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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

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Hardware in cars, like hardware in computers drifts in configuration over manufacturing time. Some cars from a manufacturer might have some granularity of tracking that earlier units off the line didn't. Toyota does this with their Camry hybrids, for example.

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Also, they have to follow Swiss law if they want to stay in business.

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SpaceX's track record for orbital insertion definitely had something to do with that. When last I knew, N-G didn't have its own launch facilities (that might've changed in the last few years but I doubt it).

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Conventionally Point Nemo is the target.

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Longer - fifteen, closer to twenty years. It took this long for there to be one or two companies that they could be sure wouldn't just cut and run (especially given how cutthroat the aerospace industry is).

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They have had a plan for it, from the very beginning. Big-budget space projects like ISS don't get anywhere without a wrap-up plan. ISS is in LEO, and its mass contraindicates moving it into a graveyard orbit. Conventionally, stuff in LEO gets de-orbited; same thing happened with Skylab in '79.

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I was going to mention Bookstack also.

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Companies are trying to go back to the time when they got popped and told nobody.

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Do people seriously not keep copies of their finished work anymore? They just post them and delete the local copy?

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Change up the kinds of malware they write.

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That's one of the reasons why uploads to the Archive have torrents.

Now if they'd just fix the damn tracker..

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Folks have made it - I think ollama was name-checked specifically because it's on Github and in Homebrew and in some distros' package repositories (it's definitely in Arch's). I think some folks (at least) aren't talking about it because of the general hate-on folks have for LLMs these days.

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I thought that feature was built into it, but okay.

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We've seen time and again what happens when a mega gets a foothold in something grassroots: Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)

As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...

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"Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history."

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Don't forget folks aging bot accounts by downvoting everything they see to generate history.

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There are spambots that still post on Usenet newsgroups even after organics abandoned them twenty years ago.

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It's probably something easier to set up, like a couple of fuses in the package that, when a signal is applied to a particular set of pins, will blow and disable the chip.

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Is Lisa still running site security?

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If they could get away with it.

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Give her my best!

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It would be far easier for the manufacturer to set up fuses that a killer poke could blow than to jump through all of the (legal) hoops to get hold of an explosive of some kind. And get Legal ready for it, because nothing like this ever affects only the intended group you don't like. To put it another way, one USian gets hurt because it went off at the wrong time and they're in a world of shit.

Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (www.researchgate.net)

Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

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It's worth trying.

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Ask Amazon why they picked a name that was the same as a small publishing company that had been around for years and sued them into a smoking crater in the ground.

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Isn't this just a personal website with a links page?

What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?

I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...

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The folks who're recommending analysis of your site's access logs are correct. However, Github Pages doesn't have any such notion. You might have to go with the recommendations of moving stuff over to a VPS.

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It still strikes me as odd that anybody ever trusted a mega.

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Anybody have a VPN link into HK? It'd be easy to find out.

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They've never been shy about saying this.

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They do this periodically. We saw it during Occupy, the Arab Spring, BLM, now Palestine (again). As a general rule, when folks go into the streets, the tighty righties start up the FUD.

There is a reason why spooks learn tradecraft - threat modeling, procedures, awareness, and techniques - more than they learn technology. It would behoove folks to to learn a little about that before hitting up the appstore.

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The fairest thing you can say about CrossFit is that it's a nicely unique string to filter out. :)

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https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/112437280384669007

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It's a Google hosted service, which is arguably worse because they may as well be a nation-state unto themselves.

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I do not think so, no. However, Amazon is certainly big enough to be un-humorously compared to nation-states as well.

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Doable, but a huge pain in the ass because of conflicts in the protocol. I spent about a year trying to suss them out and come up with a fix but never figured it out.

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Points 0 and 1: None of this is new. This goes back to 2011 or 2012.

Point 2: If someone gets hold of your phone and unlocks it (meaning, they can interact with it), they have access to your Signal messages on-board. This is why additional security measures (not using biometrics, encrypting your phone natively) are recommended. If your phone is off and someone dumps the data from it, they get encrypted data.

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Yeah, nah.

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Thing is, Protonmail has been telling people this from the very beginning. It's like it gets rediscovered every year or so when somebody else gets busted.

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If you're going self-hosted with your stuff, have you consider a bookmarking webapp like Shaarli? You can even export your bookmarks from your browser and import them.

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In a journalistic context, a ZKP can't prove veracity of the information.

Let's say you have a hoax that you want to pull on a journo. You cook up something that looks legit, like the blueprints for a super secret stealth fighter or something. You find a way to apply a ZKP to that file (let's say an elaborate cryptographic hash). You leak the file to the journo. They ask for you to iterate on the ZKP a few hundred thousand times (which is on the low side for a ZKP) - easy to do, because you came up with it.

But that doesn't mean the file's legit. That's a separate problem, and not one that is technological in nature.

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Sounds like they want to crack down on seedboxes.

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For non-profits (like 501(c)(3)'s) that's not unusual. Non-profits are more like specialized tools for the board of directors than like companies.

Source: First ten years of my career were at non-profits.

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Them's who has the gold, makes the rules.

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https://gizmodo.com/23andme-is-selling-your-data-but-not-how-you-think-1794340474

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/23andme-sells-anonymous-dna-data-to-drug-company-for-20-million/article_ea59fe96-79df-11ee-8473-47193d62656b.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data

https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/377206-23andme-accused-of-having-fire-sale-of-customer-dna-data

The usual warnings about "anonymized data" and "data aggregation" apply.

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People don’t use turn signals, speed through residential neighborhoods, change lanes in the middle of intersections, it’s insane.

It's been like that since I was a kid in the 80's.

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Hot on the heels of piracy spiking when streaming media libraries were being pared down. This reads like a shot against seedboxes.

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Is it just Kbin, or does every fediverse service have the issue of being totally swarmed with bots advertising illegal pharmaceuticals? Is this just the result of limited moderation?

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I haven't seen it on any of the instances I hang out on.

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