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snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
You can communicate via SMS with users of WhatsApp too genius. Do you think it's encrypted in any way?
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
The silly names for "work apps" has been a meme since at least 2022. https://x.com/gossipbabies/status/1487161069143576576
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Because a pun on "What's Up?" and "App" is so professional? Maybe I'm old but I remember a time when I though WhatsApp was an extremely silly name for a SMS replacement.
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
By following the same protocol... This has been done for ages. PGP and GPG for example.
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Wrong, wrong and wrong. If an app does real E2EE (not "marketing E2EE"), then the servers should have no control over the encryption. Otherwise it's not end-to-end, by definition. Regarding the "private non-interoperable system", the whole point of TFA is that EU made them open it up. See https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-mess... Your last "point" is irrelevant because I never claimed anything about the similarity between encryption models. Have you ever heard of a "simile"?
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Call it what you want but the fact remains that they can write a lot of laws the member countries must follow, for better or worse. GDPR, Chat Control, etc.
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Sorry to be "that guy", because I don't know the details of how WhatsApp does E2EE, but in any proper (as in secure and private) implementation the only thing that should matter is whether the client follows the spec? You might as well ask, how does $browser work with HTTPS?
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
What's wrong with the name? Some cultural reference I'm not getting?
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Actually, the linked university page [1] does claim that the "cash rent equivalent" is $274 per acre. Surprising, but I suppose farmland isn't that expensive. But unfortunately their total budget per acre is $960, 90% higher than in the AI's "budget". Assuming that it can do everything as efficiently and cheaply as an experienced human farmer, such as harvesting all 5 acres in 14 hours of labor.

[1] https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/html/a1-20.html
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I don't know anything about farming, but the budget seems extremely dubious. 1370 on the lease, 350 on "IoT sensors" and "soil testing" (why?), but only 800 on "Custom Operator", which I'm assuming is supposed to be the labor, for seven months (apr-oct). So that's an average budget of 114 dollars on labor per month. For minimum wage that buys you 15 hours of work. Is this all a big trolling attempt aimed at HN users?
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I mean, it hasn't even "decided" whether it's going for "Iowa, Texas or Cordoba, Argentina". Just look at the files in the repo, it's looking an awful lot like those AI transcripts where somebody's "discovered a new kind of physics". https://github.com/brightseth/proof-of-corn/blob/main/proof-...
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Remember the website is entirely AI-built; it's not surprising it's promising a bunch of stuff it's not actually delivering.
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I mean, it's probably worse to pretend to be an actual customer, rather than sending some random message. The AI's obviously never going to actually lease any land, so all its doing is convincingly wasting their time. At least landlords are often quite unsympathetic, so it's probably fine to waste their time a bit.
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I mean, nobody needs LLMs to program. Being banned may be a blessing in disguise, like being cut off at a bar, or banned from a casino.
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
> How is thinking different from electricity?

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snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Well yes, but that accomplishes the goal of not working for free. Either you get money for your work, or your users move on, freeing you of the burden of supporting the software.
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
> That 20ms is a smoking gun - it lines up perfectly with the mysterious pattern we saw earlier!

Speaking of smoking guns, anybody else reckon Claude overuses that term a lot? Seems anytime I give it some debugging question, it'll claim some random thing like a version number or whatever, is a "smoking gun"
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
> This is software support, it is a job, it should be paid.

What's stopping any open source maintainer from charging for their work?
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
It's a neat program, but what's the use for JPGs and PNGs?
snowmobile
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
It's a cool publicity stunt for Anna's, and perhaps the hackers responsible for getting the data simply wanted to show it off and leave Spotify with some egg on their face. I know I wouldn't be able to stop myself from publishing it if I was in their position, foolish as it may be.