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natebc

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Whimsy and the Literacy Crisis [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by natebc·5 days ago·1 comments

FMS – A Groovebox for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance

lo-bit.club
2 points·by natebc·2 months ago·1 comments

Mike's Weather Page

spaghettimodels.com
2 points·by natebc·4 months ago·0 comments

Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

securelist.com
384 points·by natebc·5 months ago·192 comments

OpenTTD 15.0

openttd.org
45 points·by natebc·6 months ago·1 comments

From Silicon to Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]

media.ccc.de
3 points·by natebc·6 months ago·1 comments

A primer for using weather surveillance radar to study bird migration

birdcast.info
34 points·by natebc·10 months ago·0 comments

comments

natebc
·12 hours ago·discuss
I estimated about 6 quid. We left £3300 behind because 3300 1-lb bags of sugar only costs £1800.

;) I like these easy breezy Late Friday threads!
natebc
·14 hours ago·discuss
Well that's what ... 300 or so pints?
natebc
·14 hours ago·discuss
Megagrams?? I like it.
natebc
·14 hours ago·discuss
well that's just £3300 then, yeah?
natebc
·yesterday·discuss
Only the rightists do and among them really only the loud redfaced ones.
natebc
·2 days ago·discuss
Didn't Steve Bannon do a tour in Europe recently to dispense some of his strategy?

This smells like him, honestly.
natebc
·3 days ago·discuss
Oh i've worked with plenty. Maybe they knew more than they let on but they were (and are) convinced that every little belch is a full on attack.

I know their day to day is just as mundane as the rest of ours it's their "Step 1" approach that i've seen to be entirely different. I assume it's probably a software bug, they assume it's an exploit.
natebc
·3 days ago·discuss
It's because you (like me) aren't quite as paranoid as security people are. Personally I couldn't sleep at night if I was security people.

It's really a matter of context. Security people tend to only be involved when things are already nefarious where as boring old normal people like us see get to see the mundane everyday mistakes so not just the nefarious bits.
natebc
·4 days ago·discuss
It claims to be backed by (and require) apple/containers(1) which "consumes and produces OCI-compatible container images" so if all that is true .... yes!

1) https://github.com/apple/container
natebc
·5 days ago·discuss
Really it's the only way to win at gambling.
natebc
·5 days ago·discuss
"... moving truth from the realm of objectivity to the realm of subjectivity."

Admittedly this is not typical HN faire but Ash talks about the impact of "the algorithm" and impact on the parlance of truth.

Plus she's very entertaining.
natebc
·5 days ago·discuss
close, but not quite. I suppose in the way that originally set him off, yes.

It looks like they're using the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license so restricting commercial use which I think would run afoul of the purists definition of Freedom?

It's a cool printer, and I'd much rather have something like this!
natebc
·6 days ago·discuss
Where I live (Durham, NC) Google Fi's MNO is T-Mobile so they're effectively the same.
natebc
·9 days ago·discuss
i knew it was a little while after WWII (college history was long, long ago!) but didn't realize it was ... 1975-1977!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democrac...
natebc
·9 days ago·discuss
This is the bit in the copyright offices' report that i'm trying to square:

>The Office concludes that, given current generally available technology, prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...
natebc
·9 days ago·discuss
> Your AI slop is effectively public domain.

I haven't been able to square this belief (This is what i believe too.) with what I perceive as so, so many people making projects, putting them on github and slapping an MIT/GPL license on them.

If IP rights can't be applied to generated code then how are they able to apply a such a license to them?

I've asked this before and the response was along the lines of people thinking their multiple prompting amounted to human creative process and therefore it was covered but ... how? Any lawyers around that can ELI5 it for us? Maybe links to a lawyer somewhere who did?
natebc
·10 days ago·discuss
it's not your bike that he stole.
natebc
·13 days ago·discuss
I'm pretty sure the Optimization part is just ... not present at all.

This is how we get LLM summaries presenting something mentioned once by some nutjob in a reddit thread as bona fide FACT
natebc
·13 days ago·discuss
The Uber guy? Yeah that was a painful watch.
natebc
·23 days ago·discuss
Who knows. I'm sure it was pretty expensive. Was certainly more comfortable on that side of their legal desk though I'm sure.