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ultranaut

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  • What survival myth is completely wrong and can get you killed?

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  • If you get bit by a venomous snake sucking the venom out doesn't work and is likely to make things worse.

  • What hill are you willing to die on even if no one in your life agrees with you?

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  • Keep right except to pass. The passing lane is for passing.

  • Trucker caught at B.C. border crossing smuggling bricks of opium from U.S.: CBSA

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  • That is such a weird thing to be smuggling in North America.

  • Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz

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  • It amazes me how profoundly stupid these people are. This is almost too dumb to believe. The Strait of Hormuz risk has been talked about for decades, no one at the Pentagon or NSC should be surprised right now.

  • Prewar US intel assessment found intervention in Iran wasn't likely to change leadership

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  • It is kind of funny that Iran already replaced Khomeini with another Khomeini. Except this one is extra shitty, and now also extra pissed off too.

  • Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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  • It gives you more control over when and what Google can do on the device. If you run Google software with network access you have to assume they can track you, but having it sandboxed minimizes what it can do while running and gives you more control over what it does (e.g. you can deny it network access entirely whenever you want).

  • racist ai

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  • Last I saw they have something like 900,000,000 active users with around 50,000,000 on a paid plan of some form.

  • Trump bashed for using Mar-a-Lago 'blanket fort' to monitor Iran strikes

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  • It makes him look so much older for some reason, or maybe he is just aging hard and fast these days. That he has it on at night and indoors does suggest he is using it because he is insecure about something or having some kind of issue the hat covers up.

  • What flag to fly?

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  • Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in dispute over AI safety

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  • The supply chain risk designation and threats of imprisonment are completely insane. It's effectively the corporate death penalty for Anthropic. I expect the stock market would be crashing right now if it were open.

  • He's done so many evil things that the Republicans keep him as a trophy

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  • You should look into it then, his actions will make it obvious that he is getting exactly what he deserves.

  • Does anyone else also have this weird feeling that maybe governments can already break into smartphones and this whole "we can't break into it" they tell the public is a facade?

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  • They can get into most phones for sure, and even if you have GrapheneOS in a paranoid config they can get you if they put in significant effort. They will come at the data from a direction that doesn't require compromising the phone itself if that's too much challenge. You need to think about the total attack surface, the phone itself is just one thing. Ultimately it's about what resources are necessary to get what they want, for most phones the resources are relatively minimal but also most people are not worth the resources to them.

  • Would public access to global surveillance satellites make things better?

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  • No, the biggest satellite networks are privately owned. The best aren't obviously because that stuff is all classified but there's more privately owned satellites monitoring the planet these days. There's more going up regularly too, it's a growing industry.

  • Would public access to global surveillance satellites make things better?

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  • There's already multiple satellite networks the public can hire. You can pay a company like Planet Labs or Spire Global and get access to thousands of satellites right now if that's what you want to do. It would be great if the public had access for free but it costs a lot of money to keep satellites in orbit. I think having free access would save some NGOs money but otherwise not much would change.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • It's weird to me how controversial this take is here. It seems obvious that lots of people are learning to leverage LLMs for their dev work and that this isn't going away. I'm personally skeptical we will ever get rid of human in the loop or even that we will improve output quality much from here, but I don't think either is necessary for LLM use to become standard practice in software dev.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • The output quality seems like it is already good enough for the industry so I don't think the "ouroboros" problem will stop the trend. Even if LLM-generated code quality doesn't improve at all from here they will continue to be adopted. I think the jury is still out on what impact LLMs have on learning but I do agree it is not looking good. I don't think this will stop the trend though, just potentially produce an outcome where even fewer programmers understand what they are actually doing. I can see the risk of that resulting in a scenario where the capacity to keep the LLMs going becomes lost, it seems not very probable though and that instead a kind of stagnation would take over in which the capacity for progress via software development becomes much more limited. Regardless, I don't think that the trend potentially resulting in everyone becoming too dumb to continue the trend would actually stop the trend before that failure state was reached. I think even knowing that LLMs taking over the software industry could result in the collapse of the industry is not enough to stop the people making these decisions or change the economic forces driving LLM adoption. It is a risk they are happy to take.

    Setting all of that aside, my original point was that it is becoming impossible to avoid LLM-generated code and I don't think we need LLM-generated code to become the majority of code produced for that to happen. Depending on how you want to count things we're probably already at a point where one way or another you are interacting with code that came from an LLM. I think it's probably kind of like trying to avoid AWS or Cloudflare and still use the web like a normal person, those days are gone.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • I think for too many having code that simply works is enough, and LLM-generated code quality is likely to continue improving over the coming years at least to some degree. Claude Code is already hugely popular and used at a lot of companies. I don't expect things like that to go away, they certainly won't be getting worse and currently a growing number of devs apparently find them useful enough. I think it's probably just a matter of time until the majority of devs are using tools like these at least to some extent. Do you think the trend of devs taking up LLM tools will stall out or reverse for some reason?

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • From everything I've seen, I don't think you can realistically avoid vibe coded software going forward. We're fast approaching the day when the majority of all new code is LLM output.

  • Does this look like an opportunist thief to you?

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  • Definitely suspicious behavior. It's plausible she didn't notice them, or that she noticed them but had some other intent besides theft. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions without further evidence.

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    Japanese and South Korean leaders jam to K-pop hits at a summit

    apnews.com /video/after-the-summit-leaders-of-japan-and-south-korea-loosen-up-in-a-jam-session-on-k-pop-tunes-76894f044b0b4c988c4e8fa4f8b4f672
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    We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

    www.propublica.org /article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
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    Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of misogyny and racism inside Met Police

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cvgq06d44jyo
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    Nine Bodies Turned Up at a Green Beret Outpost. What Really Happened?

    www.nytimes.com /2025/09/30/magazine/2012-green-beret-killings-nerkh-war-crimes.html
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    Missouri officers accused of pulling over women, searching phones for nude pictures

    apnews.com /article/missouri-officers-indicted-nude-photos-7f489530022d7b7664c9567ecbd4cb9b
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    Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives

    www.propublica.org /article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf
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    The Ohio Supreme Court Just Greenlit an Egregious “Fraud Upon the Voters”

    slate.com /news-and-politics/2024/09/ohio-supreme-court-voter-fraud-gop.html