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usernomdeguerre··on Car Is Sharing Data with Big Tech
> General Motors, Honda, Nissan, and Stellantis (which owns 14 auto brands, including Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, and Jeep), said some recipients of driver data were prohibited from independently using or selling any data they are provided. But the Northeastern researchers found those restrictions aren’t necessarily effective: After they showed their findings to Honda, the company instructed one of its vendors, Amplitude, to delete all of the location data it had received and stopped sending it going forward.

Better late than never?

usernomdeguerre··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
I disagree, it's not fine.
usernomdeguerre··on What even is an OS now?
After reading the post i was reminded of this. I agree i'd say vibeos is more artistic; but I think it still highlights the ~way someone might interact with software in the future and is worth keeping in mind.
usernomdeguerre··on Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks
I'd say it serves multiple purposes. Optics is certainly one of them "look upon my works, ye Republican...".

But I think another perspective is a more dangerous effort to chip away at state responsibility for the process and procedures of voting. Once this is owned or easily influenced by a national institution then a single-party state disguised as a republic becomes far simpler to implement.

The danger here being that our system has relied on decentralized states handling these tasks and thus has not created the guardrails necessary (if ever they could survive a unitary executive theory) to ensure fairness.

usernomdeguerre··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
It becomes a neutral term because we are practicioners (presumably?) who benefit from it and have thus let it become habitual. I already admitted it was weasely upon reflection.

If you want this class of LLM error to also become habitual and neutral then fine, I don't, and I think many others don't.

usernomdeguerre··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)#History

But on reflection I don't disagree it was probably made for similar effect in the era of human software development. That sounds like it strengthens my point?

usernomdeguerre··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
I explained why, if you want me to engage i'll try but you're asking me to restate my position.
usernomdeguerre··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
I disagree, I think 'Hallucination' is a risk-shedding weasel-word. It's meant to shift blame away from the technology and its creator (multibillion dollar AI companies etc) in a way that doesn't hold those actors accountable or responsible for the outcomes.

In any other software it would be an error, regression, bug. And in a human process it would be at ~least something someone would call 'bullshit'.

usernomdeguerre··on A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
>...researchers found a bug in the way that the community-discussion forum Discourse processed certain image files. The researchers had access to a special version of Claude Opus 4.8... >At first, it didn’t work. That evening, however, Anthropic released Opus 5 and by the next day, Claude had found a way to exploit the bug...

Is this speed of capability because hacking is almost entirely machine verifiable, thus training quicker/deeper than other domains?

usernomdeguerre··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Been using hister for a number of weeks now; i'm coming across sites whose content would be better handled with a custom extractor; but it looks like extractors need to be bundled into the build in order to work? Is that correct?

Put another way, i can't write an extractor for Reuters and then point a config to it from my current hister binary?

usernomdeguerre··on Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
Performative nitpicking is tiresome, why equivocate? Either you agree with the thrust of the argument and are looking to strengthen it, or you disagree. Which is it?
usernomdeguerre··on Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
Agreed, I was also annoyed that the only params on the site were mac products. I run qwen 3.8 on a 12 year old asus and a 3090, 50tok/s. It's not even the only guest running on the box. For my usage profile (not running it 24/7) it's actually less expensive per-month than claude subscriptions.
usernomdeguerre··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
The unfortunate part is that each individual who attempts to leave is fighting the Network Effect[0]. It's fighting against the human organism's basic social nature.

If every person wants to leave the platform but X person stays because Y person is there, and Y person stays because Z person is there, and Z person stays because X person is there then it's a feedback loop. Each person wants a better solution or platform, but none end up leaving because of the network effect.

Breaking that dependency involves the individual user but can't be overcome by the individual alone. Over time, the network re-asserts itself and monopolizes the connections.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

usernomdeguerre··on Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review
>The company said in a blog post the incident involved an early version of Claude Opus 4.6. It said it had notified all the affected parties but did not disclose more details.

Wild that they can break the law, disclose it happened, but not involve any law enforcement at all. If cybersecurity events entail disclosures then the perpetrator should carry more burden if they intend to continue doing business.

Also here's the actual post from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-cybe...

usernomdeguerre··on Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills
seems like only the companies in question could run this sort analysis long-term; since they have full access to their CoTs not in public datasets.
usernomdeguerre··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Seems another demonstration of why AI should be squarely in the realm of personal computing. Local Models, run personally, are the only consistent safety against something like this (though not a fix); where companies train on your learning process/failures/experiments and press-gang it into their own achievements.

And if we think this only applies to academic fields then we're doubly fooling ourselves. They do not have the ethics or incentives to be good stewards of the technology.

usernomdeguerre··on Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system
>"We need to check more carefully who is credited and who is accountable for statistical agency releases. We need to watch carefully, when the 2025 American Community Survey eventually comes out, whether the ban on noise infusion leads to less data being published and which tables are suppressed. We also need to question seemingly technical methodological changes and scrutinize them for political motivation more closely."

I didn't realize they were delaying the 2025 ACS again and it seems things are just going to get worse if things don't fit the narrative of the administration.

usernomdeguerre··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
>Explain the system in which you could capture all of these chats with no knowledge of anyone in these data centers.

They all transit the same wires as all other traffic. Copy them at any regional bottleneck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A. Additionally, i'd admit that maybe someone(s) at these companies knows. But if we think there isn't any person who would agree to do this then I think we're being naive.

> Their data centers aren't old and they lease a lot of compute...

Again, they transit the same wires as everyone else. Here i'll also add that these companies have been actively courting government relationships (and Anthropic attempting to repair damaged ones), why would they stand on principles here and not any of the other many frontlines they've visibly acquiesced?

I just think it's easier to re-route their traffic than, as you say, touch every single datacenter and its employees in some way.

usernomdeguerre··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
What makes you think they'd need to touch every datacenter? All of these endpoints use existing providers with decades-long history at this point, and network monitoring is already a proven 'feature' of the agencies they'd need to co-exist with over their lifetimes.

If anything, Occam's Razor would point to a common denominator with all of them, given it wasn't network-wide, as far as i know.

usernomdeguerre··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
"AI Traffic" is just traffic. If the infrastructure exists to monitor/buffer traffic (it does) then this can be monitored as well. Whether this hiccup was due to them hitting their limits briefly (or turning it on, or etc) who knows.
usernomdeguerre··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
> If you took off your partisan hat, put on your red team hat

A humorous double meaning, almost like taking the hat off and putting it back on again.

But seriously I would expect a stronger argument in favor of these changes from proponents like you, something sourced, especially given the trial runs of these encroachments that've been run in a number of red states that haven't found any significant security issues and just turned out to be a waste of taxpayer dollars, time, and trust.

Do your readers a favor and bring something at least as substantive as the article you're commenting on.

usernomdeguerre··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Once a browser is "Government Approved" all the other are 'Unapproved' ipso facto. There's nothing clear about that future, imo.
usernomdeguerre··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Chrome and Google have not done worse than a nearly-10-year-old incident that was walked back 3 days later and hasn't resurfaced since? That's truly your position?

I'm sorry but I don't take you seriously.

usernomdeguerre··on Hy4 preview
is it just me or are the bar charts in the blog post strange? Higher numbers don't seem to correspond correctly to their actual height?
usernomdeguerre··on US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
We all know it won't be, so it's not fine. Because they've been told to 'stand back and stand by' and now they work in ICE: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/ice-proud-boys-...
usernomdeguerre··on [dead]
Sounds like a way to launder political contributions for a platform owner who has loudly declared their interest in uk politics. Juice metrics for a sympathetic user (or MP), launder it through bot traffic or use the platform you wholly control to tweak a parameter or two, then turn off the spigot when the rhetoric veers off your course.
usernomdeguerre··on I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
>The game runs on Windows, the audio processing and brain runs on my M4 MacBook. It could all run on Windows (provided there is dedicated ~12gb or more gpu ram for it)

I do wonder if this is an avenue for console gaming that might be practical in a few years; AI-centric hardware that might be too beefy or expensive for regular users, but can extend new or existing games. Kinda like the expansion paks of old.

unfortunate that the "ALE" design wasn't opensourced (couldn't find a link in their post) but I would be interested in learning more about the design, in particular what sort of data pipeline was necessary from skyrim to give this sort of action flexibility?

usernomdeguerre··on US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters
Agreed, too many people are willing to thought-terminate when the messenger doesn't fit their ideal. It's why propaganda groups signal boost bad faith or poor arguments (and argumentors), to inflict this sort of self-righteous ennui.
usernomdeguerre··on Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
Not all things built are positive, so it can't be good stewardship just to build. And is the reason they don't strain infra because they don't meaningfully improve the community or its economy?
usernomdeguerre··on Fastmail offers EU data region
I think it's not unreasonable to see this as a first, positive, step.

It's certainly giving them some benefit of the doubt, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that, say, the EU server and the US backup will in some time be an EU server and an EU backup.

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