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flangola7··on EU CAPTCHA, an Open Source solution for all Web services
GDPR is the best thing to happen to technology in a long time. The only problem with it is that it still doesn't have enough teeth, it needs to be enforced much more often.
flangola7··on EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access
Intel absolutely tried to drown AMD in the 2000s. The fines are warranted.
flangola7··on Why scalpers can get tickets
Same number but not same the community, since this pushes out anyone who can't afford it. Artists are usually not MBA types trying to minmax profit and want to appeal to more than just the privileged Coachella crowd.
flangola7··on Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report
> That is simply impossible if an actual executable is installed on the device.

There's one exception, if there's a vulnerability in the hard-coded ROM or the silicon itself. One was found not long ago and enabled newer iPhones to be jailbroken. It lacks persistence and requires lightning port access, but it can't be patched.

A no-click remote ACE at the unpatchable physical level would be the mother of all zero days, and too valuable to use for all but the highest of targets.

flangola7··on New tarantula species discovered in Thailand
Their bite is much worse than a wasp sting. Unlikely to cause death or serious injury in an adult with no allergies, but the pain can be excruciating and last for many hours, and lesser symptoms for days. We usually do not prescribe muscle relaxers or opiates for a wasp sting.
flangola7··on TSA Policy on Light Sabers
Link gives me an Amazon dog
flangola7··on TSA Policy on Light Sabers
How did you determine that? People in airports can be extremely abusive.
flangola7··on Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report
Legislation can be written so that there is no bypass. Google's billions would not save them if tomorrow they embarked on building a private nuclear SLBM fleet.
flangola7··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
>for them personally there's no difference between no AGI/ASI and aligned AGI/ASI

Not really true. There are things worse than death and every AI researcher who is width their salt knows this.

Human level intelligence already inflicts not only great amounts of pain but drawn out, unusual, and unnatural durations of pain. So we know artificially enhanced suffering is a risk of intelligence.

flangola7··on 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
Which is good
flangola7··on 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
Updates occur all the time, what do mean there's none since August?
flangola7··on CFPB kicks off rulemaking to remove medical bills from credit reports
> In America, hospitals cannot refuse emergency care.

How is that unique to America? What other developed nation doesn't have this rule?

flangola7··on Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
You can't patch that out when it comes to hardware attestation. The entire bootchain is authenticated and you can't spoof it because the authentication mechanism and private key are is in the on-silicon enclave. Anything that's not authorized will fail attestation. You can't patch it out because it's an allowlist. Anything less than official signed boot + OS + apps + configuration + known good hardware private key will fail.

It's about as easy as it would be for an ISP to inject code into an HTTPS page.

The only reason anything works is because Google attestation servers still return a green light for evaluationType=BASIC. Once old devices become rare enough they'll only return a positive attestation for evaluationType=HARDWARE_BACKED.

Go find try and find a single instance of anyone achieving HARDWARE_BACKED with less than a fully stock device.

They are none. No amount of Magisk magic will make it work because it's all taken out of software's hands. Bypasses at that point look like electron microscopes and micro-electronics cleanrooms.

flangola7··on LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
Repairing?
flangola7··on LLM Leaderboard
GPT-4-base was completed in early 2022, its existence only went public much later. Whatever OpenAI has right now is a year and a half more advanced than current models. Since open source models can't even touch GPT-3.5 yet, they are very far behind.

OpenAI has been cutting deals left and right with newspapers, publishers, and other organizations to train on vast high quality private datasets that simply are not available to open source development. Looking at how datasets are at least as important as volume of compute, we can expect the gap between OAI and open source models to continue to widen.

None of this addresses the gigantic (possibly 1:1000) advantage services with constant workload have when it comes to memory bottleneck efficacy.

flangola7··on Signal: The Pqxdh Key Agreement Protocol
Is that good or bad?
flangola7··on LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
Like what? English already has all the "twice removed" and other definitions that no one actually uses.
flangola7··on The End of Scantron Tests
What did they receive for humanities though? School is and should be about you making a better more complete member of society, not just a better cog in the economy.
flangola7··on Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models
Got a link to those emails?
flangola7··on Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
Only fragile ones, and those will only work until google finally flips the switch and their servers stop validating anything less than true hardware-backed attestation.
flangola7··on iOS 17 is available today
No goalposts have been moved here. Stop playing dumb.
flangola7··on A customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed SSH
Social engineering has limits and each individual has unique vulnerabilities. It's not possible to call in and speak a single sentence compelling any agent who hears it to immediately burn the office building down.
flangola7··on NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Not reveal the true capabilities? Is this an RPG reference?
flangola7··on Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?
This happens already.
flangola7··on Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform
Defi has no fraud protection
flangola7··on Cisco Acquires Splunk
What does next gen even mean
flangola7··on The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary
That really doesn't answer my question
flangola7··on iOS 17 is available today
There are three dominant desktop and two mobile operating systems, only 1 out of those 5 is locked down to where even applications are handcuffed. I'm not talking about embedded industrial systems I'm talking about everyday general purpose devices.

You know this and I know this.

flangola7··on Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors
Yes? The user above me already pointed out that that sector will be hit.
flangola7··on FTC has named Amazon staffers accused of approving tactics designed to confuse
And yet GPT-4 has no problem crafting new words from whole cloth. If you're making new words rare tokens are useful and the model knows this.
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