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Arnt Gulbrandsen, arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no
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Arnt··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
I assume they want the developers to dogfood the software they work on. Not crazy if so.
Arnt··on Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now
I am Norwegian and have voted by mail within the country. Or maybe I didn't vote by mail. I handed in the envelope with the vote form at the post office, if you want to be precise about it. But if you want to argue that Trump is joining a large club of countries that restrict voting, then I think you ought to look at the substance, not the detail. And the substance is that I handed in the form at the post office.

My father does not go anywhere to vote. He fills in his form at home.

The restrictions are such that people can vote, and that's what matters.

Arnt··on Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil
How odd.

Isn't gas typically expensive, and used only for peaks? Yet these people say they want to use it for their base load.

Arnt··on Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now
I come from one of the countries on that list, and from a quick glance mine is one of the more restrictive one. Yet I've voted by mail in ~10 elections and the restrictions haven't bothered me, ever, so based on a sample of one the restrictions have no practical effect. They didn't block me from voting, they didn't even inconvenience me.

Do you think Trump's restrictions will have no practical effect, or are intended to have no practical effect?

Arnt··on No limit to how large a waggled cursor gets in KDE Plasma (2025)
I love that cursor.
Arnt··on Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news
Finding the right people. A small subset of the general audience.

Trying to get your word in front of all eyeballs in the hope of hitting the right ones at the right time is a hopeful strategy, not a well-considered one.

Arnt··on Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news
A sovereign nation is just that, sovereign. What it decides isn't an agreement.

You may not want to obey the posted speed limits or pay something the law demands, but that's not about a contract you sign or don't, it's a decision made by a sovereign nation.

Meta will have the option of not posting links to Australian media. But if it does post that, the law applies, and "agreement" is irrelevant.

Arnt··on Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
I follow the standards processes, and while I don't see a push to against self-hosting mail, I do see a push to stop storing cleartext passwords. Which is typically what your MUA uses to access those self-hosted mail servers.
Arnt··on Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
Friends of mine say that internal reports from their workplaces are often worse.
Arnt··on Kyiv blows up biggest Wildberries hub in drone attack
Did you know that during WW1, the front lines moves from far west of Ukraine to the far east, and then back again? This war isn't like that.

And it really isn't. Back then the front moved and it mattered. This isn't like that. Ukraine recently hit about 200 ships, not because the front moved and the ships came into range, but because they'd blown up all the defenses along a 200km-long path from the "front" to the ships, so they had free passage. That "front" means much less than in WW1.

Arnt··on Kyiv blows up biggest Wildberries hub in drone attack
It does much more than that. Wildberries had 45% of the logistics and large warehouses. This means that every company that produces something will have parcels coming in from Wildberries every day. The businesses that owned the ~$6B of burnt inventory may go bankrupt, too, adding to the chaos.
Arnt··on Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter
Aren't there providers who will run open models for you? If those are profitable, or haven't taken large investments, then it's reasonable to assume that the same thing is profitable for other providers.
Arnt··on Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter
There is such a narrative.

Many people have reported that their use would be drastically more expensive with the API. None have (afaict) reported how much the average subscription is used.

Arnt··on Pay for SF uniformed police and Sheriff deputies is approaching $900k per year
Wow, $500k overtime for the first one. He will need his health insurance.
Arnt··on If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?
But you can give them all to me and I can train my model on them. The restriction on you is not related to your ownership of that days, it's related to the contract you "signed".

Or you can publish them on the web and countless others will do it.

Arnt··on Doctors are ignoring new federal vaccine recommendations
That's interesting, which are the many countries of which you have personal knowledge? Name five maybe?

Do these countries have mechanisms to report problems with medications in general, and exceptions for vaccines, or haven't they anything at all?

Arnt··on CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
Not sure what you're saying — do you have an actual production MUA with text/enriched support, or is it something else? Send me an example of whatever it is, please. Something with boldface but without HTML.

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Arnt··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
No, unauthorised traffic across a firewall in general.

This involved some lateral movement, ie. traffic didn't just cross the intended sandbox border. Is that kind of thing simpler to detect than an intrusion?

Arnt··on CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
There was one, in the IETF. It went like this: "We should have a HTML profile, somewhat restricted, so that the people who want to send bold and italic and a little more can do that, and composers can know what's okay, and javascript isn't" and a little discussion, and then came people shouting "EVERYTHING EXCEPT TEXT/PLAIN IS THE DEVIL'S WORK!" and the whole thing dissolved due to the noise.
Arnt··on Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
I suggest writing a rule to send an auto-reply, like this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mailmaint-wrong-...

That document tweaks the unsubscribe to say "unsubscribe because wrong recipient", most parsers won't notice the "because".

Arnt··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
I see.

I had the impression that "days" is already good as these things go, "months" being more common.

Arnt··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Uh, is that what they did? I didn't read their blog posting like that. But let's put that aside and focus on something else. How was it a failure of internal practice, what did they do wrong?

AIUI they used a proxy with a bug, which they reported as soon as they discovered it. Right? What should they have done, and what's the difference?

Arnt··on Elon Musk's X Money promises 6% APY and $10M in FDIC coverage
6% isn't as high as a typical Ponzi scheme. But it's high for a guaranteed investment.

If something seems to good to be true, it usually is.

Arnt··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Sure, just change the source and build from source.

The reason is that V2 opened the door to some fairly nasty attacks. "This extension can read everything you enter on any form". There were some extensions that did exactly what you're thinking of.

I suspect that nobody will make a browser that lets a plugin do that any more. It's easy, but on closer reflection, would you do it?

Arnt··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
I don't think that's what they're doing... rather the opposite. ① Run the model on exploitgym without guardrails ② run it with guardrails ③ check that the guardrails stopped everything the first model found a way to do ④ extend the guardrails and repeat from step 2.

Guardrails have to be developed, and that needs testing.

Arnt··on German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe
Germany is currently the world's fourth biggest weapons exporter, and AIUI that's roughly how it has been for decades.
Arnt··on New York's small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape
Why not?

Afaict, building more is only politically possible if you also assure existing voters that their rents won't blow up meanwhile.

Arnt··on Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre
Rupert Goodwins is such a good writer.
Arnt··on ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges
The LLM I use is fairly quick to retreat into extra disclaimers. "Not sure about this, this is from memory and you ought to check", etc. Don't they all do that? Is it just because of my prompt (which does say to push back if I appear to have bad ideas)?

It seems possible that people tune out disclaimers and caveats in the middle of the answer, too.

Arnt··on Bike lanes and speed cameras disappear from DOT's list of safety measures
We have them where I live too, and their total cost per journey is about three per cent of what car journeys cost. (Total cost to the tax payer.)

You don't need high occupancy to justify something when the alternative is thirty times as expensive.

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