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by irobeth 1y ago
I also find some difficulty in reading the next word because of the animation obscuring it; this has my net wpm at 61, but my monkeytype average wpm is ~120
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by irobeth 2y ago
Then you have to answer for yourself if/why you believe Elon would/wouldn't lie about having an alt account to attempt controlling a narrative or keep a troll running longer than it could?
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by irobeth 2y ago
Is anyone else like me? A little socializing goes a really long way for me. I don't hate it, it's not exhausting, I can do it well, and I'm generally seen as a fun person to talk with. I'm an introvert but not because my
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by irobeth 2y ago
It really is amazing how things have come full circle from the point where chrome positioned itself as a "Libre" alternative to the IE near-monopoly There was a point between IE and chrome when Mozilla was always in the near-foreg
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by irobeth 2y ago
i'm reminded of a story from around 2012? about an aerial surveillance program where they recorded a bird's-eye view of the city [1?] they used the footage to solve some cartel murder by playing the footage in reverse to track the
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by irobeth 2y ago
I'd point back to at least 2000 and the Supreme Court stopping the count in Florida, but maybe back to when we sabotaged the Iran hostage deal so Carter couldn't have a win
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by irobeth 2y ago
I recently started getting "targeted" bitcoin extortion emails that have your home address (or what they scraped from public records) and a picture of Google Street view, but they're all going to the email I used for a now-de
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by irobeth 2y ago
I have this same setup and this conversation happens often, you get used to it happening and navigating it. ON only one occasion in ~20 years, someone refused to do business with me because they thought I was impersonating them and told me
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by irobeth 2y ago
Locked iPhone owned by law enforcement target will accept remote firmware push from trusted device?
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by irobeth 2y ago
some endpoint protection services will block anything not signed by a trusted signature or that doesn't match an allow-list of known-good file hashes
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by irobeth 2y ago
I thought branches happened when a wavefunction 'collapsed' -- i.e. for every possible value of the wavefunction, you get a branch with a unique answer for 'value of the wavefunction'?
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by irobeth 2y ago
"slam any key to continue"
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by irobeth 2y ago
to hear Lenny Susskind say it, "light moves at the speed of light"
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by irobeth 2y ago
I'm reminded of [1] a recent Palantir promotional video [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU
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by irobeth 2y ago
The way I've understood it is that everything which can 'move' in spacetime has to have a momentum vector with constant magnitude C (when expressed in the right units, C = 1) The faster you 'move' through space, the
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by irobeth 2y ago
most people now will say something about the commit timestamps indicating this is an Eastern European actor, but it seems like any sufficiently dedicated intelligence service could script their commits or even assign a person to keep certai
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by irobeth 2y ago
I think it's better to look at it like the old AOL client? I've used Opera on and off for ~20 years, and in that time I've seen it strive to be more like a "Web OS"
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by irobeth 2y ago
seconding this, it failed to correctly identify an AI image which had the DALL-E watermark clearly visible what plans are there to guard against people intentionally poisoning your training data by miscategorizing the images they upload for
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by irobeth 3y ago
I just lied about both things it wanted and it was fine with that, so it seems a little silly to make it a requirement
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by irobeth 3y ago
seems like a sophisticated theft ring would have access to the keys for the most common guards like this, reminds me of the TSA key debacle[1] [1]: https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys
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by irobeth 3y ago
one notable exception to this is the grappler archetype, where their 'close proximity command grab' is a massive tool which you always need to respect the mere presence of the grappler causes a pressure on your decision-making pro
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by irobeth 3y ago
> once you are competent you know everything that opponent can do This reads a little like saying "you are competent at chess when you know all the moves the pieces can make" In Chess, knowing your opponent's available mov
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by irobeth 3y ago
> That is in fact the entire concept behind combos- sequences of moves that your opponent can’t do anything during outside of more modern combo breaker mechanics. You can flow chart combos, sure, but that's not the whole fighting ga
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by irobeth 3y ago
Back in the day you if you wanted to 'watch internet videos' then you needed a video player, you needed codecs, you needed to download the videos, you needed to find the videos If you wanted to share videos online, good luck? You
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by irobeth 3y ago
the payload had a few modes of operation, IIRC one was to spin it far faster than it should, then stop abruptly in an attempt to damage the centrifuge one was to run it at the wrong RPM to spoil the product of the centrifuge in either mode,
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by irobeth 3y ago
A phenomenal piece of engineering and spycraft, this implant was the reason I wanted to apply for officer school at the airforce Shortly after, the Snowden leaks would happen, which influenced my decision otherwise
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by irobeth 3y ago
I guess to be more exact, Stuxnet didn't break anything, but the PLC payload it delivered was designed to damage centrifuges, and that would have been the module under test in that QA environment
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by irobeth 3y ago
main content starts around 6:30
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by irobeth 3y ago
> when it goes wrong you find yourself sifting through OOP-obfuscated layers of framework and libraries just to find out how exactly your controller is called. debug_backtrace() has always been my friend in situations like this
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by irobeth 3y ago
worse, ai.txt could become an adversarial vector for attempts to trick the AI into filing your information under some semantic concept

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