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  • Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

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  • Bitlocker was developed entirely inside MSFT. Upon further review, there is a chance that this is all somewhat normal behaviour. Part of MSFT safeOS to make it convenient to recover bitlocker access, and update windows.

  • Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

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  • does bitlocker encrypt whole volume, or userdata folders? It's a performance issue to encrypt anything that doesn't need to be.

  • Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

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  • 100% certainty of backdoor. Is bitlocker developed outside of MSFT? Would seem to need MSFT cooperation to implement.

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  • It is medical policy in the US/west to lie to husbands on such matters.

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    Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • 9gw if run 24/7 (capacity utilization is actually low on average in US) is 551.88 twh/year. 1500x. Natural gas is not that much cleaner than coal from co2/ghg warming perspective.

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    Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • its 9gw of consumption. 19gw of total heat generation.

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    Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • 17gw of heat is both under and over estimate.

    3,600 of those industrial-scale generators to power Stratos

    Caterpillar 2.5mw generators have maximum efficiency of 45%, and so 19gw is peak thermal power. that is roughly 26 hiroshimas per day.

    It's an over estimate because datacenter cpu/gpu capacity utilization is on average under 10%. It could still produce all that power for export to trap all that heat in a valley.

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • for covers, a couple of songs where original is pretty sucky by Scary Pockets.

    Wonderwall - oasis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jftpg_6SUYk&pp=ygUYc2NhcnkgcG9ja2V0cyB3b25kZXJ3YWxs

    Rolling in the deep - adele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTIOugluWb8&pp=ygUhc2NhcnkgcG9ja2V0cyByb2xsaW5nIGluIHRoZSBkZWVw

    A cover band that does everything better: Leonid and Friends

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jko3HdUOLhc&list=RDjko3HdUOLhc&start_radio=1 (chaka khan)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8aZZ9d_EA&list=RDjko3HdUOLhc&index=2&pp=8AUB (steely dan)

    Chicago song you never heard of but they make their greatest hit if it was produced/executed this well

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • sun is shining - bob marley --wingsuit flying remix. Could be best techno song ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W6Fa6rNlAY&list=RD3W6Fa6rNlAY&start_radio=1

    Georg Levin got somebody new. 2nd Chorus punched up quite innovatively, and better drum track. Nothing taken away or interfering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOEMSuxYPQ

    Harder better (daft punk) -- piano intro, more pop format, but also more advanced dance beat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwu-m39ek-w

    woodstock - csny is a cover of Joni Mitchell

  • Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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  • Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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  • qwen 3.6 is awesome, but 48-64gb is still real money these days. (though 32gb on dedicated separate machine is also more money). Sonnet 3.5 to opus 4.5 level benchmarks. and the online cost metrics for 27b and 35b are way off considering the overall usefulness of a 48-64gb machine (inclusive of gpu vram for 35b) which even in single, non batching, use could displace $5-$7/day of use.

    Local costs are much lower than online costs in linked chart, but if online, there are better models

  • Nvidia’s New Partnership Wants to Put Mini AI Data Centers on Your House

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  • Literally the most absurd offer in history of universe. You pay $150/month to have some extra noise and space taken away from you. While they install batteries in your home, it is for their use, and takes up more space. All you get is a phone app that can turn off lights in other rooms.

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    Hyundai Reportedly Demanding ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Boston Dynamics Robots ASAP

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  • Their production rate is still 4 per month. They did promise large production capacity this year.

  • Republicans Unveil New Map that Draws Away Tennessee’s Majority-Black House Seat

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  • Weird map should be illegal, not on race basis, but, they made districts in the middle of nowhere smaller, while there are giant districts spreading over populous Nashville and Memphis in addition to giant rural area.

    To analyze effect on election outcomes, https://engaging-data.com/county-electoral-map-land-vs-population/ (shows county results that districts don't respect, afaiu) you could compare 2020 election results, and add Dems overperforming 10% over Biden, and that can be more than 1 tenessee district blue. If this is midterm map, memphis/nashville turnout can win 3-4 states.

    This can happen, because GOP in Memphis/Nashville would run a lesser-nazi (not Trump sycophant) level candidate to just steal a few votes for senate/national level, and voter turnout can be low if they know district result is certain. Even splitting Memphis 3 ways, winning all 3 districts is possible. Nashville split is not clear to me.

    You can be angry at GOP bs, but this is mostly an opportunity for Dems. Older map was a much longer shot at flipping a seat.

    Safe Dem seats also is a recipe for pure Zionist first, do nothing else, rule. Same with racially divided seats that increase divisiveness, and increase pure facist ideology from bumfuck counties, who don't need to concern themselves with humanist values, because none of their voter base has any.

  • Is AI inference getting cheaper or more expensive over time?

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  • new generation of models makes the cost of inference lower, so that with sufficient customer volume, the companies running the models can make enough profit on inference to make up for the staggering up-front capital expenditures

    cost per quality is definitely going down at a fast rate. LLM providers are in extremely competitive field, where open weight models are at a huge competitive advantage for any quality level (privacy, customizability). The competition is all on 2 month release cycles that essentially throw away the old version/code/weights each time. When Claude pretends its newest model is too powerful for non oligarchs to use, it limits its token reach, and then required contribution margin per token.

    The buisness model flaw is "one day, a winner becomes a monopoly, and AGI self improves the model at low (except for ultra expensive compute) cost." Monopoly pricing power is very hard/impossible to achieve, because if necessary, foreign governments will subsidize competition to not let a hostile US empire AGI monoplist take hold. Due to corrupt energy oligarchy, it is categorically impossible for US hosted services to ever provide comparative value compared to rational economic energy policies outside of the US. Distillation (Teacher/student RL) means that using another AGI (or leading LLM) will improve models that are behind. There will always be competition on the price/quality curve that prevents even the best/most expensive model from capturing all share. There's always free tier LLM competition availability as well.

    Finally, there are layers above LLMs. Agentic and swarm and "deterministic program access"/validation front ends to LLMs can add various levels of token burn, but also divert most tokens from the expensive LLMs, and iteratively improve output. There isn't just a cost/quality curve there is a cost/speed/quality/privacy curve, where non AI coordination tools can improve on the latter curve points independently of leading/expensive LLM/AGI quality.

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    U.S President administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms | Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

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  • This is new, and somehow related to onshore wind farms. Courts have issued rulings that DoD BS about radar interference was BS related to offshore windfarms, (previously OK'd by DOD for not creating interference) essentially allowing them to resume. This would be even more BS, with no possible chance of passing court review, because DoD can't make radar BS claim.

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  • Can't you just vibe code your banking app? As long as I can make my balance higher, this will beat iphone rounded corners banking app.

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    Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt

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  • so paywalled, didn't even show a byline.

    This is fundamental mechanism behind subprime crisis., Channels to offload debt so that more debt can be issued.