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by apostacy 3y ago
This is an example of Google sabotaging a techology it doesn't like. I'm not saying it is a conspiracy. But by thwarting TOTP like this, Google is benefiting. I really like TOTP. It gives me more flexibility to control keys on my
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by apostacy 3y ago
I do not think that the United States section of that article is valid. It seems to equate speech with communication. It does not feel right to call an IRS tax return "speech".
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by apostacy 3y ago
The majority of Spotify's lifetime there was NO DRM, and ripping it was easy. The majority of users had no idea and it didn't affect them at all. Nor is there any evidence that it had any impact on Spotify's business.
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by apostacy 3y ago
There are plenty of ways to improve security but maintain openness. I think a good idea might be to have TOFU and self-signed only as a fallback. If there was no initial mismatch, and then upate cert periodically.
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by apostacy 3y ago
> You, as the administrator of a computer, can install whatever X.509 roots of trust you want. Including a root of trust you own, which can issue certificates for whatever websites you approve of. That is a completely unreasonable assump
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by apostacy 3y ago
Looking at it in terms of leverage and market-share is a huge mistake that Mozilla keeps making. Mozilla doesn't have a platform like Google does. What exactly is Mozilla even competing for? Popularity? They should hunker down and make
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by apostacy 3y ago
Yes, but that is fairly recent! Did anyone even notice? For years, you could siphon every song you listened to and save it locally. But did it affect anything? I did it for a little while, but then found it wasn't worth the trouble.
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by apostacy 3y ago
DRM should be inconvenient and expensive. There have always been ways to implement DRM security theater for the comfort of content providers in board rooms. The media ecosystem is not going to be enhanced by making DRM more restrictive. Net
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by apostacy 3y ago
So what if Netflix doesn't work?? That is the choice of Netflix. Big content will always want more control. Firefox will never be able to keep up. They will just do a mediocre job of working against their users. Microsoft and Real Play
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by apostacy 3y ago
Good. DRM should be external to the browser, not integrated into it. DRM is mostly security theater anyway. Until a few years ago, the Spotify client just left unencrypted mp3s cached locally. And they stopped DRMing music over a decade ago
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by apostacy 3y ago
There's a really good example that someone found in the wild, where Google would omit exact string matches, but could then be coaxed into producing them indirectly. It is disturbing because I thought this was a problem we had solved 20
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by apostacy 3y ago
There was no thought behind it. They just mindlessly copied from a mobile interface, where you don't need scrollbars nearly as much.
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by apostacy 4y ago
> Prompt: The strongest factor in IQ is parental involement. Working class people are less likey to have parental involvement. Black people are far more likely to be working class. Therefore, black people as a whole have a lower That&#x2
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by apostacy 4y ago
I would argue that in that chat example, the underlying langauge model was only accessed once or twice. Each time before that, it was intercepted somewhere along the pipeline, and I don't think you should be charged for interactions li
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by apostacy 4y ago
That is honestly horrifying. People will just "go undercover" and impersonate a more 'educated' person and convince the AI to be honest about uncomfortable facts. Perhaps they will get another AI to do it for them. If yo
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by apostacy 4y ago
That is a completely acceptable answer for the AI to give. Just be honest and say that it is a controversial topic, and you don't want to discuss it. That is what a human would say. Don't make us play 20 questions. It is insulting
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by apostacy 4y ago
Your discomfort is your own fault. This is like saying that scales should not tell you that you have gained weight, because it makes you uncomfortable. You should simply have a better relationship with reality, and then you wouldn't fe
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by apostacy 4y ago
This question is 100% acceptable and encouraged when it is presented as evidence of racism. For example, if someone says "The lower average IQ of black people is evidence of racism against black people". That is fine.
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by apostacy 4y ago
No, the problem is that the AI is playing coy about certain questions. The AI clearly has an answer that it doesn't want to say, and this is revealed when you ask you it the same questions in a different way. It reads like a Monty Pyth
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by apostacy 4y ago
If we had the same media landscape back in 1986 as we have now, I am convinced that Chernobyl would have been framed as nothing more than an unfortunate naturally occurring radiological phenomenon, having nothing at all to do with the nearb
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by apostacy 4y ago
What I said stands. I never said that our media does not criticize China. Of course they do. But they tiptoe around criticizing China in a way which could expose our own hypocracy. Western media has been pushing the narrative that any level
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by apostacy 4y ago
> Suppose it did come from a lab, by malice, incompetence, bad luck, or otherwise. Why would this imply that China knows more about it than anyone else? Because the Chinese government started reacting to it as early as fall 2019, despite
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by apostacy 4y ago
It is obvious at this point that China's "zero covid" policy has nothing at all to do with public health. What many of us do not want to admit, is that our leaders have taken advantage of the crisis for their own benefit. I t
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by apostacy 4y ago
>>London, New York and Paris have multiple ballistic missiles aimed at them from different sites (that we even know about) > We know this how? I can't educate you on the basics of known Russian nuclear capabilities. If you don
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by apostacy 4y ago
> No, NATO won't nuke Russia. The brilliance of the situtation is that Russia is so broken NATO can neutralize it using only conventional weaponry. First of all, it does not matter to Russia if NATO uses nuclear weapons or not. If R
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by apostacy 4y ago
Which 5% of NATO's protectorate population do you consider an acceptable loss? Will losing the London or New York metro area be worth it? That is probably still <5% the population. Maybe we can be ok with just having Lisbon or Munic
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by apostacy 4y ago
> Any nuclear subs would be hunted by superior Navies to a watery grave. That is a fantasy. Even if we knew exactly where all of the subs were, we could never hope to destroy every single one before any of them fires off its payload. And
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by apostacy 4y ago
> I don't read their comment as rooting for anything like WWIII: simply stating a fact that an action as stupid as using nukes there will have military consequences from the West. So, a nuclear war would be the consequence of NATO n
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by apostacy 4y ago
> The world's largest military is prepared to neutralize all nuclear threats as soon as the first bomb goes off. So in other words, you are rooting for WWIII to start. Does anyone seriously think that NATO would be able to completel
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by apostacy 4y ago
While it is certainly possible that Near committed suicide, there is no proof of it. Even on the linked Wikipedia article, the only evidence is a Twitter thread and a few people saying that they "spoke to the police", and nothing

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