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cynicalsecurity··on Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
You've got a friend request form Zuck
cynicalsecurity··on Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
To everyone who wants to dismantle the EU: this is not the solution. Dismantling the EU is like burning down your own house just to get rid of flies. The UK left the EU and implemented its own version of chat control - Online Safety Act - without any transparency or real opposition. The right solution is the political fight. Europe is our home. We must keep it in good shape by getting rid of anything that makes it worse - like Chat Control.
cynicalsecurity··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
Dismantling the EU is like burning down your own house to get rid of flies. That is absolutely not the right solution. Without the EU, chat control would already have been implemented in its worst form everywhere, just as it already is in the UK. The UK left the EU and implemented its own version of chat control.
cynicalsecurity··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
Local governments are likely to block the initiative. We need a Polish based messenger that won't bend to chat control fascist initiatives.
cynicalsecurity··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
Just a few years ago cannabis was presented online as a miracle drug that could cure all physical and psychological diseases. Any criticism of the sacred cannabis was strictly forbidden and dissenters were burned alive in the figurative fire of social media. Interesting how times are changing.
cynicalsecurity··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Don't blame programmers, blame the insane annual review system at IT corporations.

Introduce the same system at train engineering companies and you'll get the same result.

cynicalsecurity··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
Almonds producers in California use roughly 60-85 times more water annually than all US data centers combined, depending on the exact figures and whether indirect power-plant water is included.

Wake up, people! Stop the evil producers of almonds!

cynicalsecurity··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
An ancient article that now looks even cheesier. It's so hard to make those goddamn stairs. So complex, such wisdom.
cynicalsecurity··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
Ukraine absolutely must ditch Cyrillic alphabet, after the war. There will be plenty of things to change.
cynicalsecurity··on EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools
What a great present for Russians planning their drone attacks on Europe. Why not open source military bases and personal development too? It's all theoretically could be found in public sources anyway, so why not help Ivan save some time and put it all together. As a EU citizen, I should be able to freely receive access to public infrastructure data by request, but it should not be put online for everyone to see.
cynicalsecurity··on Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
Perfectly generic for perfectly generic applications, I like it.
cynicalsecurity··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
They simply couldn't cut into their fat margins, could they?
cynicalsecurity··on UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence
£75m could only be the beginning. Next spending might be £750m if the results are going to please the stakeholders. Tomorrow digital Stasi might be knocking at your door.
cynicalsecurity··on CSSQuake
If this is what CSS has become, it means at some point its development went the wrong way.
cynicalsecurity··on Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
Supply chain risk.
cynicalsecurity··on Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
Binary app is a really bad way of storing data. No one would ever want to run a binary shared with them or found online.
cynicalsecurity··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The opposite party would have outright banned AI. Just listen to the left commentators, they all want to ban technology and, similarly to how they did it in the UK, destroy the whole IT sector altogether.
cynicalsecurity··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
Your comment reads like a thought-terminating cliché. If Russia occupied your city, killed your family and friends and left you homeless, you might reconsider giving freedom to those who take it away from others. Unfortunately, sanctions are often very easy to evade.
cynicalsecurity··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
This actually makes sense. No freedom for the enemies of freedom.
cynicalsecurity··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
Vindictive how? That it refuses to let the Brits have their cake and eat it?
cynicalsecurity··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
Leaving the EU or ending free movement with EU countries leads to a significant increase in immigration from the third world, as Brexit showed.
cynicalsecurity··on The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
TL; DR: Develop and deploy algorithms that downrank or deprioritize anti-democratic, extremist, or polarizing content.

Just call your opponents anti-democratic, extremist or polarising and here you go. Democracy!

cynicalsecurity··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
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cynicalsecurity··on Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
Didn't he retire not so long ago?
cynicalsecurity··on AI sticker shock hits corporate America
> Instead, they should focus on using AI to drive revenue.

There is a complete disconnect between wages of employees and company's revenue => Why aren't employees working towards revenue? What a mystery. Children, let's help Elmo solve this mystery.

And then random mass layoffs to make numbers for shareholders look great in quarterly reports. Surely this motivates people work to their fullest potential and to care for company's revenue.

cynicalsecurity··on I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)
I have some really bad news for you, mate.
cynicalsecurity··on The Art of Money Getting
Let the peasants think they are poor because they are lazy and the aristocracy are rich because working their ass off. Yeah, right.
cynicalsecurity··on US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate
They are afraid more of their own citizens thn of Americans. That's the reason for secrecy. At the same time, Danish officials push for chat control - a fascist Stasi-like initiative of mass spying on citizens, with a deliberate exception of government officials.
cynicalsecurity··on Apparently Google hates us now
Can someone start a new Google, please? Just search, nothing more. I'm willing to pay 10 USD a month for that. API access included.
cynicalsecurity··on Google changes its search box
> They think people go to Google to see what Google wants to show them.

They are making the same mistake as Yahoo did. Ironic.

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