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lemonskate

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  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-Integrity

    This was a proposal a few years ago for how to enforce "trusted web". Basically, a way for service providers to verify, at a per request basis, that the client is using an unmodified software stack, starting with an operating system signed by a trusted developer. Could absolutely be modified to enforce this shit.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • I've seen a lot of people saying how this will be unenforceable and so isn't something we need to worry about.

    Except this could be enforced. Google came out with a proposal a few years ago for a method of validating the a request came from a "trusted" (aka, signed and with secure boot enabled OS), ostensibly to combat bot traffic. They dropped it after push back, but it still provides a blueprint for how this could be enforced.

    https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-Integrity

    If web platforms are mandated by law to enforce something like this then the web could be effectively restricted to only approved operating systems. There could still be a dark web, but with the weight of the law behind it, once anything gained momentum access to it could be shut down at the service provider layer.

    This shouldn't be dismissed as a threat because it's "unenforceable", because it is.

  • it's a long distance relationship

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  • This is pretty conclusively addressed by the Bell Inequalities and empirically tested. It's absolutely counter-intuitive and feels "wrong" but it is definitely how our universe operates.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9OM0jSTeeBg A relatively short but decent explainer for Bell's Theorem and the Nobel prize winning experiment to successfully test it.

  • it's a long distance relationship

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  • The important distinction here (and I get it, analogies are always imperfect) is that the photograph analogy has "hidden variables". That is, each half is fixed at the moment of their separation and you just don't know what's in the envelopes until you open one. That's not how entangled particles work though, and which "half" is which is not determined until the instant of measurement, at which point the state of both are known and fixed.

  • LLMDeathCount.com

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  • So then your counter to someone bringing attention to the fact that LLMs are actively telling people (vulnerable people, due to reasons that you've pointed out), is that it isn't the singular contributing factor?

    I get what you're saying here, and I think everyone else does too? I don't want to just be entirely dismissive and say "no shit" but I'm curious as to what it is you want or expect out of this? Do you take offense at people pushing back at harmful LLMs? Do you want people to care more about creating a kinder society? Do you think these things are somehow incompatible?

    Of course LLMs aren't driving people to suicide in a vacuum, no one is claiming that. Clearly though, when taken within the larger context of the current scale of mental health crisis, having LLMs that are encouraging people to commit suicide is a bad thing that we should absolutely be making noise about.

  • LLMDeathCount.com

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  • Is the argument here that anti-AI folks are hypocrites because people can be bad too sometimes? That's a remarkably childish and simple take.

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  • Divorced :(

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  • Well I know these people and they're great plus they're married now :)

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  • You're right, I had it wrong. Misinformation deleted.

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  • xkcd #3141: Mantle Model

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  • You're right that light is not "a wave and a particle depending on whether you observe it". Instead, light is a quantized field. It is a field because it exists at every point and allows for wave-like behavior such as superposition and interference (both things seen in all fields, like waves in water or radio, etc.). But it is quantized because when the field interacts it does so via photons which can only exist in integer quantities. This quantization of interaction of the underlying continuous field gives us all the "weirdness" we see. Okay, not quite all of it, there are still even weirder parts of quantum mechanics, but it does explain the double slit experiment.

  • Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded

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  • Only if they aren't using customer provided encryption keys (is using blob/bucket storage) or an equivalent approach to encryption at rest, and make sure they're doing standard TLS for encryption in flight.

    It's absolutely possible, and standard for any decent organization, to build their cloud architectures to fully account for the cloud provider potentially accessing your data without authorization. I've personally had such design conversations multiple times.

  • Absolutely Legend

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  • There are literally dozens of us!

  • [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

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  • How does that logically follow? It seems obvious to me that if every choice is going to piss people off then you simply disregard that as a factor and then make the best choice possible. If that had been their decision process and status quo was the best choice on the merits then that would be perfectly reasonable. That was not, however, the process they described in their blog, instead they remained entirely focused on the one issue that they should have ignored.

  • [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

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  • They did pick a solution that pisses off a large portion of their user base, that's exactly what choosing to do nothing means when attempting to fix the most complained about issue with your language. Doing nothing is a choice too after all.

  • [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

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  • I see it as a pretty clear sign of dysfunction in the project unfortunately. Being unable to reach an actionable decision to improve on the most disliked part of the language (I'm personally ambivalent, I find that the repetitive error handling quickly fades into the background, but I also really love the ? operator in rust) is a bad sign.

  • [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

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  • after much deliberation, we've decided to do absolutely nothing

    lol, lmao even

  • Shots fired

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  • basedpyright includes some nice features that Microsoft has otherwise gated behind the closed source Pylance. There's also (in development) ty from Astral that I'm pretty excited for (ruff and uv have made writing python so much better for me).

  • Shots fired

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  • Helix crew