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karussellon AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages

A few aspects of this article are strange or not well expressed.

Why does it matter if Cathedral follows some bug bounty rules? Black hats don't follow rules.

And IMO the citation about acting irresponsible when a company "relies on conventional business software" is taken out of context and is about AI safety, not a vulnerability in Slack.

karussellon AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages

Older discussion with original source (washington post)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241543

MSN access: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-took-just-12-hours-f...

karussellon I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

It has been shown that you can keep determinism (Bohm etc), but what follows is not necessary something you'll find more intuitive or cleaner or more logical.

karussellon Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

See the article where this is already stated :)

karussellon Is this the new cyber normal?

The idea is that there is still an advantage even in times of LLM and the delay helps with an orchestrated fix. (E.g. not only php needed the fix, but also several docker image etc.)

But I agree it is doubtful that there is still such an advantage...

karussellon Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. This sounds reasonable to me too. However, it might be just the start :)

karussellon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Oh, ok, thanks for the information. But if it is a one-time, device-level wait, not per source and not per app, then I'm unsure how this should prevent scammers in the long term?

I'm pretty convinced it is just Google testing boiling the water steady and slowly :)

karussellon Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier

I'm okay with paying but I really hate ads with a passion and especially for kids this is not okay. I was a customer of Disney and I guess I'll never be one again.

What alternatives exists for kids? Youtube?

karussellon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

> Personally, I think the 24h cooldown is an excellent compromise to allow user freedom while slowing down attackers sufficiently to mitigate the harm.

The best solution would have been to be able to mark ANY alternative app store like fdroid as trusted and no such cooldown period would hit every time people install an app from there. This avoids that people can immediately use installed apps downloaded from an arbitrary URL but at the same time keeps the alternative app stores as a good alternative. Google decided to play unfair again.

karussellon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

> but simple enough to barely be an inconvenience for anyone who cares enough and can go through it.

Any sources for this claim? I don't buy it.

karussellon Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

Great project. Also nice that they are using photon for their address search.

I might be pendantic here (for reasons you find in my profile), but this isnt a "half hour walk" and it is just a 3 km radius around the location, i.e. as the crow flies and rivers or walls are ignored. A real half hour walk would be an isochrone for a walking profile ;)

karussellon Felix Rieseberg Homepage

I agree about what you mean with the dunning kruger effect. A similar effect is when I work with AI in a field where I don't know as much, and I would think that the AI works much better there or even has more than expert knowledge. So I do not (necessarily) overestimate myself, but the AI's capabilities, which can be as dangerous for society.

(Note that latest research shows that the dunning kruger effect might only be a statistical artefact.)

karussellon Thunderbird for iOS

Isnt K-9 Mail supposed to join forces with Thunderbird? K-9 Mail works fine for me.

karussellon Apple HomeView

I wonder if they use Gemini how can the promise "Private for all" be fulfilled? Local model like gemma4?

karussellon Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

I thought the same. However, you are also supporting their open source development and so I didn't cancel my subscription :)

karussellon Fuck Android Developer Verification Program

So we need an app that remembers us of apps installed yesterday? Funny times ahead.

karussellon Fuck Android Developer Verification Program

Why 12 persons? They want you to feel like Jesus.

karussellon EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" of Europeans in the interest of AI

Now it gets more obvious that when AI companies mean "AI is very dangerous" they must mean something else.

What is it though? Downregulation of bad open/Chinese competition?

karussellon Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

I don't think it is comparable. Nowhere in the news they say it is offline but IMO Gemini Nano is offline (?)

I'm not a Google fan but I never understood the outrage as it is a local model ... sure, you have to trust them, but if you use their browser you already do.

karussellon Java 27

A first step of Valhalla that is ...

karussellon Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

For some reason, I’m picturing a Western right now, and climate change is a herd of wild horses coming after us. And with AI that's like robots that spur the wild horses even faster towards us...

karussellon Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

Somehow Hetzner saw at least part of it coming in 2018

https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/five-years-helsinki/

These low prices are cost savings that we pass directly onto our customers; they come from the reduced energy prices that we pay in Finland compared to Germany, and also come from the colder climate and lower cooling requirements

karussellon Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

If 4.2 (or 4.1) is really the annual coefficient of performance (turn 1kWh electric energy into 4.2kWh heat energy) then this is a very good value.

Because heating water requires higher temperature differences (usually heat pumps get more inefficient then). And with an "ordinary" (propane) heat pump you get such high numbers only in summer time (>=20°C) and for water temperatures of max 50°C.

karussellon Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

See: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1206310

name:en=Lake Ontario

vs.

official_name:en-US=Lake America

karussellon Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

From the point of view of PL it is now perfect. Directly connected by Eurocity train but only since a year or so.

> the museum didn't really do much to let itself known either

Sure. But you can only do so much with probably not even a handful people and limited budget...

karussellon Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

I think Hoyerswerda was chosen for a reason: funding money should not always go to the big city and so they thought why not built it where Konrad Zuse went to school? It kind of makes sense...

karussellon Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

It is still a shame that the city which called itself Zuse-City does not try harder to keep it. I know how hard their financing situation is first hand but the ZCOM as a place and education institute was more worth then they understood.

karussellon Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

There were a few articles before that too. E.g. the currently linked heise article is from June.

karussellon Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

Interesting that this pops up on HN. It was a real nice spot and I'm sad that it goes away. They had really nice holiday activities for kids, but also for adults and elderly. E.g. I myself tried VR the second time in one of the rooms from ZCOM.

I especially enjoyed ZCOM when at one point the Fabmobil visited them and I learned a couple of nice people. Not only computer hacking people but also craftsmans etc too.

Also a couple of times the ZCOM gave us space for our computer club (PPP, rip) in the hope we can benefit from each other. But unfortunately the interests stick to a few great "hardcore" people only, although we offered great and free pizza ;)

Fun times. Not even too long ago...

karussellon Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

I have the same problem and I wondered what if the chatty output is a requirement for its (better?) reasoning capabilities?