blackcatsec

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by blackcatsec 3mo ago
All of these comments aged well.
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by blackcatsec 5mo ago
When it comes to fossil fuels, there's no such thing as 'energy independence' because fossil fuels are traded on a global market. In addition, not all oil is the same. So you have to trade it because what you can extract may
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by blackcatsec 5mo ago
To be fair, though, electricity is usually cheaper at night. So discharging solar charged batteries well into the evening is still a net benefit for the grid (and your wallet).
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by blackcatsec 5mo ago
people were worried about deepfakes with AI but instead the propaganda is doing pretty well, and arguably better, when it's not a deepfake but instead silly, catchy, youthful, and is playing up existing beliefs. The invasion is deeply
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
They've fallen victim to a catastrophically easy scare tactic, unfortunately. "The sun only shines during the day therefore solar is bad!" Dumb, but easy.
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
> I often wonder why tech has so many reductionist, materialist, and quite frankly anti-human, thinkers. I think it comes from a position of arrogance/ego. I'll speak for the US here, since that's what I know the most; but
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
Sure, but this is absolutely not how people are viewing the AI lol.
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
This is a way too simplistic model of the things humans provide to the process. Imagination, Hypothesis, Testing, Intuition, and Proofing. An AI can probably do an 'okay' job at summarizing information for meta studies. But what i
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
This is it right here. I've long thought about this one and whether I should bother with an AI agent that can do all of this stuff for me, but the reality is both what you said and I'm not rich enough. Do I want the AI Agent to ta
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
Could you imagine hitting a rest api and like 25% of the bytes are comments? lol
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
To be fair, the first point is a good point. But I'd argue that you should deploy them everywhere in order to not be racist since we already generally know that the red light cameras are revenue generating devices. Is there some data
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
Likewise. I once got pulled over by the police because they insisted that my license plate had been turned in and I was driving without valid plates. They called other officers, ran the plate, ran the VIN, ran the plate, ran the VIN. I dunn
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
While I'll make no judgment specifically on whether or not she is telling the truth, because the article itself isn't enough validation to say she is telling the truth here; I'll comment more on the comments in this thread. A
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
I hadn't considered this so eloquently with LLM text output, but you're right. "LLMs make everything sound profound" and "well-written bullshit". This has severe ramifications for internet communications in gen
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
I can't believe the person you replied to thinks that they're going to get some magical more amount of equity because you can hopefully do more with fewer people. That's assuming the entire business landscape doesn't als
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by blackcatsec 6mo ago
I question that as well, it's also why Go is extremely popular. Could it just be a pendulum swing back towards static linking? Wonder when some enterprising OSS dev will rebrand dynamic linking in the future...
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
Why are you excited for this? They’re not going to give YOU those peoples’ salaries. You will get none of it. In fact, it will drag your salary through the floor because of all the available talent.
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
Wanted to reply though it's been 10 days! You are correct. But the one thing the words do is lend credibility to the eventual overthrow of the terrible regime, by allowing the words to be used to back that overthrow. In the hearts and
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
No, it's a solved problem for ad blockers , a very specific problem case that extensions have traditionally solved. But the entire concept of extensions is far greater than just "ad blockers", although that's the use ca
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
I mean on iOS you do have a raw home storage path you can save arbitrary binary data stuff to, although Apple generally just has the option of "Save to Files"--but you have at least some basic folder structure there you can use an
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
Or in your scenario, understand the concept of 8.3 file names and why they existed, and when they were removed, and how :P
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
Thanks! That's one of them :) I had to look it up as it was bothering me. The other is "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire.
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
I'll distill it down into something you might understand a bit easier. On social media, such as Instagram, or Tiktok, you'll find a bit of a meme going around that shows the difference between an influencer video of a vacation des
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
Because you're unable to understand art, honestly. Photography isn't just "taking a photo and making a grayscale image in Photoshop"; but rather a combination of a couple of different artistic expression styles that invo
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
It's certainly amped up in coordination over the last decade with the mixing of the tech oligarchs and the traditional religious oligarchs. What it reminds me of is the situation in Saudi Arabia. The religious elite allows the Saud fam
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
Let me reframe a bit on this one. You are correct that it's not a distinctly organized group, but very loosely organized with people continually carrying the baton forward in the relay race to remove our rights. Each runner is going to
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
Yeah I'm not sure many of the commenters realize that this is the targeted plan. They're already succeeding with over 20 (mostly Republican) states requiring age verification to access pornography. The whole point of this plan is
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
I mean there are an increasing number of states that are requiring age gating for pornography access for sites like PornHub. It's only a matter of time before that age gating expands to non-pornographic entities, which is the ultimate
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
One of the unspoken parts of the open source social media movement is to put the 'social' back in the 'social media'. There has been a fine line between true user-driven content and centrally-controlled (and often author
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by blackcatsec 7mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding at least a little bit here. The Constitution created separation of powers, but what it did not do is explicitly block a particular branch from either abdicating their duty or simply delegating their powe

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