goodmythical

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Comment · 14 hours ago
>The blog I wrote (AI-assisted) if you're curious

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Comment · 14 hours ago
I mean, companies are responsible for the actions of their employees within a certain scope and it is not outside the realm of possibility that an individual interested in curtailing the momentum of this candidate works at Meta in a capacity that would allow interfering with the account.

Accusing them without due evidence is sloppy, but it's not like the claim carries genuinely zero possibility of being true.

Comment · 15 hours ago
>should be paid multiple years of a high end vuln researcher salary per single discovery

What? Why would anyone work at a company paying them that much less than they pay the contractors?

Comment · 15 hours ago
>I tried today.ai yesterday

>> Today learns your day, builds a living memory of what matters

>> It helps before you ask

>> We may collect the following categories of information: — name, email address, and authentication credentials (including third-party sign-in tokens). — name, email address, and authentication credentials (including third-party sign-in tokens). — device identifiers, browser type, operating system, IP address, referral URLs, pages visited, and feature interactions. — information you authorize third-party services to share with us through integrations you enable.

>It scanned my disk without my consent during onboarding, which is already a very bad start

Not really sure what you expected a program meant to scan your machine to do outside of scanning your machine given a privacy policy telling you the extent of what they might collect.

edit: Also, literally everyone was talking about this exact vector when claw/hermes/etc launched as the direct reason requiring that "you have to buy the machine it'd be running on": so that un-auditted software exfilling who knows what data doesn't sit very conveniently in your own personal /home.

Comment · 1 day ago
Turned out the key was 0n3S3v3ntHr33f0UrS1xS3v3nThR33... and so we were fine until I typed this comment.
Comment · 1 day ago
I think we'll probably be working to increase value, having that value split disproportionally between us and our employers, and using our split of that value in order to fulfill our basic needs.

Or we'll be at war with a super intelligence.

Or we'll be pets or slaves of a super intelligence.

Or we'll not be.

One of the four, probably.

Comment · 1 day ago
You know manure and the soils produced from composting are literally feces from animals and bacteria, right?

And that manure is an excellent natural fertilizer?

And that outside that, worms exist? And they poop?

Oh, and that if you were to take bird shit beets and worm poop beets and mash them up and extract chemically pure sucrose from both you'd have no way of determining which came from which?

Assuming that you do know all of these things, you're saying that horse shit and worm poop is fine, but you'll be damned if a bird is involved?

I mean, I can see where you're coming from. A potatoe coming from a toilet is probably not as clean as a potatoe coming from a sterile lab, but that's not what you're saying. You're saying that the toilet has somehow altered the physical chemical compounds involved in the structure of the potatoes rather than has potentially added other chemicals to the mix that was the potatoe. The starch is the same in both. The starch = the starch. The starch and the toilet =/= the starch and the lab because the toilet =/= the lab, but those are different arguments.

Comment · 1 day ago
>If someone downloads your software from a mirror

Who pays the tax in 'anonymous' p2p schemes?

If I upload to a french server from a ukranian server that I seed through a swiss based VPN using a norwegian seedbox that I paid a friend for in cash, how does the french government bill me? Do they subpoena the ukranian server to see where the data come from? Does the swiss government, not seeing any legal issue with my data, comply and hand over my norwegian server? Does the norwegian seedbox provider or my friend at the company foot the bill because they've no record of me?

What about networking stacks in which the requester can't necessarily identify where the data genuinely originated? Suppose I torrent a genuine Linux ISO in france. Do all of the peers get fractional bills? Or is it on the distro maintainer? What if the data didn't really originate from any of the peers but was fetched for me by the peers and the peers don't tell me (or therefore the ISPs) where they got the data from?

What if I put, say, VLC in an encrpyted zip. The ISP and therefore the french gov would see this as data coming from me since it doesn't hash as VLC, but they also can't prove that it came from me if I demonstrate that it was actually downloaded from a forum.

What about anonymous data? If 4chan is mirroring images for me that I uploaded from a McDonalds and a french frog downloads it, how do I get a bill? Does 4chan eat the bill or forward it to the McDonalds? Does the McDonalds eat the bill or hire a tech to cross-reference cameras and IP logs? What if I paid for the food in cash? Do they check some mythical "who owns this laptop" database provided by google/meta/microsoft? What if my laptop isn't in those databases? The local McDonalds is forced to foot the bill as they can't provide a patsie?

If I send a friend a video on via facebook messenger, who foots the bill? Facebook didn't send the data, I did. Is facebook going to rewrite it's eula to allow them to bill me for "woops your friend was in france at the time"?

This may all seem like hand-waving what-aboutism, but there are legitimate questions at hand. If public data is expensive and there are routes that do not result in billing, why would anyone choose the expensive route for any reason other than ignorance of the free route? If those who know would choose the free route, how is france going to collect all, most, or any of their booty?

Comment · 1 day ago
https://pastebin.com/zHkErGHP google translated version of article explains that the tax is not on any specific type of data but on any data delivered to french citizens/corps.

I don't have VideoLan's internal metrics, but if they're saying it'll cost them millions they're saying they deliver over ~18tb (or ~36tb for a tax of 2million) to french peeps per year

Comment · 1 day ago
"Agents leak DHS secrets after adopting sentiment it discovered on democratic slack channel"

Woopsie

Comment · 1 day ago
Lots of investors "buy the news" meaning that they go based on under/over speculator sentiment.

If it was believed that they be purchasing N, then that belief was priced in. If they only bought N-1, the price needs to be adjusted to reflect the new information.

Here, the argument is "the more hardware we have, the more compute we can sell, the more compute we sell, the more profit we'll have" and so investors were expecting a higher level of profit and now are not.

All of this is why stock value and company value often share little with each other. The people working at the company and the people investing in the company have different views of what one small piece of the company is worth. You'll see PE ratios vary by sector, over time, by strength of underlying economy, near lows/highs etc. Any company's value is only set by what people are willing to pay for it at any given time.

Comment · 1 day ago
Kind of hypocritical on my behalf. I'm more of a descriptivist when it comes to language; I see it as a living breathing creation that is whatever we make of it, as long as the message is reliably traversing to mind to mind, it is correct.
Comment · 1 day ago
What I've never understood is the weird dichotomy of preventive and reactive governance in the minds of US citizens.

We're willing to spend god knows what shooting rounds that cost entire mortgages to save miltary lives and project a presence of power to deter acts of terror/war, but then are also totally fine having people way as much as 4 or 5 people, eating several days worth of sugar for breakfast, smoking tobacco, putting 3 cups of coffee in a can we drink 4 or five of in a day, do next to nothing to adress recidivism of all classes of criminal, drag our feet kicking and screaming in to a semblance of modernity in worker protections...

Comment · 2 days ago
Glad to hear that an AI hallucinating an 8 syllable second line in a haiku would get it pass your detection, lol.

In all seriousness, poem is a single syllable for many.

Comment · 2 days ago

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