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> they don't have the cable that can charge your phone. Nokia was the USB-C of the 90's. If you owned a Nokia someone in the room would always have a charger and offices would be f…

> But for bandwidth can't you just have two simple computers at either end that can send a 100GB file and if it arrives in 20 seconds, you know you have 40gbps of bandwidth? Becaus…

> Is all Perl, Python, etc., generically just categorally unusable for someone? I am not the OP but my take as someone who is not keen on Perl or Python: 1. Perl has a dense progra…

> If you take an even closer look- what exactly does that mean? Here is one example: "Critical Vulnerability Exclusion We will not pay you under the cyber and data risks section of…

> Most people can't justify the time commitment needed to read and then modify the code for tools they use very often. A lot of modern open source software is often written in depe…

Oh, you're right https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-search-proxy-l... That's so sad. :(

Ecosia and Qwant have just started collaborating on EUSP (European Search Perspective)[1] This could easily yield very interesting (i.e. "not just another bing proxy") results once…

> I'm very curious what organisations would have such a policy. I would humbly suggest any org of any size that has insurance cover that covers anything tech related (e.g. data los…

> 35B MoE is certainly a good and fast local model. I find 27B dense to be quite a bit smarter Isn't that just the definition of MoE vs dense ?

> the kind of financial advisor most people would find while looking at random Any regulated financial advisor will still go further and deeper than any LLM. For example, most (all…

Every security hole ? No, of course not. But things like insecure argument handling are low-hanging fruit for security auditors. Insecure argument handling is not like the more adv…

But why should insecure argument handling bugs (as per your recent SSH bulletin) be found after release ? Those are an ancient class of bugs that should be picked up by any compete…

The majority of your security bulletins are as the result of third-party reports to you. Which, by definition, means they are not done by you, which means you don't know when they …

> How would it be different with plain wireguard? Seriously ? You do realise that of all the security tools on the planet, plain wireguard most likely has the smallest attack surfa…

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Ethical AI company ? Is that a flock of flying pigs I see on the horizon ?

Yeah, please could everyone not pile in and start re-hashing the extensive comments that have already been made only a week and a half ago. Whatever you're thinking of posting has …

Yeah. In particular for "hot" topics like this people should use the search function at the bottom of every HN page before rushing into post. The last thing everyone needs is yet a…

I employ a "minimum trust" attitude to anything Tailscale and that includes not using their DNS. So "use tailscale DNS" = off and install a DoH profile on devices.

THIS THIS THIS !! If I am going to subject myself to the horrors of London's over-crowded, over-priced, delay-ridden, filthy public transport then I sure as hell am not going to be…

> Electricity allows for so many more automatic safeguards. Since the mid-2000s there has actually been a push by Japanese utility companies for adoption of what they call "all-ele…

> The mall had a (most likely gas) explosion If the internet searches are to be believed, that is indeed sadly likely to be the cause. The internet suggests the explosion happened …

> devs that have no problem reading your backend language will not necessarily be good at reading stored procedures But again ... why do they need to ? If you are a developer and y…

"we have information" says a US Government official who almost certainly has had Anthropic and/or OpenAI on the phone spinning him stories. See also, don't trust anyone in Trump's …

> it hides some logic from the developers I do not buy this argument. Its called a documented function. The developers know the function's inputs and outputs and what it does. That…