Specifically, on that point they claimed "a lot of protests that turned violent," implying that Russian agitators were responsible for escalation. Unless the Russian agitators are members of the police, that seems very unlikely.
I sincerely hope one day your understanding of the history of American imperialism is increased along with the ability to clearly read my comment and you finally wonder how you could have ever believed in something so hypocritical.
This is a wonderful project and an even more wonderful write-up, I wish I came across more in this tone! I'll just add to anyone following in these footsteps: be careful what type of website you host on your Pi. Self-hosting is great, but if you expose services on your home network to the internet, expect people to try to hack you. What type of site you host will either make this very hard or very easy. The difference between compromising a VPS and compromising your home web server is now they have access to your actual LAN. Cloudflare has a pretty good WAF on the free tier, look at it as another learning opportunity.
We do know - that they demonstrably have abused their powers. I didn't realise it was possible to know about XKEYSCORE with no context or understanding of the Snowden leaks but GP seems to have missed that the "suits" "in charge of XKEYSCORE", the NSA, have repeatedly illegally wiretapped American citizens, to say nothing of the FISA abuses, Five Eyes, etc. Regardless of how you feel about the three-letter agencies' impacts on the rest of the world, the thought that anyone on Hacker News would consider these programs defensible is shocking.
Grave consequences are not a rarity. Automated decision making in immigration and housing classify people with zero recourse or transparency, locking them out of a place to live (and in the case of Australia, locking them up in offshore detention for years).
I mean we can go back and forth all day with credulous clowns on both sides. There are certainly plenty of misguided AI advocates who think what they're using is magic.
The complicating factor is that it isn't just "their property", it's an essential destination of many people's ability to function in society, which makes them adjacent to public utilities. If the water retailer which services your home started adding substances which could be used to track and identify their customers, you'd be pretty unhappy. Private ownership doesn't absolve an entity from public accountability, especially when there is extremely little option to not engage them.
The mention of objectivity in connection with LLM output is obviously farcical, but I'm curious about the motivation behind the experiment. Surely the value of speaking to organisations already deploying LLMs in live workplaces is identifying specific, solvable issues (aligned with Mozilla.ai's stated objectives) e.g. Project Zero's recent post about trying to make LLMs work in security research. Generalising those claims doesn't seem like a meaningful action, and as OP pointed out, doesn't provide any revelations to anyone with even a cursory view of the landscape. Mozilla's blog post ultimately seems more like marketing than a genuine attempt at research so from that lens it doesn't get me as heated as OP. But that is a tension Mozilla should be aware of if they're actually trying to build credibility with their blog if they're pushing SEO alongside whatever research they do end up publishing.
That just doesn't seem demonstrably true but I'd love to see some citations. My recollection is that Twitch's biggest issues have been regarding gambling and high-profile bans for misconduct e.g. DrDisrespect or nudity from streamers who don't even have OnlyFans accounts.
Yeah that is an absolutely bonkers amount of time so you're probably right in that the approach of low-effort wide net-casting attackers would have to change. I'm curious to know how Shodan etc. deal with this.
No brother, I'm not, but I'm starting to feel that what I am saying might be beyond the likelihood of comprehension. Look, I'm a big fan of NAT. Huge. It's not a security control. Neither is v6. It sure is cool though.
I mean, I don't know why you would when the router potentially gives you a foothold across many devices instead of one and the router is likely running multiple services. Yes, that is just you; the threat model I'm describing is widespread automated attacks, not individual or particularly motivated.
Man, I don't want to get into a whole thing here because we can all go around on this for days and it's not what the thread's about. But those just don't seem like selling points where LLMs are persuasively delivering. Rich NPC dialogue is highly dependent on things like thematic context and narrative consistency, both things LLMs are still horrible at on most scales. And LLMs can create a lot of documentation very quickly, but they don't solve the issue of owning and maintaining that documentation; I'm sure we've all worked places where a ton of docs was just as bad as none at all. I'm not trying to naysay, LLMs can do certain specific tasks very quickly and conveniently and I'm a frequent user. But it's like someone invented the dishwasher and now everyone's telling me one day it'll drive my car and make my movies. I don't see it.
They wouldn't need to figure out anything. The "kids and enemy states" are just hosing address ranges. I don't agree with the above commenter that NAT offers any meaningful security in this regard (now they're just hosing your consumer router instead which is probably less secure than the average updates-installed Defender-enabled Windows box). But you're both making points about security through obscurity in different ways.
I caught some free-to-air TV recently and they're running ads that make the sun sound as dangerous as cigarettes. Scenes of folks all like "I thought I'd just have a bit of a garden. Then I got skin cancer." It's a big push to change attitudes for a historically sun-loving country.
I say this as someone who doesn't yet use Kagi but is increasingly warming to the idea: I think normal people may pay for a search engine, one day. People used to think the bottom had irrevocably fallen out of paying for media once internet piracy became a thing. Streaming services may be in an unappealing state now, but they at least showed that people can be persuaded to pay for something if it makes access to the things they love easier. We might be years away from it, but I wouldn't say never. And $10 to find things on the internet again seems like a more persuasive offer than what people are currently paying for streaming.
I'm afraid I can't help you with a list of organisations to join, OP, but there are a few things I can think of to help in indirect ways. The unsexiest and most difficult but one of the most impactful is to strengthen unions by forming/joining them. Solidarity allows us as tech workers to gain agency in deciding which work we won't do and being empowered through collective action to push back against partnerships with the military-industrial complex. We can also use our skills and the rewards of our labour to contribute to and sponsor open-source projects regarding private, encrypted and decentralised communications which allow citizens, reporters, and aid workers (not always distinct groups) to avoid the kind of government censorship which accelerates genocide.
Besides that, I'm deeply interested in this thread and other responses, as someone who's been pondering the same thing for a long time. Where I've landed is that there might not be a special thing only I can do to help the current situation using the skills I have, but that the best thing I could do is use my financial security and work/life boundaries to do the unglamorous work of civic and political volunteering. It's possible that we can't hack our way out of this, but we can support the organisational efforts of others in other ways. Protest and community organising are still the most effective methods of arousing change, and while I would like to see more civil disobedience in the digital realm, it might be that the best a tech worker can do is go and march in the city square along with thousands of others.
As a speculative commodity, sure. But in terms of its original promises of utility? Granted, I understand the source of this thread is in terms of economic viability, so I'm not saying you're wrong in context. But I think the point GP is making is that it's fair to say that large parts of the tech industry were totally swept up in optimism and it took a while to sort out the actual facts and value. (That said, I broadly agree with most comments in this thread rather than GP that there is something more tangibly valuable here than with cryptocurrency.)
It is useful... in some respects. The true danger here is not in economic collapse but in what you succinctly described as a perception that it "delivers magic". It doesn't, but there's certainly a lot of momentum behind the idea that it does, leading to its implementation in lots of areas where what it actually delivers are hazards. We're still a long way from understanding how to deal with the disastrous consequences of its biases (see Gemini's recent drama for an excellent, if melodramatic, example) so promises of its ability to optimise workflows and decision-making are leading to its implementation in spaces where a lack of human oversight leads to nothing short of human rights abuses. Proptech, immigration, welfare etc are areas where AI might be useful, but the research right now indicates that it's currently deeply problematic. I'm not trying to fear-monger, I think if the promises can be delivered, of course the results could be extraordinary. But even nascent analysis suggests that more care is required and that the reality is it falls very far short of "magic".
And just to ward off any naysayers, I'm a GPT subscriber who finds it very useful in a variety of ways and uses it almost daily. But also anyone who's used this tech for a minute and approaches it from a viewpoint of cautious optimism rather than rose-tinted glasses knows that its limitations are quickly understood.