Oliver Hunt
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Apparently Cerebras is distributing Stroopwafels in SF.
Unlike ASML though, they translated it to Stroopwafers.
RE: https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-176a-8998-ad16-2ac835813930
Ecco, appunto. E poi qua mi vengono a parlare di libertà di espressione. Ma andè tuti ... no disemo dove.
@elettrona il cortocircuito tra il decreto Caivano che sbatte al gabbio chi non manda i figli a scuola (ok ci vanno mandati, ma questi risolvono tutto mettendo la gente in galera?), la famiglia nel bosco che "non è compito dello Stato decidere come educare i figli" (nello zozzume a mangiare funghi velenosi e impedendo ai medici di usare un sondino perché è di plastica?), e ora voglio proprio sentire cosa si inventa per lisciare il pelo a chi non si fida dei vaccini che invece salvano bambini.
Lenstra et al. [25] perform an analysis of 11.7M public keys from a variety of sources, including SSL certificates, PGP keys, and SSH host keys.
ah, the number field sieve guy is a collector of other people's public keys
The authors find that 4% of the public keys in certificates and PGP keys share an RSA modulus, which enables recovery of the corresponding private key.
didn't even know this was a thing. shoutout to RSA
Nearly all affected public keys belong to embedded devices [15],
ah, so not websites or human beings who can contest this
and the sharing of moduli presumably results from poor entropy at key generation time (e.g., system startup).
i definitely thought it would be because RSA requires generating large prime numbers, which requires factoring large prime numbers, which means precomputing large prime numbers. but yeah sure it's probably the lack of entropy or whatever
@landley @jannem What happened next with marketing was a pivot to snake oil: first cryptocurrency miners, then LLM platforms, all of which soak up transistors like crazy. And a huge sub-population of the pyramid growth obsessives peeled off to behavioural advertising and thence to stuff that is de facto malware (only legal because if you're rich enough you can buy the laws you need to work with).
@cstross @jannem Faceboot's fraudulent "pivot to video", cambridge analytica, its app was spyware (and Onavo)...
In 2019 Zuckerberg went all in on crypto saying faceboot's "Libra" would replace the US dollar.
In 2021 he renamed faceboot after the idea of strapping a VR headset to your face to live as a floating Manananggal torso.
In 2026 he's calling LLMs the future while renting out his existing GPU hosting capacity after failing to monetize it internally.
Thrashing while drowning.
Oliver Hunt
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Flock makes a point of saying that their system can't track individuals. Wired continues to do the Lord's work, taking Flock software apart and demonstrating its new AI tool comes preloaded with prompts like "find me witness" and "find relatives."
…“So, how does it finish? Where is this atom of of copper now? It’s in recycled steel.
So it has not disappeared, but it will never ever be possible to extract it again from the steel. It’s in there. It’s like a trace element. It’s like an impurity of the new steel.
And it will generally be used in very basic uses like in the bars that we use in concrete…
…“And so you have extracted this copper one day, maybe using a child in a mine.
You have refined it.
You have made a copper cable.
And then it will finish in a steel bar in concrete infrastructure that you will never recover.“
Your hairdresser is applying chemicals to your scalp.
And we have opinions about which ones. The very strong ones.
Some substances once used in hair dyes were linked to serious health risks. So, we restricted them in the EU cosmetics market.
No public drama. Just dangerous products replaced on salon shelves by better ones.
Your colour still looks the same. The risk profile doesn’t.
— EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009: In force since 11 July 2013 + restricted substances updates
Punks not dead! 🤘
Chris [list of emoji]
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As I am missing a few followers in my instance move, it is with an actual purpose that I say:
It's my birthday, give me boosts.
Er det med uniformene irrelevant? Nei. Det handler om stil og stolthet. Noe som er umulig å oppnå slik tilstanden er i dag.
Privatisering og markedskapitalisme my ass.
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@ingeb Hei. Du må skrive neste post som et svar på forrige post for at det skal bli en tråd og lett for folk å lese hele beskjeden din :)
jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂
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Science Shared: August 22
https://www.botany.one/science-shared-august-22/
This week: Plants in water, out of water and under water, among other things.
#Botany #PlantScience
had a dream that somebody vibecoded not only an entire DAMS but also the migration pathway. you just click a button and it reads in the metadata in the old schema and an AI fills out the metadata in the new schema. accuracy not guaranteed
the worst part was that i learned about this from a fluff piece i saw on the federated timeline. and the code was being hosted in samvera-labs
A question I haven't heard yet re the current AI hype cycle, as to whether it's a grift or a serious technological step forward is this:
What's IBM doing?
In other words, how many hundreds of billions has big blue dropped on new datacentres and enterprise software tools based on LLMs?
All I can say for sure is I don't see them on isaiprofitable.com :)
@petealexharris IBM is happily selling Series Z mainframes with AI coprocessors to anyone with a workload that needs them. They'll probably lease you one in a datacentre too. And Red Hat is integrating support for LLMs into their OS products. But IBM doesn't seem to be betting the future of the company on ensloppifying their own products or building extra data centres … and they've reportedly begun hiring trainee developers again.
A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been
https://zaksa.zip/blog/formal-education-is-the-answer/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398710
#HackerNews #formaldegree #algorithmicproblemsolving #education #technology #news
A DSA comrade of my wife's recently posted this photo, taken at an anime con, to a chat group to which they both belong.
jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂
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It's trying really hard to be summer, but in usual North West Highland August fashion, failing.
Oliver Hunt
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OH: “I write my programs in Objectionable-C”
“Objective-C?”
“No”
as well as gather certificate and connection data by passively monitoring the uplink of a German research network.
"passively monitoring the uplink" is certainly one impressive euphemism
Lenstra et al. [25] perform an analysis of 11.7M public keys from a variety of sources, including SSL certificates, PGP keys, and SSH host keys.
ah, the number field sieve guy is a collector of other people's public keys
The authors find that 4% of the public keys in certificates and PGP keys share an RSA modulus, which enables recovery of the corresponding private key.
didn't even know this was a thing. shoutout to RSA
Mike Masnick
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I place a lot of value on viewpoint diversity (the real one) and on free speech (the real one). It sucks how both concepts have been hijacked to mean “everyone is under a moral obligation to elevate and disseminate discredited claims if today’s political right is into them.”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:756gaaeewovgn4axja34ajne/post/3mtodcmpf2c2c
Why are accusations of plagiarism so damaging?
https://theconversation.com/jason-arday-and-the-new-politics-of-plagiarism-290020
…“You don’t have time or the money to dismantle every object.
When you go to recycle a car, you just crush it. You remove the tires, you remove the glass, a few things, and then you crush all the metal and plastic content.
You try to split metal and plastics. And then you try to split between ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
But when you have crushed everything – with some neodymium, rare earth, copper cables, everything – they stay together and you have no way to split them…
…“So, how does it finish? Where is this atom of of copper now? It’s in recycled steel.
So it has not disappeared, but it will never ever be possible to extract it again from the steel. It’s in there. It’s like a trace element. It’s like an impurity of the new steel.
And it will generally be used in very basic uses like in the bars that we use in concrete…
