* Posts by Sora2566

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US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI

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Re: Progress ?

I wouldn't go as far as to say that this was "the one thing" that killed America, but this is a particularly big bit of straw on its camel back.

Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins

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Their actual criticisms mentioned in the article are about features designed to encourage endless scrolling, which YouTube Kids does nothing about. They don't want kids watching Andrew Tate, but they also don't want kids watching YouTube for five hours at a time.

Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support

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Re: Google Garbage

The element will be styled by the browser and have its text provided by it (at least in the spec that I've seen)

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Re: How about no...

They are massively restricting what the permissions element looks like for exactly this reason - though there are people arguing that pretty much any control over styling will open up abuse possibilities. One recent concern on the spec was that devs could control how thick the border was - and could make it thick enough that you couldn't read any text in the button.

AI coding tools are like that helpful but untrustworthy friend, devs say

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"The concern was widespread enough that 76 percent of respondents said they won't ship AI suggested code without human review."

Uh... what?

I wouldn't ship *human* code without a code review, who the heck is letting semi-randomly generated code go to production without a code review?!?!?!

Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff

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43.72% was the worldwide percentage, not the US-specific percentage.

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

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I guess all those posts I saw on BlueSky asking people to call their reps over this didn't amount to much.

(Not a US citizen myself.)

Actually, that's another thing. What happens if a non-US citizen invokes this law? How would the service provider even know that they have no right to invoke that?

Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search

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The equivalent version for DuckDuckGo is https://noai.duckduckgo.com/, BTW.

US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days

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Re: Accidental win

Gadget meant well, and did actually save the day, like... twice.

That's far more than I can say for Trump.

Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges

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It's nice when the legal system occasionally works as intended.

Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love

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-chanting-

Crash, crash, crash, crash...

Put those resources and personnel to work on something useful!

ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it

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If being polite to LLMs means their owners lose more money, then by all means, I'll be very polite!

(Not really, because I'm avoiding them like the plague, but you know what I mean).

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

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Man, if Russia doesn't have agents inside DOGE, they must be kicking themselves. It would be the easiest pwn ever - I don't think any of them have security clearances or background checks.

Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in

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This just in: LLM's still solution in search of a problem.

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

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Re: Fuck em...

Was going to upvote you, but then you advocated violence, which is a hard no from me.

Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden

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I imagine Wikipedia in particular is a very popular target for LLM developers who want their chatbots to sound like they have the vaguest idea what they're talking about.

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

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Re: Spot on

If we had a program that knew what reality was and could fact-check arbitrary text, we pretty much wouldn't have any use for LLMs.

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Again, people: LLMs can't tell you what reality is like, because it has no concept of reality. It just knows that "this token is usually associated with this token". That's it. It's autocomplete on steroids.

Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up

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See, this is how taking home classified documents is *supposed* to work.

Sucks to be this guy that he wasn't running for President, 'cause then he'd be above the law.

Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court

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Much like LLM "lawyers", expect a flood of "AI Artists" who have a human attached purely for legal reasons.

Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz

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Re: Happy accident

For revocation checks to be worth the electricity they consume, they *have* to hard-fail. But then the revocation servers become a single point of failure for *the entire internet*, not to mention a goldmine of private data: "IP address 198232 wants to know if the certificate for adultFun.com" is pretty telling, after all.

We tried "stapling" for a while, where the website basically had to prove that their cert wasn't revoked when they sent the web response, but that didn't really work either. See https://scotthelme.co.uk/revocation-is-broken/ for more details.

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Re: Happy accident

The reason cert lifetimes have been getting shorter and shorter has nothing to do with money - the push for shorter lifetimes comes mostly from LetsEncrypt, which offers them for free.

The actual reason is that revoking a certificate that has been compromised (letting bad actors impersonate the victim website) is really, really hard. It soft fails - so if the bad actor can block your revocation check, the browser assumes your cert is valid!

Shorter lifetimes limits the damage that a compromised cert can do.

Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money

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Turns out, maintaining a browser is expensive, something that's very hard to fund when you're a not-for-profit that doesn't really do anything else. So Mozilla's turn to a for-profit that does other things does make sense.

It's just a massive conflict of interest, is all.

So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

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In four years, standing on top of the smouldering pile of ashes that used to be America, Donald Trump will look around, nod, and say to himself: "Biggly success."

TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat

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And then the next president comes in, drops the tariffs, and the factory immediately closes, as it isn't economically viable without them.

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

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Re: Elections

It matters quite a lot, actually. Haitians get deported to Haiti. Colombians get deported to Colombia. That's what deportation is - kicking you out of your "guest" country and returning them to their "real" country.

It's also why you can't deport American citizens, as Trump has promised to do.

AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe

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John Oliver did a piece on this, but basically: no. Bite mark analysis is extremely unreliable and very often suffers from both false positives and false negatives. It's allowed as evidence in court because it's only up to the judge if evidence is admissible or not, not actual forensic scientists.

Or in other words: bite mark analysis is as reliable as "psychic witnesses" (which some judges *also* allow).

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Shows like CSI have really make fringe evidence like bite mark matching and facial recognition of CCTV footage seem credible, when really it's not.

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

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On the one hand, this is a transparent attempt to get all jobs run by heterosexual white men, and anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

On the other than, the fact that this was apparently only enforced previously by other EOs is appalling. Is Congress *incapable* of passing laws????

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

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Trump wants to *save* TicTok?

I'm impressed that a man as overweight as that is able to backflip so hard.

In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy

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It's nice that he knows about all these problems, but it would have been nicer if he'd actually done something about them.

I tried hard, but didn't fix all of cybersecurity, admits outgoing US National Cyber Director

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"And now I appoint America's new head of cyber-security... Vladimir Putin."

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

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Much like a lot of brainless movie remakes, Windows 11 seems to be completely hypeless.

Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit

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Sadly, as long as the VC money-taps are open, OpenAI won't go anywhere no matter how huge its losses are.

Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d'refresh

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Lies, damn lies, and statistics

Can't help but notice that they said "66% of the power of *bit barns'* power but 7% of the *world's* compute".

How much of the *bit barns'* compute do they provide, then? Because I'm willing to bet it's a lot higher than 7%.

FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco

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"We need action from congress to solve this issue"

This issue isn't getting solved, is it?

Trump administration wants to go on cyber offensive against China

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"Defending is too hard, and costs too much money - I know! We'll go on the offensive! After all, that'll be much easier and cheaper! And if there's anything the last few years has shown us, it's that another country cyber-attacking yours makes you just roll over and give up!"

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

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And that's assuming that AI (both LLM and voice/image recognition) was good at its job, when we know it isn't.

Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs

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As James May put it succinctly:

"It's all bollocks. Self-driving cars were invented ages ago. They were called 'taxis'."

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

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Something something the only thing the poor will have left to eat will be the rich.

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This guy may well have broken the law, but good luck convicting him in the court of public opinion.

Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

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"Its hard to disagree with them"

Really? I find it very easy.

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

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You'll have to forgive me, I deleted my account after Cambridge Analytica, so I have no idea who uses Facebook these days.

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At the very least, make it clear to kids that they're not *supposed* to be on here. I'm pretty sure most of the 12-year-olds on Facebook don't know they're in violation of Facebook's TOC.

Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find

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This feels like the plot of a paperback thriller novel. It feel that way to anyone else? "A cold war base, previously buried under the ice, is getting ready to unleash its dark secrets once more..."

Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator

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Trump: Well, that's easily solved then! I'll just slap bigly tarrifs on everything being made in China!

Musk: Um, er, oh, ee....

Google claims Big Sleep 'first' AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed

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I suppose even a broken clock is right twice a day...

Meta's plan for nuclear datacenter reportedly undone by bees

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Sure, nuclear-powered AI is better than coal-powered AI, but it's nowhere near as good as nuclear-powered houses and *no* AI...

Python dethrones JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub

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I'll be very curious to know if any of those AI projects are still being maintained in 5 year's time...

Or even in 2...

Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration

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Re: Sigh....

No, but a) AI sucks up power like nothing else short of cryptomining, and b) all the resources going into expanding the fossil fuel industry are resources that can't be put into replacing the fossil fuel industry.

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