I spend half my reading time on sites which offer free books of reasonable quality and more than novel length, for example First Contact at reddit/r/hfy. Publishers can't compete with that

It doesn't sound too bad to me. After facing the need to bypass this California will end up with millions of kids with at least some awareness of information security, DNS, VPNs, and so on.

Maybe it's a vicious circle of higher prices leads to lower volume? I like to buy a book at a nearby bookstore, but they have a limited selection of my kind of books and also charge the suggested retail price. If they offered better selection and reasonable prices I would buy four times as much from them. And it's the only book store within 25 or 30 kilometers.

I didn't say possible. I said practical. Strong crypto is hard. Secure key exchange is hard.

Governments have been breaking codes for as long as we have had codes.

LK

Even the most professional of officers would be tempted if he was was cheating on him or if someone delivered a credible threat to the safety of his children.

The best way to prevent this kind of abuse is to make it impossible.

LK

Edward Snowden showed that this is not as true as you seem to think it is.

LK

Then, let them serve the warrant.

What is different is that for the first time in human history, it's not only possible but it's practical to have encrypted communications that no one can access except for the intended recipient.

All of "the most heinous of crimes" take place in the real world, there is some physical action that can be detected and punished. I don't care if this makes the job of law enforcement harder. I want law enforcement to be a difficult and time consuming job. Idle and bored cops tend to find ways to fill their time and it's never good.

LK

I've been thinking about adding solar panels to my house. I would love if I could get a federal subsidy to do it. However, just like with my student loan forgiveness, I'm NOT giving Biden my vote in exchange.

LK

The North Korean government will never reform if connections to the West are withheld at every opportunity. I, for one, applaud business connections with NK, even though they fund an evil agenda. In the long term it can only help.

Every change looks like corruption in the eyes of people who don't like it.

And corruption looks like evolution to some people.

Personally, I'm in favor of words meaning as much of the same thing over time as possible. It enhances communication and understanding. If you need a new meaning, you either need a new word or you need to explain yourself at a bit more length. Lest you "decimate" (cough) the listener's/reader's understanding... you get me?

LLMs cannot do it. Hallucination is baked-in.

LLMs alone definitely can't do it. LLMs, however, seem (to me, speaking for myself as an ML developer) to be a very likely component in an actual AI. Which, to be clear, is why I use "ML" instead of "AI", as we don't have AI yet. It's going to take other brainlike mechanisms to supervise the hugely flawed knowledge assembly that LLMs generate before we even have a chance to get there. Again, IMO.

I'd love for someone to prove me wrong. No sign of that, though. :)

I'll be impressed when one of these ML engines is sophisticated enough to be able to say "I don't know" instead of just making up nonsense by stacking probabilistic sequences; also it needs to be able tell fake news from real news. Although there's an entire swath of humans who can't do that, so it'll be a while I guess. That whole "reality has a liberal bias" truism ought to be a prime training area.

While I certainly understand that the Internet and its various social media cesspools are the most readily available training ground(s), it sure leans into the "artificial stupid" thing.

This action has an equally important function: It's a political football to distract people with while Patriot Act 3.2 is being quietly passed.

She was applying for a divorce without telling her husband. Apparently the system allows a divorce to go through without him even having a say in it* so when the law firm accidentally pulled the trigger a week early there was no material difference. *Thanks, feminism, for all the single parent households. I'm sure those improperly parented children won't follow the well-documented statistics of becoming burdens on society.

heeehehahaBWAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ahh, I needed that, thanks. Up next, regulations to control something equally misunderstood. Let's do the environment!