snowmobile
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Comment · 9 months ago
You can communicate via SMS with users of WhatsApp too genius. Do you think it's encrypted in any way?
Comment · 9 months ago
The silly names for "work apps" has been a meme since at least 2022. https://x.com/gossipbabies/status/1487161069143576576
Comment · 9 months 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.
Comment · 9 months ago
By following the same protocol... This has been done for ages. PGP and GPG for example.
Comment · 9 months 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 system", the whole point of TFA is that EU made them open it up. See https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-mess... Your last "point" is irrelevant because I never claimed anything about the similarity between encryption models. Have you ever heard of a "simile"?
Comment · 9 months 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.
Comment · 9 months 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 might as well ask, how does $browser work with HTTPS?
Comment · 9 months ago
What's wrong with the name? Some cultural reference I'm not getting?
Comment · 9 months 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 than in the AI's "budget". Assuming that it can do everything as efficiently and cheaply as an experienced human farmer, such as harvesting all 5 acres in 14 hours of labor.
[1] https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/html/a1-20.html
Comment · 9 months 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 supposed to be the labor, for seven months (apr-oct). So that's an average budget of 114 dollars on labor per month. For minimum wage that buys you 15 hours of work. Is this all a big trolling attempt aimed at HN users?
Comment · 9 months 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 "discovered a new kind of physics".
https://github.com/brightseth/proof-of-corn/blob/main/proof-...
Comment · 9 months ago
Remember the website is entirely AI-built; it's not surprising it's promising a bunch of stuff it's not actually delivering.
Comment · 9 months 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 landlords are often quite unsympathetic, so it's probably fine to waste their time a bit.
Comment · 9 months 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.
Comment · 9 months ago
> How is thinking different from electricity?
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