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Could NC be sued for its new age verification porn bill? | Charlotte Observer
It sounds terribly like North Carolina legislators jumped onto the age verification bandwagon with even less understanding of the technology and impact than the UK government equivalent debate. This is astonishing. “We want to keep minors off of X-rated websites,” Hardister said. “And the way it’s written now is that the web provider is expected…
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Two ways of dealing with “algorithmic rage-bait…”
I’m with Linus on this:
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People on Threads griping about “rage bait” & algorithmic curation of feeds makes me think we need a new version of “Hanlon’s Razor”
Something like: “Never ascribe to capitalism nor incompetence that which can be adequately explained by poor source material quality and excessive public expectations of capability and control.”
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Roy Longbottom Pits 1976’s Cray-1 Supercomputer Against the Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computer Range
Frankly, I am still a little surprised how close the margin was. https://www.hackster.io/news/roy-longbottom-pits-1976-s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-152bbe2d4111
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Niklaus Wirth has died
He will goto a better place. I’m sure he will be as unhappy about it as the rest of us.
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The I in LLM stands for intelligence | …excellent post by the Curl guy re: LLMs and Credibility
For some reason nobody writing alarmist “Artificial Intelligence Is A National Security Issue…” content mentions “…because it can make lazy / crazy people seem credible…” as an issue, presumably for fear that politicians consider that a feature, not a bug. In this particular report, the user helpfully told us that they used Bard to find…
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“The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet…” | Nikita Bier
This is a lot more realistic than most takes you’ll ever read on the matter. Saving you a click: The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we…
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Via @tychotithonus@infosec.exchange a novel idea: maybe it’s about time we started talking honestly about what had to be done to combat Y2K to diffuse the disinformation about it
Smart idea: The hardest part about refuting Y2K disinfo is how many problems were fixed quietly, in part to mitigate risk of ligitation (negligence, etc.). People have stories they can’t tell. At this point, I think enough years have passed that a formal amnesty – to encourage companies to disclose just how bad some of…
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Via @ollie_whitehouse@infosec.exchange I came across @punkxorg who built a boardgame to teach his kid ARM assembly, and wondered: Does anyone play Corewars any more?
So Ollie posted a tweet linking to the below tweet — which is itself very cool — but reading about the game sparked memory of CoreWars, something I haven’t thought about in 20+ years. In case you’re unaware, it’s basically “Robot Wars in Cyberspace”: Core Wars is a perfect game for the pentester-inclined: two players…