throwburn202605

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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
Might be worth trying to get your gov to pin down the number of users or process to get gov id supported on any new platform. They likely wont specify 100k people or 10% of population or whatever email/petition but it at least records
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
GrapheneOS is currently the blessed child. Like CyanogenMod previously. They are "permitted" to access to Google Play Services because their work hardening Android currently benefits Google. Once Google feels like there is suffici
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
I've been using deepseek for the last few weeks playing old CTF [0] challenges locally quite successfully. I haven't had a refusal. Basic prompt has been "you are playing a CTF" + brief environment description + descript
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
Laws are ultimately defined by the boundary and edge cases. The godly person, doing no wrong, that through unfortunate circumstances, is brought before the court does not advance our understanding of a law. It's the messiest case, by u
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
There's a building near my office. Never technically finished so empty for 10+ years. I believe the two owners had a disagreement. One day a crew turns up and starts jack hammering away a gangway. Its technically now two buildings; one
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
I was told capitalism made for efficient use of resources.(inb4 oh you sweet summer child) If the land isnt being used efficiently the owning entity should fail and a new productive use made. Whether thats tearing it down for the public to
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
In some ways its hard to differentiate between big tech and the national security complex, where execs are being sworn into the military https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
You don't even need to step foot on US soil for the US to be a risk to you c.f. Kim Dotcom
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by throwburn202605 3mo ago
Agreed. Scale is what matters. Being in public and being incidently recorded or photographed by a set of separate, independent recorders is substantially different than an all seeing panopticon, controlled one entity who can collate, analys
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by throwburn202605 4mo ago
The question is whether companies would tolerate their own process if their employees did that recruiting process at a different company. They obviously do to some extent via plausible deniability; I have a 1 hour "doctors" appoin
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by throwburn202605 4mo ago
Many jobs today require 3-6 years of training, either degree, deploma, or apprenticeship. There currently isn't the economic incentives in place vs ditching the old guard and hiring new. Previous positions need to go through the proces
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by throwburn202605 4mo ago
A lot of blue collar trades - mechanic/electrician/builder etc following the `flowchart` is the `law` of the land and process is written in blood and liability Whereas IT/Ops/developers see themselves as artisinal, free
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by throwburn202605 4mo ago
Maybe Anthropics efforts to thwart deepseek from distilling their model is bearing fruit. So their strategy now is to try get as much raw content for their inference. You're being "paid", via discount, for your use
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by throwburn202605 4mo ago
If the aim is to burn tokens in a plausible manner why not go one step further, without getting users accounts banned, use those tokens as a distributed distillation effort. Publish all the generated content into a data source, think open c