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brokenmachine··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
What do you mean it's defunct?

I use old.reddit.com all the time.

If old.reddit.com goes, I'm done with reddit.

I might try out some kind of alternative front end from https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends#reddit though.

But if that's not good enough, I'm done.

brokenmachine··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
My uninformed guess as a non-murican would be that it's just zoned as a business.

I doubt there would be a special zoning category exclusively for strip clubs.

brokenmachine··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Well, there's a lot of things you can expect from Apple customers.
brokenmachine··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
I'm not new to command line tools, but I somehow managed to delete ~10k pictures while trying to use parallel to resize them.

I forget the details but it was some kind of surprisingly weird foot-gun behavior.

Luckily I had a backup, but it really has made me scared to try using parallel again.

brokenmachine··on AI's Affordability Crisis
How large is a model, like Mythos for example? Multiple Tb?

If that happened, what would people need to run it?

brokenmachine··on I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?
What's odd to me is that companies don't seem to be targeting the niche anymore?

When there's no cheap but ok product, common sense would dictate that somebody would try to fill that niche.

Is everything a monopoly now?

brokenmachine··on The AirPods Effect
Australian public transport is pretty good in my experience. I certainly don't expect to be stabbed or sit in piss.
brokenmachine··on ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
I feel like I've seen that creepy image on 4chan or reddit before.
brokenmachine··on ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
Great rant. Agreed on all points. Bravo.
brokenmachine··on Anthropic confident of re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 access 'in coming days'
I guess they paid the extortion fee. I wonder how many Trump phones they had to buy.
brokenmachine··on Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer
Are those expats allowed to freely express their views on the matter?

You might as well just quote Russian poll results.

brokenmachine··on Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer
You're the one who called it punishing. It's just doing business with who you want.

It's just dumb for Russia to do it when they have so few cards to play.

Originally I thought you were talking about military "punishing".

brokenmachine··on Nobody clicks your share buttons
That hasn't worked for me in a lot of instances, and still copies a lot of tracking info.
brokenmachine··on 'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today
I'm Australian but I downloaded that show to listen to it.

It was surreal hearing him say, "we're under attack" when the second plane hit.

He did a great job.

brokenmachine··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
The bank makes money on chargebacks, so they have an incentive to allow a certain level of scams.
brokenmachine··on Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer
Seems fine to me. The US is representing their interests, just as Russia does. I believe Russia has put sanctions on the US as well.

Russia has their good friends like North Korea and Iran to depend on.

If they want new friends, maybe they could reconsider their foreign policy.

brokenmachine··on AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier
They believe the marketing.

Billionaire hype men couldn't be wrong, could they? Otherwise how could they get so rich??

brokenmachine··on AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier
You might be doing the same thing, if you think that your medical professional father would have any understanding of how an LLM works, an area in which he has no expertise.

To him, and most other people who don't know anything about the tech and how it works, it's probably just a magic intelligent box that can answer many things that he can't.

The marketing says it's this close to AGI and taking all our jobs, so that must be true!

brokenmachine··on AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier
I'm exactly the same, but unfortunately I think we're in the minority.

People are absolutely dying to outsource their thinking.

brokenmachine··on Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer
Unpunished is an odd choice of words.

Why shouldn't "the West", actually many separate autonomous countries, be able to sell to whoever they want?

Literally nobody is interested in invading Russia. Nobody wants any part of that shitshow.

Russia needs to start worrying about their own internal problems, which are both significant and numerous.

brokenmachine··on Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support
https://caniuse.com/?search=jpeg-xl

Doesn't look very good.

brokenmachine··on You can power on a Mac remotely
DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

https://dearrow.ajay.app/

brokenmachine··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Maybe every vibe-coded app?
brokenmachine··on The iPhone's Last Stand?
You haven't listed the competing company that does not make one feel "some kinda stockholm syndrome".
brokenmachine··on Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else, and nobody was going to bomb them."

- Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris

brokenmachine··on The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix
It's fairly trivial, but still significantly harder than computing a single CRC.

From stackoverflow:

Because a 32-bit CRC yields only 2³² (approx. 4.29 billion) possible outputs, the Birthday Paradox dictates a 50% chance of an accidental collision after processing just ~77,000 unique inputs.

I've done it for shits and giggles and from memory it took my desktop PC maybe 10 minutes to generate a collision.

You're missing the point though.

Noise is not the only thing they should be protecting against.

The point is that AMD is executing code based on checking using an algorithm that has barely any protection from malicious inputs, which is stupid, and not fixing it just compounds that stupidity.

A cryptographic signature protects against both noise and malicious inputs.

brokenmachine··on Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance
OP used the wrong "lose" in two separate comments in the same discussion. That's why no, I don't think the 13 years was enough time. But there's no shame in that, nobody knows everything.

I'm not aware of how long anyone has been on HN, bar a very small number of users. Who can be bothered to check histories for everyone you comment to?

Fair point about not being able to edit.

>If you're realy that upsit

Thank you for using the correct "you're". :)

brokenmachine··on Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers
>their data centers are immune to the anger of the commoners who are being surveilled

If the commoners are attacking infrastructure, there's still always going to be ground stations that can be attacked.

brokenmachine··on Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
Look up fission vs fusion.
brokenmachine··on Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance
Weren't they targeting US bases in those countries?
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