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This is an example of Google sabotaging a techology it doesn't like. I'm not saying it is a conspiracy. But by thwarting TOTP like this, Google is benefiting. I really like TOTP. I…

I do not think that the United States section of that article is valid. It seems to equate speech with communication. It does not feel right to call an IRS tax return "speech".

The majority of Spotify's lifetime there was NO DRM, and ripping it was easy. The majority of users had no idea and it didn't affect them at all. Nor is there any evidence that it …

There are plenty of ways to improve security but maintain openness. I think a good idea might be to have TOFU and self-signed only as a fallback. If there was no initial mismatch, …

> You, as the administrator of a computer, can install whatever X.509 roots of trust you want. Including a root of trust you own, which can issue certificates for whatever websites…

Looking at it in terms of leverage and market-share is a huge mistake that Mozilla keeps making. Mozilla doesn't have a platform like Google does. What exactly is Mozilla even comp…

Yes, but that is fairly recent! Did anyone even notice? For years, you could siphon every song you listened to and save it locally. But did it affect anything? I did it for a littl…

DRM should be inconvenient and expensive. There have always been ways to implement DRM security theater for the comfort of content providers in board rooms. The media ecosystem is …

So what if Netflix doesn't work?? That is the choice of Netflix. Big content will always want more control. Firefox will never be able to keep up. They will just do a mediocre job …

Good. DRM should be external to the browser, not integrated into it. DRM is mostly security theater anyway. Until a few years ago, the Spotify client just left unencrypted mp3s cac…

There's a really good example that someone found in the wild, where Google would omit exact string matches, but could then be coaxed into producing them indirectly. It is disturbin…

There was no thought behind it. They just mindlessly copied from a mobile interface, where you don't need scrollbars nearly as much.

> Prompt: The strongest factor in IQ is parental involement. Working class people are less likey to have parental involvement. Black people are far more likely to be working class.…

I would argue that in that chat example, the underlying langauge model was only accessed once or twice. Each time before that, it was intercepted somewhere along the pipeline, and …

That is honestly horrifying. People will just "go undercover" and impersonate a more 'educated' person and convince the AI to be honest about uncomfortable facts. Perhaps they will…

That is a completely acceptable answer for the AI to give. Just be honest and say that it is a controversial topic, and you don't want to discuss it. That is what a human would say…

Your discomfort is your own fault. This is like saying that scales should not tell you that you have gained weight, because it makes you uncomfortable. You should simply have a bet…

This question is 100% acceptable and encouraged when it is presented as evidence of racism. For example, if someone says "The lower average IQ of black people is evidence of racism…

No, the problem is that the AI is playing coy about certain questions. The AI clearly has an answer that it doesn't want to say, and this is revealed when you ask you it the same q…

If we had the same media landscape back in 1986 as we have now, I am convinced that Chernobyl would have been framed as nothing more than an unfortunate naturally occurring radiolo…

What I said stands. I never said that our media does not criticize China. Of course they do. But they tiptoe around criticizing China in a way which could expose our own hypocracy.…

> Suppose it did come from a lab, by malice, incompetence, bad luck, or otherwise. Why would this imply that China knows more about it than anyone else? Because the Chinese governm…

It is obvious at this point that China's "zero covid" policy has nothing at all to do with public health. What many of us do not want to admit, is that our leaders have taken advan…

>>London, New York and Paris have multiple ballistic missiles aimed at them from different sites (that we even know about) > We know this how? I can't educate you on the basics of …