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  • Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks

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  • It's a shockingly common source of data leaks. There are some versions with more subtlety, like actually redacting the text but a copy of it remains in the file for version tracking, as a separate layer, or things like that.

    PDF is derived from printer control tools, and has a lot of features built in that add flexibility for office document purposes, but can be surprising for people not expecting it.If you're working as a team to redact documents you might deliberately use something reversible so that the person checking your work can 1) see what you redacted 2) unredact if they think you shouldn't have.Sometimes people also just don't know there's actual reaction tools built in.

    The part that I'm more surprised by is that whatever process they have for releasing documents didn't involve passing it through a system of some sort that automatically fixed that sort of thing.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Yup, that's a good one.

    Purely for discussions sake, I'd say that the video game entity is making a choice, but it lacks volition.No freewill or consciousness, but it's selecting a course of action based on environment circumstances.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • It's really not. The people who invented the term "artificial intelligence" both meant something different than you're thinking the term means and also thought human level intelligence was far simpler to model than it turned out to be.

    You're thinking of intelligence as compared to a human, and they were thinking of intelligence as compared to a wood chipper. The computers of the time executed much more mechanical tasks, like moving text into place on a printer layout.They aimed to intelligence, where intelligence was understood as tasks that were more than just rote computation but responded to the environment they executed in. Text layout by knowing how to do line breaks and change font sizes. Parsing word context to know if something is a typo.These tasks require something more than rote mechanical action. They're far from human intelligence, and entirely lacking in the introspective or adaptive qualities that we associate with humans, but they're still responsive.

    Using AI only to refer to human intelligence is the missuse of the term by writers and television producers.

    The people who coined the terms would have found it quaint to say something isn't intelligence because it consists of math and fancy scripting. Their efforts were predicated on the assumption that human intelligence was nothing more than math, and programming in general is an extremely abstract form of math.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Right now browser usage patterns are shifting because people are trying new things. Most of those new things are AI integration. If those new things prove popular or have staying power remains to be seen.Firefox , in my estimation, is looking to leverage their existing reputation for privacy focus while also adding new technologies that people seem at least interested in trying.A larger user base means that people will pay more for ads, which if they maintain their user control and privacy standards users are less likely to disable on the default landing screen.

    It's why they keep getting flac for working on privacy preserving advertising technology: they want you to use Firefox because they don't stop you from disabling the bullshit, and they hope to do the bullshit in a way that makes you not mind leaving it on.

    All the AI stuff was mentioned in the same context as discussion about how they need to seek money in ways that aren't simply being paid by Google.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Their CEO makes more than I think CEOs should earn in general, but the rest of their executives earn relatively normal to low salaries for their roles and the sector.

    Non-profit doesn't mean everyone works for free.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • But that's just saying that instead of using Firefox and not turning on the feature, you'll use a less maintained version of Firefox where they didn't enable the feature. I don't feel like those projects have much value add in the privacy spectrum compared to Firefox, particularly when one of them was owned by an advertising company, and neither of them actually has the resources to maintain or operate a browser in isolation, which is a major concern regarding security and privacy both.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • A very vocal portion of the user base, but we don't actually know what absolute portion cares. I'm personally unlikely to use possible AI features outside translation, but Mozilla has generally done enough that I don't feel particularly worried they're going to mess with my privacy or force me to use a feature I don't want.

  • Hello, We're Firefox

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  • For a slightly less dramatic description: the person who's been in charge of Firefox is now the CEO of Mozilla. In an interview they detailed their vision which includes trying to get money in more ways than just making Google the default search engine, all of which involve growing the user base. He said that ignoring changes in technology doesn't benefit users or the Internet, and alluded to some previously announced features that are in progress for Firefox, including on device AI tools for things like alttext generation and translation, and upcoming features like an AI browsing window which has more integration with an AI including ones that aren't on the device depending on what the user selects.He reiterated that user control of data and privacy remains their biggest selling point, so that has to remain the focus of whatever path they take.

  • Maybe I've just got the wrong history book

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  • I believe it was along the lines of "actually solve the problem".There's so many diverse causes of violence that there's not one solution or alternative. Resource shortage? Find a way to fix it. Land shortage? Find a way to use what you have more efficiently.If you can't solve the problem you're by definition not competent.

    I don't believe he thought the incompetent should meekly roll over and die, but rather that violence was a failure to solve the problem correctly. If you find yourself in a position where you need to do violence it's not because you had no choice, but because you didn't know what that other option was.

    It's worth remembering he was one of those people who said exactly what they meant. If he meant that violence was unacceptable no matter what he would have said that. He was a pacifist in the "what if we don't invade Vietnam?" sense, not in the "I will let you beat me rather than raise my hand in anger" way.

  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • Contrary to popular belief, the US isn't actually unusually litigious. European countries are just as litigious and Germany, Sweden and Austria all have higher numbers.

    The reason we have more "nonsense" lawsuits is because we have a culture that says caveat emptor is a sound defense and negligence on one parties side is equally the fault of the injured party."Why didn't you look at your food before biting the metal fillings? It's your responsibility to make sure what you eat is safe" and "you walked on my icy sidewalk, you slipped, and now you want me to pay for your ambulance? I should have put down salt, but you should have known better than to walk there" are both reasonable statements to a lot of Americans. Hell, we have special derogatory terms for lawyers that work with individuals who have been non-criminally injured by someone else.

    On paper, paying the other parties legal fees if you lose sounds good, but what it does it keep individuals who can't afford to pay legal someone else's fees to withold valid legal complaints. In an ideal world they would proceed because they were right, but we live in a world where sometimes the person in the right looses, or they reasonably thought they were and were wrong. Due diligence or actual correctness is no assurance of justice, so a lawsuit is a gamble and a more expensive one if you also have to pay the other parties costs, and if they're a business which has lawyers on staff they might not even view a crippling legal cost as an increased expense.On the other side that business just tells their lawyer to file the paperwork, they're already paying for the legal consult so they're advised going in if it's a good idea, and if they lose they're out a few weeks of lawyer salary.

    Lawsuits are a mark of people using societies tools to resolve disputes. There being more in places with higher trust in social institutions makes sense. People are willing to use the system and they trust it'll deliver justice.The US is up there because people need to use lawsuits to make up for our lack in social safety nets, and our preposterous number of businesses are constantly using them to settle disputes.

    We should eliminate the court fees entirely and provide the trial lawyer equivalent of a public defender.A bolt in your oatmeal is a good reason to sue, and if you can't afford a lawyer to help you pay to get your tooth put back in it doesn't seem unreasonable for society to give you access to someone to help you find a path to remunerations.

  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • 99% agreed, but I'd increase the number a bit. With inflation and rising costs $10 million in net worth isn't always an obscenity.It's unquestionably wealthy, but still in the realm of attainable by an individual without being a bastard. Owning a single family home and a gas station in the San Francisco region and planning for retirement could put you in that realm.

    I don't begrudge someone who worked hard having nice things. I don't even begrudge luck, inheritance, or nepotism getting luxury. It's when it's beyond luxury and no one could get it with any amount of work.

    Tie it to the consumer price index or some such.

  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • Right? I work for an actual megacorp and our policy is almost the exact opposite on every point.Sick workers make more sick: don't work and feel better faster. Distracted workers makes mistakes and cause problems: don't work and take care of your kid. Rested workers work better: take the time around the holidays off entirely. Productivity is crap then anyway and with so many vacations it's easier to plan around a block where nothing happens than to deal with random teams having unpredictable delays. Car broken? Expense a Lyft. We have a corporate account and your ride to work is a rounding error compared to the sales visits.

    If you're going to invoke money you should actually understand how big companies function and view money.

  • Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common?

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  • We've actually figured out that that one is basically a "stutter" in your memory encoding system. Consciousness isn't as continuous as it feels, and so you can get a situation where your memory says it just put some stuff in working memory and consciousness thinks it means your current thoughts or observations. So you end up with a feeling of a past recollection of a current awareness. Because it's tagged "past" you can't do anything other than understand it to be in the past, even though you're actively experiencing it.A related phenomenon is how you "always" wake up just before the loud noise. Even though you're asleep you still hear things and process audio. A loud noise happens and your audio processing tells you to wake up. Conscious you wakes up, creating that new memory, and then processes the noise that woke you.

    Consciousness is a process that takes place over a duration, not an instant.

  • A guide for change

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  • Why? The US is where a lot of technology innovation was directed for a lot of the things being discussed here, so it's kinda limiting to leave them off. Not every US company is bad.In the os category, it honestly feels odd that they're going by the distro location, when every alternative they list is based on Linux, which is just as American as firefox.

  • Programmers are no longer needed!

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  • My standard for an orm is that if it's doing something wrong or I need to do something special that it's trivial to move it aside and either use plain SQL or it's SQL generator myself.

    In production code, plain SQL strings are a concern for me since they're subject to the whole array of human errors and vulnerabilities.

    Something like stmt = select(users).where(users.c.name == 'somename') is basically as flexible as the string, but it's not going to forget a quote or neglect to use SQL escaping or parametrize the query.

    And sometimes you just need it to get out of the way because your query is reaaaaaal weird, although at that point a view you wrap with the orm might be better.

    If you've done things right though, most of the time you'll be doing simple primary key lookups and joins with a few filters at most.

  • IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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  • Oh, they totally will. It'll be another website boom. A lot of the big web presences will be damaged by the bust and hosting costs will fall through the floor. Less barrier to entry for making your little website and some portion of those will become problematicly large due to cheap cost driving bad design and we'll go through the third or fourth round of this.

    Or, for deepest irony, some of the most optimally located datacenters could be converted into steel mills and industrial bakeries.

  • WHY???

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  • Based on what I recall of the explanation by the person who figured it out: spinning makes fluid near the edge spin faster than fluid near the middle. The difference in speed creates a wave. Since it's finite and moving, the wave interferes with itself and because of math, makes a hexagon. Something about how the wave pattern changes density and brings different glasses to the surface on the planets.Then they showed an example by spinning a bucket, and it kinda fell flat because they had to explain that a bucket isn't a sphere so you have to spin it just right to get it to work, but it did work in the end.

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • They likely did do actual training, but starting with a general pre-trained model and specializing tends to yield higher quality results faster. It's so excessively obsequious because they told it to be profoundly and sincerely apologetic if it makes an error, and people don't actually share the text of real apologies online in a way that's generic, so it can only copy the tone of form letters and corporate memos.

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