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penr0se··on France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
"got hacked (in French)".

Got hacqued.

penr0se··on Tesla Spyware
From a post with "Tesla spyware" as title I would expect more than literally two sentences that say "[...] my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it"
penr0se··on How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?
Instagram's algorithm is based on what you interact the most with (even stopping to watch the reel, to read comments or to write one counts as interacting). You can start marking all that content as "Not interesting" and in the worst case just blocking those profiles to fix your feed and algorithm (or even go to your settings and tweak your interests directly).

But uninstalling the app is never a bad choice regardless

penr0se··on [dead]
For whoever is wondering why: bottom center 3x3 box
penr0se··on Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
Excellent choice, sir
penr0se··on Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
This shouldn't really be surprising. It's very similar to what they did ~1.5 year ago when they started to use users' photos to promote Meta AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615538

penr0se··on Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
Mine is currently Net, 7x7 grid with wrapping variant. I take about 5 minutes on average to solve a level, which is the sweet spot for me
penr0se··on WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History
Maybe it's just a matter of how much effort people put into finding exploits on the two apps. If WhatsApp has many more (actual) users than Telegram, researching exploits on WhatsApp is more worth researching on WhatsApp than Telegram

A bit like how there's much more malware for Windows than there is for Linux

penr0se··on WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History
> this isn’t a political fight. It’s not a he-said, she-said between tech billionaires. It’s a technical question.

> In transit. Between two online devices. With no cloud backup. With no business accounts. With no Meta AI features. With no linked devices. With no law enforcement warrant for metadata.

> Under every other condition — which is how most people actually use WhatsApp — the story changes dramatically.

Smells a lot like slop so I'll pass, no thanks.

penr0se··on Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act
Thank you
penr0se··on GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
Breaking: language model whose purpose is to predict the most likely token, after being trained on non-uniform human-generated dataset, does not follow a uniform distribution.
penr0se··on Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
The higher the variety of notes (out of the overall 12 sounds in an octave) in the song, the less this becomes possible.

If your song is really simple, e.g. only consists of the 3 notes that make up a major triad (root, third, fifth), then this is definitely possible and you can just use natural thirds and natural fifths.

But as you start adding more notes, more chords and perhaps change of keys etc, it starts to break down.

That's the reason why J. S. Bach wrote The Well-Tempered Clavier. It's a collection of 24 preludes and fugues, in each possible major and minor key.

The basic idea was that if every prelude and fugue sounded good on an instrument (organ, harpsichord etc.), than it meant that the instrument was "well-tempered".

Using natural tuning instead of 12-TET would have resulted in some pieces sounding very good and other sounding very bad.

penr0se··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
I appreciate your good faith but I tried to copy-paste the first ~7k character of this (not yours!) article in an AI detector (gptzero) and it's "highly confident that this text was AI generated" with a probability of 100%
penr0se··on Things that aren't doing the thing
https://webcomicname.com/post/183722270609
penr0se··on The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)
That makes sense, but I would expect this paradox to vanish (or at least get weaker) as you go higher in the hierarchy of technical positions (i.e. from junior to lead, to senior, to principal etc.). I would expect the workplace to somehow naturally get rid of the incompetent people, so that after a certain point you're only left with [qualified, competent] and [unqualified, competent]
penr0se··on The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)
Could you elaborate more on the inverse correlation between degree and skill? Do you mean that usually people who did not go to university actually went straight to work and had the chance to get more skill as opposed to people with a degree that actually started later?
penr0se··on Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram
Same here. I had to create a custom uBlock filter for YouTube because it ran out of recommendations and half of the suggested videos in my home page were from my Watch Later playlist.
penr0se··on What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)
Wow, this is one of the best videos I've ever watched. Thanks for sharing