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penguin_boozeon Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

> who you know

Whom you know.

penguin_boozeon Democrats win control of the House of Representatives

The rest of us can (and should) ignore all this. We proceed as planned before: de-Americanise everything; end slavery; restore sovereignty.

penguin_boozeon The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer

Ah, "intuition": one man's cheese is another man's rotten milk.

penguin_boozeon Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI

Corporations (especially american ones) shouldn't be let near 1000 miles radius of children or schools. It's understandable that they go by the playbook of religion: get them young.

penguin_boozeon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

"Science progresses one funeral at a time".

penguin_boozeon Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

Now, here's a challenge for you: name an elected government that's the polar opposite. The greatest by assemblage of premium-grade idiots to have ever managed by any civilisation. I know - it's a very hard question.

penguin_boozeon Patrick Stewart Has Died

Americans use Sir only to tell someone off.

penguin_boozeon Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

"Why make things by my own hand when I can buy them cheap?!".

penguin_boozeon Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

It's all set forth under section 1, 'Notice of invasion', subsection 3, 'conditional treatment of natives'.

penguin_boozeon Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year

https://www.reddit.com/r/USdefaultism/

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

Time for a bugmenot.com version for Android develop accounts?

penguin_boozeon Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

They're busy taking risks and breaking things. They can't waste their valuable time in jails and stuff like that, sir.

Jails are for losers -- not Peter Thiel.

penguin_boozeon British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

I don't understand why these don't get outright banned, in every country.

penguin_boozeon Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

Not just their living conditions, but their cruel slaughter in the name of religion ought to get banned, too. Countries claiming to have animal welfare laws, roll out special exemptions for religion for killing them in a fashion than can only be described as deliberately cruel.

To the larger point, all exemptions in the name of religion must stop. You don't get special treatment just because you read Harry Potter.

penguin_boozeon You could have invented transformers from memory

The 'you' this article--and other articles like this--mentions, doesn't definitely include you, nor me, nor people like us.

Recently, Jensen Huang reportedly said he doesn't know where he lives (the address) with a straight face. This 'you' situation here is kind of like the Jensen situation: neither party understands what it's like to be the other party.

penguin_boozeon Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts

When you sign trade deals with US, you're essentially enslaving yourselves to them. What Meta is asking is essentially that. The former is usually done covertly; the latter is done overtly. That's all. Nothing new here. Classic US way of doing business.

If you're not OK with the terms, you think you can walk away, right? R i g h t?

penguin_boozeon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

Don't let the US shove this down to other countries' throats. Because, that's what they do, and they're very good at it.

penguin_boozeon OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

Just for the heck and fun of it, who has their money on 'just another publicity stunt'?

penguin_boozeon Firefox Enterprise

I don't know. Like another comment here says, some companies have been blocking Firefox because it's difficult to bend it to their will. For them, a browser has always meant one thing: Chrome. With Firefox entering the mix now, it's going to be 'yet another browser when we already have one'. Most corporate admins, I'd think, will say 'no, thanks'.

penguin_boozeon Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?

> Is hacking legal now?

My friend, with enough money, anything can be legal.

penguin_boozeon Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

"Welcome to money laundering services. If you're a billionaire, press 1. For tax evasion services, press 2. If you're a commoner, fuck off right now".

penguin_boozeon Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

> about integrity and how important it is to act ethically correct

There's also a fine print at the bottom that says 'lolz'.

penguin_boozeon Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

Before the talks of alternative platforms, there should be legislation in place for services to expose http endpoints for all services rendered. I.e., a legitimate user should be able to point their web browser at it--behind whatever authentication and bot-detection shenanigans they want--and avail the services. No apps, no crap, no bloat.

In other words, the 'app culture', and the attendant normalisation of data stealing, must end. This effectively takes "app-" and platform-dependency out of the picture. Services are no more burdened with supporting n number of platforms; nor do they have an incentive to push people to start using their apps. Services can still offer an app, and users still have a choice to use one. But, the baseline client should be a browser. And there shouldn't be any discrimination between mobile vs. desktop browsers, either.

penguin_boozeon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

Recently, I've started noticing that I'm not able to browse any commercial websites using Tor. Most of them have started outright blocking it. Under the pretence of blocking bots, I suspect this is an attempt at mandatory surveillance.

penguin_boozeon Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

N-th amendment festivities intensifies. What happens in america, must stay in america. That's what world we want to live in.

The rest of the world need to wake up... 20 years ago.

penguin_boozeon Religious scholars met with Anthropic

If you want instil a notion of morality, read literature on ethics, and not listen to people peddling laughable stories cooked up before anyone had enough brain cells.

penguin_boozeon Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States

Twice, mind you.

penguin_boozeon ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

Enslaved nations should rise against the slave master.

penguin_boozeon US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

This was just another American cool-aid. The strategy was this: cultivate a hyper-consumerist, greedy and gluttonous population at home. Invite other countries to export and trade with the US. Build a dependency from which countries can't unwind themselves out of. Enslave the world and rule over them. Continue the aforementioned strategy while dispensing other cool-aids like "trade prevents war".

Yet, it seems like the enslaved nations still haven't gotten the memo.

penguin_boozeon Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

The same old cool-aid: the label on bottle reads "freedom". But if you look at the ingredients: greed, gluttony, looting, bullying, spread american culture, slavery, surveillance - the full nth-amendmend package. Dosages may vary.