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Womble

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  • Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming.

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  • Dont be a dick, people arent simping for Thiel just because they think the article you posted is over interpreting a single pause.

  • UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition.

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  • Starmer is no where near Blair 2.0, Blair at least had charisma, a political plan and, at least before Iraq, genuinly had mass grass roots support. Starmer has none of them, he's an apolitical middle maneger who has been pushed to the top of the party by a right wing clique in labour as a way to purge the left.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • Also, I’m not sure to what extent this law is applied in practice.

    as per the article general_effort posted:

    The act – which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print, even by peaceful means – has not been deployed in a prosecution since 1879.

    Its one of those laws that are on the books mostly becuase no one has got around to modifying it and removing the bits that are unused.

  • introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

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  • Yup, I tried to run the docker image with the suggested docker command and it errored out for lack of a config file (though it did offer a fix in the logs for mounting the current directory as read/write)

  • Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests

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  • Not easy to extract sure, but is it secure enough for you to claim that it hasnt been leaked and so forms a secure chain of custody? Once one has been leaked then that can be used to sign any fake pictures you like. I woudnt buy that for anything for serious than is this meme picture real.

  • Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests

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  • In order for it to be traceable with a public key, it needs to be signed with the private key. That means the private key has to be on the camera. That means it can be extracted from the camera and leaked.

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • Sure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.

    What do you think their response would be?

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • No way they'd do that though, because then they'd have the mouse and the other members of the content mafia breathing down their necks.

  • Bubble Trouble

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  • It depends, if they're use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same "AI wave" thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.

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    Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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  • I mean, if we're going to shoot people for their awful beliefs I would like to know there is a good system in place so that we don't end up shooting Alex Jacobson because Alex Jacobsonn has been spotted attending Klan rallies.

    So again, if you want to advocate for extrajudicial violence: who gets to decide where the boot is stamping, and how do you propose making sure that it isn't co-opted by bad people for their own ends?

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    Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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  • and who gets to decide who is a fascist, you?

  • TIL sweat comes out of the pores, which does this when you shave

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  • Anti mater is routinely created in the nature. X-ray telescopes can see it being created and destroyed all over the universe.

  • Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions

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  • Why would you bother mind controlling bees in order to make them do the thing they would be doing anyway?

  • Where are the right-wing scientists? Everyone's on the left like me

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  • I havent interacted much with working scientists for the past 5-10 years, but when I was there definitely were right wing scientists in the "free markets are good, the state should be mostly hands off, dont make big sweeping changes too quickly" sense. I dont particularly agree with that viewpoint but its completely compatable with being a scientist.

    But that sort of conservativism is essentially politically homless now (in the UK and USA at least).

  • Triffin Dilemma: How the US Genius Act Could Trigger a 'Digital Nixon Shock

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  • Ok, given how this is a bot reposting everything posted to HN, how do you suppose complaining here is going to change anything?

  • Triffin Dilemma: How the US Genius Act Could Trigger a 'Digital Nixon Shock

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  • Curate your own feed, if you dont want reposts from HN then dont subscribe to a comm that does that.

  • Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months

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  • If you are just talking transitor density I believe it still is, but even if not, my point was that it had exponential growth spanning over many decades.

  • Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months

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  • That said, exponentials don’t exist in the real world, we’re just seeing the middle of a sigmoid curve, which will soon yield diminishing returns.

    Yes, but the tricky thing is we have no idea when the seemingly exponential growth will flip over into the plateuing phase. We could be there already or it could be another 30 years.

    For comparison Moores law is almost certainly a sigmoid too, but weve been seeing exponential growth for 50 years now.

  • Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear

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  • From historical data, you can calculate the maximum lull where neither are providing enough.

    The difficulty there is that there are a lot of places where you frequently get multiple weeks of both solar and wind at <10% capacity (google for dunkelflaute) that would need an implausible amount of storage to cover.

    The OP article is already talking about 5x overbuilding solar with 17h of storage to get to 97% in the most favourable conditions possible. I dont see how you can get to an acceptably stable grif in most places without dispatchable power.

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    Any recomendations for a text editor with good AI integration (not code editor)

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    Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/apr/10/black-mirror-tv-show-pessimism
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    ‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson

    www.theguardian.com /books/2025/mar/12/jeanette-winterson-ai-alternative-intelligence-its-capacity-to-be-other-is-just-what-the-human-race-needs
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    From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem

    www.technologyreview.com /2025/02/07/1111283/elon-musk-doge-and-the-evil-housekeeper-problem-government-technology/
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    Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo
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    Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

    www.theguardian.com /technology/article/2024/sep/05/racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it
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    How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant

    www.bbc.com /future/article/20240718-how-ordinary-failure-could-have-a-seismic-effect-on-an-industrial-giant
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    Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    www.theguardian.com /business/2024/jan/24/delta-air-lines-plane-nose-wheel-falls-off
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    Everyone Is a Luddite Now

    www.wired.com /story/everyone-is-a-luddite-now