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thesmokingman

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  • Morge continvoucly

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  • (Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

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  • We agree on that 100%. No matter what, the owner of the agent did some dumbass shit. I fall in the camp that believes they proactively did dumb shit instead of the camp that believes through their inaction they did dumb shit. The whole situation to me feels like someone got their hand slapped and reacted poorly. I’ve seen this play out on forums for 30 years. Either the egotistical idiot burning resources on this chicanery actively did it or the fucking tools who built this destructive Rube Goldberg machine made it so the same fucking flame wars that add zero value keep happening in their new, perfect society. Everyone involved on the agent side needs to be removed from the internet permanently because they clearly have nothing to add to humanity.

  • (Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

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  • Apologies, I meant something more along the lines of “this agent’s runner saw code got rejected and decided to actively go harass the repo maintainers” instead of the line the repo maintainers have taken where they assume “this bot attacked us autonomously after being rejected.”

  • (Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

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  • I think there’s still reasonable debate over whether or not a human actively triggered the agent to generate the hit piece.

  • ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One (Feds could be in your group chat)

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  • More importantly, with this permission now ICE can make you do terrorism then charge you for their idea. There’s a long pattern of this.

    I’m not saying you have to agree with the ideology of everyone on this list. You just gotta understand that entrapment isn’t really a defense so you have to be super fucking careful about any hothead in your circle that might talk about illegal shit. Now that the real domestic terrorists that were mostly law enforcement for the past three decades are in law enforcement you can 100% expect the same treatment for people just trying to organize a food bank or get basic worker protections.

    And before I have to defend it, yes, Randy Weaver was a fucking shithead but the federal government actively coerced him into breaking the law. Yes the Whitmer kidnappers planned to do some idiotic stuff but it turns out they were unorganized potheads with big mouths who got arrested because an ex-military informant railroaded the plot for them. Yes Flaviu sounds sketchy but the Glomar response exists. I don’t think I have to defend my distaste for Mickey here.

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    ive learned alot past year :D

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  • Lumo isn’t really private. If you’re not local, you’re not private. AFAIK it sends to the model in cleartext (zero access) which isn’t E2EE. Signal, for example, is E2EE. Based on internet reviews, you’re better off running the models they offer locally for performance reasons on the cost anyway. I’d say you’re better off without AI in almost every situation you’d want to use an LLM of such such limited capability too so unless you really really want to set resources on fire it’s better to just drop it period.

    Netflix cannot be replaced by Jellyfin. That is very disingenuous. To “replace” Netflix with Jellyfin requires a bit more infrastructure and while it might be cheaper there’s risk involved that isn’t present with your other changes.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • If Discord cared about this, they’d use the same identity platforms governments use. For example, in the US

    I don’t think there is a one-size solution which is why I said Discord should use the same platforms plural that govts use. A solution for France isn’t going to be the same solution for the US. Because Discord is not actively attempting to use solutions (again plural) that have repercussions and reparations attached, like the ones governments use that require healthy standards, it’s very clear Discord does not actually care about this problem.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • Oh absolutely. More importantly Discord needs to also follow the standard, not just require it of their vendors. Granted this source is the only place I can find they’re requiring that so that might not actually be true. It kinda reads like an AI summary.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • Yeah that’s a totally fair response. Lithuania did it.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • I thought the requirements came from the Biden admin but I’m not able to find evidence of this.

    What you’re describing is the prisoner’s dilemma. In theory, none of us should interact with the current admin because if that happened they’d shut down. Of course if we did that, many federal employees and all of the contractors wouldn’t be able to feed their kids in a week or so, so it only works if we can guarantee a universal strike without scabs. But wait, we know people are actively joining ICE, so everyone with half a brain dropping government work doesn’t guarantee those without a brain won’t scab. If we have scabs, then future admin is left with a poisoned well and that existing possibly okay workforce is now on the breadline with an admin that’s not only hostile to breadlines but anyone who fights back. Don’t forget costs are currently skyrocketing for everything and electricity is about to be through the roof everywhere. In other words, many people have the choice of morals or food for their kids. Or healthcare if that resonates more.

    Assuming you’re in the US, will you file your taxes this year? Since you’re not willing to give anyone contracting with the Trump admin your personal information, you’ll have to do them by hand. Even a CPA is technically doing work for the IRS who is part of the Trump admin even if he’s suing them. Are you allowing your employer to keep social security and Medicare taxes? If so, I think you might have discovered a reason why a rational person who is just trying to get by might intentionally support the Trump admin. If not, by god, you have stronger morals than I do and good luck with that jail sentence. Unfortunately, some of us have to participate in society even though we want to improve it.

    Edit: I want to make it clear that my annoyance with your response is the Trump admin bit. If you had said “why trust a private company with my govt” I would have said yeah digital ID is hard that’s a really good point we needed trusted govt actors not capitalists to handle this stuff. My point about repercussions and reparations is something the Trump admin is ostensibly on board with so it doesn’t really matter what the greedy fucking billionaires do so long as they fuck each other up for breaking their own rules. That’s actually another great counter and something I’ve said elsewhere; the Trump admin is pretty anti consumer so you’d think here they’d fuck the little guy. A breach in this instance costs them face and money so they care a small amount, even more so if it’s cronyism. Either the world is going to end with Trump or there will be a world after Trump and I for one have to plan for a world after Trump where the US is dealing with all the other problems we’ve made.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • If Discord cared about this, they’d use the same identity platforms governments use. For example, in the US, id.me is a requirement for many federal services. While it does deanonymize me and there are privacy concerns expanding this tech beyond government services, I trust id.me to take my data security seriously. It has to have federal security requirements. If their data is breached, there will be repercussions and reparations.

    Discord, on the other hand, uses random vendors. There were no repercussions or reparations for the previous leak. Discord said moving forward they’d require SOC2 Type II or ISO 27001 for vendors. Crucially, neither of these certifications matter a fucking iota for personally identifiable information and Discord itself will not be completely them so even if the vendors were PII secure Discord will not hold itself to the same standards. Discord does not care about its users; Discord only cares about the ad revenue this will open up.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • It’s very important to call out this dude either doesn’t understand what a community is or comes from this new generation that thinks docs should be on Discord and not easily accessible.

    Functionality: can it do everything required of a platform for building, organizing, and sustaining a community?

    Somehow Discord gets a 4 there. A chat server is a community of a kind but it will never rise the level of a platform’s community because it is, by definition, somewhat ephemeral and just a bunch of chat logs. There’s a big difference for example between IRC and bash.org for things like AzureDiamond.

  • ‘Ripping’ Clips for YouTube Reaction Videos can Violate the DMCA, Court Rules * TorrentFreak

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  • That’s the problem with this distinction. Screen recording tools can create a file that is functionally identical to a downloaded file so it’s just a judge that doesn’t understand what’s going on. That’s scary.

  • 99 STR, 99 INT

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  • In the US at least prisoners do not really have a choice of reading material. Men in prison get jacked and read what they can get their hands on which is not necessarily what they might want to read. This is a good DB. Prisoners might also have to pay to read if it’s digital. I would personally contend that it’s harder to read in jail than prison but I don’t have a good study for that. More people go through jail than prison so the ability to read is much lower overall.

    The rest of the world might treat prisoners a little more like human beings so I don’t know if this works outside of the US.

  • ‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’

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  • Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

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  • I don’t think you understand what the tool is

  • it's just the worst

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  • Yes but we’re talking about zsh. I know zsh wasn’t on TiVo.

  • it's just the worst

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  • Shit I didn’t know this was a problem. What devices are these? I’m assuming we’ve got a few in every home?

  • Clues by Sam 2026-01-08

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  • If you use the Inspect tool (click the Inspect button then a specific clue) it will give you all the necessary definitions for the clue. Would this have given you what you needed?

    If not don’t be afraid to tag me on future posts; I’m happy to help you as well.

    Going into the weekend where the puzzles get harder you’ll definitely need to use tags to figure things out. I wanted to make sure you’d seen that because I remember your frustration yesterday too.

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