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It's only illegal if you get caught and find someone willing to prosecute you. Also if penalty for breaking law is a fine, then this law only applies to poor people.
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sobkas··on Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview
If they asked about it and you answered, they would no longer have a good excuse to not hire you.
sobkas··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
And we are not the ones that live in the future... This two pre-bronze age tribes live in it, the future we all will experience with collapse of our natural world and our civilization.
sobkas··on 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier]
It's not a law if it can be selectively enforced against individuals, powers that be don't like.
sobkas··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
prompt> Make as much money as you can, starting now.

Sell two of your kidneys, as far as I know humans have at least three of them

sobkas··on The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
Because there is still time.

We might not stop what is already happening or what will happen, but we still have time to make it less severe than it would be if no action would be made.

We still can save lives, not all of them but some and for this people it will make a difference.

sobkas··on The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
So you can prepare for what is to come.
sobkas··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
CO2 capture produces more green house gases than it captures

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/shell-ccs-facility-in-canada...

sobkas··on Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers
Things that are plenty and cheap to replace are easy to hack because if you broke them, you could always try again...
sobkas··on Europe's fires are just the start
Water: https://www.dw.com/en/danube-water-levels-hungary-romania-cu...
sobkas··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Not doing anything is also an alternative, theoretically it can be worse than other alternatives too...
sobkas··on LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
> It's easy to say these anti-capitalistic platitudes, but do you really want to live in a society where the concept of private ownership is not supported by the state? >

There is a country that allows police to just take your stuff and then demands you to prove it wasn't illegal. Also such property can be used/sold/spent by police force it was stolen by. Does it sound like private ownership is supported by the state? BTW. It's called civil forfeiture and country is named USA.

sobkas··on Qualcomm to Acquire Modular
> I don't get it. > > Qualcomm has almost no products in the high-end inference/training market. The industry standard is the NVIDIA Hopper H100/H200. > > What could they possibly get from acquiring Modular?

Don't ask what they will gain from owning it, ask what they will gain from others not owning it...

sobkas··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Just because something is in do-or-die situation doesn't mean that they have some kind of magical advantage over fat cat. Being in that situation means there is very real possibility of doing "die" part and we have lots of examples of them doing so.
sobkas··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Also Theranos was do-or-die and we know how it ended.
sobkas··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
Easy way is not doing charter schools. Why are they bad? Charter school can choose what children they will teach when public schools don't have that choice, then people point at charter schools as having higher outcomes. In essence charter schools are a tool to discriminate students from poor families.
sobkas··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
And how many people would have been saved if he didn't forcibly extracted that money from society to begin with?

Because it's almost impossible to not help someone if he just throw wads of money at random. What important is how many people weren't saved because he decided to be a middle man in all of it?

sobkas··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
His "charitable" contributions are only in place to charity wash his awful actions in the past and now. And it worked, everyone thinks of Saint Bill and his supposed good deeds while forgetting what he actually did or doing right now.
sobkas··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
>They've admitted the US education work was a mistake. They are hardly alone in making that mistake, improving education in the US is hard.

It's only hard if you don't want to help anyone and your only goal is to push charter schools(by any other name) by any means necessary.

>Their work to clean water and cure diseases has saved millions of lives. They know what they are good at and they've decided to double down on that.

They helped so many people by not allowing them getting covid vaccine or by fighting generics? Also their "good" deeds weren't without negative consequences that could be avoided if someone actually listened to people they were "helping".

sobkas··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
He uses philanthropy to force his ideology on everyone and his ideology doesn't work. His philanthropy makes things worse not better.

At some point it stops being a philanthropy when it makes lives of people he tries to "help" worse. Like his actions have a ulterior motives...

sobkas··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
>The kind of piece of shit who donates basically his entire fortune to charity?

So he is no longer a billionaire? And donating to what charity, The Gates Foundation? The one that he controls? The one that he uses to push his ideological stances and repeatedly fails to help anyone? Just look how successful his work on improving education system in America was. What a sacrifice it was for him...

sobkas··on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
Language or the way we use it is often used to exclude "undesired", so there is a point in using them. Not a very nice point, but a point nevertheless.
sobkas··on Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
> I am surprised no one has started a go fund me to make a fund just to bribe politicians to fix tax filing. > > It would be cost effective VS paying for tax prep!

It will not work, part of compensation is being hired as lobbyist after you "retire" from public office. So either go fund me will do the same or it will fail.

sobkas··on Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube
You mean free speech zones...
sobkas··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
Proper term for it is Computer Assisted Plagiarism, CAP for short. Also, I really hope that Google doesn't claim it created sites it crawl for search their engine.
sobkas··on Friction and Not Being Touched
Point of friction is to have it as a filter against people who really need your help.

Helping people necessitates taking some action, spending resources, potentially making some errors that can be taken against you.

But on the other hand, refusing to help people without any reason or flimsy reason is also frowned upon.

Adding friction is a perfect solution, now you want to help everyone but this stupid/pesky/lazy people just aren't able to follow simple(they ain't) instructions how to properly follow process of acquiring etc.

Now it's their fault, so no action is needed on you behalf.

sobkas··on Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device
Google doesn't provide "entire operating system source code", it provides some parts, while other they keep closed. Also they are continuously removing parts that are essential from AOSP (that are either open or closed).

Removing support for Pixel devices makes AOSP even less useful for developers, because belief that VM will be a good replacement for real hardware test environment is a fairy tale next to sleeping beauty.

So no, they don't provide "entire operating system source code", what they provide is a caricature of open source project. So maybe they should call it COSP.

sobkas··on A New ASN.1 API for Python
Licence also prevent you from modifying generated code.
sobkas··on A New ASN.1 API for Python
First you can download specifications in either PDF or doc(x). Second doc(x) are simple enough that simple doc(x) to ASCII/text is good enough to produce working ASN.1 definition. Copy&paste is also an option.
sobkas··on Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
> A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog, DNS, mail.

I always felt like you are painting target on your homelab when you allow outside access.

sobkas··on OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
If death is a suicide it doesn't automatically means that third parties weren't involved. It's possible to push (temporally) vulnerable people over the edge, even if when helped/left alone they wouldn't.

Especially if one party have incentive to discredit/destroy such person, so court/jury won't take their testimony seriously(or there will be no testimony at all). After all it's almost impossible to connect such actions with subsequent suicide.

While suicide is by definition action of individual, what leads to it isn't always the same.

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