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natebcon We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We don't know that they're not either. As pointed out the fastest method to scan books is to cut the spine and scan the pages, effectively destroying the book.

Is this the place we think Amazon decided to be careful and deliberate about what they do?

natebcon France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

This is about unsolicited, commercial, legitimate calls from OUTSIDE of +1 TO a number that is a +1. I don't think it's about person->person calls.

natebcon France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

The carve out for political solicitation is particularly egregious.

natebcon Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

I promise you're way more interested in handbags and sidewalk obstruction than any LEO anywhere in the whole world.

Lets not give up our freedom because of annoyances, please?

natebcon AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T

Ha! The mugshot image. Brilliant.

natebcon GCC steering committee announces AI policy

I guess that's where the rage comes from. People that believe a policy is without reason.

natebcon AI in Linux

It's because, at least in the US, AI generated code cannot be protected by copyright.

<https://www.copyright.gov/ai/>

<https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...>

  The Office concludes that, given current generally available technology, prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output.

I'm not a lawyer either but if/when something like this goes to court the conclusion of the US Copyright Office is probably going to play a part.

natebcon Our position on open-weights models

Imagine the Dieselgate levels of adaptation they'll do while being tested too.

natebcon Our position on open-weights models

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

I've never heard it called anything other than the CCP.

natebcon AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

> If 50 billion in revenue is from other companies debt spending… then You have a problem.

we may have a problem then.

natebcon Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4382310/Warp_to_Sector_On...

I came across this recently ... hints of Tradewars from the good old days.

natebcon $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

No. Not the demos in this article.

natebcon The death and rebirth of my home server

... and the default instructions guide you to install the Raspberry Pi Imager which will format and configure an SD card for your hardware.

The recommended OS during this process is .... "Raspberry Pi OS" i.e. Raspbian.

natebcon Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

In this case? Social Network protocol scene but generally the open source world (and every other niche interest in existence) has it's own bouts with scene drama.

natebcon $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

... because of the evidence all around us?

But really, nobody said "only" it's just that the gems are drowning alongside us in a sea of bullshit and the tide is still on the way up I'm afraid.

natebcon Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

Never underestimate the siren song of scene drama.

natebcon The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

I didn't know that they (the reverse ATMs) were being outlawed until i saw a Kitboga + AARP interview on youtube the other day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A4uKSvFU40

Kitboga is a dang hero.

natebcon The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

> (I'd worry less about crypto though as it's pretty hard for grandma to reliably setup)

These scumbags send grandma to a Bitcoin ATM.

natebcon Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

I estimated about 6 quid. We left £3300 behind because 3300 1-lb bags of sugar only costs £1800.

;) I like these easy breezy Late Friday threads!

natebcon Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

Well that's what ... 300 or so pints?

natebcon Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

Megagrams?? I like it.

natebcon Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

well that's just £3300 then, yeah?

natebcon Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

Only the rightists do and among them really only the loud redfaced ones.

natebcon EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

Didn't Steve Bannon do a tour in Europe recently to dispense some of his strategy?

This smells like him, honestly.

natebcon Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

Oh i've worked with plenty. Maybe they knew more than they let on but they were (and are) convinced that every little belch is a full on attack.

I know their day to day is just as mundane as the rest of ours it's their "Step 1" approach that i've seen to be entirely different. I assume it's probably a software bug, they assume it's an exploit.

natebcon Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

It's because you (like me) aren't quite as paranoid as security people are. Personally I couldn't sleep at night if I was security people.

It's really a matter of context. Security people tend to only be involved when things are already nefarious where as boring old normal people like us see get to see the mundane everyday mistakes so not just the nefarious bits.

natebcon Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

It claims to be backed by (and require) apple/containers(1) which "consumes and produces OCI-compatible container images" so if all that is true .... yes!

1) https://github.com/apple/container

natebcon How Kalshi Infects the News

Really it's the only way to win at gambling.