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1,450 karma · joined December 30, 2013

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garyfirestorm··on Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft
You can’t have the first one without the second one. AI doesn’t create something out of thin air, it is only recreating from training data. Which is infringing portion of the argument.
garyfirestorm··on Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you
Awareness and care is one thing. A unanimous action plan is another. Violation of privacy is not viewed through similar lens as say theft or other forms of crimes.
garyfirestorm··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
I should have phrased it differently. I can’t find a decent spec phone priced appropriately that I can add to cart and order it.
garyfirestorm··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Not a single Linux OS phone I can buy today in US with all the basic features working.
garyfirestorm··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
Vibe-reverse-engineering
garyfirestorm··on Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
It didn’t generate a link (sources) when it claimed it was in stock
garyfirestorm··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Not always. Many places will avoid hiring people to do the work instead they just contract it out. Saves them money in short term. Why hire someone at 100k, pay 401k, insurance, pto when I can simply buy it for 50k.
garyfirestorm··on MonoCode: GUI for Coding Agents
Also the first paragraph in github should explain what problem are you solving here. Is this like herdr but GUI?
garyfirestorm··on FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrest
It appears this guy is a low hanging fruit with previous cybercrime convictions that they grabbed to “send a message” to the group. But it doesn’t seem like they even know the identities of rest of the group members.
garyfirestorm··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
i generally go to the store where the coffee tastes better
garyfirestorm··on Creativity is the New Moat
Even bacteria are cultured ;)
garyfirestorm··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
Do you think the training process will retain these artifacts? I doubt it. If they were simply stealing the content - sure it would make sense - but I suspect they’re feeding it into training data and RL might distill these out.
garyfirestorm··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> Second, you miscomprehended the article. The employee did not "threaten to ruin a prominent researcher's career"…

Proceeds to ask removal of another coauthor or else we totally discredit you - phrased as why would you do this to yourself.

garyfirestorm··on English ↔ Claudish Translator
Come on man, at least the example should be cached and presented in case the service is down
garyfirestorm··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
It’s a provision not circumvention, also not a hack. /s
garyfirestorm··on Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
You can always flash and factory reset. I’d bet 99.9% of phones on eBay are by and for general public and not some esoteric zero days in the wild that your comment makes it sound like.
garyfirestorm··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
IANAL - if they break the bail conditions the judge may issue a warrant depending on severity, clearly a warrant was not issued here, otherwise there’s no need for pretext like you said.

Article also states bail jumping charge was dismissed but the weed charge is the only charge that remains.

garyfirestorm··on US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
I don’t think courts care about technicality here. They’re going to simply ask “why didn’t it unlock like a normal phone does” -> aka you’re deliberately hiding evidence from us.

I’m sure this case will be dropped because it will open bigger can of worms and may jeopardize the current practice of warrantless invasive searches at the entry points. Secretly I hope this goes to Supreme Court and once and for all they clarify on “constitution doesn’t apply at the border” piece of thinking

garyfirestorm··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
if you wear red glasses...
garyfirestorm··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
Parents could file a class action? RICO? How is this any different from organized crime?
garyfirestorm··on My favorite keyboards
What are those trackpads/touchpads between the left and right boards? What cables are those that are attached to both the keyboard and trackpad. Looks almost like an Ethernet cable but must be a usbC. Does anyone know the type/brand of the cable.
garyfirestorm··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
Just implant the AirTag on my body and share it with everyone ffs
garyfirestorm··on Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship
jurisdiction is not dependent just on the person. it is a geographical encapsulation. all people within this boundary are subject to the jurisdiction.
garyfirestorm··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
lol public roads are mapped on Google Maps
garyfirestorm··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
Corruption and transparency are polar opposites
garyfirestorm··on The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car
I can assure you Stellantis/Ford/GM stack is so bad that it’s nearly useless
garyfirestorm··on NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute
It depends. Mediocre doctor in a remote area with right tooling assistance as opposed to no one being available for someone who urgently needs one? Yeah this should be a thing. Should a software bro in NY perform it in dark alley despite having best doctors few blocks away? Maybe not…
garyfirestorm··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
Let me get this straight. We have a memory shortage due to AI slop which is not really efficient and to solve that problem we need to stop the AI slop and hand write the code.
garyfirestorm··on ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment
Isn’t tracking part of “search”? wouldn’t you need a warrant or court order to request my cellphone gps data? How is this tracking/search not contradictory to unreasonable search portion of the 4th amendment. The action of tracking and touching flock itself is violation of 4th amendment.
garyfirestorm··on Big Banana Car
Wow you waited from 2012 to crack this joke with that username
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