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[–] nef@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

DoH is good, but it wouldn't help much in this scenario. Even if every website you connected to supported Encrypted Client Hello, IP addresses greatly narrow down which domains you're connecting to.

But realistically using DDG to generate a password is safer than downloading a local program to do it, an attacker would have to break into DDG and MITM your internet. For a local program all they have to do is compromise the site you download it from, and maybe the developer's signing key if you check that.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mostly agree except about disconnecting from the internet, classic SMS/voice calls aren't any more private than VoIP.

Your best bet for location privacy is E2E encrypted services like Signal over wifi, plus MAC randomization and a VPN on untrusted networks. I'd say GrapheneOS is good enough for most people, but mobile Linux has also come a long way.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

C and C++ use for (;;) {} as an unconditional loop.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 months ago

To their credit as of 4 years ago all their devices come with high-speed SSDs, the issue is they charge 5x market price for storage and RAM size upgrades.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why not plug a dumb dehumidifier into a Home Assistant controlled outlet?

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same goes for JS, for example the onclick attribute.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 22 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It can also include inline JS. HTML alone cannot be turing complete, but HTML+CSS is.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago

Where does it say the first ship is traveling near the speed of light?

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So you believe that Google is sharing the personal details of everyone that watches particular videos with some shady left wing cabal of pundits? Maybe it's just an inappropriate video.

They even cited the exact episode, there are plenty of other ways to see that clip if you don't want to log in. And isn't it always republicans passing laws requiring ID for "adult content"?

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 18 points 7 months ago (7 children)

If you believe that AI is "conscious" while it's processing prompts, and also believe that we shouldn't kill machine life, then AI companies are commiting genocide at an unprecedented scale.

For example, each AI model would be equivalent to a person taught everything in the training data. Any time you want something from them, instead of asking directly, you make a clone of them, let it respond to the input, then murder it.
That is how all generative AI works. Sounds pretty unethical to me.

And, by the way, we do know exactly what happens inside processors when they're running, that's how processors are designed. Running AI doesn't magically change the laws of physics.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but by your definition any thought containing any kind of language would not be "original" because it requires familiarity with the language.

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

it includes absolutely nothing that's already familiar to you

I truly do not believe that any thought exists without context, if you can find any examples I would be happy to be proven wrong.

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