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cynicalsecurity··on Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?
We want safety! -> Cyber doesn't work for you, but works for criminals -> Oopsie, our servers are hacked, data stolen -> We are sad, we want no guardrails -> No guardrails, robot hits a baby doll, sad again! -> We want guardrails!

What kind of schizophrenia is this?

cynicalsecurity··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Meanwhile pirates don't see any ads. Make this make sense.
cynicalsecurity··on How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms
> Deepanshu Mehndiratta, Alok Srivastava, Vibhor Dhingra, Ankit Srivastava

It's not AI that is going to replace you, folks. Btw is it a coincide or has Uber become a family business now?

cynicalsecurity··on When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World
It doesn't read as AI generated at all, it's got distinct Polish style. It could have been AI-reviewed, judging by the ugly Oxford commas.

Moral of the story is not simply "don't use free accounts". His account was not free, he had a paid Google Workspace. The moral of the story Google and other big American corporations are absolutely unaccountable in Europe. We should stop using their services and switch to our European sovereign service providers. Big American corporations can block even business accounts as they please and ignore European laws and courts.

cynicalsecurity··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Europeans don't realise how close war is to their homes. Russia won't stop unless it's stopped.
cynicalsecurity··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
> Why This Matters

Move on.

cynicalsecurity··on Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
It's just a harassment lawsuit. Amazon is going to lose, but they hope they could bully another company into what they want from them.
cynicalsecurity··on Who gets to define the rules for AI?
> Chinese and EU labs

China simply steals from the US.

EU is in a lethargic state of sleep.

cynicalsecurity··on We must pace the frontier
Their whole "we want safe and regulated AI" spiel feels woke. China doesn't regulate. Open weight frontier models almost exclusively come from China. Yes, stolen from the West, but China is in control of the frontier open weight AI models now. Woke = broke.
cynicalsecurity··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
Because looking at pictures is the same as smoking cigarettes.
cynicalsecurity··on Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
You spoke to my heart, comrade! Already sending Microsoft my resignation letter so I can join you on skid row fighting against the evil capitalist empire!
cynicalsecurity··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
> (One at a time!)

That's unexpected.

cynicalsecurity··on Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync)
I'm eager to replace battle-tested rsync with a new half-baked tool that no one uses for a tiny speed improvement. I'm also going to enable automatic updates of that tool too.
cynicalsecurity··on One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire
It did not.
cynicalsecurity··on Version control second coming
Not worth reading.
cynicalsecurity··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
That's because there were no idea behind it in the first place. It was an ambitious overpromising project that hasn't delivered almost anything they promised. They didn't have any story or interesting gameplay in mind too. Pity.
cynicalsecurity··on John Margolies' photographs of roadside America
Do you mean modernism? You most likely mean modernism. Yes, it sucks.
cynicalsecurity··on How I feel about AI
> (I used Mistral as reviewer here. I typed every word myself.)

What an irony. This is absolutely hilarious.

cynicalsecurity··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
> nextcloud: slow and unreliable, and more enterprise-targeted now

What a load of bull.

cynicalsecurity··on The Real Luxuries In Life
These are rhetorical tricks. Mate I see what you mean, but honestly, the article was just the usual useless old man's talk. I'm glad he is posting on the internet, but it was a useless post.

Jobs will be a luxury soon, if they aren't already. Sure, dead-end jobs aren't a luxury, but they're basically life support - or rather to say existence support.

I live in a country with single-payer healthcare, which some Americans dream so much. If I don't have a job, I'm pretty much screwed - I won't have health insurance. I'm glad I'm healthy, not stupid and not lazy, but single-payer doesn't help that much with life luxuries as you think. To have a place to sleep and not have to worry you need a job - and unless you inherited that place you'll have to work hard for years without the luxuries the old chap talks about anyway. Those are just old man's useless ramblings. I'm sorry, but they are.

cynicalsecurity··on The Real Luxuries In Life
Good luck enjoying a slow morning without a job. So much free time, so much joy. Old people give the most ridiculous and unsolicited advice.
cynicalsecurity··on Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year
That was sarcasm.
cynicalsecurity··on A CVE Dispute
Someone must have really wanted to put this on their CV.
cynicalsecurity··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Unless Brits are ready to rise up and topple their government, this poll means nothing.
cynicalsecurity··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Mate they won't understand. People generally are exceptionally ignorant about type 1 diabetes and also eager to fall for marketing gimmicks like this one. They have no idea what type 1 diabetes is.

For anyone who doesn't get it: glucose is checked every five minutes because it changes very often, jumping or falling dangerously. It's a nightmare. Checking glucose is 1000 times more important than ketones which are almost never a problem. If you get accurate glucose readings you are highly unlikely to ever experience ketoacidosis in the first place. Before ketones become a problem, glucose has to stay high for hours. Abbott is pulling this marketing trick instead of improving the quality of their sensors. Libre 2 is absolute crap. Libre 3 is somewhat okay and sometimes even mediocre - which is still a pretty bad situation. Bad glucose sensor is a nightmare and it can kill a person or a child much likely than ketoacidosis. It will actually lead to ketoacidosis by showing incorrect glucose readings. Now I wonder whether they added a ketone sensor as a failsafe for their low quality glucose sensors.

No one asked them to add a ketone sensor as an add-on to their glucose sensor, except maybe their marketing department. People want higher quality glucose sensors that fail less often and are more accurate. Glucose sensors, not ketones!

cynicalsecurity··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
As someone who has to deal with type 1 diabetes every day, this is marketing nonsense. No one needs ketones in the sensor - we need high-quality sensors, and Abbott's are only mediocre at best. They are not as bad as Dexcom, which is appalling, but they are still far from the superior quality of Medtronic/MiniMed which measure glucose exceptionally well.

Ketones are rare. They can kill you, but before that happens, your blood sugar usually rises enough for you to realise you may have ketones and start using test strips to measure them. Instead of this marketing gimmick, Abbott should have focused on improving the quality of their glucose sensors which is far more important.

cynicalsecurity··on My Friend Aaron
Before you read and waste your time:

== It's a fake story ==

cynicalsecurity··on AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Soft people learn that the world is harsh and you either adapt or die.
cynicalsecurity··on Death to px, long live ch
What happened to em?
cynicalsecurity··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
Companies that agree to work on Chat Control deserve a special place in hell. One company that was eager to participate, hoping this harmful law would pass, is Atos. Name and shame them.
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