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RobotToaster··on Archive.today links going forward
In that case he was targeting someone who was attempting to dox him to get him arrested. What would be the motivation in this case?
RobotToaster··on The case of the 9 bit AES key
Obligatory xkcd https://m.xkcd.com/221/
RobotToaster··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Gemini: doomsday
RobotToaster··on The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
Employers used to just build housing for their employees. While in some cases it lead to questionably practices, it almost seems the lesser evil today.
RobotToaster··on CNC Stone Carving
What's more gothic than dark satanic mills
RobotToaster··on Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
Apparently that's someone mildly important, for anyone else who's never heard of him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garrett
RobotToaster··on Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
I was wondering about servers on satellites.
RobotToaster··on Show HN: Nasscad – local-first 3D CAD for browser and Windows
I'm not sure if it's crashed or just very slow, but I've been waiting several minutes to preview a fillet on a cylinder end.
RobotToaster··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
What's wrong with surveilling LEO? If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear.
RobotToaster··on A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress
I'm a big macross and gundam fan, but I never could get into armoured core, I always ended up in debt from ammunition costs.
RobotToaster··on SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef
The first steam ships were paddle steamers, wiki even says SS can just be a generic term for steam ship.

It's not unusual for acronyms to have multiple meanings, the S in HMS can mean submarine, as submarines aren't ships.

RobotToaster··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
The USA is a third world country in a Gucci belt
RobotToaster··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Theft requires that you intentionally deprive the original owner of the object, this is copying.
RobotToaster··on Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
There's plenty of places online you can mail film to to be developed.
RobotToaster··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals.
RobotToaster··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Until 1995 commercial use of the internet was completely banned, reviving that rule would solve 99% of the problems with the current internet.
RobotToaster··on Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless
This is already the reality if you want to run a business servicing some models of car and tractor.
RobotToaster··on Root shell on Samsung TV
It isn't entirely true, it has to be "to the obstruction, annoyance, or danger of the residents or passengers" for it to be illegal https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89

Although it does appear to be true in London https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2-3/47/section/54

RobotToaster··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
I find a lot of social media algorithms are "dumb" in that they will see someone share something saying "x sucks" and interpret that as one being interested in "x".

Either that or it's deliberately showing people stuff it knows they will hate to harvest hate scrolling.

RobotToaster··on Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice
What sort of device is used for this? It isn't really clear.
RobotToaster··on How close can pure functional programming get to C?
>How can you justify using immature technologies for client work?

Ask everyone that's using generative AI?

RobotToaster··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
The one I got from Lloyds has a replaceable battery
RobotToaster··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
By that logic governments are not able to "care" either.

But both are examples of cybernetic entities, if they don't care then their control loops aren't correctly aligned.

RobotToaster··on OBS Studio 33
As the name (Open Broadcaster Software) suggests, it isn't primarily a capture program.
RobotToaster··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
> Or perhaps we should dial back on how many firefighters we keep employed at all times.

The problem is you need a good number when there is a serious fire, even if it doesn't happen very often.

RobotToaster··on There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository
Both of the people involved in this dispute sound insufferable.
RobotToaster··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
How many countries has China bombed this millennium?
RobotToaster··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
> US providers who have no reason to sabotage their own government.

DOGE and grokAI being run by the same guy say otherwise.

RobotToaster··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
The core principle of democracy is doing what is popular, not what is right.

The idea that democracy is synonymous with the current neoliberal order is nonsense.

RobotToaster··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
You're holding up unelected judges overturning an election as a good example of democracy?
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