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I don't like the Amish, I don't trust the Amish. They smell like horses and sweat. They speak a foreign language. They espouse extremist views.
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tosapple··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
eyeballs on an industry that presses the run button and walks away from 10000 gpu cores for months at a time...
tosapple··on Websites Should Be Printable
this.

read books too.

if anyone thinks msdn, github, reddit, stackoverflow, and soon if not now (hosted) llm's don't export and mine their users queries for architectural goodies...

developers ALL have targets on their backs, it's just the way the world has evolved.

tosapple··on Why I Am a Programmer
buck rodgers on c64
tosapple··on Samsung TV privacy issues
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740675

I'm not the only one who made note of that behavior, but if i recall sometime before breaking my phone in the last couple months the behaviour ceased. probably after a factory rom update, but at this point i can no longer confirm or deny. but! i did and do have a backup of the potentially offending apk.

tosapple··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
that may be, and you're right that they're building highways but this is part of a broader power grab on the second amendment.

don't forget that they just banned 'content' by disallowing foreign flir on drones, which is the modern equivalent to a periscope.

they are putting enough satellites in orbit to track everyone all at once roughly.

this is over reach.

this is why i am nervous about 'small government', they're not going to give up ground and will remain 'big data'. it is a tax and a restriction on freedoms of press, of arms, of speech, of movement, of assembly, of association.

where's the redress and representation?

it is a human right to build an emergency transmitter out of barbed wire, not a data center right of way to filter process and categorize.

tosapple··on Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts
nfc or qi attack available through stacking, not a good idea.

or even speaker to mic data exfiltration.

or screen flickering against another light sensor in a dark space.

tosapple··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
hah, I've got something for your anti bds law if you're put in front of court:

funding Israel violates the separation of church and state.

tosapple··on I know why the mathematicians weep
my doomerism isn't about keeping valuations up, it's about tearing it down.

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

the above, a "sorting" machine is the primary usage of hyperscalers currently, they're just trying to find new uses to boot for extra money/legitimation.

the browser industry the phone industry the CAs JavaScript

it's all paid for by those wanting to sort humanity into whatever bucket the can fear monger the peasantry into for aweek or however long it takes the classification system to sort out.

gentrification works, but we chose forcible displacement now we have to live with the forever consequences.

would you give guns and bombs to the displaced native americans who taste blood over their beads and trinkets?

we've been inside the event horizon of the singularity for years, the tax bill will only get worse unless we recognize it for the tick that it is.

tosapple··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
you guys are so messed up, i have more of a right to medical access to an herb or herb product than a data center has water rights.
tosapple··on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
we've got to be careful moving forward, I've said this elsewhere: if we're dismissive or diminutive or cruel we might find ourselves on the receiving end of a self guided drone in the future.

it would be wise to play 'nice'.

tosapple··on Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
yup
tosapple··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
the free market has been a myth since they scheduled marijuana.

god gave us all plants to use.

they will fear monger rather than publish medical reasoning.

tosapple··on Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
paying your taxes, if you can afford them is patriotic.

i miss being able to donate my liabilities away.

there's no way to absolve yourself from the murder machine anymore.

tosapple··on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
don't be cruel to people, gather data on them and target them for anhistoric truncation.
tosapple··on Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
i was just going to bring this up, but a different aspect: I'm not curious about the drug charges, I'm curious about the gun charges as unlevied.
tosapple··on To grieve, or not to grieve?
it's a potentially larger threat than a 80y cycle time on some local fallout, what are the other options?

crying? protests?

everyone will want a seat at the table.

tosapple··on To grieve, or not to grieve?
you guys are such flat thinkers, the whole "if we get SI we _win_."

is a promisory threat to the world about a mass displacement labor bomb, nuclear first strike to disable asml and tsmc anthropic openai WHOEVER.

how many countries have nukes?

the cost of developing those is far lower than developing SI, it's a perceivable threat thanks to 'we win'.

France, GB, Russia (good thing we've made a copromise to not protect allies huh), China.

you don't wasn't to rehome these technologies do you?

tosapple··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
yeah i don't know as esoteric as it is it could be a referential index into a bitmask/seive for your key.

there's a lot you can do behind the scenes with even a couple bits of... free space?

the key should be enough of a unique id to not have to require this? see (hash). a separate linked 'randomized' unique identifier might be crazy man territory but i'm not lying... your 'weakened' key doesn't _need_ to be all zeros, just predictable eg. within a certain time frame, anything that can reduce the search space is dangerous.

edit: it could contain an identifier for which hrng was used to produce it.

tosapple··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
'randomize' is possibly the wrong word, it could include some form of serialization/fingerprint.
tosapple··on Consumer AI Fatigue Is Overwhelming, Local Businesses Should Reconsider Use
yeah to a point that emphasizes venue popularity which may indicate quality and exclusivity if handled with good manners it's definitely not a deal breaker.
tosapple··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
so let's roll right over the fact that this is a very dangerous double entendre that i am pointing out, nevermind that you're not responding en merit to my assertion.

it's like slandering bitcoin over here you're all heavily unvested.

google kagi yahoo bing duckduckgo yandex archive yadda yadda yadda 'september transcript global ai governance'.

tosapple··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
let's not single out the defense contractors specifically, goes back further and is rooted in our behavior and desire for better organization through software.

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

tosapple··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
if you ever hear the phrase "global ai governance", ingest the context very slowly.

it was everywhere last week.

i would say, this has been the plot of the graph for at minimum 25 years with the NSA/DHS and data sharing.

we have two primary aggregators currently, the usa and china... all that needs to happen for us to cede humanity is to lose one of them.

we are in a really bad spot right now vs silicon.

edit: spelling.

tosapple··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
nationalsociopaths

edit: maybe that's not a good conflation as it removes agency/responsibility from the individual

tosapple··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
that's why we outsource to other countries our software development, so you don't get blood on your hands violating the... essence of the constitution. i'm missing a word here.

hiring foreign data scientists and web developers.

tosapple··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
disappointing is the timing and locality of this "scoop".
tosapple··on What happened to the Snowden archive
i just had that conversation about 'industrial' effort and 'actors', we have recent examples of monetary corruption in the sacklers.
tosapple··on What happened to the Snowden archive
these are potentially the same people that killed epstein?

now, i don't believe that but you never know.

tosapple··on What happened to the Snowden archive
here's a bogeyman for you, accepting money in a representative democracy for political action is maybe mere nanometers from the definition of bribery.
tosapple··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
'shielding', is applied to both the energy extraction process of fission activity AND the remnants.

you're definitely not clear on the meaning.

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