phutatorius

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google disrupts Chinese-linked hackers that attacked 53 groups globally⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not in the US and work on a moderately high-volume site, also not in the US. We’ve had a lot of attacks, and a couple servers compromised though our security team was able to get the VMs offline before any further exploits could succeed, and in one case was able to trace the attack back to a server (which itself wasn’t particularly secure). The discussion on a chat server on that box was in Chinese. Yeah, sure, maybe someone went to a huge amount of trouble to fake all that chat, but I’m going with the more probable explanation.

  Just because the US is fascist doesn’t mean China smells like a rose. Two things can be wrong at once.

  As for the purported Google heroics, I’m unconvinced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connected cars can be hacked, research finds⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it long has been illegal to remove the onstar

  Oh yeah? What law would that possibly break?

  I think I learned that after seeing a sopranos episode

  Oh, never mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Kashy Google looking for wank fodder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also it creates space junk that can damage or destroy other satellites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Amodei left OpenAI partially because of ethical concerns, so yeah, I’m slightly surprised and even a bit disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech crunch indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is a highly efficient system for resource optimization, except that the side effects are environmental destruction and steering disproporitionate rewards to socipaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a crap solution in search of a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So your reasoning is that it’s not enforced now, so it’ll never be enforced?

  Okay, no point in bothering then, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a software and systems architect. Architecture won’t save you if the implementation is crap. That’s just marketing jive talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also tax evasion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking idiots don’t know how operating systems work or what they’re for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diffusion of Responsibility in a world with LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Responsibility is what we make it, and in a just world, it flows up the ownership chain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Midterm elections coming up in 9 months, that’s why. Gotta scare the feeble-minded geriatrics and low-information mouthbreathers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hurry! Before the bubble bursts!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bauer-Kahan is a Democrat, if you wonder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CDU has always been authoritarian knobheads. No surprise here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed

  Yeah, sure, and winged monkeys may fly out of my ass. But I doubt it’ll happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Just because it’s a massively funded design objective with extensively tested results doesn’t make it a thing!!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My hearing isn’t extraordinarily acute, bit I can hear the difference, especially in transient-rich sounds like cymbals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You get much better conductivity with plaintains because the cross-sectional area is bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a rich playground for the price-equals-value fallacy, and there are plenty of well-heeled rubes that’ll fall for the technobabble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoodoo is 3dB better than voodoo according to my tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This will now be a standard AI response. Well done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New Era of Safety: Facial Age Checks Now Required to Chat on Roblox | Roblox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re using that to make a 3d biometric facial model.

  Absolute privacy nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New Era of Safety: Facial Age Checks Now Required to Chat on Roblox | Roblox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a fucking chance, mates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We got that a while ago. More recently, we got instructions for how to disable it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing wrong with laziness. There are a small number of cases where it improves productivity. None I’ve found so far on my job, but I know people who use it effectively.

  But anyone who gives an LLM access to do something that might be costly or risky to reverse is a drooling imbecile who shouldn’t be allowed to eat soup without being watched by an attendant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For all we know, the leader of Antifa might be a bot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It means “me no like.”