snowmobile

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by snowmobile 8mo ago
You can communicate via SMS with users of WhatsApp too genius. Do you think it's encrypted in any way?
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
The silly names for "work apps" has been a meme since at least 2022. https://x.com/gossipbabies/status/1487161069143576576
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Because a pun on "What's Up?" and "App" is so professional? Maybe I'm old but I remember a time when I though WhatsApp was an extremely silly name for a SMS replacement.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
By following the same protocol... This has been done for ages. PGP and GPG for example.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Wrong, wrong and wrong. If an app does real E2EE (not "marketing E2EE"), then the servers should have no control over the encryption. Otherwise it's not end-to-end, by definition. Regarding the "private non-interoperable
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Call it what you want but the fact remains that they can write a lot of laws the member countries must follow, for better or worse. GDPR, Chat Control, etc.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Sorry to be "that guy", because I don't know the details of how WhatsApp does E2EE, but in any proper (as in secure and private) implementation the only thing that should matter is whether the client follows the spec? You mig
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
What's wrong with the name? Some cultural reference I'm not getting?
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Actually, the linked university page [1] does claim that the "cash rent equivalent" is $274 per acre. Surprising, but I suppose farmland isn't that expensive. But unfortunately their total budget per acre is $960, 90% higher
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
I don't know anything about farming, but the budget seems extremely dubious. 1370 on the lease, 350 on "IoT sensors" and "soil testing" (why?), but only 800 on "Custom Operator", which I'm assuming is
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
I mean, it hasn't even "decided" whether it's going for "Iowa, Texas or Cordoba, Argentina". Just look at the files in the repo, it's looking an awful lot like those AI transcripts where somebody's &q
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Remember the website is entirely AI-built; it's not surprising it's promising a bunch of stuff it's not actually delivering.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
I mean, it's probably worse to pretend to be an actual customer, rather than sending some random message. The AI's obviously never going to actually lease any land, so all its doing is convincingly wasting their time. At least lan
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
I mean, nobody needs LLMs to program. Being banned may be a blessing in disguise, like being cut off at a bar, or banned from a casino.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
> How is thinking different from electricity? ...
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Well yes, but that accomplishes the goal of not working for free. Either you get money for your work, or your users move on, freeing you of the burden of supporting the software.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
> That 20ms is a smoking gun - it lines up perfectly with the mysterious pattern we saw earlier! Speaking of smoking guns, anybody else reckon Claude overuses that term a lot? Seems anytime I give it some debugging question, it'll c
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
> This is software support, it is a job, it should be paid. What's stopping any open source maintainer from charging for their work?
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
It's a neat program, but what's the use for JPGs and PNGs?
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
It's a cool publicity stunt for Anna's, and perhaps the hackers responsible for getting the data simply wanted to show it off and leave Spotify with some egg on their face. I know I wouldn't be able to stop myself from publis
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
> They're claiming that the archive would have released all the material publicly if they were allowed to know an injunction was about to be filed against them. I mean, the archive themselves publicly stated their intention to relea
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
> think is related to some undetermined future nebulously bad thing for their business The thing in question being "we copied all your data and are now gonna release it for free". I like what Anna's is doing, but come on!
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Yeah I'm not saying my friends who cancelled are going to torrent music like it's the 2000's, but when so much music is freely available on the web, why pay? For me it was mainly that the app kept getting worse though.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Since they don't "own" the data they lost, only "rent" it, they probably have to be seen doing something about it, lest they face the wrath of record companies.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Many people are cancelling Spotify among my friends, even very "non-technical" folks. For me I've just gone back to radio or Youtube:ing a few songs for free here and there. Paying the cost of a lunch every month is just not
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Corollary to Betteridge's Law: anytime a LLM "exposes secret internals", it's a hallucination.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
> code review—not code generation—is now the bottleneck to shipping great products. Unsurprising, since a human still needs to understand and verify the code, be that as it's written or as it's reviewed. AI's only managed
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
Defense in depth doesn't mean throwing a die twice and hoping you don't get snake eyes. The AI-generated docs claim that the AI-generated code only filters specific actions, so even if it manages to do that correctly it's not
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
I mean, they've been doing far worse than what they're doing to Europe now to Asian, South American and African countries for at least 70 years.
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by snowmobile 8mo ago
I'm not saying you should allow all your devs access to the prod server in practice (security in layers and all that). I'm saying, if you wouldn't trust a person to be competent and aligned enough with your goals to have that

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