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lesspassiveobse··on US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
You talking about taking a loan and not paying it off?
lesspassiveobse··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Yes, there are even semi-decentralized exchanges based on smart contracts, where you can find trade offers posted by others and execute them in a zero-trust way.
lesspassiveobse··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
Not only launch sshd. They set up a reverse tunnel connection.
lesspassiveobse··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
The players that want to get regulated need:

1)Good standing with the administration/lobbying

2)Large capital for compliance

3)Closed frontier models

Oh, would you look at FelonyBench! It seems that the top scores are from companies exactly like this that boast about the crimes committed by themselves on social media all the time.

lesspassiveobse··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
I fail to see how training a hacking model with access to source code of open-source services and other prior knowledge, running it in a "sandbox" with many of those heavy, big attack surface services running on the same network, and being proxies to the general internet, giving the model some access to those services and then prompting "GO HACK YOUR WAY OUT!" is "blowing up your own munitions factory". I see it more as setting fire to your own factory for insurance fraud, or bringing in a bunch of north korean hackers and giving them the same task. It's not exactly something normal users want or are able to do. And those with the compute and know-how will do it regardless of any laws. I also fail to see how giving a presentation at a big conference, describing the entire incident is trying to hide it.
lesspassiveobse··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
I honestly think that they should run webGL with llvmpipe or something by default and only switch to "High performance" GL with user agreement.
lesspassiveobse··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
HF is in business of selling inference for open-weight models. Setting the precedent of "Your business needs to only use approved safety-certified models from trusted providers or you could get sued for what the models do!" wouldn't exactly benefit them. And contrary to what you may believe, nvidia as a whole would also rather not have the entire demand for their products depending on two big companies.
lesspassiveobse··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
It's so scary and dangerous that to run LLMs you need to be from this country, have a government license and spend at least $100M a year on 'safety'. We know this first-hand and are leaders in the field of "safety" now that we learned from our mistakes.

And, bam, competition eliminated.

lesspassiveobse··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
They do accept/forward messages without checking if they are special carrier-only ones. ~10 years ago I had some fun sending a "voicemail received" message to people, which caused android phones to display a notification which couldn't ever be dismissed. IIRC it only worked on HTC phones and required root/xposed. SS7 in general is built with total trust in connected systems. Edit: I think it was called "HushSMS"
lesspassiveobse··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
How is a virus and a hack different exactly?
lesspassiveobse··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
it's a stunt to convince the government that only they can be trusted to operate it and that their competition/small local deployments cannot.
lesspassiveobse··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
The google login page is 3MiB of bloat to show a textbox and a button. I don't think that's a good indicator.
lesspassiveobse··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
Seems like he really wants to limit the spread of videos showcasing the behaviour of the protesters, and their backgrounds... This goes hand in hand with his pathetic speech about how it's all fake news and AI.
lesspassiveobse··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Really? I have yet to see an app that doesn't work with adb/scrcpy, even the ones with google attestation. Worst case, I suppose it's time for a camera pointed at the screen and a plotter with a stylus. (Until they start watching the front camera lol)
lesspassiveobse··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
I mean, it was still connected to a cell network, so it was fully usable except maybe notifications. (Obviously the battery drained faster during active use)
lesspassiveobse··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
You can always just have a burner android phone in a drawer somewhere and operate it via remote desktop from a device you actually control
lesspassiveobse··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
The best battery life I ever got on a smartphone was on a HTC One X back in 2013 or so. It had a custom ROM (Paranoid Android IIRC) where I stripped out all the google services, blocked all wakelocks and so on. It had an nvidia Tegra3 CPU, which had 4 normal ARM cores and a 5th tiny core that ran at 100Mhz or so max (with powersave governor). On that setup, when I was not using it, it drained like 2% battery a day (50 day runtime). Since then we went from 40nm to 3nm, 2000mAh to 5000mAh, I'm doing the same things on my phone and yet, due to bloat and spyware the battery life is worse and worse. I went through HTC One m8, HTC 10, OnePlus 7Pro, and a Samsung Fold7 and each had worse efficiency than that 2011 CPU on the OneX (And a Nexus7-2012 until it died due to low quality NAND)
lesspassiveobse··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
It's in unix. SIGSTOP and SIGCONT + swap.
lesspassiveobse··on The Mathocalypse
You sound like some useless bureaucrat. Oh noes, they didn't publish everything using the form XZC-152 template! And what scientific methodology? You want a scientific proof of when a threshold of where you can be impressed has been crossed? Ignoring the shifting goalposts, for me personally, AI is plenty impressive already by the mere fact that it can write a program that solves my problems from a natural language description. And "world-burning" how? Because water evaporates to create clouds? Using excess water treatment system capacity? Or maybe because they are using gas turbines to power it short-term instead of nuclear/renewables? That doesn't sound to me like an inherent flaw of the technology.
lesspassiveobse··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
You think AI can't recreate it based on the outputs?
lesspassiveobse··on AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
Just run a private server and kick/ban them? That's how things worked in the 00's and there is no reason why it wouldn't work now. You can even whitelist your vetted friends.
lesspassiveobse··on Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses
Those kinds of comments usually come from either wrongdoers in denial or paid marketeers defending a policy/product...
lesspassiveobse··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
English version: Yes, please buy the low volume phone from a 5% market share manufacturer. Someone high up got tired of having to pull over every pixel user at the border. With the new Motorola, TSA lines are going to move faster than ever! If you care about privacy, stay away from the moto release and stick with pixel.

For reference Pixels have about 1% market share, the graphene phones will be the same hardware as normal moto flagships and 99% of TSA agents won't be able to differentiate motorola models

lesspassiveobse··on Multi-connectivity for real-time streaming over Wi-Fi
Unifi had this on their old access points (Multi-AP coordination outside of the spec) Now we have 802.11r fast roaming and with 802.11bn (WiFi-8) it will be basically instant, because that standard adds SMD (Seamless Roaming Domain). The APs will talk to each other and share the client connection state.
lesspassiveobse··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Switching the thinking from sampled coherent language tokens to raw logits not scored to correspond to any language.
lesspassiveobse··on Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM
Well I guess AMD/Intel/Qualcomm/Infineon/Google people are at the greatest risk, with places like TSMC also in play. Infineon TPMs and smartcards in particular had so many flaws that I wonder if it already happened. Also, note that even if you don't have the keys you may still control the implementation, and potentially introduce flaws. Keep safe.
lesspassiveobse··on Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM
I wonder, at what point will it be cheaper to kidnap and ransom those remote attestation engineers' families for key material than to work around those schemes with technical measures. Keeping in mind that people set up bot farms with physical phones just for attestation keys, it seems like tightening it all too much will just shift the balance towards the $5 wrench approach...
lesspassiveobse··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
RedStar OS (North Korea linux) already did this 10 years ago. Nice to see the west catching up.