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If they can't fire her, they should assign her to teach Academic Integrity 101 every single year until it finally sticks.

At least on Nvidia, A1111 has had near identical performance to ComfyUI on SDXL and SD1.5 for me. Besides that, there were typical minor problems that happen when some guy's hobby project goes viral and suddenly is under massive scrutiny. It was the first "good enough" interface and now there is massive community inertia with extensions, plugins, etc.

ComfyUI has found a place in the image pipeline design niche, but A1111 still seems like the best choice for new users who just want to spin up Stable Diffusion and generate some art for a D&D campaign or whatever.

It's an obvious national security issue and avenue for potential economic coercion. It also has significant negative externalities for the local economy. For example, good luck convincing a software dev to relocate to Vancouver when a basic detached house costs a couple million dollars. It makes industries that actually produce things uncompetitive compared to services facilitating rich foreigners' asset flight.

> I had already presented John’s data at several national conferences, and we were writing a paper I thought would have a huge impact on our field.

Sounds like this person was part of the problem if their idea of "supervision" was flying around taking credit for their postdoc's fraudulent research while being so out of the loop that they didn't notice the postdoc fabricating data whole cloth.

They seem largely focused on "illegal content", specifically referencing the Oct 7 attack on Israel:

> concerned the dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel

> The compliance with the DSA obligations related to countering the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, notably in relation to the risk assessment and mitigation measures adopted by X to counter the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, as well as the functioning of the notice and action mechanism for illegal content in the EU mandated by the DSA, including in light of X's content moderation resources.

At least in the US, footage of a terrorist attack is not illegal. In fact, it often serves important journalistic and public interest purposes. Twitter is an important source of first-hand coverage of conflicts such as the Israel/Hamas conflict and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. EU safetyism threatens to interfere with this important function.

It is legal in the US as long as you are not intending and likely to incite imminent lawless action. Eg. To give a recent example, it's completely legal to chant "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" despite some interpreting that chant to be calling for genocide.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/advocacy_of_illegal_action

Just pull out of the EU. It's overtly hostile to freedom of speech. Run Twitter from the US, and let the EU erect their own "Great Firewall" if they want to block it. F500s (or at least the ones still advertising) can pay for ads through their US subsidiaries, and the handful of remaining Twitter employees in Europe can either take a relocation package or severance.

It's completely unenforced. When exiting the US no American authority checks what passport you are using to leave, and when entering they are legally required to let Americans reenter the country. At worst the border guard will be cranky and give you a stern lecture about how you are supposed to use your US passport.

Fentanyl makes a much larger impact. There were around 14,000 non-suicide firearm deaths in 2018, the most recent year with stats. Fentanyl killed around 110,000 in 2022.

Both issues disproportionately affect small segments of the population though, rather than being general hazards. Driving deaths for example tend to be more evenly distributed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_S...

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/18/1176830906/overdose-death-202...

Or even worse the pattern of: "Are you enjoying <product>?"

If yes:

  - prompted to submit 5 star review

If no:

  - prompted to submit an internal feedback form

> This seems highly unlikely to not alert someone as the camera / video / GPS icons would show up as being in use.

You would need a privesc to dump the data from other apps due to app sandboxing anyways. And once you have root, you can disable the GPS/video/camera indicators, since they are controlled by the OS.

> I think people are not really overlooking, but the question is related to the remote enabling of GPS / Video / Audio interception. This kinda excludes random traffic stops or breaking into someone's house.

Initial physical access is the poor man's way of enabling long-term remote access.

> As such, "do significant vulnerability research on closed source hardware/software to find vulnerabilities across common baseband processors" seems like a way to achieve this.

Go present a set of options to a government bureaucrat, and tell them:

A. you can build a vulnerability research program for 7-8 figures, pray that your best researchers don't get poached by Google after you train them, and maybe get something useful in five years.

B. you can buy a couple of existing browser exploits and privescs for 6-7 figures, enabling remote access.

C. you can use your legal powers to break into the suspect's home/office and load monitoring software on their phone with physical access.

They are going to pick B or C.

Typically BNPL companies like Klarna take a cut from the merchant as well. The idea is to increase volume for the merchant through psychological trickery, resulting in a net increase in profit even after the BNPL company's cut.

Baseband attacks are possible, but the French government would have to compel the (likely foreign) producer of baseband equipment to insert a backdoor, or do significant vulnerability research on closed source hardware/software to find vulnerabilities across common baseband processors.

OS level attacks seem more likely. The lazy option for a police agency would just be to purchase or develop a couple mobile browser exploits, and then serve warrants to French telcos requiring them to MitM targeted traffic. When the target tries to load something via http, redirect them to the exploit server, deliver the payload, and dump everything from their device and collect location, camera, and audio going forward.

Edit: Most people also seem to be overlooking the low-tech solution - get a warrant to break into the target's house or seize their phone during a "random" traffic stop, and use physical access to the device to do whatever.

Because of the practice of blending wines into other wines. So a few criminal wineries impacted orders of magnitude more blended wine production.

The distinction I was trying to draw was that unless there is a similar practice of blending for tumeric, this a systemic, widespread issue where the practice of poisoning customers has become normalized in the industry.

It is reminiscent of the Austrian antifreeze wine scandal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Austrian_diethylene_gly...

That was only a few wineries though, and it was pretty quickly caught and harshly punished. This is apparently a whole industry where the practice of poisoning consumers with lead is normalized.

"White" and "Caucasian" sometimes get blocked as well. I was trying to generate a specific character for a D&D campaign and that kept triggering their filter. Subtracting that from the lengthy prompt would allow it to emit outputs.

Evangelicals vote 99% Republican, how does that explain unconditional support for Israel being the overwhelming bipartisan consensus in Washington? AIPAC and other Zionist lobbyist groups are massively influential, while equivalent pro-Palestinian groups are largely ignored. They can direct millions of dollars to primary congressmen who step out of line, or back their opponent in a swing district, and everyone knows it.

The US singleminded support of Israel has cost an incredible amount of money and political capital, but it helps congressmen and senators get reelected and lines the pockets of defense contractors, so clearly it is keeping the right people happy.

Better examples probably would have been garbage men, roofers, welders, plumbers, etc. It's only a problem when the job is perceived to have some amount of status. No one fights over opportunities to unclog toilets or shovel fertilizer. The military has (rapidly declining) prestige, firefighting is considered exciting and heroic, etc. Then a demographic split becomes an opportunity to shake down the organization for DEI consulting and make-work sinecures.

Personally I don't care as long as any prospective firefighters can quickly carry a 200 pound unconscious person out of a burning building. For some reason, I suspect that pool of qualified candidates skews male.

She-Hulk received a nomination, clear evidence that the Hugo Awards are now an anti-signal.

It's crazy how much damage can be caused by the failure of a $10 part, the toilet flapper valve. An apartment on the 7th floor of my building had a flood once and it went right down to the ground floor, causing damage to half a dozen other units.

> They also damaged the valve that manages water flow from the tank to the bowl.

This seems rather dubious. I don't really see how an idiot tenant could damage the flapper valve through being aggressively clueless. On the other hand, how long was it since the OP replaced the flapper valve? They are supposed to be replaced every few years. It seems more likely that the problem was a combination of the tenant being an idiot (flushing baby wipes) and poor landlord maintenance of the property.

Go on CivitAI and sort by popular... There is an awful lot of nudity and anime, and SDXL struggles with both. For censored SFW image generation, DALL-E 3 now beats out SDXL by a wide margin. The SDXL resource requirements are somewhat of an issue as well, 8 GB cards barely work and that is still the largest consumer market segment.

SDXL's only real differentiation now is the ability to locally host and avoid the OpenAI / Microsoft censorship filter. Leaning into that would be a smart decision, although maybe it conflicts with Stability's attempts to raise money.

The "never let a crisis go to waste" crowd seem more concerning. It isn't the status quo political class who want us to live in pods and eat bugs (metaphorically speaking). A lot of the rhetoric and policy proposals related to climate change seem designed to foist a reduced standard of living on the middle and lower classes in Western countries.

That's never going to happen. The Mozilla Foundation is a parasite subsisting off of Firefox's name and reputation. The end state is that they eventually kill the host. Google is postponing this to keep their anti-trust shield alive, but it's only a matter of time.

> For example, American manufacturers use far fewer robots than their competitors, in particular in Taiwan, South Korea and China, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank.

Just handwaving this aside is ridiculous. Productivity is a function of capital investment in technology. If all the free capital is going into share buybacks, $5 billion in the last year, no wonder productivity is flat.

https://www.levernews.com/automakers-hand-billions-to-shareh...

Spot the difference between these two statements:

> Canada had asked it's closest allies, including Washington, to publicly condemn the killing

> US formally support Canada investigation, urged India to cooperate.

They got a much, much weaker level of support than they wanted.

I'd classify it as neoliberal. They favor business interests but lean left on social issues. They are also big proponents of the Century Initiative, a plan to have Canada reach a population of 100 million by 2100 through massively increased immigration.

No, the US has not formally supported Trudeau's allegations.

> Weeks before Trudeau's announcement, Canada had asked it's closest allies, including Washington, to publicly condemn the killing, according to a Western official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a diplomatically sensitive matter. But the requests were turned down, the official said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/19/india-expels...

https://archive.ph/iblcf

Sure, there might be evidence that they are refusing to release, but Trudeau made the accusation publicly. By turning this into a public diplomatic spat, he now needs to show the proof.

The sequence of events here was rather interesting. The Globe and Mail got the assassination story, and asked the government for comment. The government asked the Globe to hold the story for a week due to security concerns, and the Globe gave them 24 hours. Then Trudeau used that window to get ahead of the story by announcing it himself.

He probably burned some bridges with journalists due to this stunt, and that would also explain the complete lack of evidence.

Unless you are physically present in the UK or do business in the UK, just tell them to screw off. Treat their demands the same way you would an Iranian or Russian government bureaucrat demanding that you compromise the rights of your users. If they want authoritarian control over the internet, make them build their own great firewall.

Big tech companies are vulnerable to financial pressure, but a one admin Matrix server or XMPP server hosted in the US has no reason to comply.