that one verse was removed from Psalm 145.
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by afpx 1mo ago
I understand where you're coming from and can empathize because I've been asked some absurd computer science questions in interviews. However, in my experience, if an interviewer can't confirm basic knowledge of data structur
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by afpx 2mo ago
I think that’s what they call a ‘false dilemma’. Recently, I had a conversation with a bunch of people who have worked in the tech industry since the 90s. Someone asked which technologies have greatly improved our lives. Outside of some spe
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by afpx 2mo ago
I assume that if it's not air-gapped, it's compromised. I keep important stuff offline.

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