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I did bother reading the article, and so with my 13 years of theoretical physics research well behind me, I say: Good. Fantastic. Wunderbar. Magnifique. "Maybe", "might", and "poss…

That's the fundamental platform with all online platforms. It's their own form of carcinization. The problem is that to outsiders, the initial set of gatekeepers who arose naturall…

You can scroll their X page and it's extremely clear that they're focused on the Gaza war ( https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta ) and they openly state that they attacked the Internet Archiv…

Didn't believe that anyone would be bridge-burning-happy enough to put this in their official docs, but you're not kidding: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/wiki/Which-GPU…

This article is missing the forest for the trees. The reason why the Automattic/WP Engine fight has become the tech industry's daily soap opera isn't because we're all passionate a…

They're not "flesh-and-blood compute" you absolute monster, they're human beings with their own hopes and dreams. Reading this comment has given me a strange new respect for crypto…

"I'm sorry ModernMech, but you're in violation of our CoC with your overly negative and toxic tone. We're going to go ahead, close your issue, and merge the PR to add Torment Nexus…

> One example that comes to mind is the security person who wanted our logins to expire so frequently that we had to log in multiple times per day. He insisted that anything less w…

This hits the nail completely on the head. If the issue here was "just" training LLMs, like some AI bros want to deflect it to be, the conversation around this topic would be very …

IANAL but this is textbook unauthorized access of a computer as has been drilled into me in every boring corporate training I do for my security work and thus is "hacking". Telling…

Yudkowsky is a human LLM: his output is correctly semantically formed to appear, to a non-specialist, to fall into the subject domain, as a non-specialist would think the subject d…

The thing that especially infuriates me is recruiters in this article turning around and trying to throw LinkedIn under the bus. No one likes the nightmare dystopia of a platform t…

It looks like he started regularly writing for The Intercept in January 2021, soon enough after Glenn Greenwald got kicked out for having the audacity to actually do investigative …

There is a very strong professional code of conduct within security circles that you should monetize the security of your own product as little as possible, because your own securi…

Yeah, I don't like that we're at the point that we need licenses like this, but in a world where AWS has decided to "disrupt" the methods for open source monetization that the open…

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

I thought "finally, maybe someone gets it" and did the unspeakable sin at Hacker News and read the article. Did they talk about efforts by governments to censor the Internet "for t…

Is that why the EU is trying to break my encryption, scan my devices for CSAM, and grab all its visitors' biometric data? To "protect my privacy"? This narrative needs to end. The …

You can find a plethora of critical viewpoints on Hacker News and the various blogs it links to which are well cognizant of the dangers of the tech industry. The problem isn’t that…

For those of you that don’t know, the Phillips Hue app will soon be requiring you to sign up for an account to control Phillips Hue lights. Previously, they sold a Zigabee router s…

I fiercely despise Google and want them to go out of business legitimately, but this argument is right up there with “the defendant used encryption, that proves they must have chil…

I would love to know how the people blotivating about this think Twitter worked before. Of course they’re doing ML training on user data! Every major tech company has been doing ML…

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We don’t need social media, period. Social media is a fundamentally flawed model that you have can have human communication on a global scale with a “The Algorithm” used to cleanly…

You are exactly modeling the chauvinistic Silicon Valley attitude that is causing the outrage in the general population to begin with. “Our algorithms are pretty much the same as h…