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That has extremely high potential for strong reputational damage though. (As we see in this case)

Versus: "The government ordered us to give them the keys and forced us to remain silent about it" - now all the damage lies on the government, who is likely known to already do stuff like that (or at least it isn't a surprise) and will hide behind the banner of safety or national security or something. (Whether it's true or not)

I wonder if there is any significance to those numbers? Is it the birthday of whoever minted them or something?

> what amount of time is needed in say a "civilian" gpu

Per AI, 10²¹ years

Alternatively I would presume you could do it in 1 year with 10²¹ GPUs.

Why would you need to insert a "backdoor" in a cert in the form of a crappy key, when you could just use a real key and provide it to whatever shady organization requested the backdoor in the first place?

> Like "curl | bash" but... with a million times more computation.

At least with `curl | bash` the originating website needs to be compromised. With AI, there are about a million different ways for it to go wrong and blow up your entire HDD.

Something is wonky with your setup... My Jellyfin apps stay logged in indefinitely... Phones, TV, pretty sure even my browser is perma-logged-in.

Not an option for personal domains or small companies, but MarkMonitor is a great choice for bigger companies or critical domains.

You are kind of making my point for me. 181GW capacity is laughable at a global level. Better than nothing, for sure, but it isn't going to solve our energy needs - you need to increase that by a couple orders of magnitude.

It's not that it can't be done on a technical level, it's that it can't be done on a social level.

Pumped (hydro) storage requires MASSIVE areas, all sorts of approvals, and often resettling people. This works fine in China where the government can just do whatever, but in places like California, we can't even approve new resevoirs for drinking/farming water, much less energy storage.

Can that change? Certainly. Is it likely to? Doubtful.

It doesn't exist at scale. At least, not at the scale to support the entire grid.

If it does, please prove me wrong and show me some sources showing that grid-scale storage exists, but I have yet to see it.

I did, and it just lists a bunch of relative numbers that dont even make sense. It's talking about TW ranges for nuclear, but GW ranges for solar, but everything is relative. (% increase, or GW increase. No "this GW vs that GW generated in plain English.)

At best this is confusing. At worst, deceptive.

Only during the day... Nuclear power still FAR outperforms solar at night.

I'm sick of everyone saying that solar is this great solution that will solve all our energy woes. There are times and places for it for sure, but we don't have the battery capacity to actually go all-in on it. (And nobody will ever approve the large-scale hydro-batteries we need, and manufacturing conventional batteries is terrible for the environment, negating the gains that solar gives us.)

It's a very easy problem to solve if you do it right - tie Conditional Access policies to you using the correct browser.

This is what the Island browser does - you can't log into any company resource unless you do so from the authorized browser.

> check out Colin Furze

I'm waiting for his house to come up on auction in ~50 years or so when he eventually kicks the can. Will certainly be interesting to see how that auction goes, with the entire process being documented so well.

I don't get how anyone views this as a monopoly? As a media company, they provide entertainment. It's hard to argue that if the quality of entertainment slips, people are forced to continue consuming the entertainment. There are already SOOO many alternatives; everyone and their mothers are starting up their own paid streaming services (Nebula, etc...) and anyone can start a YouTube channel and get millions of viewers if they have good content. (And don't offend the YouTube overlords)

If we want to talk about monopolies, let's talk about YouTube. That's a far larger gatekeeper, and they have a proven track record of shutting people out for breaking their random rules, with little oversight.

> someone frustrated with their pricing

What about their service?

I came across this the other day and immediately thought of modern Mac. EVERYTHING is a permission prompt!

I get that it's the safe way to do things, but even as a power user who is concerned with that type of stuff, it's overwhelming!

Came across this blast from the past the other day. Funny how the tables have turned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY

> had?

Still does, at least on Windows. I use it all the time - I have a playlist with a mix of Spotify music, and music from my server.

We've had a solution to this for a long time in various programs - let the user tell the application how much they know. By default, settings are extremely limited, but you can change settings to "advanced" or "expert", and more options/settings become available.

There is no reason this couldn't work for permissions as well; beginners get the system locked down pretty well, whereas advanced users get a more open system they can do more with, at the expense of potential foot-guns)

(As a side note, we could probably make a plane that had this principle applied as well. With autopilot where it is today, we could easily make a commercial plane that grandma could fly under most circumstances - you just need that real pilot and extra controls for when things go wrong.)

Not sure why this was ever allowed; Regardless of what you make the AI say, this seems like a pretty open-and-shut case of hearsay to me. You are purporting to speak for someone else, but it's really the sisters words.

I never once said that there can't or shouldn't be any restrictions in place. By all means, put laws in place where recording video in a locker room is a felony, for example. I'm just saying that a blanket ban because it could be bad is extremely short-sighted.

That works the first 10 times or so I meet someone, but it starts getting awkward after that. (Wish I was exaggerating)

Flat out banning a category of product because it is possible to use it for bad things is stupid. Thousands of people are killed by cars every year - should we ban them? (Being killed is far worse than being recorded naked in a locker room. Not saying the latter is great, but it's better than being dead)

There are also potential good uses for this tech. As someone who can't remember anyone's name worth crap, I can't wait for smart glasses with facial recognition and a name tag that hovers over everyone. I'm sure there will be great benefit in industry, giving workers heads up displays of all manner of important information.

Just like any new technology, there is equal potential for good and bad.

I'm not seeing any shout-outs to MSWLogo! I loved being able to create dialog boxes and UIs!

Also, The Great Logo Adventure is a great book for kids learning Logo. It's what I learned with, and it's available as a free PDF now!

Cloudflare is simply following the time-honored trajectory:

1. Good company starts, with good service and mission

2. Because company has good service and mission, company grows to control a majority of the market

3. Company realizes they can leverage their market for other means and sells their soul to the devil

4. People realize company is no longer good

5a. People leave company

-or-

5b. Company is now a monopoly and people can't leave

Sources: - Microsoft - Google - Others

It was instituted after Tenerife where hundreds died because of this exact same problem.

I'm pretty sure it's FAA policy, but not 100% on that.

Last time a custom Android distro (CyanogenMod) made a deal with a manufacturer, everything went belly-up. I have little faith that the same won't happen again. :-(

> You assert this without evidence.

I mean, there are plenty of instances if you are willing to look... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cases_of_electoral_fra...

Hackers rather trivially were able to hack optical scan machines back in the 90s or early 2000s. Defcon famously has its voting village, where hackers hack voting machines via numerous means. If you think this isn't happening (or at least being attempted) in reality (by either party, and/or outside countries) you are naive.

> That's not how rights work. Would you say that there should be a "barrier to entry" for freedom of speech or gun rights?

Yes, there is a barrier of entry for freedom of speech and gun rights; it's called holding on to freedom itself, and it is a VERY difficult and bloody ordeal that can be lost extremely quickly if not protected. (See all non-free countries, or even parts of Europe where you can now be jailed for making certain comments online.)

I never said the barrier for entry should be a test, like the "literacy tests" we implemented during Jim Crow, but if you aren't willing to give up something for your freedom, you probably don't deserve it. (Not saying you must necessarily give something up, just that you must be willing to give something up.)

> Also for every skid you get on a coaster brake I'll raise you a nose Endo with the front disc brake!

I can slam on my front disc brakes and not endo. Step 1: shift your weight all the way to the back. (hang off the back of the seat). Step 2: have front suspension.

Weight shift is mostly enough on its own, but front suspension eats up whatever endo tendency is left.