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Arthur Besse

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

  • It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...

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  • The Final Final Layer_new(3)

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  • Awww now the hate is coming for her

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  • This meme keep evolving day by day.

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  • the C and fiber layers should be swapped, fragility-wise

  • Zohran Mamdani reaches out to the White House to set up a meeting with Trump

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  • I voted for Trump!

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  • “I voted for Trump all three times. Yep. I did,” he admits. “But I literally was in the voting booth. And I rapped my knuckles and the Trump one hurt more, and that was the one that I voted for. Because it was just, it was so disgusting and, and I hate to say that, but that’s literally how I made that choice.”

    Even after losing his business to Trump’s policies, he stands by his vote: “Given the two people running, regardless of what they said on the campaign trail, I would’ve voted for President Trump again.”

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Important context!

    They had to change this because newer laws like the CCPA classify some ways of transferring/processing data as a “sale”, even if no money is exchanged.

    What? No. Do you really think their "sharing" with "partners" who are "providing sponsored suggestions" doesn't involve money being exchanged? 🤔

    Here is an abridged version of that FAQ entry consisting only of substrings of it:

    The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because [...] to make Firefox commercially viable [...] we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar

    All of the other words in there implying that they had to stop promising not to sell user data because of some (implied to be unreasonable) "LEGAL definition" of "sale" is imo insulting to the reader.

  • you guys are paying for git?

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  • it works for me. did you forget to pay your git bill?

  • The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

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  • I haven't heard of academics and/or media from China advocating for applications of phrenology/physiognomy or other related racist pseudosciences. Have you?

  • The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

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  • one can also get the full paper directly from yale here without needing to solve a google captcha:

    https://insights.som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/AI%20Personality%20Extraction%20from%20Faces%20Labor%20Market%20Implications_0.pdf

    I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.

    i admittedly did not read the entire 61 pages but i read enough to answer this:

    they don't

  • The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

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  • Plastic surgery would become more popular.

    One of the paper's authors had the same thought:

    “Suppose this type of technology gets used in labor market screening, or maybe dating markets,” Shue muses. “Going forward, you could imagine a reaction in which people then start modifying their pictures to look a certain way. Or they could modify their actual faces through cosmetic procedures.”‌

    She also bizarrely says that:

    "we are very much not advocating that this technology be used by firms as part of their hiring process."

    and yet, for some reason:

    The next step for Shue and her colleagues is to explore whether certain personality types are drawn to specific industries or whether those personality types are more likely to succeed within given industries.

  • What's the main device to hammer in a nail?

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  • Binary

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  • The bears definitely took notice of the drone. The animals’ heart rate skyrocketed when the UAV flew overhead, and their stress response was stronger when the quadcopter flew in windy conditions that masked the sound of its approach — apparently bears do not like being surprised. One bear started moving faster after the quadcopter flew by. And the bear that had experienced the greatest increase in heart rate — from 41 beats per minute to 162 — moved nearly 7 kilometers in the next 28 hours, encroaching into a neighboring female’s territory.

    All in all, though, the bears weren’t stressed all that much, the researchers concluded.

    🤌

    At least there is this:

    Ditmer’s team says that their results reinforce the NPS ban on drones in parks.

  • StackOverflow vs ChatGPT

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  • (Discussion) Drunken Triple Decker BLT in bed

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  • I want to talk about foods with the bare minimum ingredients where if you would have added more, it would have been a disservice.

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    Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

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  • it was one tour with blackwater, after four tours with the military, and i don't think there were sexual assault allegations against him (were there? he did post reddit comments blaming women in the military for their assaults...).

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    Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

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  • Reddit somehow released his username and tied it to him?

    From the article that reported the posts:

    Most of the posts were made five years ago under Platner’s then-Reddit handle P-Hustle.

    In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Platner disavowed his posts, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online. He said his criticisms of rural White Americans and the police, and his political comments, do not reflect who he is and what he stands for today.

    Now he has a nazi tattoo that he didn’t know was a nazi tattoo. That may be true?

    It is mildly plausible that he could have gotten the tattoo without realizing what it was. It is highly implausible that (as he claimed on a podcast yesterday) nobody ever told him what it was during any of the many times he says he's had his shirt off over the last 18 years.

    He’s going up against Susan Collins.

    Not yet he isn't. The primary isn't until next June.

  • JR Hokkaido train driver in trouble for reading book about trains on stopped train

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  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    "Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

    gizmodo.com /famous-ai-artist-says-hes-losing-millions-of-dollars-from-people-stealing-his-work-2000505822
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    There is no Black Friday - Brett Scott on cultural malware

    www.asomo.co /p/there-is-no-black-friday
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it.

    www.bunniestudios.com /blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Microsoft to Revive Nuclear Plant on Three Mile Island to Handle AI Processing

    www.pcmag.com /news/microsoft-to-revive-nuclear-plant-on-three-mile-island-to-handle-ai-processing
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Biden wears Trump hat as 9/11 unity gesture, says White House

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c4gdgw0v3dxo
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    "REM sleep is the next AI"

  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    NSA's influence on cryptographic standards (slides from a 2022 talk by D. J. Bernstein)

    cr.yp.to /talks/2022.11.10/slides-djb-20221110-nsa-4x3.pdf
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    "Don’t replace the culture war with class war" pleads British columnist

  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers

    www.newscientist.com /article/2436023-multiple-nations-enact-mysterious-export-controls-on-quantum-computers/
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Randomness on Apple Platforms: "I’m sure the people working on this know what they’re doing, so it’s probably all very reasonable"

    blog.xoria.org /randomness-on-apple-platforms/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits

    www.nola.com /news/politics/legislature/la-lawmakers-vote-to-remove-lunch-breaks-for-child-workers/article_ef234692-fd9e-11ee-99f5-771c7366107a.html
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Putty vulnerability: bias in ECDSA deterministic nonce generation leads to compromise of NIST P521 keys with ~60 signatures

    www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    SimpleX: adding quantum resistance to Signal double ratchet algorithm (with Streamlined NTRU Prime)

    simplex.chat /blog/20240314-simplex-chat-v5-6-quantum-resistance-signal-double-ratchet-algorithm.html
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/02/human-rights-court-takes-stand-against-weakening-of-end-to-end-encryption/
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    KyberSlash: timing vulnerabilities allow recovering private keys in most Kyber implementations. patches available

    kyberslash.cr.yp.to
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Bluesky update: Toward Federation and an Open Network

    blueskyweb.xyz /blog/11-15-2023-toward-federation
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    28 years later, ETSI's TETRA committee unanimously votes to open source their secret encryption algorithms

    www.theregister.com /2023/11/14/tetra_encryption_algorithms_open_sourced/
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Passive SSH RSA Key Compromise via Lattices

    eprint.iacr.org /2023/1711
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Nearly-finalized eIDAS legislation requires browsers to trust state-issued CAs, and prohibits using certificate transparency to prevent abuses of them: only ETSI-approved authenticity checks allowed.

    last-chance-for-eidas.org
  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    The inability to count correctly: Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level.

    blog.cr.yp.to /20231003-countcorrectly.html