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Lennie··on Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
It's important to mention: they were compliant, because they trained the model at an AI hosting provider that had a partnership with Moonshot AI, but Moonshot didn't know Cursor was a customer.
Lennie··on GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei chips
https://deepseek.net/ was exactly the same last year.

My guess is: Pick a popular keyword from Google trends of which the Chinese company only released Chinese content and take the domain and put up English content.

Lennie··on Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
I'm gonna ask something stupid, maybe: what is keeping you from having a minisplit in each room ? You don't have to run them the whole day. Just where you are going to be for a couple of hours.

My guess is: the cost of the minisplits, pretty certain if you had them and turned them all on, you could still draw that much power from the grid.

And probably you are underestimating the cost of nuclear anyway.

Lennie··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Some others: SPARC and SuperH.
Lennie··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Might be a good idea to spend a couple of million by setting up a small office of 10 people to work on it in the coming years.
Lennie··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
https://matrix.org/ is partly funded by French government.
Lennie··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Network effect is also hugely important.
Lennie··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Takeaway (thuisbezorgd) and Zalando are some pretty large players in the EU markets. Spotify of course.
Lennie··on DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards
I think they are doing really well (by their own standards), the job is to destroy the government. They want to get rid of taxes and rules and regulations that prevent them from keeping their money and doing whatever they want.
Lennie··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
I don't see that as a business problem directly.

But I see it as the XKCD 2347 problem.

Lennie··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
As mentioned above, clearly the market doesn't reward good engineering.
Lennie··on I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
Nobody cares about pirating, it's when the masses are able to do the pirating easily and get the content easily that is when things break down.

That is what DRM is about preventing.

If some knowledgeable people can copy it and put it low-fi on some competitor of Youtube and Google doesn't show in in search results. That isn't that bad. That means the general public won't easily find it.

Lennie··on Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox
Please read and play with the graphics on this page, it explains it all:

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https

Lennie··on Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox
This works today: https://webtorrent.io/

It used WebRTC which is also encrypted. So gets you some privacy.

Lennie··on Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox
I think Tor will get faster, now new protocols like TLS/1.3, HTTP/2 and QUIC are being developed.

Currently Tor looks like HTTPS done with TLS/1.2 on TCP (like regular HTTPS). As these newer protocols get more and more delpoyed Tor can start using them too which will help make Tor faster.

Lennie··on Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
With eventually a plan to allow for HTTP-caching, use of CDNs, pushing updates over HTTP/2 push, running it over QUIC, etc.
Lennie··on Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
Well, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange does something similar.

Create a key out of nowhere for 2 parties to boot strap communicate safely. (obviously Diffie-Hellman doesn't solve all problems like knowing who you are actually talking to)

Lennie··on A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS
Also notice how the plan is to push not only DNS entries but also TLS certificates:

"Right now, people are really keen to get HTTP/2 “out the door,” so a few more advanced (and experimental) features have been left out, such as pushing TLS certificates and DNS entries to the client — both to improve performance. HTTP/3 might include these, if experiments go well."

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/01/30/http2_expectations

Some of those things could be used for bootstrapping SNI encryption as well:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg17474.h...

Lennie··on Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
Google will be an other, I would expect. Google is working on this standard to build it into Android.
Lennie··on Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
I think why Mozilla still doesn't want DNSSEC is because when it breaks it breaks in a big way. And DNSSEC still hasn't got their root key (ksk) rollover process in place. Which is something they would need to properly support to make sure nothing breaks.

On the transport front. Eventually I would expect them to use HTTP/2 over UDP/DTLS which is actually pretty darn efficient. It's the IETF standard based on Google QUIC. Which will probably be called QUIC. Because the IETF workgroup is called QUIC.

Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
Almost completely true, bioweapons would actually be something certain tiny countries are really good at.

But many have actually signed treaties not to use them (I believe even to not develop certain kinds).

Actually the more advanced our technologies get the bigger the threads.

Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
> Humanity has always been at conflict with each other and will be for the foreseeable future.

well, it's been in decline for a while now:

https://ourworldindata.org/slides/war-and-violence/

Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
> But what could possibly go wrong when military/war artificial intelligence is combined with all your data and knows everything about you?

Someone made a video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM

Dailymotion (French company) mirror:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kttmw

Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
> The history of global regulations on the military application of useful military technologies is not too impressive.

So far we've been able to prevent a lot of use of bio weapons. Many have said they want to do the same with AI and have already started doing that.

Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
Let's first make the other NATO members more powerful before we keep increasing the US firepower.
Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
Just a matter of time.
Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
"there is a human pilot behind every death."

That statement won't last long term.

Lennie··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
You do realize that the actions of the US ended up creating both Al Qaeda and ISIS, right ?
Lennie··on Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1
If you use your providers resolvers you would be very unlikely to have this problem (it's not likely someone will re-route the traffic on the network of the provider themselves).
Lennie··on Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1
"Any traffic using TLS to establish destination authenticity (e.g DNS TLS, DNS over HTTP)"

Well, unless you can also fool Let's Encrypt from all their locations around the world. Then you can get a Let's Encrypt certificate.

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