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free_bip··on ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here's Where It's Going Next
They're already detaining people regardless of citizenship status. Local courts are literally being overloaded with habeas corpus cases. One ICE lawyer literally asked to be put in jail so they could get a good nights sleep.
free_bip··on ClawHub
Who is scanning these skills for malware? This seems like a prime target for malicious actors.
free_bip··on Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?
Does hiding it well make it ok?
free_bip··on Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot
There is no viable solution to the lethal trifecta, and the lethal trifecta is the whole reason openclaw gets used in the first place. If there was a viable solution someone would be making billions off of selling it.
free_bip··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
How can it be legally considered screening if you can pay $45 to bypass it entirely?
free_bip··on 'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year
My take (IANAL): the law should probably be ruled unconstitutional for restricting the ability of Congress to pass laws. I believe there is precedent for this but I can't remember where.
free_bip··on AppleUnsold
For anyone wondering, most of the products appear to be sold out (or almost sold out). Whoever is behind the site probably doesn't have much inventory (understandably)
free_bip··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
You are on a website called HackerNews, where people are encouraged to comment on articles or "posts". You are seeing this because you are looking at the comment section of one such post.
free_bip··on FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
What benefit does it allow for, other than the ability to turn the country into a dictatorship in a matter of hours with a single phone call?

For anyone unaware, one of the main criticisms of that ruling is that the president commanding the military is always considered an official act, and this ruling means the president enjoys "absolute immunity for official acts within an exclusive presidential authority that Congress cannot regulate such as the pardon, command of the military, execution of laws, or control of the executive branch."[0]

The ruling made no carveouts or exceptions for blatantly illegal orders. The president could unilaterally eject or kill any member of opposing political parties and future administrations (if there are any) would be completely unable to legally hold them accountable for their heinous crimes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States

free_bip··on Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
The irony on this post is palpable.
free_bip··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
At least for the current AI music generators, it's pretty easy to tell by ear that it's AI generated. Everything is just a little off, especially the higher frequencies. Vocals often sound indistinct, like an unholy amalgamation of thousands of people are singing instead of a single person.
free_bip··on Provenance Is the New Version Control
What do you mean? I can run English on my computer. There are multiple apps out there that will let me type "delete all files starting with" hacker"" into the terminal and end up with the correct end result.

And before you say "that's indirect!", it genuinely does not matter how indirect the execution is or how many "translation layers" there are. Python for example goes through at least 3 translation layers, raw .py -> Python bytecode -> bytecode interpreter -> machine code. Adding one more automated translation layer does not suddenly make it "not code."

free_bip··on Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized
IANAL, but Canada has far stronger labo(u)r laws than the US. They should all be lawyering up, whether it be for some union busting law or plain old wrongful termination.
free_bip··on Few Shall Return is now gen-AI free
From the article, their claim is only about AI-generated assets (both in the game and its marketing), not logic. This is what people usually refer to when they say a game is "AI-Free"
free_bip··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
Genuinely speaking, that sounds like a process issue if you really can't copy/paste. Perhaps you don't have control over whichever scenario you're talking about but not describing, but data entry is famously error prone regardless of it being 12 characters or 32, and if you're trying to focus on reliability, avoiding errors, you should be avoiding it at all costs.
free_bip··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
This is the first time I've heard this critique. I think most people don't care if their IP address is easily human readable/memorizable. In my experience when people do deal with ipv4/v6 addresses directly, they just copy-paste.
free_bip··on Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
Calling your users idiots is not a good look for a maintainer. I don't know offhand what distro you maintain but I sincerely hope I never have to deal with someone this hostile.
free_bip··on Sabotaging Bitcoin
How are you so confident that it will never weaken? Especially since there will come a time when the block reward is literally 0.
free_bip··on NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives
Lots of products come with integrated rPis since they're so easy to work with and have good vendor support. I guess all those products are banned too lol.
free_bip··on CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy
I wouldn't want to see that. That's called slavery!

And no, the severity of the crime does not (IMHO) justify it.

free_bip··on Cloudflare Is Down, Again
For us commoners sure, but enterprise customers usually have an SLA that defines uptime requirements... And penalties for missing them. I have to wonder how much they're paying out on those.
free_bip··on SlimeMoldCrypt – Biological Encryption Engine
Title is misleading. They don't claim that the machine is capable of encrypting anything at all, only that the slime mold pattern can form the basis for an entropy source, which can then be used by an existing CSPRNG to generate encryption keys.
free_bip··on Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents
Right, it doesn't work the same for humans as it does AI agents.

If you finetune a model and it starts misbehaving, what are you going to do to it exactly? PIP it? Fire it? Of course not. AIs cannot be managed the same ways as humans (and I would argue that's for the best). Best you can do is try using a different model, but you have no guarantee that whatever issue your model has is actually solved in the new one.

free_bip··on Linux computer designed with AI boots on first attempt
Designed with AI, not by AI.
free_bip··on 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
No way that could backfire... Prompt injection is a solved problem right?
free_bip··on 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
Is the use of WebAssembly going to make spotting these malicious extensions harder?
free_bip··on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
Game development is a lot different than "normal" software development. Usually involves a lot more crunch/unpaid overtime. Though yes, the comparison is hyperbole.
free_bip··on CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
You could always sue GitHub to find out.

Personally, I'm not buying the slippery slope argument. I could be wrong of course but that's the great thing about opinions: you're allowed to be wrong :)

free_bip··on CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
Seems like a pretty big overreaction IMO. Advertisements deserve more strict regulation than general user-generated content because they tend to reach far more people. The fact that they aren't has resulted in something like 10% of all ads shown being outright scams or fraud[0]. And they should never have allowed the ad to air in the first place - it was patently and obviously illegal even without considering the GDPR.

If these companies aren't willing to put basic measures in place to stop even the most obviously illegal ads from airing, I have a lot of trouble having sympathy for them getting their just desserts in court.

[0]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/meta-showed-...

free_bip··on Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics
I didn't even know gravitational redshift was a thing... Shows how much I know about physics.
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