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skilledon Reddit is cracking down on political talk tonight

Just had a look, it is worse than this post implies. Actually crazy that a platform the size of Reddit can essentially eliminate a narrative altogether for no reason other than to hide and quiver behind reality.

skilledon Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?

Integrations and whatnot would be my best guess. But smaller projects and groups still use IRC.

I would wager it is a generational thing also.

skilledon Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?

Shell sessions and bouncers sort of alleviate the history issue if that is what you really need. I always thought that not having history was part of the magic of IRC.

That said, all your private messages as well as any messages in public channels can be logged and will persist on your PC until you delete them.

skilledon WikiLeaks – Amazon Atlas (2018)

From 6 years ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193750

It has some discussion in there as to why this might be of public interest.

skilledon Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites

> We have taken the exceptional step of using our ability to modify HTML on the fly to replace references to the polyfill.io CDN in our customers’ websites with links to our own, safe, mirror created back in February.

I get that they want to do a good thing, but is this something you agree to when you sign up as a Cloudflare customer? If so, that’s kind of crazy.

edit: I am talking about both free and paid users. A toggle does not discount my question whatsoever, especially if this is on by default for free users. I am asking specifically about terms of service.

skilledon One Million Checkboxes

You have checked -100 boxes

Pick your side folks.

skilledon Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent from rabbit.tech domain

The 404 Media article linked on the page:

https://archive.is/QdTbK

skilledon Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

But of course it is positive. This is a huge deal, even if only one that will benefit himself. I don’t know anything about any secrets that he showed any lack of regard for, but I definitely know about the files he exposed that showed the US government is a bunch of cowards who manipulate people and then use the full force of the law to defend themselves when caught with their pants down.

Instead of making people guess what you mean by nuanced, you simply should go ahead and provide that nuanced perspective and see if anyone wants to engage it.

skilledon Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

If you care about this news and you are able to do this financially, consider supporting Julian's fee for having have had to take a private plane for this entire process:

> Julian Assange has embarked on flight VJ199 to Saipan. If all goes well it will bring him to freedom in Australia. But his travel to freedom comes at a massive cost: he will owe USD 520,000 which he is obligated to pay back to the Australian government for the charter flight. He was not permitted to fly commercial airlines or routes to Saipan and onward to Australia.

Links:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/free-julian-assange

https://x.com/Stella_Assange/status/1805573781303308326

skilledon Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability in Ollama

Source,

Probllama: Ollama Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-37032) – Overview and Mitigations

https://www.wiz.io/blog/probllama-ollama-vulnerability-cve-2...

skilledon Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

YES!!!!!!!!!!

REJOICE!!!!!!!!!!!

Woooo!!! This is incredible news to wake up to.

skilledon [dead]

The article is just random AI slop. They didn't bother installing Tox and asking LockBit for proof either.

I think it's just them being petty about something and memeing, but if not then we will know in ~30 hours.

skilledon [dead]

Why submit Slashdot and not the original source?

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/m...

HN discussion:

Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750182 - June 2024 (24 comments)

skilledon Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

https://github.com/fuglede/llama.ttf

skilledon AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers

https://archive.is/JG1X5

skilledon Training AI

Has there been any progress made on this at all since ChatGPT? I remember when the Zoom story broke on their TOS, and that story got covered in morning news in USA.

But Zoom was about using videos for AI training, everything else is about text. And it looks like nobody really cares about text, except for maybe NY Times which is suing OpenAI.

What is the deal with this? It pisses me off that a few major companies are about to gobble up the entire internet and capitalise on it solely for themselves. Not going to give back anything to anyone, they even want you to pay a monthly fee just to get access to your own data.

skilledon Ladybird browser spreads its wings

I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560768 - June 2024 (262 comments)

skilledon Biden puts a bullet in Kaspersky: Sales, updates to be banned in America

Some other antivirus is about to make bank in the US. Can’t wait for all the special first-year offers.

skilledon EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

Chat Control is the main proposal, the following paragraph clearly says that they have until 2026 to agree on what that proposal is going to look like. Hungary has already said that it has plans to continue negotiations.

This outrage is about forceful E2EE monitoring and not letting EU users to view links or images unless they agree to the said monitoring. What happened today puts an end to that for the time being, but it is unlikely to come back.

Check out this:

https://chatcontrol.eu/

skilledon What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll

It improves you. For example, being able to handle stress better isn’t useful just in personal life but also professional.

In my experience, complete introvert, it helped me enormously with anxiety. But it did take some work, such as working through emotions that I had bottled up. If you stick to your practice then you will work through it.

skilledon What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll

So learn it. It is one of life’s greatest secrets.

What the original commenter said is correct, meditation helps you see how thoughts arise in the moment, and with practice you can get to a point where there is very little noise and instead you have a broader view of ideas and your life in general.

It is also calming, for your entire system. Learning to monitor and control your breathing consciously is a serious mental workout. If you have never sat down to practice it, you might surprise yourself as to how much is going on in your own mind and how the wheels and cogs just keep turning.

skilledon Safe Superintelligence Inc.

The blanket statements on the SSI homepage are pretty mediocre, and it is only the reputation of the founders that carries the announcement.

I think this quote at the end of this Bloomberg piece[0] gives more context,

> Sutskever says that the large language models that have dominated AI will play an important role within Safe Superintelligence but that it’s aiming for something far more powerful. With current systems, he says, “you talk to it, you have a conversation, and you’re done.” The system he wants to pursue would be more general-purpose and expansive in its abilities. “You’re talking about a giant super data center that’s autonomously developing technology. That’s crazy, right? It’s the safety of that that we want to contribute to.”

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-19/openai-co...

[0]: https://archive.is/ziMOD

skilledon ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years

ICQ will stop working from June 26 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467625 - May 2024 (751 comments)

skilledon Kraken Security Update

https://nitter.poast.org/c7five/status/1803403565865771370

(title suggestion: Bug Bounty hunters drain $3M from Kraken)

skilledon Perplexity is a bullshit machine

WIRED seems to have gotten another quote from the CEO which downplays the problem. Other than that, this article reads like a combination of everything that was said in these articles:

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898 - June 2024 (527 comments)

Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content from News Outlets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619857 - June 2024 (10 comments)

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I have yet to see any journalist call them out on stealing images[0] (no license + hotlinking), but also benefiting from Google Search because those scraped pages get indexed and as of this month, Perplexity gets 3M+ monthly visitors from Google. Completely automated with no proper attribution, stolen images, and presents itself as the authority source.

[0]: https://stackdiary.com/perplexity-has-a-plagiarism-problem/

skilledon Perplexity is a bullshit machine

https://archive.is/mz5m8

skilledon How kernel CVE numbers are assigned

The mailing list does look like a treasure trove,

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/

Hundreds of disclosures just in the last month alone.