treebeard901

National fusion centers collect all kinds of data... If the US has even a remote interest in you, they know where you are at all times. They will be in all of your devices. Services. Banking. Etc.

It is just a search away... I really believe even technically minded people do not fully understand the scale and scope of it. And it gets more intrusive every day...

Even the recent Supreme Court ruling on geofencing wont go very far in limiting this form of collection.

It is all archived too. So even if today youre not on the radar, you might be in the future. With this historical view into someones life, you can find a criminal in anyone...

Financial cost is one if the many ways the Government intentionally limits your access to your ability to uphold your rights.

Yeah as soon as the early reporting came out about the use of LLMs during the operation, it kind of made sense thinking through how a target like that could be selected. The LLM is going to use variations of clustering algorithms, calculated centrality scores for all the targets, and tried to find a location where they were all in the same place at the same time (for bombing purposes)... It just so happens there are only a few schools that the Iranian elite have their children attend. And without the context of a human seeing the target and knowing it's a school, well, that's how you get this result.

At least in the Terminator, etc, there is debate about building skynet and giving it control... In reality it's just like yeah go ahead let it loose.

The powers that be are concerned about AI disrupting all the corruption.

Dont forget about Waymo and similar. As much surveillance as flock.

One of the billionaires on the All In Podcast, (which I listen to sometimes to get that kind of perspective), mentioned that one thing the U.S. and China could work on as far as regulating AI, is Know Your Customer controls. At first after one of the hosts said this I didn't think much of it but then started thinking through the second order effects later on. Why would that be such a main concern? He gave the example of dangerous people using AI to do bad things, but I think the subtext is much more complicated. At least from the ownership class point of view. Which also ties into the original idea behind OpenAI. Which is that the public should have access to the full abilities of any model equally. But the ownership class can't have this. In another post someone made a good point about licenses and this can be extended to stuff like the legal system, where at the end of the day the personal human connections decide things far more than what a model would compute the result of a case to be...

So because so much of maintaining the forms of power and order within the wealthy class has been reliant on information, and again the legal example can be used here because if you hire a lawyer, you're largely paying for information and access. Now the powers that be to compete with open information have to make the access side of the equation much more important to maintain the status quo with such a disruptive technology. And that is another layer of the need for being able to say, degrade a Chinese model if a U.S. citizen the Govt doesn't like is trying to bypass the restrictions implemented on them using models made in the U.S.

In other words, KYC is about restoring the historical aspect of needing money to have information. And there is a class warfare aspect to looking at it that way.

If Tim Apple can't beg China for more while in Beijing then I guess they need to port SoftRAM 95 to OSX.

I could just play someone else's record and pretend like I made it

How many "DJs" today could even find two records that they could key and beat match? Then physically mix them on the turntables with no software or sync buttons? AI is just going to make this worse...

California and other western states could see 1970s style rationing and increasing prices within the next few weeks...

Just go ahead and upload your companies valuable source code to our model so we can eventually replicate your business... Or I mean, uh, protect you from hackers. Yeah.

Most phones are not really off when shut down with the battery still inside. It is still responding to E911 services and other forms of tracking. I know this will try to be debunked that if the phone is off, there is no power or communication to the various radios and transmitters. But there are different power states depending on your phone and firmware. You're only really "off the grid" when the battery is removed or you have a faraday bag.

Turning into an odd form of a take over. Basically renting it for 3 months to let Tim Heidecker do a few shows??

I'm concerned they won't know what to do without Alex. Already going back over shows from 2006...

With memory prices what they are maybe there is a business opportunity for a return of SoftRAM 95

Being able to remove your phone battery also stops all tracking and surveillance for that device. If that sort of thing matters to you.

San Francisco seems, after only living here two years, to be a city kind of in a cold war with itself. I think the Broligarch Tech crowd is fighting with the progressives and in many ways the progressives are losing and do not realize it. I am not using these terms in their strict political meaning either. Much more extended to cultural aspects. I know it is also much more than just those two subcultures but they are the two most dominate.

Makes me wish I could've experienced the 1960s San Francisco or even the 90s SF. Tech and tech money just rots the soul of an area.

The powers that be do not want any code being run that hasn't been approved by a central authority. The same applies to running any code that is not authenticated to an actual person backed by some form of ID. Facial, drivers license, phone number, etc. to a central authority. The financial interests also want to force the advertising system on everyone and side loaded apps like new pipe and others threaten the monopoly.

It is about much more than just owning a device.

For criminal matters, the Govt will be so far into your phone and accounts, that unless you meet your lawyer in a faraday cage, you have no real attorney client privilege. Zoom attorney calls, cell phone calls, in person meetings with devices in the room... Using cloud connected systems to draft your legal defense... All of it is monitored and a form of parallel construction is done to use the information learned against you in ways that shape the case in the Govts favor before you even get to court. Just another use of the surveillance state.

Check if he teleported to a waffle house

How much of the Internet is like Moltbook where you don't know the other users are bots? Does the private sector or Government control them? ... How long has it been this way??

Yes everything is a psyop

The only thing people in power want more than money is more power. So if you ever hear they stopped authorizing these programs, it just means a more secret and powerful one replaced it behind the scenes.

Once wealthy and powerful people realize how this can be used to track them they will start cracking down. One of many examples for how underrated access to location data is for unauthorized people, it is a primary way that the military locates and kills targets in foreign countries. It is surprising all of the data is so freely available with data brokers. Or in some cases from the app companies themselves, if you're willing to make it worth the trouble for them.

Only a matter of time before ChatGPT of the future sends a terminator back in time to protect and/or stop him...

America used to be great. Can someone make it that way again?

All of the pirated Adobe installs require host file changes to redirect the license calls to local or nonexistent IPs. Maybe by Adobe adding this, it enables them to track pirated installs, since presumably the new host entry would reestablish the creative cloud connection...

Would be interesting to hear if any previously working cracked installs were broken...

Artemis II is scheduled for re-entry to Earth on April 10th. That is when the heat shield issue will be the most dangerous.

If it fails and the mission fails with loss of life while knowing it went ahead despite the IG report about the heat shield... It might be the end of NASA.

Hopefully it will return safely.

Maybe the hackers will release information connecting Patel to the Noem and Lewandowski grift operations with govt contracts. Out of the four companies allowed to bid for the $220 million advertising contract, 3 were linked to Noem and Lewandowski and one to Patel.

Im sure they are all doing it...

China, Iran and Russia can vastly out produce missle interceptors. Drones, hypersonics, etc.

They can also manufacture launchers faster and cheaper than they can be countered. $30k drone vs interceptor at millions.

The U.S. and Israel will not accept the current regime staying in power.

Neither side wants to stop the war. Israel, Europe, the U.S., gulf states and others in missile range of Iran will not want the current regime to remain in power.

What happens next? Full invasion? Regime change Iraq style??

Here is a highly probable outcome before next year. Iran continues breaking the Iron Dome and firing on "allied" targets and infrastructure. The U.S.refuses or cant sustain a full invasion (because it is a death trap).

What happens next? It is obvious Israel will use tactical nukes on Tehran and other targets in Iran. It is going to be their only option.

Location data is arguably more important than financial or medical data. Atleast in a context where someone is after you. Thanks to bribery and data brokers, it doesnt have to be anyone in Govt or LE tracking you. Collect certain identifiers from a device or account and you can track almost anyone. Financial and medical data access is certainly bad, but your location data can be used to orchestrate a stalking campaign or a murder in a deniable way.

It is why after the U.S. kills or captures some foreign leader, they brag about figuring out their routes and daily habits. It is not a stretch to say that it could also be done, and probably has before, in the U.S.

Extreme penalities should be put in place for any location data access without a court order... And your location should never be allowed to be sold or shared with any non court approved third party. It really is that serious and if the public had the bandwidth to be concerned over another issue, maybe something would change.

Who knows, maybe all the public needs to take it seriously are some real life examples of location data being used illegally...

Theocratic states based on a concept of superiority with a delusional belief in biblical armageddon should never be allowed to have weapons capable of turning that delusion into reality.