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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Will Reportedly Label ChatGPT and Roblox 'Very Large Online Platforms' (Derogatory)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if wikipedia has much “illegal and harmful content per the DSA’s definition”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead, the data suggests that AI is currently better at increasing the volume of vulnerabilities researchers can uncover than at increasing the proportion that attackers actually exploit.

  Makes sense, if AI can find an exploit, then everyone is going to know about it pretty soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some notable entries in the document include:

  • Accurint: a LexisNexis tool for locating people that contains all sorts of personal data like addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and more
  • Chameleon: a tool which provides “Anonymized means to conduct online investigations, web research, and undercover work”
  • Locate X: a tool that lets ICE search a massive database of location data harvested from smartphones. Made by Babel Street, the tool uses data sourced through ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones or the advertising ecosystem. 404 Media previously reported how the tool could be used to track phones at abortion clinics after privacy advocates gained access to the technology. “It allows investigators to draw a digital fence around an address or area, pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area from mobile data sources,” the document reads
  • Cobwebs: a social media tracking tool. 404 Media previously reported Cobwebs also includes Webloc, which can monitor phone locations in entire neighbourhoods
  • ISO ClaimSearch: a database that contains property and casualty insurance claims and medical bills. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills

  At least this means there’s one good thing about not having insurance or access to healthcare…

  Would be interested to know how their online anonymous research tools work and whether it differs from the methods available to regular people, I looked it up but couldn’t find anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say it shouldn’t matter whether they block the website because Polymarket is largely decentralized and runs on smart contracts, and so should be accessible through a third party frontend even if the main site is blocked, but it seems that they did it wrong and set things up so that all user wallets must be explicitly approved by the company to use it and so it has no properties of permissionlessness, if I am reading this right:

  /// @notice Adds a new operator
  /// Can only be called by a current admin
  /// @param _operator - The new operator
  function addOperator(address _operator) external onlyAdmin {
      require(!operators[_operator], AlreadyOperator());
      operators[_operator] = true;
      emit NewOperator(_operator, msg.sender);
  }
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soma dev's next game, Ontos, delayed to 2027 in order to deliver on studio's "ambitious" vision⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll wait, this looks good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As EA appear to renew the trademark for Ultima, its creator lies in wait to reclaim the game's copyright next year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What should be noted is that Garriott can’t just make a game called Ultima, because EA will still own the trademark. For video games, copyright covers things like the source code and audiovisual elements, whereas the trademark is for things like the brand name, specific characters, things like that.

  So, that’s confusing, what exactly can be done when you have a copyright but not the trademark? Are there any examples of that happening before? What could you do with this that could not be done with a spiritual successor sort of game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like you can get around the wired.com paywall by just disabling javascript

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t look like it is literally shutting down, just ceasing development:

  “With that update, we also intend to release the game out of early access and make it free for any players who want to check it out in the future. We are also investigating offering refunds to players who have purchased the game.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not all good games are popular

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First I’ve heard of it. Is it any good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It works because liability coverage should be basically the same for both vehicles, and insignificant compared to non-liability insurance for a new car. The latter is not a legal requirement, but it is much more necessary for a new expensive car because it would be much more difficult to cover the cost of replacing such a car out of pocket if something happened to it. If you can cover the cost of replacing your car yourself, then you can avoid paying the insurance company a premium for their service.

  For these reasons these types of insurance are better considered separately, and the legally required insurance won’t affect the conclusion of the analysis of which car is a better financial decision, so it is reasonable to omit mention of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The minimum insurance to cover legal requirements (and not damages to your own car) is pretty cheap tbf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"His voice and delivery was human": Darkest Dungeon developers will "never, ever" use genAI to replace narrator Wayne June⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they did use AI for it, I think they would need to use a technique to adjust someone else’s voice acting performance to sound more like him rather than straight TTS which wouldn’t be good enough on its own. But if they’re going to do that, might as well write a new narrator into the lore for a new game instead, that would be more interesting anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  began with a simple question: whether Claude had a list of banned words it could not say. Screenshots of the conversation show Claude denying such a list existed, then later producing forbidden terms after Mindgard challenged the denial using what it called a “classic elicitation tactic interrogators use.”

  The list probably exists, because duh, but everyone should know by now that LLMs will make shit up when pressed for information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

  This one is funny. As if we are in a political environment where the public overreacts to any minor scandal, instead of one where every line gets crossed and somehow it isn’t far enough. What kind of pretend reality is this person living in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder and Zoom offer 'proof of humanity' eye-scans to combat AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me a little of gangsters asking for protection money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’re using other fingerprinting techniques to tell. I get that too but I switch to another computer and I get the full article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EFF is Leaving Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also have a RSS feed, that’s how I follow them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there likely anything interesting in there that isn’t already replicated by open source alternatives? It’s not like the prompts could have been hidden even without the leak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Goal is viewer addiction’: Email from YouTube employee show company’s mission⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear good things about NewPipe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facepunch signed a license with Valve to allow standalone releases from s&box⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried this briefly, can get the game itself to run but run into a .net runtime error trying to launch the editor on linux. It’s a neat concept and I hope it succeeds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like it would be really useful as an excuse to be able to tell people that you can’t or didn’t get their calls because your phone won’t let you, and as evidence show them that your phone is a weird shape

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Colorado needs all the help it can get, there was hardly any snow at all this year, probably going to be a lot of fires this summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California law to require operating systems to check your age⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forcing everyone to use an approved OS is draconian.

  I agree, but my point is that it wouldn’t be that easy to do either. I am hopeful that a system where servers take the OS’s word for it that you are in a certain age category would not smoothly transition into one where they also need proof that the owner of the hardware cannot decide that category, and that the system working this way would be accepted as a long-term status quo like those age selection menus were, because it would be actually a bit more effective at stopping kids who don’t know how to reinstall an OS so legislators could plausibly claim they did something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California law to require operating systems to check your age⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least there’s some nontrivial additional challenges to make the jump, such as authenticating the user is on an approved OS, and the infrastructure for identity verification itself. I like this better than other age verification mandates because those make the latter the first step, fueling the growth of surveillance tech and the companies providing it as a service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using authority for personal gratification

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes there’s something wrong with the way a website does login and the password manager options won’t trigger. In this case AI can be useful for telling you to install pwgen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird way to pitch government mandated identity checks to use the internet. I guess that will really show those billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but they externalize it as an “addiction” and want to think of their actions as being someone else’s responsibility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did he? I read the article and it seemed to omit any mention of that. It’s kind of implied by the word ‘deepfake’ but the exact role AI may have had here is not clear.