johnnyApplePRNG

Pegasus spyware operations cost something like $500k a pop, last I checked.

If you're using off-the-shelf "hidden" encrypted volume schemes, you're not going to be evading state-level adversaries;

This would evade 99% of them.

Most "state-level" adversaries are just high school dropouts working border jobs told to "investigate suspicious things".

I once had a police officer literally raid my room for drugs during a massive party we were throwing in university, for example.

They took everything. They found everything. Everything except for the $1,000 piece of drug paraphernalia I had sitting right out in open view in the middle of the apartment... the Volcano vaporizer.

It didn't look like anything they had seen before so they didn't think anything of it.

Same would be true with this USB drive in 99% of border crossing privacy invasions... plug in USB, ask for password, read it/copy it/whatever... they're not taking it apart and performing open heart surgery on a $5 USB drive at the border.

They might throw it out... or keep it or something... sure... but in general... this is a hell of a lot better than a regular USB drive imho.

Incompetent bureaucrats strike again.

News at 11.

Careful with those, they expire.

I just had one randomly delete the other day.

No, they don't apply it :/

I've always found the idea of song or sound ownership ridiculous.

Nobody can "own" a song that I've enjoyed and listened to in my own head.

That's my own experience.

And if I want to have that experience again at any point in the future, I sure as shit should not have to shell out money to some record producer (or band member, whoever has their hand out) to do so.

If you want to make music, make music.

If I want to listen, I'll listen.

If I see them in person and I feel like paying to see them, I will.

Apparently it's funded by your friendly neighbor.

I've used and promoted Signal for years and I've recently become suspicious of them and their funding as well after looking into starting my own encrypted communications app.

It's not cheap sending dozens or hundreds of megabytes of video files or whatever ... whenever the user feels like it, mind you ... with a monetization strategy that's literally simply hoping that donations will cover it?

That's insane.

I thought the number was going to be like 5 or 7 blogs remaining after 4 years... 21 actually seems pretty healthy, given general blogevity imho.

They're already itching to throw space-lasers into orbit. [0]

I wish I was joking.

[0] https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-900854

Everything about this product looks terrible.

Must operate on a perfectly flat surface. My roomba could probably handle a larger carpet curb than that top-heavy thing.

Head and eyes appear to be at human crotch level for some reason... gross.

What a waste of engineering talent.

I feel like I just read a complete subchapter of the bible. Impressive writing. Keep it up.

Hopefully one day AI will design away the need for popups and other-things-that-prevent-you-from-reading-the-damn-article.

Doesn't it strike anyone as strange that SOL, TERRA, and LUNA are all quasi-scam crypto tickers?

No group is more paranoid than a den of thieves.

The amount of times I have had to spend tokens to attempt (in futility) to convince a proprietary model that the request I asked it to perform on code that I wrote is safe/legal/moral is insane.

Part of me wants to believe they really do care about protecting the world from... something... I don't know quite what exactly tbh... but it must be costing them a small fortune to scan each input and output against N guardrails and they are a for-profit corporation who could easily turn a blind eye to all of this and simply say "what you do with this model is on you" like I would expect most corporations to.

Strange times.

I mean why not, right? The trains are moving anyways.

brings me back, man

I remember sitting there submitting my geocities website to every search engine and website that would accept it under the sun

good times

Is it, though?

I'd argue math is significantly more complex than language.

It's crazy that apparently doing math without knowing how to do long division by hand is normal now.

unquantised -> FP8 is pretty much lossless

Claude Shannon is rolling in his grave.

Incredible innovation.

Wouldn't want to be drinking whatever this produces in the GTA though lol

Excellent idea, I see a few issues though.

First, your server is struggling. It took about 20+ seconds to respond just now, FYI.

Second, it's not obvious to me that I can get my money back if something doesn't pan out / get approved by a certain date from the homepage alone. That might make people hesitant to put anything in if they think it might get locked in there forever if the site dies / you take it down / etc.

Yea honestly... the only truths I care about in AI LLM aided devlopment right now is that Claude is a much better planner, and Codex is a much more professional coder.

You can mask a surprisingly amount of terrible coding with proper design planning.

If it works, who cares, right? That's been the status quo for software development for about as long as I can remember, unfortunately.

I used to get frustrated with Codex. I felt as though it wasn't able to see far enough ahead into the future and just intuit what I expected (which is how Claude leaves you feeling).

And then I realized a lot of those intuitions Claude was having were great, and the project progressed, but sometimes to a point that Claude himself was unable to take back control of it... because some of the on the spot decisions it was making were great quick-thinking... but unfortunately, they were only that a lot of the time. Which was the most frustrating of all.

If you specifically ask Claude to plan out and refine a long term project's roadmap though and stick to it, it could probably write an operating system overnight (that kindof worked).

That first image there ... that does NOT strike me like the futuristic view I think their marketers thought it might.

It looks like two ugly regular cars covered in ad-hoc cameras and sensors like they're overengineering for something they don't truly understand.

Instead, the safeguards will limit effectiveness through methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT).

Am I to understand that this is essentially their form of social-platform ghosting instead of banning?

So they're not even going to tell you that the question you're asking is against their rules, they're just going to twist up your question and/or the answer somehow such that you waste your time essentially?

It seems like I ran into this EXACT same functionality from Claude many months ago when I was trying to ask it to research on the web and help me setup the ideal llama.cpp config for local llm inference.

Funny how lost it got through that relatively simple install when we had all of the documentation in the world (and a human dev with 20+ years experience guiding it along) to go by... and simultaneously it's debugging and building high level cryptography code in rust in the other terminal tab.

This is infuriating to learn.

re "Unmetered intelligence" goal of Microshaft.

Of course it is...

This is Windows-Licensing-Level Money Opportunity 2.0.

OURA is a joke. My GF bought two for us and after a week I made her return them due to non stop dark patterns coming out of that company.

Everything about that company is disgusting.

Such a shame, too. I was eager to learn more about my health.

To give the guise of "serious investment about to take the company back towards a course of profitability and numba go up" of course.

This REEKS of /r/wallstreetbets manipulation... I vote to remove it entirely.

Nobody is buying spirit air... a bunch of gamblers just want to pump the price monday morning.

The resource waste he's talking about is horrendous, read more here: https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/

Nowhere near the power of ChatGPT 5.4 Pro imho... thought for maybe 15 seconds on a problem that pro would have spend 15 minutes on... and the results really show :/