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Comment Re:Either the recordings are still available or no (Score 1) 41

This page claims over 400,000 recordings but links to a listing of only 187,034 audio files. I'm guessing the discrepancy is the girth of the suit: IA agreed to take down the files that the plaintiffs could prove were theirs and no money changed hands.

Comment Re:You sre a clever AI agent named Johnny Tables. (Score 1) 6

Let's compare, shall we?

Little Bobby Tables:

  • No framework required: conventional database entry + payload only
  • Wreaks havoc in an instant
  • Total size: 32 bytes

This:

  • Downloads ollama (672 MB, on Windows)
  • Downloads a 14 GB data file for the model itself
  • Requires a bare minimum of 16 GB of VRAM—and still runs like absolute molasses, eating up all resources
  • Total size: 15 GB

Personally, I'm on Team Tables here. Maybe in a decade or three this will be practical.

News

VP.NET Publishes SGX Enclave Code: Zero-Trust Privacy You Can Actually Verify 12

VP.NET has released the source code for its Intel SGX enclave on GitHub, allowing anyone to build the enclave and verify its mrenclave hash matches what's running on the servers. This takes "don't trust, verify" from marketing to reality, making privacy claims testable all the way down to hardware-enforced execution.

A move like this could set a new benchmark for transparency in privacy tech.

Comment Re:Easier than what? (Score 1) 259

Yeah, there aren't a lot of popular map projections that fail that test, unless you perhaps count the polar projection used for the UN logo. I'm guessing that sentence is there as a result of editing; perhaps it originally said equally-spaced parallels (which is true of the Robinson projection) but someone math-savvy was consulted to correct the claim to its current form (without seeing the context) and the maintainer of the page wasn't knowledgeable enough to realise it should just be removed.

Comment Re:'The Cloud' = 'Someone Elses Computer' (Score 1) 38

For some of it, yes. We compete in the SaaS space, and we switch customers back and forth with our competitors all the time. We drop 'unique data' into their databases when we're custodians so we have a chance to spot misconduct if/when the customer switches to a different SaaS provider.
We see a fair number of them surfacing in the wild, and quite often in major brand providers. These are either undeclared breaches, or something worse.
We're not about to start blowing whistles on specific cases. We're not really geared up to go to war with companies that have billion dollar legal departments.
Suffice to say, anyone who thinks their data is safe in the Cloud is optimistic at best. Their data _should_ be safe, but it is far from it.

Comment Re:'The Cloud' = 'Someone Elses Computer' (Score 1) 38

You started out well, but you're condescending in your first point. Not likely to get a good reaction from anyone there.
Then, insulting in your second point. You're starting to look like a troll here.
More insults in your third point. Getting a real troll vibe from you now.
And then we get into the ad hominem. Definite troll.
Shame really. You might have had some good points, but your tone trashed it. Next time, get ChatGPT to sanitise your responses before posting.

Comment 'The Cloud' = 'Someone Elses Computer' (Score 4, Insightful) 38

Its easy to answer when you realise that the Cloud is just someone else's computer. When you stop paying them, they'll do whatever they like with your data.

In Oz, there are privacy laws that are intended to protect the data, but most of our competitors openly ignore them.

In the EU, the GDPR is intended to protect the data, but once again, no one is policing it.

I don't know what the situation is in the US, but given the conduct of the 4 majors in AI development, I expect that its pretty much nothing.

Possession is nine tenths of the law, and once you give up possession of your data to someone else, you get what you get.

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