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rand846633··on Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models
What makes you think this is a) trolling and b) a bot?
rand846633··on FTL: A new operating system for clouds
Plz explain context
rand846633··on Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models
Does anyone here happen to know the ballpark number of how much the three letters agencies are currently paying OpenAI/antropic/who ever per year/month..?
rand846633··on Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude to Break into OpenAI
Not sure how I can proof this to you but I happen to know that this was not a stunt. This was exactly what the hacktron crew said it was. Maybe the public track record will convince you. They have been consistently finding interesting and impactful vulns. They were all also really capable before Ai was a thing in infosec. Always has been fun to watch.

https://www.hacktron.ai/blog

rand846633··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
Tbh, timing wise it appeared to me that GH started allowing private repos when one of the competitors started to allow it for free. I forget the name of the back then still competitor.. it worked on me, I retuned to GH back then..
rand846633··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
Never heard of this individual. After a bit of googling I could not find any sources that support these claims. Can you please point me to them? (Text, not video)

I found no source for:

* feces thrown on him (for 8 months)

* “noise torture”

* “torture chambers for thought criminals”

rand846633··on Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
Nice read!

For the impatient: they found no common cooking technique that helped significantly reduce - as they call it the “fartyness” of the beans..

rand846633··on Veracrypt project update
Can you elaborate on how this corruption(?) looks in detail?
rand846633··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
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rand846633··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
The question is absolutely legitimate in nature and neutral in tone.
rand846633··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Would be interesting indeed to hear what the implications of what you bring up are. Anyone knowing enough to speculate?
rand846633··on Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction
The infohash is: 41f99118ec828f6de3d1536515fe01499ac62711
rand846633··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
1,000 metric tons do not fit in a airplane…
rand846633··on Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss
Just purely as a hypothetical thought exercise I wonder how infiltrated the US gov is by cartels.
rand846633··on 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
My experience is the opposite: 0ad will lag on my laptop once thing become big. BAR will warn that it’s not compatible with my low end intel integrated potato gpu, but it works just fine..
rand846633··on 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
I love 0 A.D., and I’m endlessly grateful to all the developers and volunteers who made it happen. Your dedication and skill deserve a monument — my genuine admiration.

I install it every few years, and it’s always a blast, somehow, and I do not know why I never do more than experiment with it..

Gameplay-wise, I find that Beyond All Reason is, as far as open-source RTS games go, a few orders of magnitude more fun and mature. I don’t think there’s any commercially available RTS that can compete with Beyond All Reason in terms of fun and performance.

rand846633··on Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial
Find this to be plausible, meta needs to do more science of how to make things more addictive…
rand846633··on Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial
Plz enlighten me about the payment. As in meta bought advertisement in wsj?
rand846633··on TikTok disallows DMs with the word "Epstein"
Can anyone witch a TT account replicate?
rand846633··on Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
But you also do not need paper to think, but surely much of modern physics would not have happened without paper or blackboards…
rand846633··on Musk Seeks Up to $134B Damages from OpenAI, Microsoft
If you are confident that you can reach arbitrary judgments in about 1% of all cases, maybe via corruption, political influence or just random arbitrariness of court decisions, would this mean the expected value of this suit is approximately 1.3B usd minus ~10m legal fees?
rand846633··on 25 Years of Wikipedia
It’s the style of the interviewer. It works really well for Tilo in many cases at least. He is good as confusing and making you so uncomfortable that loos your media training. He does things that are questionable in normal life but meant more great fact finding. As we see, this does not always work. He has more or less made a career of bing a bit to close and a bit too unpleasant to the people who agree tho be interviewed.

What context may also have been lost is that the interview format is self described as somewhat naive and simple. I think the “who are you” question is his standard opening move. The interview series literally advertises to be for the “disinterested” sure you can hate it but you cannot feel tricked…

rand846633··on 25 Years of Wikipedia
Your comment is a great example of someone deciding on a conclusion first, then backfilling a justification using minimal evidence—in this case, a single data point—to validate an existing suspicion or bias. With that standard, you can make virtually any public or semi-public figure look bad if you’re willing to cherry-pick a small enough slice of information.
rand846633··on 25 Years of Wikipedia
Fair. Not sure if I agree or not, but an interesting perspective for sure. Would love to hear exactly why and how your comment is triggering people her..
rand846633··on 25 Years of Wikipedia
Yeah, that sentiment surely exist that PR and journalism is not the same. Some would even argue that journalism should try to find facts and that being particularly pleasant and nice with doing so is secondary to the goal of fact finding, it’s not PR after all. One could even go as far as to speculate that a journalist being “nice” is not genuine but just a method to gain information. I know I am biased here as this is how I want it to be.

The case if Tilo is quite specific, his interview style uses methods that are effective and uncommon and in part extremely unpleasant, but super effective in making people a accidentally confess to him whilst forgetting all their media training.

rand846633··on Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
I’d guess that we would not have had the pleasure of reading this article if wiz was payed by AWS. There were multiple high impact bug in 2025 that we read about here, where security researchers had to turn down small six figure bounties to avoid NDAs…
rand846633··on Life Happens at 1x Speed
The text reads nice and feels smart, but is there really an argument in there?

Not sure why I should confirm exactly to the one speed that the creators of the media choose. Certainly my motives for choosing the perfect speed will differ from that of someone who has a capitalistic interest in mass consume of theirs product.

rand846633··on Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
Recently had to reinstall my Linux (btw, Arch). Normally I’d just dd/mirror the NVMe, but this time I decided to stop putting off the switch to Wayland and just do it — moved from i3 to sway, etc. I’d been avoiding this for years.

Turns out: absolutely no problem. The tooling around Wayland and adjacent programs is way more modern and functional. Great experience. Can recommend switching in 2026.

For me, the unintuitive truth with Linux is: once you’re on a rolling release, most problems just vanish. I still love Debian for prod, but for experimenting and development, rolling release any day.

rand846633··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
> We spent $2-3T in Iraq -- if it was robbery, it was not effective.

The robbery was done against the American people. They are the ones who were robbed! Imagine in what shape the country would be if you would have gotten free higher education and free healthcare instead?

The other and with that the biggest victim were the causalities from the invasion, but they were not robbed but rather assaulted…

rand846633··on Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)
Funny, for me the article reads like a ode to saying yes to life, not the other way round..
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