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Guest mode does not honor your settings. It mostly defaults to install-time configuration. Incognito mode is fine. It doesn't persist data, it doesn't give websites access to exist…

I don't think your comment is accurate. The formulas appear to be DFT and IDFT, in line with: https://home.engineering.iastate.edu/~julied/classes/ee524/L...

If the exploit wasn't baing used, the odds would would be pretty low. They picked the right place to bury it (i.e., effectively outside the codebase, where no auditor ever looks). …

You're comparing to medians; is this a median crime?

A browser is one of the most consequential attack surfaces in the lives of billions of people. Redis isn't. Having proofs where said proofs don't matter much in the first place is …

That's a pretty cynical take. I think a more profound problem is that formal specifications for software are fairly intractable. For a bridge, you specify that it needs to withstan…

Request deletion from backend brokers? Many have some mechanisms for opt-out, either in general or for people in specific states (e.g., California).

Not really. There's a fairly small and stable number of companies that actually collect and resell information about you. There is also about a zillion ephemeral web front ends tha…

There are commercial influencing operations on Reddit, but I think what you're describing doesn't really affect the usual user experience. I suspect that the objective of these bul…

Scraping is a lot more dicey than using an official API. Why did Google enter that partnership? They have the data in their index. The only conceivable reason is that they prefer t…

The API situation seemed baffling to me at the time. The timing wasn't coincidental and it was clear that they were responding to people training LLMs on the Reddit corpus. But her…

I'm guessing the plan is to cast a wide net, then hope that you can dredge up some incriminating or morally ambiguous quotes during discovery. When you have a company of 100,000+ p…

Right, and from all my friends who did take VC money: it's an incredibly demanding period of your life, a large proportion of which isn't about delivering on your vision. You're go…

I mean, we had this stuff for pets for a long time. The basic idea is that yes, it's a lipid-soluble neurotoxin. Because it is fat-soluble, it spreads throughout various tissues an…

It feels like you're picking apart an argument I didn't make. But I would note that most people don't see this so unambiguously as the position you're defending. To give you an ana…

It takes deliberate effort, but I was actually able to get pieces of my writing out of one of the leading LLMs (not ChatGPT). This is not particularly unique, a number of folks dem…

You make a lot of categorical assertions here, but I don't think they're really all that watertight. If any individual "economically harmed in an intellectually honest sense" if PG…

While a lot of attention has been given to books3, another large component of this dataset is the deceptively-named "OpenWebText2". What's that? It's a scrape of 15 years' worth of…

Kafka was virtually unknown during his lifetime. It's unlikely that there was any expectation of profit. They probably just liked the writings and thought it would be a shame to de…

It still boggles my mind how we managed to make it so politicized. I mean, there's really no clear reason I can pinpoint. I was wearing a mask early on in the SF Bay Area. Back whe…

My first thought: gosh, these knobs don't seem at all comfortable to operate.

Missed opportunity for a metaphor... "we're gonna need you to walk the plank". But fundamentally, I don't think this is an indefensible stance. There are many industries that hire …

Here's the thing, though: we, the general public, did this. Up until the mid-2010s, the prevailing dogma within Google and at most other Big Tech companies was this spirit of "info…

I find it perfectly possible to be concerned about some aspects of the US penal system without implying its equivalency to the terror endured under one of the most oppressive polit…