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garyfirestorm

1,437 karma · joined December 30, 2013

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garyfirestorm··on FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrest
It appears this guy is a low hanging fruit with previous cybercrime convictions that they grabbed to “send a message” to the group. But it doesn’t seem like they even know the identities of rest of the group members.
garyfirestorm··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
i generally go to the store where the coffee tastes better
garyfirestorm··on Creativity is the New Moat
Even bacteria are cultured ;)
garyfirestorm··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
Do you think the training process will retain these artifacts? I doubt it. If they were simply stealing the content - sure it would make sense - but I suspect they’re feeding it into training data and RL might distill these out.
garyfirestorm··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> Second, you miscomprehended the article. The employee did not "threaten to ruin a prominent researcher's career"…

Proceeds to ask removal of another coauthor or else we totally discredit you - phrased as why would you do this to yourself.

garyfirestorm··on English ↔ Claudish Translator
Come on man, at least the example should be cached and presented in case the service is down
garyfirestorm··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
It’s a provision not circumvention, also not a hack. /s
garyfirestorm··on Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
You can always flash and factory reset. I’d bet 99.9% of phones on eBay are by and for general public and not some esoteric zero days in the wild that your comment makes it sound like.
garyfirestorm··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
IANAL - if they break the bail conditions the judge may issue a warrant depending on severity, clearly a warrant was not issued here, otherwise there’s no need for pretext like you said.

Article also states bail jumping charge was dismissed but the weed charge is the only charge that remains.

garyfirestorm··on US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
I don’t think courts care about technicality here. They’re going to simply ask “why didn’t it unlock like a normal phone does” -> aka you’re deliberately hiding evidence from us.

I’m sure this case will be dropped because it will open bigger can of worms and may jeopardize the current practice of warrantless invasive searches at the entry points. Secretly I hope this goes to Supreme Court and once and for all they clarify on “constitution doesn’t apply at the border” piece of thinking

garyfirestorm··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
if you wear red glasses...
garyfirestorm··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
Parents could file a class action? RICO? How is this any different from organized crime?
garyfirestorm··on My favorite keyboards
What are those trackpads/touchpads between the left and right boards? What cables are those that are attached to both the keyboard and trackpad. Looks almost like an Ethernet cable but must be a usbC. Does anyone know the type/brand of the cable.
garyfirestorm··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
Just implant the AirTag on my body and share it with everyone ffs
garyfirestorm··on Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship
jurisdiction is not dependent just on the person. it is a geographical encapsulation. all people within this boundary are subject to the jurisdiction.
garyfirestorm··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
lol public roads are mapped on Google Maps
garyfirestorm··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
Corruption and transparency are polar opposites
garyfirestorm··on The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car
I can assure you Stellantis/Ford/GM stack is so bad that it’s nearly useless
garyfirestorm··on NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute
It depends. Mediocre doctor in a remote area with right tooling assistance as opposed to no one being available for someone who urgently needs one? Yeah this should be a thing. Should a software bro in NY perform it in dark alley despite having best doctors few blocks away? Maybe not…
garyfirestorm··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
Let me get this straight. We have a memory shortage due to AI slop which is not really efficient and to solve that problem we need to stop the AI slop and hand write the code.
garyfirestorm··on ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment
Isn’t tracking part of “search”? wouldn’t you need a warrant or court order to request my cellphone gps data? How is this tracking/search not contradictory to unreasonable search portion of the 4th amendment. The action of tracking and touching flock itself is violation of 4th amendment.
garyfirestorm··on Big Banana Car
Wow you waited from 2012 to crack this joke with that username
garyfirestorm··on ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment
A lower resolution tracking is still tracking though. Spatial resolution is low/fixed doesn’t change the fact that I was tagged using the personally identifiable plate and my movements were tracked across the town. A banal traffic monitoring system watching for cars is different than systematically monitoring each individual’s movement even though it’s not very very precise.

If this were an app - Location sharing by default has been set to 25 miles, I’d prefer it to be OFF.

garyfirestorm··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]
Most of large engineering orgs use niche software built for windows. CAD, CAE, many don’t have Linux or Mac versions. See - solidworks, Siemens simcenter, ansys… to name a few. Engineering orgs have to build infrastructure around this and are forced to choose Microslop
garyfirestorm··on Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
prompt -> LLM -> flying car should be just around the corner guys!
garyfirestorm··on OpenAI's June 2026 Report on Malicious Uses of AI [pdf]
Being very bullish on AI, I am not quite sure why this section is in this report. I have read decent amount of articles/news reports from reputed sources on real impact of AI data centers on electricity prices. For eg. https://youtu.be/iVGTGpKpykM?is=Hr2s386Hxn4yThlt

> The accounts we banned sought to influence two groups of audiences. They primarily targeted US audiences and generated English-language short comments and images claiming that data centers and AI applications were increasing electricity demand and causing higher costs for ordinary Americans…

garyfirestorm··on Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway
Do they ship internationally
garyfirestorm··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
Isn’t this already a requirement? Can you really buy a burner phone/sim without providing identifying information?
garyfirestorm··on Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
Schrodinger's flock - the 'hit' helped us catch the criminals and the hit is wrong. but we are going ahead with prosecution nonetheless.
garyfirestorm··on Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
But flock hit is the entire reason for the cops to go arrest them. And you’re right if they did careful assessment of other flock camera data, even the data of this particular flock camera they would have known this car was 5 miles away 23 seconds later. The whole point being misusing/abusing flock data to wrongly jail people and that is precisely what happened here. Flock is the center of this story.
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