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voxic11··on Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
No this is just it moving the mouse and viewing the results with it's vision capabilities.
voxic11··on An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism
Its not a sovereign wealth fund, but China 100% owns China Tobacco and has generally avoided policy changes which could encourage people to stop smoking because it could hurt this extremely profitable company (China Tabacco has about 2x the before tax profit of Apple). https://www.theexamination.org/articles/deadliest-company-in...
voxic11··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
So maybe your proposed hefty fines actually need to be imposed on the states which haven't implemented the directive?
voxic11··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
You get made a VIP if you lose a lot of money, not if you have a gambling problem. In fact being made a VIP is basically the only way that the company can identify problem gamblers besides self-reports (because its the only time people from the company actually talk directly to the user).
voxic11··on Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second
To heat all the water in all the Earth's oceans by 1 degree Celsius it would require the energy equivalent of the detonation of roughly 87 billion Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.
voxic11··on OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
The CFAA's main hacking charge has a high bar for intent. But the CFAA also has a separate "damaging a protected computer" charge (basically to criminalize DOS attacks) and that charge only requires negligence not specific intent.
voxic11··on My German Exit Tax: 13 Tax Advisors, 1.5 Years, 18.7k€ to leave the country
Those only apply if you renounce your citizenship, not if you simply change your country of residence. However, unlike Germany, the US taxes its citizens regardless of their country of residence so renouncing your citizenship and paying that exit tax is the only way to stop being responsible for paying US taxes.
voxic11··on Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day
Yeah macOS security is capability based rather than purely identity based. So if you don't pass the required entitlements to an application then it cannot do stuff like read from the system keychain even if its running as your user.
voxic11··on Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
I believe HF said they did report it to the FBI.

> Hugging Face alerted the FBI.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ai-agents-are-hacking-s...

voxic11··on German companies rely almost exclusively on AI models and services from the USA
German has been supported in Claude voice mode since May.
voxic11··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
Auth0 and Firebase both let you export user password hashes (though I believe you need to open a support ticket in order to do it in Auth0's case at least).

I think Cognito is actually one of the few with absolutely no path to achieving this.

voxic11··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
I think its so that like people don't need to do an EPA assessment for their home backup generator right? They are very common where I live due to the instability of the power grid.
voxic11··on Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
You can't get subsecond latency with 4o-transcribe.
voxic11··on Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU
Not paying anyone would be a violation of minimum wage laws. Or it would mean they are truly equal partners in the project who have no "employer" they are working under. In which case it does seem most fair that they would all own the copyrights to their contributions absent some other agreement to assign copyright.
voxic11··on Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera
Attractive nuisance laws only apply to things likely to attract children, not grown adults.
voxic11··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Distillation a pretty well documented technique that actually pre-dates LLMs https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02531

Here is a project that guides you through it if you want to prove to yourself that it works https://github.com/arcee-ai/DistillKit

voxic11··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
And this is why he isn't being charged with destruction of evidence. He is being charged with destruction of property subject to a civil seizure.

The only reason they can charge him with this is that he destroyed it after being notified that it was being seized. If he has deleted it before then there would be nothing they could charge him with.

voxic11··on Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU
In cinema it works the same as in software engineering. There is an exception to normal copyright law where works made in the course of employment are treated as if the author is the employer rather than the actual author of the work. Its known in copyright law as a "work for hire" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire

> In the United States, United Kingdom, and several other jurisdictions, if a work is created by an employee as part of their job duties, the employer is considered the legal author or first owner of copyright.

> It is an exception to the general rule that the person who actually creates a work is the legally-recognized author of that work.

voxic11··on Linux 7.2
People who want to play video games, or watch videos using hardware decoding, or train machine learning models? DRM here means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

> DRM exposes an API that user-space programs can use to send commands and data to the GPU and perform operations such as configuring the mode setting of the display.

> User-space programs can use the DRM API to command the GPU to do hardware-accelerated 3D rendering and video decoding, as well as GPGPU computing.

voxic11··on Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse
So you think that is the unauthorized use that the officers were fired for?
voxic11··on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
Do we know if it was the worker who presented it as such? Everyone has to learn and if they are learning on the job its up to their employer to ensure that the work product is reviewed or overseen by someone with adequate experience.
voxic11··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
You still need the GPUs for training new models though right? This is only suitable for inference.
voxic11··on Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop
> The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. Just the five large characters, no little number in the middle. And Flock’s AI tech wasn’t registering that non-standard little number when it began picking up the Range Rover around town. It just saw 34 DTM in large type and started alerting the local police.

No, it wasn't looking for partial matches, it was looking for an exact match of "34 DTM" and it missed the "10" in the middle of the victims plate because it was in non-standard small lettering (as required by law for those types of plates in their state). To be clear, the 10 was in the middle of the victims plate number, which was "34 10 DTM", not the end of it.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-trac...

voxic11··on Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop
> The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. Just the five large characters, no little number in the middle. And Flock’s AI tech wasn’t registering that non-standard little number when it began picking up the Range Rover around town. It just saw 34 DTM in large type and started alerting the local police.

No, it wasn't looking for partial matches, it was looking for an exact match of "34 DTM" and it missed the "10" in the middle of the victims plate because it was in non-standard small lettering (as required by law for those types of plates in their state).

voxic11··on SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches
The standard catalog price for a dedicated falcon 9 launch is $74 million. So this is actually up-charging the government a bit (I assume there is some custom work or extra cost for arranging for the appropriate security/secrecy).
voxic11··on Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences
Why would they need to do it in their own waters?
voxic11··on ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms
I agree pay to win games suck, its the one feature which will make me instantly drop a game. But pay to win isn't gambling, afaik you can't earn robux by wagering robux you can only earn worthless in-game rewards.
voxic11··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
But that is all speculation/opinion/non-first hand knowledge, you can't actually say any of those things in court without an expert witness. Only expert witnesses can testify to things that they didn't witness themselves, lawyers and lay witnesses cannot.

Also don't think you can simply get the opposing expert witness to give this kind of testimony on cross examination. During cross examination you can only ask them about things they testified to during direct (and a few other things such as their qualifications). So if they never testified anything about your IP during direct then you can't ask them about whether or not your IP matched during cross.

If you don't have the money to pay for an expert witness then you better just hope that the jury already knows about IP addresses and actually realizes that IP addresses matching was never brought up during the trial (they won't btw, the general public knows nothing about these things).

Think about it this way, all this techno mumbo-jumbo about account IDs and IP addresses may as well be black magic as far as the jury and court is concerned. So only a verified expert witness can testify about them. If we allowed otherwise then every trial would be nothing but testimony about how various magical or religious principles mean that you can't possibly be guilty (or vice versa).

voxic11··on Kill The Cookie Banner
Do Not Track cannot satisfy the GDPR, it requires that you obtain informed and specific consent so even if a user had the DNT bit set to consenting you would still need to show the banner.
voxic11··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
That is how discord has chosen to implement it but nothing about the scheme actually requires an app besides a mobile browser and QR code scanner to be involved.
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