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  • MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow

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  • IDK. It puts them at the forefront of this fight.

    If governments successfully prosecute distro maintainers (if they can) for this, then distro maintainers are liable.And distro maintainers would then have to pursue non-compliant users to cover that liability, or fold.Which is a huge loss for open source.

    Or, there would be a huge legal fight and it turns out that the licence of a distro protects it from its users actions.Which would be awesome and a massive win. It also makes sense. Nobody is suing an OS maintainer because it was used for a data breach.And then the governments have to pursue the actual users. Which... is gonna be useless wrt these laws

  • ‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet

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  • Yeh, but once they have all the big companies complying then they can go after the little guys.And if, at any point, a little guy becomes problematic then they can fuck them over with compliance violations.

    So yes. Just use services that don't require ages verification.But once they become large enough or problematic enough, they will get the book thrown at them

  • Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane

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  • I dunno if a "cheap drone" can produce the same magnetic response that a fucking cargo ship can, but it seems extremely unlikely.

    And what, you have 2 in the water ahead of you? Is that enough for it to be clear for a cargo ship? They function perfectly all the time and catch every single mine?What happens when 1 finds a mine? How many extras do you carry? What happens when you run out, "just turn around"?

    Drones could probably clear a shipping channel, but at some point and actual ship is going to have to go through it.And the suez canal was blocked for ages due to 1 ship, even after having been operated for decades. That, except the ship sinks.

  • The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months

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  • Sounds like there needs to be some sort of efficiency department set up

  • Oil surges above $110 a barrel; Trump says 'small price to pay' for defeating Iran

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  • Any trump "I did that" stickers showing up?

  • Dodge Ram truck is illegally parked on Bryant Ave S protected bikelane, Minneapolis.

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  • Also can't comprehend the "protected" bike lane.It just looks like more road

  • ‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war

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  • Do the level-headed Christians do anything about the non-level-headed Christians?Cause that's what ACAB is about

  • Iran says gamma irradiation center heavily damaged in latest US-Israeli attack - Türkiye Today

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  • WMDs, clearly developing nuclear weapons to target not-yet-conceived babies (because the US doesn't give a fuck about actually birthed babies. Just that every single potential baby is actually birthed).

    ChatGPT probably saw "nuclear" in some Google search and prioritised it as a target.

  • ‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war

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  • Maybe it's unchristian to be christian?Like, suicide bombers justifying innocent deaths because "if they were true believers, god would protect them. And if they are truly innocent believers then they get their paradise afterlife"...As if (let's say all of this is actually true) 1 person gaining eternal bliss because they were collateral doesn't absolutely fucking ruin so many other lives dealing with that loss.

    It's all so selfish and self centered

  • Mozilla partners with Anthropic to perform security audits on firefox

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  • for more context as to why this is not that good of an idea as it may seem - please look at curl project and barrage of false security reports made. and curl is a cli project which just handles many protocols, and does not practically do any processing. firefox and any modern browser is basically a operating system and even a hardware (in forms of wasm allowing you to run arbitrary assembly written in systems programming language).

    The difference is that anthropic did due diligence. They narrowed their scope as a research project to just the JS engine. They then fully vetted 1 issue, had a complete minimum-test-case that would reporoduce the issue, then contacted Mozilla with it.Mozilla then said "send over the rest, vetted or not", who then vetted them all.Mozilla's findings with the bugs found by Claude were fed back to anthropic to hone the model.

    So, it's completely different that someone yeeting a codebase into an LLM and reporting whatever it spewed out.Anthropic required Claude to actually produce an example exploit of it. And it REALLY struggled to do this. But it did get there eventually, for 1 bug. Which they then reported.Even then, the exploit was in the JS engine. It wouldn't have escaped the sandbox to actually be an issue. Classic defence-in-depth

    Shitty use of AI is fucking horrible. It wastes resources, it wastes time, it wastes energy.I think this is a responsible use of an LLM in limited scope to produce an actually useful result.

  • archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (and more)

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  • Archive.today - a service about preserving internet history - tampering with content shows that they can tamper with content and are willing to tamper with content.Archive.today has reduced their own value to 0.

    Regardless of any other drama here.Archive.today has been caught tampering with content it is archiving.

  • ‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war

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  • You know ACAB?I think All Christian Are Bastards as well.

    In the same way the whole "a bar with a single nazi having a drink is a nazi bar" saying goes, and the whole "a rotten apple spoils the bushel"...Religions should be the same.

  • Trump administration has still not settled on reasons for going to war with Iran

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  • Missing Letter

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  • Hdppy

  • Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent

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  • "It's just the data we need to protect our business. It's legitimate interest, I promise"

  • The Terrifying Revelation About Trump’s Strike on Iran Girls’ School

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  • You're telling me recon of the area never showed kids playing outside the building?!What are they using, Google fucking maps?

  • Why are you like this?

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  • And it's still faster for my linux install to boot.LUKS password for disk encryption, then user login to a usable desktop with network connectivity.Windows takes ages to get to a login screen (bitlocker is disabled, so no decryption excuse), logging in is a breeze with fingerprint reader (certainly faster than typing in a password), then it sits there for ages looking like it's ready to be used, but the network stack isn't ready and it is just unusable until that comes up.

    I'm so happy when I get a day of just working in Linux.It just... Works.

  • Why are you like this?

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  • I've had one issue in the past year and a half, dual booting from the same NVMe.After fixing the boot partition issues from a liveUSB, the actual solution was disabling fast-boot.It's been solid for a year now.

    But I always shutdown my laptop when I'm not using it. And any windows updates that require restarts, I make sure it fully reboots into windows again.

  • Sorry, can't do scarves.

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  • As part of the "climbing out of the ground" cutscene, the demon roars with firey breath... Which burns off the scarf.