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by fwn 2mo ago
I liked the vast modding community around Morrowind and had plenty of fun playing around with it in my younger years. If the concept of art one has in mind limits creative endeavour and acts as a gatekeeper to art, then it is probably bette
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by fwn 2mo ago
It is worth noting that most of liberal arts education is fantastically cheap compared to many STEM degrees, especially medicine. Whenever you need a laboratory, a hospital.. it gets much more expensive than anything a liberal arts teacher
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by fwn 2mo ago
The about page has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. All you get is five first names. I'm not sure what is meant by "we're building in the open" if it's a closed-source project with no person attached to it. There a
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by fwn 2mo ago
What makes sense about selecting instances based on one's own location? Using local infrastructure leaks your location and simplifies law enforcement against the user. For example: Living in Saudi Arabia for work would absolutely not i
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by fwn 2mo ago
There is also a whole second category of immense risks of having US companies gatekeeping offensive capabilities, especially for us here in Europe. The centralization/privacy/kill-switch concerns that come with it are a huge AI sa
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by fwn 2mo ago
Regulations on forbidden numbers exist, but they are usually not a sensible policy and are not comparable to the regulation of rocket launchers.
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by fwn 2mo ago
Yes, to clarify: I was not arguing against you but against the statement you quoted, made by Dario. Your quote was very relevant, as it highlights the foundational lack of intellectual honesty behind the whole Anthropic statement.
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by fwn 2mo ago
Demanding "required safety testing" is demanding a ban. Otherwise the testing would be inconsequential, right? I'm sure he didn't mean just a "lobotomized to be worse than Anthropic products" badge for the test
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by fwn 2mo ago
It is perfectly fine (and in fact standard) to identify people without any payment processor involved. Someone arguing for the ability to pay someone without surveillance does not argue for a world where nobody knows each other anymore. Tha
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by fwn 2mo ago
Concealed advertising is highly problematic and deserves discussion. It is not, however, what OpenAI introduced in the article above. Their current ad formats are, apparently, transparently labeled and clearly separated. It is very likely t
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by fwn 2mo ago
Cloud risks are very true - for both GoPro and DJI. About a year ago, I was looking for an action camera. I found a good DJI product, but then I learned that you have to link the camera to an app in order to use it. I am fundamentally oppos
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by fwn 2mo ago
It is pretty obvious, but as far as I can see, this article has not been disclosed as advertising or sponsored content. I'm in Europe, and I'm no expert on FTC advertising requirements, but this specific content arrangement doesn&
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by fwn 2mo ago
I have always assumed that WhatsApp just does a lot of things for Meta that aren't immediately obvious to the user. For example, the app insists on downloading all the "status" pictures/videos that contacts post. I never
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by fwn 2mo ago
I mostly used GPT-Venti for the complex part, but the documentation was done by either GPT-Grande or GPT-Tall. On a more serious note, I can vividly imagine how difficult it is to agree on a set of words that could plausibly suggest a relat
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by fwn 3mo ago
I'm not sure if this is some kind of tactic, but both of these claims seem trivially wrong. Bluesky is available in both main app stores and on the web. There is no merit in denying this. There are often differences in content restrict
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by fwn 3mo ago
Yes, it is specific to Bluesky. It is not dependent on the official app, though: Both the app and the website are subject to this kind of censorship. There seem to be loopholes [1] through some third-party apps, but that does not change muc
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by fwn 3mo ago
I'm no expert in atproto but it seems to be far worse than that. Apparently, Bluesky applies country-specific labellers automatically based on your IP address. If you register a Bluesky account from Germany, your account is assigned th
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by fwn 3mo ago
Law enforcement at all levels traditionally has a strong lobbying presence. Their public affairs departments are well-funded and do not cease operations just because some initiatives are delayed due to temporary push back. Transparency legi
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by fwn 3mo ago
Unfortunately, public institutions also lobby in favor of chat control, so it's not just private interests. Europol and friends will not run out of public money. Depending on the target audience, public actors can even avoid disclosing
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by fwn 3mo ago
> Microsoft accused of leaking data of Dutch civil servants working on tech laws to US government https://cybernews.com/tech/microsoft-dutch-data/ This is precisely the type of surveillance that can be achieved
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by fwn 3mo ago
The activist is well known. They likely knew he would answer the door, yet they still broke it down. In the U.S., you'd probably shoot some dog in that situation, if one was available. The entire scene is probably not meant as effectiv
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by fwn 3mo ago
> ... what kind of laws should LLMs (attempt to) follow? I think being able to align your text generators with a specific set of laws, speech codes, tonality, etc. is very useful. However, all of this should be a user choice. Your spell
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by fwn 3mo ago
I rely heavily on DeepL Write for my day job, but I dislike the constant logouts, nagging, and laggy UI. I coded a DeepL Write replacement that uses the same layout (two text windows side by side, with the left window for entry and the righ
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by fwn 4mo ago
I doubt that. There are competing sync extensions in their extension store. If you do not want to use extensions, you can sync the vault folder with any syncing app for free. The whole data structure is designed to make this easy. I chose S
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by fwn 4mo ago
> Tags and banners do not work. Completely understandable that someone as dismissive and seemingly isolated as you wouldn’t understand that. One can reduce every tool to a toy and justify it with some hand-wavy security slop, but removin
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by fwn 4mo ago
Chrome gutted extension capabilities for safety and now it is so useless, politically unwanted extensions have "lite" versions and every big project and their dog ship their own chromium browser. I use Obsidian because it does not
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by fwn 5mo ago
> Can we really victim-blame someone for falling for an attack The victims may well be those who are potentially endangered by the leakage of information caused by the decision maker. Regardless of that hypothetical, the person responsib
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by fwn 5mo ago
I was surprised by the superficiality of the Plus benefits as well, which led me to submit the article to HN at all. (That is maybe why there is still no official WhatsApp blog post about it.) I expected something that would increase lock-i
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by fwn 5mo ago
But wait, you sourced the trivial part of your claim (a law exists), but not that WhatsApp breaks E2E. The encryption part is the important part, right? I'm no expert in the UAEs data protection law, but I did not immediately find any
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WhatsApp Plus is rolling out new premium features(wabetainfo.com)
5 points by fwn 5mo ago|2 comments

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