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its-summertime··on Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
There is an unfortunate lack of unity for such things. It would work if governments made it easily understandable how to categorize content, but the vast majority is handled by closed boards of people, so no "case law" exists for the difficult edge cases.

Additionally, some jurisdictions have laws based around religious and cultural values which are not immediately obvious, I'm sure many webmasters would be happy to spend 30 minutes or so writing something for such a framework, but the current subsequent obligation of learning the laws of relevant jurisdictions, the decisions of age rating boards, etc. would blow things out to weeks of research and potentially quite a bit of lawyer money.

its-summertime··on Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
https://web.archive.org/web/20260215201718/https://www.rtala... seems a bother, nevermind the lack of granularity that RTA has. The competing options seem to have a Christian focus as well, from what I recall. There does not seem to be any good option currently.
its-summertime··on Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
https://fipr.org/20260526-GrowingUpInTheOnlineWorld.pdf Actual response, instead of an article reporting on an article reporting on a response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Information_Pol... Context of FIPR

its-summertime··on 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
I believe its a reference to the planet being a pale blue dot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

its-summertime··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
If one asks "Is the house on 123 Road Street, NJ, taller than the statistical average", then that there is only 1 datapoint for the house on 123 Road Street, NJ. Which is also 100% of the houses on 123 Road Street, NJ.
its-summertime··on Clanker: A Word for the Machine
Setting aside the history of anthropomorphism of robots using this term: https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker

A clanker doesn't clank? It feels more like an emotional name ­— a pet name or derogatory name — as opposed to a name that evokes a tool-like view of the thing. A typer? an autocompleter? auto-sed? LLM? All probably would have less emotional feeling to it due to being rooted in the actions performed.

its-summertime··on Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
"I assume [...] backdoors" Its more of a frontdoor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit

Pinephone is being sold for 200 with included dock.

its-summertime··on Artist with no technical experience stumbles upon the next generation of LLMs
How do you plan to reconcile running a whole village of LLMs with making LLM interfacing more efficient.
its-summertime··on FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive
I think the nuance is that it is notable historical articles about predictions and discussions of political elections, during a time when politics is quite at the fore-front of many people's minds
its-summertime··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Do you have examples of these points?
its-summertime··on I’ve joined Anthropic
in this context, "piece of shit"
its-summertime··on Modern IRC Client with E2E Encryption
A private license? Doesn't that practically mean no one can copy it outside of the usecase of doing a Github pull request as prescribed by the Github licensing?
its-summertime··on Permacomputing Principles
I think it would be a better approach to not pre-emptively burn oneself out with stress by viewing everything through a political lens at all times.
its-summertime··on GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
Depending on industry, that payout can be less than a security audit. You only get a chance of getting paid. You don't even know if they gave the LLM the answers that you are supposed to recover.
its-summertime··on GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
This is just free / severely-underpaid-on-average labor. Very disgusting.
its-summertime··on Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro's Ouster
I think its more the concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecaster stuff
its-summertime··on Smart TV tracking raises privacy concerns (2024)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203 the study

Instructions given from the twitter thread but are probably slop:

Samsung:

Menu → Settings → All Settings → General & Privacy → Terms & Privacy → Turn off "Viewing Information Services"

LG:

Settings → General → System → Additional Settings → Turn off "Live Plus"

Settings → Support → Privacy & Terms → User Agreements → Turn off "Viewing Information"

Roku TVs (TCL, Hisense, Philips, Insignia, Onn, Sharp, and others):

Settings → Privacy → Smart TV Experience → Turn off "Use Info from TV Inputs"

Settings → Privacy → Advertising → Turn off "Personalize Ads"

Sony:

Settings → All Settings → Turn off "Samba Interactive TV"

Vizio:

Settings → All Settings → Admin & Privacy → Turn off "Viewing Data"

Amazon:

Settings → Preferences → Privacy Settings → Turn off "Device Usage Data", "Collect App and Over-the-Air Usage", "Interest-Based Ads"

its-summertime··on Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker
Do you have links to #2
its-summertime··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
Mostly because it allows decoupling authentication to a given remote, away from restic. easier to use `rclone:remote:folder` than needing to provide a remote + a separate set of env vars to authenticate with that remote.

Not an issue in most languages, but I'm using bash, so its more of a bother.

its-summertime··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
Restic + rclone personally, with a wrapper script to glue things together nicely
its-summertime··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/05/sessi... they moved more than their infra

> They also require a phone number even!

"You don’t need a mobile number or an email to make an account with Session." - https://getsession.org/faq#identity-protection

its-summertime··on The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
> > What language was RollerCoaster Tycoon programmed in?

> It's 99% written in x86 assembler/machine code (yes, really!), with a small amount of C code used to interface to MS Windows and DirectX.

https://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm

its-summertime··on Chicken Nuget
Maybe a max-age field for the package manifest? For things like programs that are expected to be finished, this can be infinity, but for things that are expected to move with a complex ecosysten, could set it to 6 months? Past that point, a prompt is shown to confirm the user wants to install a likely-depreciated package? That way people won't be accidentally exposed to issues from downstream package maintainers being rendered unable to maintain their packages
its-summertime··on Put the zip code first
From the site: "scroll through 200+ countries to find United States" is talking about an international form
its-summertime··on Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude
https://github.com/Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts/blo... They seem to use XML-esque tags here in the first prompt I looked at
its-summertime··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying#Lobbying_by_country
its-summertime··on Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
Outside of VM usage, the answer seems to be (on top of containerization and selinux) writing a tight seccomp filter.

Gleaned from https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/blob/0c408e156b12dd... and https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/tree/0c408e156b12dd...

its-summertime··on Deno Sandbox
(Noting that, as stated in another thread, it only applies to headers, so the premise I raised doesn't apply either way)

Except that you are asking for the result of it, "Hey Bobby LLM, what is the value of X" will have Bobby LLM tell you the real value of X, because Bobby LLM has access to the real value because X is permissioned for the domain that the LLM is accessed through.

If the cashier turned their screen around to show me the exchange of money, then I would certainly see it.

its-summertime··on Data centers in space makes no sense
it changes the amount of exposed area to release heat back into the universe. if you have a non-negligible amount of compute compared to earth, you are going to be approaching a non-negligible amount of space required to radiate that away, along with all the other costs and maintainability issues
its-summertime··on Data centers in space makes no sense
a data center in space doesn't have a gigantic rock taking up most of its area, a data center in space is 100% data center 0% rock.

If it had the same data center to rock ratio as earth, it would just end up being earth in the end, and earth doesn't seem to be wanting to stick to its equilibrium either right now

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