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justthehumanon GCC steering committee announces AI policy

+1, I also thought this was the actual concern.

justthehumanon Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Agreed.

I was in the Philippines at the time, we got a repatriation flight to come back to the US but before we were allowed to fly, we had to go all over town, to several offices and get xrays, urinalysis, and basic health screening. The goal was some pointless health certificate required to travel. At the time there were no COVID tests so they somehow thought that having people go all over town interacting with countless people to get health checks that didn't matter or detect COVID made sense...

justthehumanon AI companies are shredding rare books

Honestly, I think its just the fastest way to scan them (there are slower non destructive methods available too!)

Also, they can then just recycle/dispose of the paper and don't have to worry about reselling/donating the books themselves. I suspect this is all about speed of data ingestion and anything else is a side effect they don't care about.

justthehumanon AI companies are shredding rare books

I had some old computer/unix/etc books for which I couldn't find digital copies. I was considering paying to have them scanned because lugging them around each time I moved was getting to be a pain in the butt. When I found out they destroyed the book in the process I could just never go through with it. I later found out there are non-destructive scanning machines (even open source ones!) but ended up selling the books before I ever went that route.

justthehumanon Firefox Containers Preview

Same!

You can right-click and open in a specific container tab but I dislike the extra step, bookmarks really should be able to be set for a specific container.

Reading through the comments here someone said:

> There are some good add-ons to pin bookmarks to specific containers, which helps.

Might have to go hunting for that but IMHO this should be a built-in feature!

justthehumanon Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Didn't actually this happen in China?

Maybe the videos were fake, but I saw at least a couple of this happening.

justthehumanon Writing by hand is good for your brain

So I should buy a drawing tablet for my laptop so I can hand write my AI prompts? Got it!

(/s if not obvious!)

justthehumanon Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?

I know I do!

Last time I looked at Laptops that supported ECC it was a very short and very expensive list. At least I could get enterprise datacenter SSDs... once upon a time...

I know that I DONT want iLO/IPMI/Redfish on a laptop though, the out of band stuff eats up a ton of power.

justthehumanon Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?

Then you probably want something that has replaceable parts and not an apple product (e.g. framework)?

Not trying to discourage you from building your thing, but just figure that's worth considering.

Also, I could see why developers would want excessive logging in their betas, so that's kind of a catch-22 (without the verbose logs it might be harder to fix bugs found in the beta)

justthehumanon OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

Best guess, from the commit message alone[0]: It was fixed as a bug, at the time they didn't have evidence it could lead to LPE

The AI security tool then, retroactively discovered that it could have been used for LPE.

Again, just my guess I could be wrong.

[0] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/1957873d2063db11dab780...