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VectorLock

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VectorLock··on Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
The fear and anxiety caused by threats issued by those with the capability and proclivity for violence against those with no defense against it is the injury.
VectorLock··on Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
Some people may not be as privileged to be immune to being terrorized by violent threats as you are.
VectorLock··on GLP-1 may slow biological aging
Its been decades since it was invented so perhaps we'll find out soon.
VectorLock··on Tesla Roadster
>Tinted glass windows are designed to mimic the copper coating that gives spacesuit visors their gold radiance.

Aren't spacesuit visors actually gold plated, not copper?

VectorLock··on Yes, and
Maybe read my comment again. I wasn't disagreeing with you.
VectorLock··on Yes, and
>You can predict which changes in the source code will lead to which exact changes in the behavior of the compiled program.

A vanishingly small percentage of coders are thinking about this when they're coding. Compilers do so many optimizations that most work-a-day programmers don't think about as well. If you're one of those people who care about the exact instructions coming out of your compiler, you're just inlining assembly.

VectorLock··on Claude Haiku 5.5
What was the prompt for the widow's bay egg?
VectorLock··on Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
>There are airliners that have been in service for over 50 years.

Are there any airliners that have flown for 24 years non-stop?

VectorLock··on A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
$3500 when you consider they returned $3000 of that back to OpenAI in the form of burnt tokens.
VectorLock··on Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New
Doesn't sound like many of them are going to be there, so I wouldn't feel the need to as well.
VectorLock··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Compared to gemini-cli that they took out behind the woodshed, I hate it.
VectorLock··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Or ruin.
VectorLock··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm.
VectorLock··on JetZero
Sounds fixable by making the outer seats cheaper.
VectorLock··on JetZero
I give absolutely less than zero f's about no windows for 2" more legroom.
VectorLock··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Not even just broke, they completely disabled people's ability to use it. Took it out behind the woodshed.
VectorLock··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
>Steam is basically one giant used game market in that you get stuff constantly for 50-90% off.

I don't think thats comparable at all. You're not buying used games, you're buying discounted games. Sony can discount games too. Steam doesn't have a secondary market either.

We just seem to trust Valve more to not rugpull our purchases.

VectorLock··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
They want this even more than they want $100 games. Rockstar not shipping discs for GTA6 and PlayStation ending disc production is the perfect two pronged approach.

Honestly gamers have been stomaching this for decades with Steam so Sony wants in on some of that sweet sweet action as well.

VectorLock··on Nano Banana 2 Lite
Using it for "staging" shitty rentals is pretty gross, but I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.
VectorLock··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Code switching in the post LLM era.
VectorLock··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
Pac man in Pac-man has cornering.
VectorLock··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
Yeah its AI slop without the corner easing. But maybe they can AI it better.
VectorLock··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
Cool AI slop but the lack of corner easing like the original game makes it less fun.
VectorLock··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
A broken clock is still occasionally right.
VectorLock··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Given the current climate I'd be inclined to declare "tyranny" also but in this case I think given the degree of potential damage the slamming on of brakes is warranted when the alternative is, to strain a metaphor, going full speed off a cliff at relativistic speeds.
VectorLock··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Not selective availability. COCOM Limits that prevent a GPS chip from operating above a certain speed and altitude.
VectorLock··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Not that I'm ever one to support anything this regime does but I'm kind of okay with them pumping the brakes on this until we really get a handle on what the

The USG has limited capabilities on technologies from GPS chips to thermal imaging with "national security" implications for a while and now they're doing it but it seems people don't like how ill defined "Mythos-class" means. Would it be better if it was some %X on some benchmark that the frontier model peddlers could just limbo under to make it "acceptable" for release? Do we just accept that jailbreaking will never be prevented?

The part of all this I do have a problem with is the national state cybersecurity cat-and-mouse this kicks off. Will the US tech landscape have enough time to safely get a "Mythos-class" model to harden itself before China releases or leverages a "Mythos-class" cyber munition?

VectorLock··on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
Maybe now we'll get a good voice prompt experience with Gemini on iPhone out of this deal.
VectorLock··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
I'm guessing its a combination of needing to acquire a massive amount of land among a limited number of candidate locations and then layering logistical constraints on top of that.
VectorLock··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
Building is fun, but deciding what to build can be difficult. "Maker ennui."
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