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Might be worth trying to get your gov to pin down the number of users or process to get gov id supported on any new platform. They likely wont specify 100k people or 10% of populat…

GrapheneOS is currently the blessed child. Like CyanogenMod previously. They are "permitted" to access to Google Play Services because their work hardening Android currently benefi…

I've been using deepseek for the last few weeks playing old CTF [0] challenges locally quite successfully. I haven't had a refusal. Basic prompt has been "you are playing a CTF" + …

Laws are ultimately defined by the boundary and edge cases. The godly person, doing no wrong, that through unfortunate circumstances, is brought before the court does not advance o…

There's a building near my office. Never technically finished so empty for 10+ years. I believe the two owners had a disagreement. One day a crew turns up and starts jack hammering…

I was told capitalism made for efficient use of resources.(inb4 oh you sweet summer child) If the land isnt being used efficiently the owning entity should fail and a new productiv…

In some ways its hard to differentiate between big tech and the national security complex, where execs are being sworn into the military https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_la…

You don't even need to step foot on US soil for the US to be a risk to you c.f. Kim Dotcom

Agreed. Scale is what matters. Being in public and being incidently recorded or photographed by a set of separate, independent recorders is substantially different than an all seei…

The question is whether companies would tolerate their own process if their employees did that recruiting process at a different company. They obviously do to some extent via plaus…

Many jobs today require 3-6 years of training, either degree, deploma, or apprenticeship. There currently isn't the economic incentives in place vs ditching the old guard and hirin…

A lot of blue collar trades - mechanic/electrician/builder etc following the `flowchart` is the `law` of the land and process is written in blood and liability Whereas IT/Ops/devel…

Maybe Anthropics efforts to thwart deepseek from distilling their model is bearing fruit. So their strategy now is to try get as much raw content for their inference. You're being …

If the aim is to burn tokens in a plausible manner why not go one step further, without getting users accounts banned, use those tokens as a distributed distillation effort. Publis…