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Liminalism (if we can christen this as a movement, and we should) is a form dedicated to the discovery of digital found art. It is important not just because of its content, but because it signals the migration of critical terminology and thinking into popular discourse in a truly democratic sense, independent of the traditional confines of the art industry as expressed in exhibitions, galleries, and museums.

This is not the language of an elitist.

If anything, it sounds like someone defending Liminalism's inclusion in the contemporary canon from arrogant elitists.

The heavily ironic implication is that they're under NDA, so they can't attest to it, while more or less attesting it. Senator, I cannot confirm or deny that we definitely do this.

This could also be an unofficial-official way for Apple to "leak" that yes, they do this--which is on brand for how Apple handles "rumors" etc.

This is just Terminator with extra steps.

They cannot envision the scenario where their AI-powered robots turn on them, or at the very least are used against them (and then inevitably turn on everyone).

M4 Pro 64GB (14 CPU / 20 GPU), Gemma 4 31B Q4_K_M GGUF, LM Studio: time to first token 0.92s, 11.56 tokens/s.

Edit: For comparison with the other poster, same setup as above, but with Gemma 4 31B Instruct 8bit MLX (not sure if exactly the same model): time to first token 4.62s, 7.20 tokens/s; with a different prompt, 1.17s and 7.24 tokens/s.

My interpretation:

First, they can't attack a WiFi access point for which they do not know any password(s). Thus your multi-SSID access point with multiple passwords is "safe" from this particular attack.

However, second, they can attack an access point for which they know any password, gaining access to clients on the other SSIDs. This means your security is now effectively only the security of your worst SSID's password. It also may defeat your purpose in having multiple SSIDs/passwords in the first place.

The "We" is short for Westinghouse, or at least it was: Westinghouse Steered Stabilized Camera Mount, thus WESSCAM. Then they dropped an "S".

Granted pronouncing the name is ambiguous, Wes-cam or We-scam. But they're known well enough in the industry at this point that it's not a problem for them.

Colima is great. However, in the upcoming macOS 26 Tahoe, and mostly in macOS 15 Sequoia, Apple is beginning to provide a first-party solution:

https://github.com/apple/container

I've been experimenting with it in macOS 15, and I was able to replace Colima entirely for my purposes. Running container images right off of Docker Hub, without Docker / Podman / etc.

(And yes, it is using a small Linux VM run under Apple's HyperKit.)

Right. Define "safe."

Personally I consider Chrome to be one of the least-safe browsers available, because it sends my data to Google. Also it perpetuates a monoculture. However, others may define "safe" differently, excluding such considerations.

This line in the article is horrifying:

The researchers were surprised that when they activated VTA dopaminergic inputs into the aBLA they could reinstate fear even without any new foot shocks, impairing fear extinction.

That... seems like the first step in being able to literally induce fear without having to bother with pesky things like finding the subject's triggers. Although I suppose if one has direct access to the subject's amygdala, the point is somewhat moot.

Still, it's sort of like a reverse wirehead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

Portability. I use YubiKeys with desktop Macs, MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones. The alternative would be to create (Secure Enclave) keys in each of those devices and register each of those keys with each thing requiring authentication... which could take a while.

I guess the alternative is something like Passkeys synchronized via iCloud Keychain. Hopefully Apple is encrypting the Passkey key material within the Secure Enclave using each other Secure Enclave's public key. Otherwise it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a Secure Enclave. (If I remove a YubiKey from a computer, I have some assurance that computer can't authenticate with YK-controlled accounts.)

The last time I checked (this may have changed), Firefox also tags the default search engines with URL query parameters indicating that the search came from Firefox. When I tried to change this it would not let me edit the default URLs. I had to add entirely-new versions of Google and DuckDuckGo, with custom names and stripped-down URLs in order to avoid the tagging.

No doubt it is revenue-related, but it's also a privacy problem.

The thing is, if I was somewhat interested in a Mozilla VPN service, this spectacularly idiotic decision to deploy full-page intrusive advertising into Firefox makes it 100% certain I will never buy the Mozilla VPN service--because, how can I trust that they won't do the equivalent to that service? What's to stop them from blocking certain sites (on the other side of the VPN) as part of some promotion? Or worse?

They've made it clear they don't believe their own language about privacy and user choice. They've compromised one product to advertise another. And perhaps worse, they doubled-down about it in Bugzilla with corporate doublespeak, which to me is the tell that they'll absolutely do it again.

It's amazing how apt the trust-thermocline analogy is.

Bitwarden is cloud-based with synchronization to local caches. If you want total control over your data with Bitwarden you will need to run the server/cloud side. I'd caution that running a Bitwarden server is not for everyone, as one could make the security worse than the Bitwarden-company-hosted cloud service.

I run Vaultwarden on my LAN, with no public/Internet facing service, and sync only on my LAN.