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bsian··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
There's no "hack". The article says the bots edited an open wiki website.
bsian··on The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs
Language is a proxy of something much bigger, if we’re talking about taking up arms for.
bsian··on Firefox's AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn't
Because my browser is an extremely sensitive piece of software and I don’t trust just anybody to provide it for me.
bsian··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
This is not a case of vandalism by other users. Google made this change because they use the names officially recognised by the government of the US.
bsian··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Not only the Brits. Take a look at this, especially the charts, and compare it to what us Europeans are getting - that's democracy for you.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-05-07/seven-ou...

bsian··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
It used to be the case that you would see someone posting under an avatar like that and you would dismiss their argument right away without even reading it.
bsian··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
They should have considered not lying in their residence permit applications. I mean, what you are saying sounds like completely reasonable reasons to deport someone. They lied because they knew their application would’ve been denied had they said the truth.
bsian··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
"You know x is good based on who hates it" is too generic an argument to be useful. It applies to so many things.
bsian··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
In threads about the Russian war if you mention that the US has done worse your comments are removed and people complain about "whataboutism".

In this thread, on the other hand, people keep bringing up that the US has done worse but those comments are upvoted and there is no mention of "whataboutism" in the entire thread.

bsian··on Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules
A king could… but that’s never going to happen.
bsian··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
All parliamentary democracies.

If you have the majority, you can’t even be removed through a vote of no confidence.

bsian··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
In most modern democratic countries (I don't know about the US, since I'm European) executive and legislative branches are one and the same, so that still holds up!
bsian··on US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"
The link makes it clear (at least to me) that they are looking for Palestine supporters and not leftists in general.
bsian··on US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"
Trump is completely torching his term for Israel.

Then you'll get your comments removed from this website if you mention the term "ZOG". If this is not ZOG, then what is it?

bsian··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
Reminded me of that GTA 3 mission. I thought it was hilariously outlandish. Turns out people actually do it!
bsian··on 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe
The thousands dying are just a means to an end. They don't really care about them.
bsian··on Message your other Claude Code sessions
No, we have always called this RPC or IPC.
bsian··on AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
If it’s a legitimate commercial relation (like a mining operation) they won’t have any issues paying the price or setting up alternate communication channels.
bsian··on AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
There’s little to no reason why someone from Africa should be able to make a call to the first world. It should be either extremely expensive or simply impossible.
bsian··on Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%
Have you seen the prices of valve’s hardware?
bsian··on Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch
>Microsoft’s records showed that at that exact same minute, a Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page. Three hours later, the same GDID visited the retailer’s own website, through the same Tzulo proxy address used to set up the ngrok account.

Can someone explain the mechanism through which Windows sends this information to Microsoft? Did the hacker use Edge, which communicated the web history + the GDID of the user to Microsoft, or is Windows snooping on browsers besides Edge and sending the web history to Microsoft, or is Windows bundling a summary of all connections open and sending it to Microsoft?